Long time

Yes yes it has been a while since we last posted on the site, I would love to say the lack of posting has been due to our extremely busy social lives and not having enough hours in the day but this is not so. We have been extremely busy though doing more of the usual you have been hearing of the past few weeks gone by. We have just been flat out working on the house, well not really the house but the garden and surrounds. It is starting to pay dividends to as you can really start to see that our labour is begining to bear fruit!! The grass is growing nicely where we once had stones and gravel (around 70% of the house) we have partially leveled the back garden-stage 2 is next week. The new post box is built and painted and the gardens have been cleared and plants have been planted-all of which have been carefully chosen to attract as much bird life as possible. The garden bed out the back is in construction and will also start to look good in the next few weeks once all the herbs are planted. Once that is completed we can start on the front of the house which will require as much work as the back. No doubt the house will look sensational once it is all complete (in 10 years). Once we have more progress on the house we will post some before and after pics on the site.

In between all of that work has been as crazy as usual, still working like a bugger though with winter on the wane it won't be long before we can start spending evenings in the garden with a beer and a baarbie-speaking of which we bought one last week. A super 4 burner BBQ which now owns the back yard, no house is complete without one and I am disgusted with myself that it took me a month to get it. We used it on Friday night though it was still a little cold (14 degrees) it was worth it. There is still no better way to see in a weekend than by tanning a few chops.

We are off to the neighbor's tonight for the rugby, hopefully this doesn't turn out to be another public humiliation for the boks as I don't think I can handle another debacle like 3 weeks ago. If it happened again I may need to skip the next 2 weeks of work until we redeem ourselves at home.

Other than the above I have managed to squeeze in a game of golf and book a holiday to Sydney for Sarah and I. We are going to spend 3 days down there over the Gold Coast Showday holiday doing the tourist and catching up with Sarah's cousin.