Painting, Paving and Packing.....

Well I think it is probably fair to say that we are now well and truly over any excitement we had felt as far as painting is concerned. On a positive note climbing up and down steps does tone up the gluts very well and wielding a paint roller also helps tone up the bat wings! And it is really good to see most of it done now meaning we can go onto other things.

Our Inner Students have been honoured with our paint colour selection... not everybodys choice. But then I think its probably the first time either of us have been able to use REAL colour... so we've joyfully embraced it....

Colbalt blue called Rhapsody in the en-suite

Radiant Red in Bedroom 1

A real turquoise in the bathroom

And in the toilet a very vibrant yellow called Sundawn. Which is a tad brighter than we thought it was going to be and possibly a wee bit more orange. Most people carry sun glasses here so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

It did seem to take an age and endless sample pots to reach this choice of colours and we are hoping not to have to do much painting the future so hopefully we will grow to love it. We'll see......

We've not yet taken delivery of our external doors... though I am sure they will be VERY special when they do finally arrive. There is a rumour going around that may happen next week.... hmmmm.

The next job tackled is the verandah paving. Which will help keep being blasted by the sand when the westerly winds blow to a minimum. We had all the pavers and a tonne of paving sand ready for us to find the time to crack on with it. Which we finally managed to do to find the tonne of paving sand was only just enough to lay the bedroom verandah! Hay ho.... Deb and Robert arrived just in time to find us puzzling over how to finish the edge. They had just enough spare half pavers (as you would) for us to finish the job perfectly and kindly donated them. I think it looks great.

Huge excitement in the camp when we had 10ml of rain the other day, which was fantastic with a promise of more to come. With that thought in mind Rick has now rigged up another part of the roof to channel into our rain water tank.

The landscaping chaps are due out next week to lower the level the area the east side of the house.... at last. Which means our water tank will finally be at the right level to be properly hooked up to our roof. Fingers crossed we will then have constant rain for at least one week.

The landscape chaps will also use some of the rock and clay dug out of the water tank hole to level the carport and the area at the front.of the house. Any spare will be dumped in a neighbours field up the road. He does know about it and is keen to make another jump for his motorbike course.

AND we have also started to move our 'stuff' onto the block, which will hopefully make it less of a trauma when the final move happens.

The wet area tiles are in stock so we're off to the Mount tomorrow to collect everything ready for a tiling lesson which will also hopefully happen this week. A busy week in the making.

The Casterton Show

By way of a change from 'house work' we took ourselves off to Casterton the home of the Kelpie for their annual festival. It was different to the Naracoorte one, more of an emphasis on the funfair side rather than crafts and rural skills. But we did manage to find quite a few things to interest us... starting with this lovely Landy.... which we managed to leave behind

A keen Kelpie working the sheep, fantastic to watch their skills

All day there was the threat of rain and thunder rolling around the Casterton hill tops and then finally the heavens opened. Very impressive rain for about 15 minutes then the sun came out again, it is very polite rain here!

A sign in Catestertons Kelpie Kafe, great food and lovely people

It were a grand day out, as Wallace would say and rounded off by a visit to a dear little nursery who were selling some very reasonably priced Quince trees. Resistance was futile so we've another fruit tree in our ever growing collection.

Just two more photo's to finish.

A Jacobean Lily also known as a Poor mans Orchid

I was recently given a whole load of plants, cuttings and bulbs and was delighted to find one of the flowering.

A very happy Fred with the biggest marrow bone I have ever seen. When we took it around to Deb and Roberts for him Fred did a little dance of excitement, really funny to see.
Happiness is.....