Visitors...pump...gate...gifts

Krysti and her kids MJ and Jessica are visiting again from Canberra. They have been here for a bit over a week already and will go back home next Tuesday. Lani and Krysti have taken the kids to the Broadwater for a swim and play in the sand, Movie World and the kids have played a lot outside on our trampoline, swing set and slide.

Last weekend I finally connected a pump to my water tank with little trouble at all. Most jobs I do around the house always seem to have some unknown hitch giving me trouble but this job went relatively smooth. We also recently received our water tank rebates so the total cost of setting everything up was only a few hundred dollars.

On the weekend I was hoping to take a day to build a double colorbond gate into our side fence to enable access into the lower part of our yard to park our boat. Unfortunately the job was a little tricky and more difficult than I first anticipated. I started to dig my first post hole with a heavy crowbar and hit rock about 10cm down. Over 3 hours later I finally chipped away a 60cm deep hole. After all the effort I noticed I had developed 5 blisters in the palm of my right hand and one on my left hand. I decided to tape up my hand with an adhesive bandage so I would be able to continue working. The bandage worked a treat, I dug the second post hole with ease in about 15 minutes and I got both posts concreted into the ground ready to do the rest of the gate and fence alterations on Sunday. That night as I pulled the bandage off it also ripped several blisters off with it and left adhesive all around the wounds. Next time I will use a sterile pad then tape over it. On Sunday I wore some decent leather garden gloves and finished the job in the early evening. Still have a few minor adjustments to do but I am pretty happy with what I have done. Learnt a few lessons for next time I do a similar job and saved us some money doing it myself.

For those that gave James money for his birthday, he bought several things on the weekend with the money. Two Nintendo Wii games, Spiderman 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean, a deluxe Star Wars Light Saber and the full set of episodes from the first series of Sponge Bob Square Pants on 3 DVDs. I don’t mind watching a bit of Sponge Bob myself, I find it quite funny.