We Get Started to Get Stuck In

We both took a week's holiday from 12 October. With the Trade Me Ute laden, we took over a generous cabin at the Carterton Holiday Camp for 5 nights and transported every imaginable tool and various assortments of garden equipment to Fossils Retreat. Not a lot we could really do though. We did have the intention of painting the roof (yes, ladder was transported as well) but after gingerly climbing up, one old fossil realised that painting the main roof (which needs an additional two coats to enable water to be drawn off safely) was really going to be out of the question, after a slippery and unplanned descent once having reached the roof peak. Denise solved the problem by calling two roof painters out of the Yellow Pages and we ended up organising a cash spray paint job.


Slip-sliding away ...

In between meeting and getting quotes from garage installers, builders and power connecting services, we started painting the front fence.

Once two coats had been given each side, Jennifer came to grips with the weedeater ...

A frustrating exercise but it did result in toned right arm muscles. The supplied line was very lightweight and kept cutting off. We did get a heavier duty line next day

And then we planted 25 Feijoa trees which hopefully will provide a bountiful and attractive hedge and windbreak in the future.

We discovered somebody had been out and nailed an official fire number on to our fence. 164. We really feel like we are starting to get cracking doing things.