We moved into our new house in the first week of October and we’ve been busy bees putting our personal touches on the house. Pictures are up on the walls, number is on the door and now we even have a permanent mailbox out the front of our house. Apologies to my postie for putting up with the crappy tin box we had out the front to use as a mailbox until the real thing could be put in the ground. We’re both on holidays for a month now and had the best intentions of working hard at finishing the landscaping for a week before we headed off on a much needed vacation. Unfortunately the recent rain we’ve had put a bit of a damper on those plans.
Rain turned the quarry that our sandstone is coming from into a muddy slush pit – so the truck delivering our rock just couldn’t get in to get it. The sandstone is now here and hopefully next week we will have a retaining wall fashioned around the side of the house and at the side. Until that gets done, we are more or less sitting on our hands. Without the retaining wall, we can’t shift the massive pile of bark that we kept for doing the garden beds. Which means we can’t get someone out to do the turf or fencing. We have done the one garden bed that we can do at the moment and in the meantime, we are keeping an eye out on our massive pile of sandstone making sure no one nicks off with it before they fashion a wall out of it.
The best laid plans and all of it brought to a grinding halt because of the rain. On the upside though, our tank is full and ready to be used for watering the grass – when we have some laid that is.