Jill and Gerard's Seachange

Home again!!!

Had what it seemed to be a very quick trip back to Paynesville. Called into Maccas as I had a thing for a chocolate thickshake, so I ordered a roll and shake and the shake machine was broken down!!!! So I ended up stopping in Sale for one.

While travelling down the back streets through Sale, I was stopped by a man waving at me to stop!! Behind him was the biggest tray from a truck I had ever seen and it's cabin bit was detatched and bogged on the side of the road with a tractor trying to tow it out. The tray was spread right across the road and blocking every possible angle to get through, BUT!!!! there was a little bit of ground that my car could fit through and then I had to drive along this track to finally get back onto the road otherwise I would get bogged too!! That was about it for anything interesting happening. I did have my new CD of the Ten Tenors blasting through the windows, sipping chocolate thickshake and eating almonds, choc coated peanuts and licorice toffees and singing the worst possible karaoke ever. But it was fun.

The electrician had been twice during the week I was away. He has got the wires ready for the hotplates and the exhaust fan for the last part of the kitchen when it gets installed. Also a phone call from the kitchen man to say it is ready so looks like this week sometime I will have a kitchen almost completed, just will need the tiles at the back of the sink and hotplates. The longest wait I reckon for a kitchen about 6 months. So we now have all of the downlights installed in all rooms. Plus some extra holes in the ceiling from the old light fittings! More work to patch up!

I did not sleep too well last night as Gerard was restless worrying that the alarm clock would go off in time so that he would be at the servo in time to open it up this morning. So at 4.30am I am wide awake and so is Gerard. I ended getting up and going on the computer to play some games just for a change. Ended up seeing the sunrise and later noticed the Plovers that were swooping at people and the neighbours cars yesterday were still about. I then noticed that one of them was sitting on a patch of grass near where the neighbour backed his truck onto last night when they were going berserk. It did not move for ages, it was sitting on its nest which was just a dip in the grass. Later the bird had left the nest so I went out to have a look and there were three eggs in there. I read in my bird book that they sit for 28 days taking it in turns. Goodness 28 days, I wonder how long they had been there already??? Just wonder if they will survive the long wait what with school holidays now and if the neighbours and family are there for the two weeks driving their cars there it could be risky!

I ended up doing a bit more painting on the verandah this morning around the windows, not much more to do on that side of the house now, then I will go to the other end where the cats are to finish it off. Slow and steady wins the race they say!!!!

I then went and saw Mum as I had not seen her all week. She too had a bad night and had slept in and not expecting to see me so early!! 10am!! Ended up coming back to my place and had a cuppa. I showed her the little book I made in a class at the shop and some gorgeous papers, as If I need any more! Oh yes and one more stamp!

It has been rather cool here and the heater has worked well for us. Tomorrow I hope to put some things away and get into the Purple Palace and sort some stuff out and get ready to move stuff out to put down my gorgeous purple carpet. Have to wait really for a day that won't rain. Then I plan to get the rest of the boxes out of the garage and put their contents in the Palace also. So I won't have Gerard nagging me and he will have more room in the garage then. He still has not ordered a roll a door as yet for the garage!

The painter called in during the week to see if we had picked a colour yet to paint throughout the inside of the house!!!!! Nup still don't know what to have, Gerard wants a colour and I think I want something neutral seeing we will be having all of the old dark furniture in the lounge room, that is enough colour for me!! Hopefully I will win the battle!!!!!!! Yes I know I mentioned I was painting and now I am talking about painters. Unfortunately my body will not let me take on all the painting although the brain wants to! It is such a shame as we could have saved a bit of money and spent that on something else as the funds are getting short now. Gee it is so nice to hear the rain falling and knowing now that the spouting and down pipes are allowing the water to run away and not overflowing into the roof! and flooding all the garage. What a shock we all had when David and Gerard found the drain pipes stopped a couple of metres short of the storm drain!!!! Thank goodness we had David on hand or it may have never been fixed!!! Thankyou once again Paul and Annette for recommending David to do our renovations. So many of the passers by are still admiring the work!!

Well I had better wind this up, Gerard has to get up early again to open the service station, so I will probably be up early also. I plan to go for a morning walk and get back into the regular walks. I hope the swan families are all o.k.

Next week Tamyka is coming to stay for the last week of her school holidays, so we will most likely be doing a lot of walking to check out the wildlife, making some cards and little books, visiting my mum and who knows what else we may do. Am looking forward to her staying. I enjoyed my week staying with her and Machele and thank you both for a good time.

Look forward to your comments Machele keep it up and any other comments are welcome too.

posted by Jill @ 10:39 pm