Rainfall this week : 8mm👏
Not that much progress to report this week I’m afraid to say. But we did spend four busy days in Brisvegas so we do have a valid excuse 🥴. Kate Miller Heidke was the highlight of our visit (and the main reason for heading north) If you have never had the pleasure of witnessing Kate play live, I absolutely, highly recommend it. Her magical voice is something out of this world. We have been lucky enough to see her many times over the years and her performances always take our breath away. She performed at the Princess Theatre in Woolloongabba this time round. And to our surprise we realised that we had never actually visited this venue before. Wow, what a wonderful place for live music and what a fabulous old heritage building it is. Definitely one to visit again.
Are you familiar with Russian Dolls? Remember there was a doll inside a doll inside a doll inside a doll and so forth? Well we had a trailer inside a trailer. What the bloody hell is she talking about you might ask? My nephew very kindly gifted us his old builders trailer. With the drawbar not quite up to standard for the A15 (it’s cracked and has been re welded) we had to load it onto our big tipper trailer to bring it back to the farm. We certainly caught other travellers eyes on the journey home. Thank you Liam, it’s going to be very handy whilst we are building and Jason has already almost filled it up with his consumables.
After catching up with all the oldies and cramming the Ute full once again with all sorts of things (a trip to Trade Tools and Bunnings didn’t help🥴) we made the journey back over the border. Noticing dark and stormy clouds hanging over Woodside on our way in from Wallangarra, we brightened up with the possibility of some much needed rain. Mother Nature blessed us with 8mm which has already turned the paddocks greener. I may even have to break Kevin out of the stables and do some mowing next week. Just less than 500 metres further down Woodside Road some other neighbors were super lucky and received 19mm and even further down towards Mole River they received upwards of 30mm. We definitely have our own little micro climate here in the valley. And we certainly didn’t mind unpacking the Ute in the rain or the fact that a certain wet kelpie ran into the van and jumped on the bed🐶.
Windy Woodside returned just as we had planned to start the shed roof of course. Luckily there are always other jobs to move onto. More progress on the raised vege beds. Jason loaded several loads of soil into each bed and our awesome neighbour Reg dropped off a few loads of sheep poo to mix in. Another step closer to home grown vegetables 🍆🥬🥒🍅🌶️🧅.
We have also started marking out on the slab so that we can commence putting up our house frame👏 Who knew there was so much involved just in that task alone. Learning something new all the time here. Our roof trusses arrive next Wednesday so we would like to have all the frame up ready for that delivery. Luckily my favourite nephew is stopping in on his way home from working out west to help us oldies for a few days😆. So hopefully by this time next week there will be a full house frame installed on our slab ready for a roof😊.
Of course today the wind has completely disappeared but we need to finish marking out the slab before the pest and termite man calls in tomorrow morning to install the termite barrier around the slab. Maybe we will get a chance to make a start this afternoon on the shed roof🤞. All is good, I’m more excited about getting the house frame up anyway🏠.
It’s going to be a busy but exciting start to October 👌.
