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Little House among the Canefields

Finally...a laundry chute

January 25th 2010 01:02

In preparation of the laundry chute

We've been in the house for over three months now and I am relieved to say that the laundry chute isfinally in.

After numerous trips down to the laundry with a heavily laden basket of dirty clothes, the chute is a very welcome addition to the house. One problem the builder noted was that there was a pipe and a joist in the way, so the hole would not be that big.

"Unfortunately, you can't put sheets down there." he said.

Our builder...the thinker

As a mother of two very active little boys, one with a penchant to climb anything that doesn't move, and even some things that do, that was really no issue. Although I was warned that, despite the size of the small hole, it doesn't mean a climb wouldn't be attempted.

The finished laundry chute

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Stormy Weather

January 18th 2010 00:41

The storm building up coming up from Grafton

I heard a frog this morning, which in itself is not big news. However, I was told somewhere that when you hear frogs, it usually means rain.

Sure enough, later in the day Mark happened to look out the window in the early afternoon to see a huge build up of clouds from the south. Like all good internet savvy wives I straight away jumped on the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology website for the uninitiated) to check out the radar.

More of the storm build up

There it was, a digital rainbow of pixels showing the heaviness and mass of clouds heading our way. While I'm inside yelling out to Mark that a big wall of cloud was heading our way, he was standing out on our balcony watching the build up for real. I know, derr factor quite high here.

Attached are a couple of photos I took, glass of red wine in hand, until the wind got so strong I thought I would lose a few precious drops.

Another storm photo

Seriously though, the cloud build up looked awesome and the rain that followed seemed to swirl around us. AND I didn't spill a drop.

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Pooling our resources

January 1st 2010 10:21

Our pool in waiting

I've recently been working for the paper in Casino and one day one of my co-workers took his thermometer outside and measured the temperature. 43 degrees in the shade!!

And it wasn't much cooler in Woodburn. Hence Mark's single minded determination to get a pool in the backyard as soon as possible. Council are going through our application and the pool is waiting patiently in many different boxes.

The boyz are a little less patient but we have marked out where our 'summer solace' is to go and as soon as we get the 'okey dokey' we'll be digging the hole.

The site where the pool will go.

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Family History Wall

December 25th 2009 09:55

The beginnings of our family history wall. It's nice to give them a home.

For those who don't know, one of my favourite past-times is genealogy or family history. There's an unmatched excitement that comes over me when I look through old photos of family members long gone and read through detailed census records, old wills or birth, death and marriage certificates.

And it's pretty hard to beat when I discover some juicy detail within the annals of our history. The proverbial skeleton in the closet

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Moving along....

December 18th 2009 09:49

Our front garden with the newly painted front door.

Yes, I know. It's been some time since I last wrote on my blog. And just because we've now moved in doesn't mean I want to stop as I've discovered there is even more to do.

There are still little bits our builder has to finish before we can honestly say the house is completely done...but not even counting that, there are other plans we have in the pipeline making this house a lifelong project

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It's Finished

October 24th 2009 03:59

The (almost) finished product. Front door still needs to be painted

Following are photos of the day before we moved in. There are still small amounts that need to be done but the most important thing is that council have passed us to be able to move in. And not a moment too soon, as the basement we've been living in is attached to a house that had recently been sold and about to exchange hands.

The entrance with stairs leading up and rumpus room in the background.

Never let it be said that building a house is a boring affair

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Flushed with Excitement!

October 14th 2009 05:02

The watertank under the deck

It's becoming more like a real house now. The water tank has been installed, so has the hot water tank and the toilets.

What more can a person want in life

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Going up in the world.

October 12th 2009 02:38

Going to see the upstairs and our new driveway.

Our first few forays into checking out the upstairs of the house meant we had to climb a ladder inside.

There was no way we were going to allow our boys to get up there until we had some decent stairs. Their first trip to checking out the main living areas when the back steps were put in, was wonderful

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The home of the laundry shute

October 10th 2009 02:20

Our bathroom cabinets

There were two requirements that I had when we designed our new home. Aside from the obvious (bathroom, laundry, 4 bedrooms etc. etc.) the extras that became necessities were a walkin wardrobe and a laundry shute.

The wardrobe, because I could and the laundry shute because the idea of being able to dump dirty clothes into a hole and have it go straight downstairs to the laundry really appealed to me

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