It's raining, but we'd rather be pouring

Unfortunately the floor slab pouring date has been pushed out until Monday 18th Jan - which is a shame as it means Fee will be away (in Hawaii, for work purposes!) and will miss it.

After a fabulous sunny warm day yesterday (Thurs 14th), today is another one of the great sunny summer days that mid-NZ is getting this year - we are convinced that summer has somehow by-passed the greater Wellington region.

The building inspector showed up yesterday and we got another tick in the box - so all the hard work that we are putting in is paying off. A big thanks to Reece who gave up a great fishing day on Wednesday to help Crosie lay mesh and bits onsite. Reece did manage to get out fishing yesterday though and caught 15 kingfish - a bit of a legend!

The Crosie is now wondering that while i am away, he could drop me at the airport on Saturday at the unearthly time of 6 am and then pop off for a quick hunt ... I do have to say he has actually earnt the rest!

Though Jake the dog, beat him to it on Wednesday afternoon. He went awol only to be found digging one of the bunny holes in one of the banks, needless to say that I called for Crosie to come and deal with what Jake had got out of the bank ... poor wee bunnies. Jake the bunny-killer (as opposed to me, the bunny-boiler), was well pleased with himself! However am sure the Ginger Ninja (aka Monty) and the Muppet (aka Rama) will delight when they arrive onsite to the wonderful array of wildlife that they can bring in to us. Rama (our sweet kitten) currently brings in birds and then gets bored and requires a sleep after all his hunting, only to let the bird continue to fly around inside the house!!

Right now time for some pics ....



Piles of Fill Worker in Progress





House Foundations - dug, and nearly all covered in polythene and mesh!







Workshop covered in polythene and mesh





Tired Crosie - with a bottle! Two of our escape artists!