It's Bye Bye to Louey the Fly and a few Other Inconveniences

Things have slowed a little as far as interior renovations are going at Fossils Retreat. We now have a working bathroom (we just need a shower curtain); toilet; all kitchen conveniences including TWO filters from our rainwater tank, and laundry tub and water. Electricity in most rooms. Our builder has started another job, so it appears we only see him on rainy days (or any day Jennifer is there to put a few hours in).
Next trip up, we bring up a permanent queen bed and 'make' a bedroom of one of the front rooms.

Bye Bye to making up and dismantling the rather uncomfortable couch/bed each day. This photo shows our 'studio' living just prior to the new kitchen being installed.

Spent a fair bit of time doing smallish jobs that took a while. Had a good old scrub and tidy up and got two raised vege beds completed. Spent a lot of exhaustive time excavating and sieving some of our topsoil hill and transporting it by barrow to the beds. Well, one bed. A barrowload doesn't go far when you're filling raised beds. We have a good stash of mushroom compost under a tarp nearby - got a ute load full a few weeks ago from the Mushroom Factory down the road.

Bye Bye Louey the Fly. Denise wanted a photo before she scraped the stickers off and cleaned the window. The cracked pane has since been replaced. This is the view above the kitchen sink. The two new raised vege gardens in the bottom panes

The potato leaves are dying off (the ones we planted in tyres with old hay around). Denise was excavating the first tyre with delight when a tiny field mouse ran up her arm and dived over the fence. I'd like to see her if it was a rat ...

Another little job done. Our mailbox finally up. It wasn't that easy as we had to make a whole new little supported shelf for it level with the others. Tansy has just come back from chasing a hare