Camping at One Tree |
February 26, 2005 |
More trip photos and camping photos here.
Well the week had been pretty standard up until Thursday morning. Prior to this though, I had decided to take a day off on Friday and head off camping Thursday night, to One Tree. So after being told on Thursday morning that our office was going to be closing in July, there was no reason to net get away from the office nice and early :)
The run down to Jervis Bay was quick, no traffic on the road, although I did need to make a stop along the way at home as I had forgotten to take my camera lenses! But it is along the way so no harm!
I lef the office about 3pm, and arrived at the camp site at 5pm. The track to the cam site is about 3km long and is sometimes difficult to traverrse due to rain. Well there was a little water this time, but nothing major and I got to the waters edge without any issues. The only problems were due to the abundant undergrowth encroaching on the track!
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Kitchen surprise |
February 24, 2005 |
After footy last night, Darren and I went down to the house to check on progress, and the state of the front door. Well, the door was locked so there was no getting inside. But from the outside we got to see a bunch of new stuff!
First of all, the garage doors had been installed. Jet black, and very ominous looking! I'm not too sure why there were no door handles on them though, perhaps they are going to install automatic doors for me free of charge ;)
Secondly, when we got around the back of the house, we found that the Kitchen had also been installed!! Only took them a day which was great, and what we could see though the window looked excellent!
Photos of the kitchen are now included...
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Touch and go |
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I'm not sure what is going on with our Touch Footy team, but we just dont seem to be able to keep enough players on the paddock. We started the saeson with 10-12 players, of which 7 play at a time. Now we are struggling to get 6 players to the game!
Fair enough there are a couple of injuries, but even still, playing with 6 players is just like not playing at all. The last two weeks we have had 20 tries scored against us and only 2 for us!!
Looks like we are out of the finals race now though, and only one more round to go. Lets hope we get enough players for the last one!
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Stairway to heaven |
February 21, 2005 |
Ok so I thought I was being locked out of the house, but for some reason, on the day that the builders asked for another $43k, they also left open the front door :)
So I took a stroll through the new place and they have now got the stairs in, and most of the cornice. Also all of the internal doors are hung, including the cavity doors to screen out the movie room :)
They have also installed the spare room under the stairs that can be used for any misbehaving children that might be in the house!
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Wollongong Golf Day |
February 20, 2005 |
First game of golf for the new year and we almost didn't make it again due to the weather!! We've been having some wild weather here in Wollongong the past 48 hours, and Darren and I are renound for staying home in the bad weather, so everyone managed to have a stick at us about it today!
For me, the round was forgettable!! Ordinary front nine, but I picked things up on the back nine and actually got a reasonable number of points. Total of 26, and after a 9 on the front nine, I ended up reasonably happy. Last again though, but not by a lot ;)
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Stormy Saturday |
February 19, 2005 |
Well I spent most of the morning trying to reinstall windows on my desktop PC. It had become a little unreliable so took advantage of the weekend to get the job done. Well I had no end of trouble, and two installs later, 4am bed time, and much frustration, I finally have it going again!
The trouble maker is the Hauppuage TV card I have installed. It is the main thing I use the PC for, so I had to get it working!
So after I finally got it worted, Kathy convinced me I should leave the house for at least a little while! As it had been a lovely warm morning, with the sun streaming into my office area.
After only a half hour down the beach though, a huge storm rolled in! I got off the beach in time, and was driving around just as the hail started! And this was serious hail! I got the car home covered it up a little, but gave up as I got hit once in the face and one on the hand by large marbles of ice! I havent checked the car yet for dents, but I am sure there will be a few more than the last hail storm :)
And another victim of the storm, was Kathy and Graham Chili :( I watched as their leaves were destroyed by the ice storm right before my very eyes.
There was also lots of thunder and lightning, which I recorded, and when I get some time, I'll get them on the PC and up here on the blog.
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Locked Out |
February 17, 2005 |
Well it was going to happen eventually. And I'm kind of glad it has! They have got all the external doors onto the house, and so I am now locked out!! And with a penalty of $5000 for stepping onto the building site, breaking a window to get in is not something I am going to be doing in a hurry ;)
But its looking good, and with a coat of paint and the garage doors installed, the outside is almost finished ;)
Still waiting for the electrical work to be completed and the gyprock to be finished off, but it looks like things are moving along...
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The house has walls |
February 13, 2005 |
After a busy week at the house, the builders have managed to get the internal walls pretty much complete. There are still the conrices and skirts to go in, but its really feeling like a house now.
I would hope to see the rest of this complete over the next week, followed by some painting done.
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More House Wiring |
February 07, 2005 |
One of the 'extras' I got with the house package was a smart wiring installation. That gave me eight network/phone ports and 4 TV points. All of this is wired back to a distribution frame in an upstairs cupboard. Well they finally got that complete today, and NOW I think they are ready for the internal walls to be installed!!
While I was there today, I did notice that the laundry tub and bath tub that had been sitting inside, had dissapeared? I hope this is because the builder realised that it was a stupid place to leave them, and not that somone has just scored some new stuff!
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Best beach day of 2005 |
February 06, 2005 |
Well yesterday I took a trip 100km (60 miles) south to Jervis bay to find a beautiful beach and beautiful beach weather. Today, I travelled 2km to my local beach and think that I managed to find something even better!
Ok, so there was no chance for any surfing, or drowning in the breakers. But the water was warm, the sun was shinning, and there was not a cloud in the sky.
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Chili Growth |
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Well who said that plants dont grow while you watch them??? I potted up a couple of chili plants last week, and aptly names them Kathy and Graham. I took a photo after potting, and again this weekend, just seven days later. Check out the growth, and see how dominating Kathy is gettin!! (She's on the left ;)
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I live in paradise |
February 05, 2005 |
Well I havent been out driving for a while and when I got up this morning, the day was looking pretty good outside. So I decided to scope out a few of the places that I will be taking Katherine to when she is here. So I decided to head south to Jervis Bay!
There was a couple of places that I wanted to see down there, the first was Greenpatch, where the Kangaroos hop along the beach. The second was Hyams Beach which has some of the whitest sand in the world.
So when I reached Greenpatch I realised it has changed ALOT in the few years since I've been there. It's now very commercial, very busy, and NO kangaroos! So I finished there pretty quickly!
Next stop was Murrays beach, which is a little further into the park, and that too was a little busy. So the next place to go was to Hole In The Wall beach :) Yeah really, there is a hole in the wall!
And of course this was the best of all, and only a couple of people there, beautiful white sand, calm warm waters. So I lay in the sun, swam, watched the birds (you know, the ones with feathers and wings), and just soaked up this little place in paradise!
It makes me think sometimes though that we really dont appreciate the amazing places that we live. I imagine most people have places like this in easy driving distance, but how often do we actually go there? Not often enough I'm sure. Well I'm sure glad I went there today, and in just a few weeks time, we'll be going there again :)
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Electrical Wiring |
February 02, 2005 |
Well after a long lay off, it finally looks like things are moving along again. I've just checked out the house and the electrical contractors have been in a wired up the house!
Most of it looked ok to me, but it appears that they havent yet done the smart wiring, which includes the phone, network and TV wiring. Hopefully they get that all installed before the gyproc guys come in!
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