Weekend and back to it

Well it's Monday and my good intentions to write up about the weekend last night went the way of forgetfulness. Oh well. Let's get to it.

Rosie caught two bubbles after blowing them!

Heading out for a walk

Hazy view across the valley

Thelma proudly bringing her stick back

Out for our dinner in the late summer warmth

Rosie climbing like a monkey

Saturday was a great day. Rosie was in great form and we had lots of fun, blowing bubbles then taking the puppies for a lovely walk over to the headland. It was a nice morning, but pretty hazy across the valley. The girls all had fun, Rosie collected sticks and stones and pine cones and we walked back after a lovely time. That evening we went out for our dinner at the restaurant with the awesome play area and Rosie had a great time on the swings and climbing and our food was pretty lovely also. As I said, a lovely day all round.

Emptying out the pool shed

Rosie sifting flour as she bakes

Mud wasp nest

It is still occupied

All smiles as we play our game

Sunday was also a beautiful day. I took advantage to finally get the pool shed emptied (which did involve emptying the sand out of the filter which was quite a messy task) and clearing everything out so we could move it to the side of the patio. Inside Angela and Rosie were baking some buns which turned out amazing. I found a mud wasp nest inside the shed while I was moving it and had to remove the nest sadly; hopefully it'll be ok where I relocated it to. We also had a really fun role playing session in The One Ring. In the evening we took our chairs out onto the outside balcony and sat looking for shooting stars however we didn't see any. We did see lots of satellites however.

Clouds with the sun breaking through

Securing the new downpipe

Smoothing the face of the steps

Making the slope smooth as well

Setting out the remaining steps

And so to today. It was a cloudy and miserable start to the day however after I dropped Rosie to school and headed into town for a few bits the clouds broke up and the sun came out and it was lovely for the rest of the day. The first thing the men did was to sort out the down pipe on the balcony. This had blown off and every time we have rain it floods the balcony, which then leaks everywhere. Now we have a really secure downpipe diverting the water onto the car port roof and away. Success! With this done the men went back to working on the stairs and they cracked on really well today. They completed the fronts of all the stairs they had already done the tops, smoothed out the angled section (which will later be tiled) and then set out and finished up all the remaining stairs. This is awesome.

So there it is; thanks for reading and back tomorrow.