This photo was taken from our new deck. On the right you can see our camper-trailer, which we stayed in for the last couple of weeks of our summer stay. The power lines are one of those things you just have to look past – if you focus on them, you miss the beauty ofContinue reading “Post 9: Progress happens”
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Post 8: Feeling it in my waters.
Another post about water, but this time featuring two separate dramas, and illustrating rather nicely the importance of water (and the tensions that can escalate amazingly rapidly when water is involved). The dramas happened a month or two apart – it’s been a while since Post 7. So. Drama 1: Remember that lovely nearly-full damContinue reading “Post 8: Feeling it in my waters.”
Post 7: La Nina comes to visit
We still can’t visit, which is getting really tedious but can’t be helped. But in the meantime, we’ve received photos, and the exciting thing to share in this post is that there’s water. Not only in the dam, which is nearly full (is there a leak?) but also in the creek. Credit for photos: Mum.Continue reading “Post 7: La Nina comes to visit”
Post 6: Both kinds of yarning
No action on the home front in the past couple of weeks, so the focus for this post is books and knitting. In other words, I will tell you about the stories (yarns) I’m reading, and the wool (yarn) I’m knitting. First, the book: Chicks in Chainmail, a collection of short stories about brass brasContinue reading “Post 6: Both kinds of yarning”
Post 5: Tanking – in the best possible way
As you can see from these photos, this week has brought a few exciting developments. And I don’t just mean that I’ve figured out how to arrange photos in a “mosaic tile” in WordPress (although that is significant). The unfinished, partially weathered deck has been taken up, sanded, re-laid fully and coated. Cannot wait toContinue reading “Post 5: Tanking – in the best possible way”
Post 4: Progress
Since we left a fortnight a fortnight ago, things have moved along at many levels. 2020 is turning out to be a weird one, alright. On the day we left, we popped past so that I could see where things had got up to. It was good to go and have a look, with aContinue reading “Post 4: Progress”
Post 3: in which we get to see the progress in person
The inside has now been completely gutted, and the breezeblocks along the west wall of the carport have been removed to make way for the framing of what will become the other bedroom (visible in the right-hand side of the top picture, and the centre and right-hand smaller ones. I really need a WordPress tutorContinue reading “Post 3: in which we get to see the progress in person”
Post 2: The work begins
4 April 2020 A lot has happened in the world since that first post, hence the unanticipated lag between Post 1 and Post 2. But here we are, and there’s progress to report. The building got under way very quickly after the permits were approved, as these photos show, and for a fortnight or soContinue reading “Post 2: The work begins”
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