Well the last 3 weeks have been very interesting and not house wise either. Last week our dog fell ill with an unknown problem and after she had spent 4 or so days at the vet we decided, after a great deal of stress, that it would be better to put her down. The vet suggested we wait another day and we are lucky we did as the problem got diagnosed this morning. The vet operated and removed a toy mouse, which Gypsy obviously thought was a real one and decided to eat it causing it to get stuck in her digestive system. To top that off our computer decided that it was time to retire with the hard drive crashing and all the contents becoming corrupt. I got the comp working again tonight and am hoping that when I go into work tomorrow the program that has been running all day has recovered all our photos etc off our old hard drive. Just remember people back up all your important info, says the person who tells people for a living to backup everything on their comps yet doesn’t do so himself. Oh well to the house stuff. We’ve finished the retaining wall and it looks really good (sorry no pics). All that’s left to do now is one more retaining wall down the side and that is finished. Everything is ready for the driveway to be paved and that will be done on the June long weekend along with rest of the paths etc. Had to dig the driveway up to repair a broken storm water pipe that was originally broken by the Telstra bloke and he attempted to fix it with very poor results. I should of gotten them back to fix it but they would’ve taken weeks to get here so we done it ourselves which was lucky as we had 21mm of rain last night and it would of made the entire driveway a boggy mess. We had the septic looked at because it had a very bad odour and the plumber said that it would take at least 12 months before the smell would disappear…great. I backfilled around the septic as most of the soil had sunk and it seems to have cut down on most of the stink so we’ll see what happens.
I’ll post some more pics when they become available……
