We have arrived back to the block from a very quick trip to Brisbane for a family wedding. While we were away it was a concern as to what we might come back and see here. Because of the amount of road works on the highway we encountered on the way down we decided to leave on the Sunday afternoon to make the trip home.
It was a smooth trip taking turns in driving with no road works in progress and we arrived at the farm around 3am on Monday morning. Waiting in the car until day break we then set up our sleeping tent for the first time. Made our bed and had a very comfortable sleep for an hour or so to refresh ourselves.....
On Tuesday we have a local man we have been talking with bring us some more rock so later in the week he will come back and top dress our road to finish the building process of the road to the sheds for us....
Jenelle has tried to add a bit of colour to her life and sprayed her hat pink....not quite Melbourne Cup standard but colourful all the same......
The rock foundation being spread.........
Since returning we have changed tacts on the building process and taken down what we had already accomplished to do a new improved style that should make the sheeting of walls with iron much easier.....
With the luxuries of a few things from our storage shed in Brisbane we can now make breakfast at the farm. Jenelle working here on a new style of table top......
This is the timber frame for our first window. The building process is not your normal one as we are having iron on the inside walls and then the outside as well. Our plans are to have the new silver iron inside and make the outside look like an old shed with the old iron back on. Jenelle has found a way of making iron look old and giving it a rust patina if we need anymore of that around here....
The best part of this week was the arrival of our Polaris. Now named Chucky. Chucky is the best thing since sliced bread as far as we are concerned. We now have a way or getting around our block and not on foot anymore. Chucky finally arrived late last night in the dark in time for us to test drive about 20 metres to then lock up in the container.....
On of the first jobs for Chucky was to save our legs and move this rubbish from one place to another......
Later in the week we have the top dressing which is what is dug out of our roads when the council is digging up the bitumen. A mixture of small gravel soil and broken bits of bitumen. Ken our road builder has bought three loads of this in his truck before it takes him about 30 minutes and we have a weather proof road to our sheds.....
At the moment our road is smoother than Douglas Road the council road.......
Each week for us is a new discovery as we take the grass back further and further. Our first burn of part of the bank beside the sheds may not look much but to us we are really enjoying opening up the ground close to where we will live. Burning is the only way we can have clear ground as we don't need mulch here for many reasons....
