I've been working on organising the carport and trimming away the branches leaning on the shed roof, then getting rid of the foot thick layer of macrocarpa leaves that had accumulated - as the neighbours noted - it looks rather naked now!
Another big bonfire ensued, to get rid of all the smaller branches and another load of rubbish to the dump has tidied the place up a lot.
We lost a day when the toilet started to leak - unfortunately it wasn't the cistern, so needed to get a complete new set, unfortunately the previous installers hadn't read the instructions so had filled the underside of the toilet completely with concrete, so what should have been a 2 hour job, ended up taking all day - so wasn't happy with that!
Grace is back to kindergarten today so that will start freeing up some time for us both to get stuck into things, next big job will be to start on the kitchen, lots of cork tiles to scrape up, and then the fun begins pulling off the gib from the walls and ceiling.
Paula's mum arrives in the CHB today, flying down from Whangarei, then staying in a motel for a wee while until she find a place to rent or buy. That will make things easier with Grace also as we have a baby sitting close by!
On the live stock front, the pigs are making great inroads into the vege garden, turning over the soil nicely, so it won't be long until they need to be moved to their proper sty and we can start building up the garden.
We think we're going to go for these lovely beasts as our next livestock purchase - though plenty of fencing to sort out first... if we get a male and female, dare we call then Shazza and Dazza?
Thats about all the news for now, keep watching for more exciting Walnut Creek Farm updates!
Cheers
Rupert and Paula
Oh crumbs, a broken loo is never a good thing. I do know what you mean about muppets who install things though. Who ever did the reno on our house must had been a complete nuffy. Out toilets didnt even have bolts holding them down properly. Progress is sounding good though, and those beast you are looking at would fit in well on the set of the next star wars movie by the look of them!!! Take care down there, xx
ReplyDeleteYou have to get highland coos haha shazza and Dazza haha or moral and Hamish I don't know how I missed this post, great reading about your progress take care sharon
ReplyDeleteI meant Morag, from shazza
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