Well, the last time I wrote was after the asbestos had been removed from the garage, and we were waiting for them to come back and cover the frame with colourbond.
Since then, we've had a bit of excitement around our household. As you all know, Andy and I got engaged just before Christmas, and then the Christmas period had us running around likely crazy people to hang out with different friends, but it was an awesome time. I think we both thought it would be slower since we didn't have any visitors around, but we stayed busy the whole time.
Oh yes, and another bit of excitement...one of our palm trees had a "baby" :) We had the first instance of seeing one of the seed pods open up. I came home from work, and there were loads of bees...I looked up, and there was this massive golden coloured "thing" (see below)
Anyways, since then, we have made some progress on the house...actually more the garden and garage, but still...
We finally got the colourbond sheeting done on the garage, so now we've just got the garage doors to sort out. It's looking pretty good. We also "built" the office walls back up with plywood the other weekend, so there's once again a slightly more secure storage area. Finally, and most importantly, we've now got a place to store the surf skis, AND we can fit our car in the garage!!!!
The other work we've done is around the pool. We started by ripping out a vine that suddenly died. After we started doing that, we found that the roots had infiltrated the entire flower bed, so we just decided to rip it all out! Now we've got a great idea to turn it into a poolside seating area with storage boxes underneath...and part of it is going to be a cooler box! :) Unfortunately, that project will have to wait until we get back from Aberdeen, and this is what we're leaving our house sitters with!
Well, we're off to travel around the world in a couple of days...first California, Nevada, and Texas. Then back to New South Wales and West Australia...and then to sunny Aberdeen! Speak to you guys later!
