25 September 2017

September 2017

I am posting early this month because we are about to go on Holiday! So I won't be writing at the end of the month as usual. We should have been in the air already, but we arrived at the airport at 5am to find our flight delayed by 5 hours. So here we are, back at home, a couple of hours extra dozing and a quick breakfast before we head back to the airport.

So what have we been doing this September until now? Well work has been crazy, our team got divided and a couple of people left, and we are just sort of getting back into things. And of course the election has not really told us anything yet, so my work is completely in limbo. If the government changes we could get pulled apart into three or more departments.

Home has been busy too. First of all, I finished the curtains! They are not hemmed, they are just hanging, and pooling on the ground, but I will hem them when we get back. I needed to get them all up because while we are on holiday Nathan's mum and sister are staying here and I wanted it to be nice. So for that reason we also fixed up a new temporary enclosure for the chickens, they have a huge space now down in the bush. We also had to do that because we got a complaint, after the chickens kept finding gaps and digging holes to get out through. And then this weekend just been we cleaned the house top to bottom - even the walls and oven - so that it would be nice for our housesitters.

So there's not much to report, things have just been trucking along. My veggie garden is coming along and my fruit trees are flowering which is cool. The animals are getting along and getting closer together. Right now their both freaking out though (the cat way more so) because our baby nephew is here to stay while we're away. There has been really stormy weather yesterday and today, which might have something to do with our delayed flight, and we have discovered that in a strong northerly rain storm our main door is not watertight. It's coming in underneath and soaking the carpet. So when we give the company a list of all the things we want fixed (because there's that first-year guarantee thing) the leaky door will be at the top of it. Time to go, catch a plane, I'll post an update when we're back.










Update - we got back to the airport and we're checking in just as a further delay announcement happened. Another 2 hours. It's because of this stormy weather. So eating bagels and waiting. First day of holiday is going to be hone by the time we get to Townsville. I just want some sunshine.