The joys and not so joys

Mud

Mud

Glorious mud -NOT

Why?

Because it's been raining. And when it rains it doesn't just rain, it pours. Nothing like getting about 100mls in 24 hours. Don't get me wrong, I love the rain but that amount in 24 hours can do such damage. I bet all my bulbs and seeds that I planted last week have been washed away. That dissapoints me. The driveway is a mess and it's highly likely to get bogged when driving on it. Topsoil in the veggie patch has washed away. So while we need the rain a gentle soaking would be easier to bare.

Well the ducks sure like the wet, even the kangaroos,note the( one of 50 or so) behind the post love the rain.

At least the water hole is full again. This is where we pump the water for watering the garden. Even if it doesnt rain again for sometime we should be able to pump from here for a good 6 months.

There was so much rain that the footy post has been dislodged

I suppose it's not fun much being a dog in all this mud.

Now to the house

This is where the house is at. The builder just starts then decides he needs a week off! Typical tradesmen hey. But he should make a return on Monday. Anyway if all this rain he would have had the week off anyway.

At last an update

We have a house. Yippiee
Not everyones idea of how a house should look. But at least we have the parts for it now. Hopefully, fingers crossed it will start construction next week.

Now some people wouldn't get excited about concrete. But we have. It's very exciting. It means less mud being trampsed through the shed.

The obligatory AFL goal posts!!!

The outside shower-now complete

Oh how the time flys by. I guess we have been so busy with our new life we just haven't had time to update you all with our blog.

Lots of little jobs have been achieved but they all take time. Grahame is famous for saying"oh it will only take an hour or so to do this", only to find him at the end of the day still cursing and swearing on that "only one hour job"!!

None the less we are fairly happy with our progress. That of course is the "royal we".
I try to find myself busy ( in town) or the likes when I know the job at hand is going to involve heavy lifting and me trying to mind read Grahame 's instructions. Like "lift it there, "where " I say. "there"." Which there" I say through gritted teeth. There are lot's of "there's", I'm apparently to know which one it is!!

We now have carpet and lino. Not exactly what I had in mind but hey I got it for free. I even got some brand new off cuts. If you go to carpet stores they are happy to give away old carpet that they have pulled up because it means they don't have to dump.

Grahame putting together the kitchen

One bench finished

I have plenty more photos but I don't want to bore you all.