OUTSIDE

Yay!!! I have a weekend completely off!

I've been playing outside whilst Annette's still going with the painting inside.... somehow I don't think she'll ever undertake a full house painting ever again...

The generator had to be connected to the battery system, but I wanted to have it above the one in hundred flood level, so this was my handywork last Sunday night (took 2 hours) after I came home from emergency calls at 8:30pm.... I used some off-cut steel from the mezannine floor.

Today, I finished building the vegetable garden beds. There are 7 of them, each 1.5 x 2.4 metres insize. I did the first five beds a couple of week ago and last week we hired a Dingo, to fill up all the beds with dirt (I'll let Annette explain what went in... if she ever has time to write on this blog...). So finally we've got some veggies on the way! The beds are old railway sleepers that are set out so they are level and they are screwed together with BIG coach screws.

Today I also got Danny the Bobcat driver to come out for the day and he's backfilled all the trenches. I also finished off the retaining wall around the house and Danny shifted all the dirt and mulch so now we have a garden bed all the way around the house. Once the soil and mulch settle after some rain, we'll plant the beds out with .... blueberry... thats the plan or now at least. The high garden beds around the house was designed so that we don't have to completely enclose the verandah all the way around the house... we will make sure its safe for the kids at least. This garden will be watered with a grey water system (once we can afford it!). Anyway, better get to bed early for another big day tomorrow.

see ya!

There's light at the end of the tunnel on the EI front.

Another month's gone by pretty quickly and I've been a bit slack on the blog front, but with the rush on EI vaccinations finally coming to an end plus a break from the rain has seen us make a bit of progress outside in the last few weeks!

This past month: we've managed to tick a few things off our 'to-do-list' black board in the kitchen.

We've set out all the built in wardrobes, but haven't unpacked all our clothes yet. We also have been getting quotes for the wardrobe door.

When we originally moved, I broke the glass insert in our dining table, so we ate on teh couch for a month, but I bought a router and modified the table and inserted the left over bamboo floor boards instead of the glass insert so now we are eating in a civil manner..

The ensuite and laundry is almost finished, but there's still a few fixtures to go. I made the laundry bench out of a silky oak slab, got the splash back from Ikea, and the post is a very old fence post which was lying around outside.

Annette made two loaves of organic bread today... whilst I was slaving away outside.... very nice fresh with nutella!