FIRST DAY BACK AT WORK

 Well... Stew heads back to work today.

He has had just over 2 weeks 'holiday'.

But seriously, we have been so busy he's not really had any 'down' time.  So he isn't really that rested.

That is partly why we plan on taking some long weekends away, so we can both wind down more.

Brylee has spent her first night living away from home.  I wonder how she slept?  She said if she wasn't comfortable in the bed provided with her room, she would get the Queen Slat bed we have in our Tin Shed, and buy herself a new mattress for it.

I'd be very happy about that, another thing out of our sheds and off the property.

Talking about sheds, my job today is going to be tidying up the Tin Shed, making some sort of sense out of everything in it.

It's certainly about time it got done.  

I'm weird, cos I'm really looking forward to doing it too. 

I also have something in mind for the sewing studio/shop set up too.  I might even do that first.

PRIZE for guessing?  Well now this is interesting.

The first person to guess correctly, that Brylee was leaving home was an ANONOMOUS commenter.

Here's where it get frustrating for me.

I've had THREE people tell me it was them!

So... now I have to do a random draw, to maintain fairness all round.

I will go through all the comments, put names in a bowl and draw one out later on today.

And that's me for now... catch ya later.

1. OFTEN I get comments that are completely untraceable due to one reason or another.  I tried to track the anon comment but due to the very HIGH rate of page views and comments coming in at the time, it was impossible to narrow that comment down to any ISP/area/country.

2. Family members in photo?  Yes, we have 8 kids.  One 'family' member did not attend, and is estranged from everyone, due to recent unconscionable actions against their own family.

And that's all I will say on that matter.  

I have managed to get ONE job done so far this morning.

ABOVE:  I really wanted to get the screen and paintings away from the window.  It was blocking so much of the natural light in my room.

So... I decided to nick some garage space:

ABOVE: View from other side of garage.  I can now sit and work on my computer while the shop is open and still keep an eye out for customers easily.

ABOVE:  View from inside the sewing studio/shop.  I have put a carpet down and have a nice standard lamp for lighting in there.  It looks ok?

Oh and I can still fit my little car in the garage easily.

I just talked with Brylee.  She's OK.  I was a bit worried about her... and felt very guilty about kinda 'encouraging' her to move out.

I knew it would be a HUGE, scary transition for her, and I was told there were quite a few tears 'out of my sight'.  Which was upsetting for me.

But we have talked over things, and let me assure you, it was NOT an acrimonious leaving at all.  We are just fine.

We love each other and that is all that matters.

She will find her 'grown up' feet and be just fine.

So... on to the next job on my list.

2.11 pm:  And I have JUST  left the garage!

I decided to re-arrange in there a bit more.

Giving my car a new 'space', and thus giving me more space over on the 'painting and shop' side.

ABOVE:  It involved changing the dog's pen around a bit, so my car could be parked more on the right hand side of the garage.

This took me bloody ages to nut out and do!

But I'm damn happy with the result. Steve will have to make the pen 'sound' again, right now it's tied together with rope and string!

ABOVE: Yes, the girls have less room in their pen, but seriously, they are only in it overnight most days.

ABOVE:  I now have a more 'defined' painting space, and a shelving unit to put stuff on.  It's great!

ABOVE:  Stew drew a name out of the bowl... and the winner of the GUESS WHAT?  prize is MEL GIBB.

Chick, email me your address!  stewandchris@hotmail.com

I will post ya prize asap.

Steve, Bex, Brylee and the little boys all came around for a swim this afternoon.  I too jumped in the pool to cool off, and take time out from me jobs.

It was wonderful.  Until I lay down on the ground to dry off.  I could hardly get back up due to dreadful lower back pain!  It was a bit scary in fact.   It is obviously something I will have to mention to my doctor when I next visit him.

Everyone has left again, so I'm going to do bugger all now until I need to get dinner for Stew and I.

ABOVE:  Yep, it's one of those Avatars!  I just love them.  The back is still killing me.  Might have to take another Tramadol.  I am hoping the back ache is just down to over doing it these past few days?

Well, thank goodness Tramadol works.  I can move again.  Lesson learnt though... SLOW DOWN.  Learn to pace myself.  I'm not as young as I used to be.

Stew and I had rice and cold meats for dinner, it was very nice.

But we are coming to the end of the cold meats, so I will have to actually cook something tomorrow night.

It's end of the day, time to just chill out, watch some mindless TV and head off to bed in a few hours.