We arrived last Friday with the car and truck laden with a few items to get us started. A borrowed mattress for the floor, a few kitchen essentials, baby wipes and loads of tools! We unloaded, opened up a bottle of bubbles for me, a few beers for Kris and we celebrated with a piece of steak, poached egg and a sausage! With only a camping stove we didn't have a huge choice of options!
Our first morning, what a start to a day! To wake up and the first thing we saw was Little Munro Bay, our 'make shift' bedroom is the lounge so we woke to see the sea, maybe I could get used to this!
Our first weekend was filled with visitors, well more 'willing' helpers. One of the garages was transformed into a workshop and a more of the garden was cleared, which resulted in finding another set of steps connecting two areas of the garden, more of the stream and more fruit trees!
It's been an interesting 'first' week, we feel like we're camping with an indoor toilet. No bathroom means no shower, Kris has tried out the garden hose or just gone fishing!, whereas I've been borrowing various showers, wet wipes have been our best friend, although the garden hose or in my case a bucket was 'heaven'! We received our first post, had our phone line reconnected. Kris continued in the workshop, building his work bench and sorting out some tools, it's still a work in progress but is on it's way and is now at least usable. I have been ripping down wallpaper and we have been ripping up carpet, basically we have managed to achieve a lot in just a short time.
There have been tears and blood spilt, mine as I slipped on our drive, a lovely little hole in my knee, it hurt for two days but healing now.
Due to the computer 'hiccup' this update is well overdue, but now that we are on line there should be no stopping me, hopefully updates will be every couple of days .
Okay, here are some photos showing some progress of the workshop...
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| The workshop, eventually it will be cream with a green roof |
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| Who knows how long this has been left empty, or full of rubbish |
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| Almost empty |
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| Work on the floor starts |
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| Not a bad effort for a few hours work |
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| Time for a Tui! |
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| Then it was lined to keep out some noise, also should keep the neighbours happy! |
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| Painted for better light and an attempt to keep it looking clean! |
So for now I will sign off... It's been raining all day and one of the ranch sliders (patio door) is leaking so I best get some more newspaper to mop up the drips! Oh well, we new it wasn't going to be easy, but we are smiling, it could be worse...
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