Hi Everyone!!

Its been a while again! July was pretty much a write off on the house front because we went to Byron Bay for a week then I went to Cairns for a conference and Annette went to Jervis Bay with Sarah for a week. Its going to be a busy year ahead... I'm now NSW State representative for the EVA (Equine Veterinarians Australia) so I'll have more things to organise!

Annette is doing well. She's now 26 weeks and has a quite a bump...but with a jumper on, its hard to see!! So far everything is going well.

The house is coming along at a slow but steady pace....now the kitchen and bathroom to paint and some pictures and things to hang up!

This past week I've been busy outside again.. We've started making the lab and store rooms in the Carport and the Shed... as with the house, we're recycling walls and timber from the old shed that was left stacked up outside by the previous owners.
and after 3days of excavator work, a week of burning off some rubbishy timber that can't be used or cut up for firewood and all weekend unscrewing sheeting and pulling apart timber walls, the area where there was a massive pile of old shedding etc now looks like this!! The excavator also sorted out the rubbishy piles of wood and so I now have another 6 piles of timber to cut up for firewood.
... and this afternoon, Annette planted out the apple and pear trees which will be espaliered on the wire trellis.... but I don't think shoveling a cubic metre (about 1 tonne) of compost and soil would get mum's approval!
Rhys and Nina have been back from the UK and visited us last weekend... they are now leaving again to cycle across the Andes in South America for 2 months followed by a 1 month trip to Antartica!!! bye for now!