Monthly archive for January2011

Another brick in the wall

Another brick in the wall

WOW, it’s incredible how fast the walls are going up! We needed to travel north to collect tools that Brendan left on-site at a Mindarie job so we threw the puppy in the car and off we went. Being a Friday, we were lucky to…

Continue reading →

Two bricks short of a load

Two bricks short of a load

BRENDAN came home from a 13-hour day a little delirious but surprisingly perky as well. Why? He was working all the way north in Mindarie, meaning he was a mere five minutes from our build and apparently, this is what he found when he popped…

Continue reading →

Losa sobre el suelo!

Losa sobre el suelo!

THANKS to Australia’s good, old-fashioned construction methods, we got laid! *Immature chuckle* Okay, we have a slab. Brendan and I had driven from his brother’s place after Lizzie’s birthday party and we were both feeling a little sick from all the excitement of possibly seeing…

Continue reading →

Butterflies…

Butterflies…

WE have butterflies in our bellies as we write this because our slab was meant to go down today… We won’t know for sure until Saturday when we make the trip up so wish us luck! One thing we now have are the PDFs of…

Continue reading →

Land ahoy!

Land ahoy!

WITH the knowledge our slab would be poured sometime next week, Brendan and I decided it might be wise to patch that hole in our back fence. One part of us were hoping our land would have been scraped and tested for the slab, and…

Continue reading →