COVID ISO DAY 6

 YEAH!

Two things to be happy about today.

I am feeling much better.  Obviously my throat dries out a lot overnight, so feels much worse in the morning.

That will ease up over the day all going well.

And... THE MONEY IS IN THE BANK.  So no more shielding the asphalt company's name.

SHAW ASPHALTERS 2006 Ltd, you suck.  You ruined our driveway.  

Today, if I continue to feel up to it, I'm going to start digging all the asphalt out of the drip lines between our house bricks, that should never have been filled with asphalt in the first place!

I will also clean the tar off our bricks and garage door.  AND I will sweep all the stones off the driveway, and around the edges that they just left.

In other words, I will start to clean up the bloody mess they should have fixed from the word go.

Well that's the plan!  Let's see how much I can get done before the batteries run down, and I have to go and have a Nana Nap!  COVID people!  COVID saps ya energy for sure.

..... And then she got outta bed, had breakfast, brushed her teeth, combed her hair.... and collapsed in a heap on her chair.  EXHAUSTED.

NO... you may not say 'I told you so' or laugh.  

I shall just sit here and gather some strength... for later.

11.43 am:  I'm outside hosing down the driveway.  Wearing my mask of course.  Lacy is over by her studio.  She has a little cough now and then.  So I tell her to go and take a RAT.

POSITIVE.

Did she catch it here, or at her last flat where her flatmate had it and took no precautions against spreading it?  We will never know.

But it means she has to now enter 10 MORE days of isolation!  

I wonder when Stew will test positive?

And I can't do NOTHING for days and days on end, it's doing my head in.

ABOVE:  That is all I did!  Just hosed down the driveway to again remove loose stones.  I KNOW it was a pointless exercise as it's all getting ripped up in a month, but I still wanted to do it.

I am now in me chair, feet up drinking diet coke.

Happy now?

ABOVE: Stew just sprayed weedkiller on our cute little lawn!

Yep.  We are killing it and starting again.  It had so many weeds it was more weeds than lawn.

ABOVE:  He's now working on filling in the holes and prepping this area for topsoil, then lawn.

We are taking the pavers back about 4 'sets'.  And of course, removing that black metal pole too.

Stew still feels well.  No, we will not be mixing and mingling with Lacy now that she has Covid too.  

ABOVE:  Stew worked for a few hours this morning and got the back yard ready for new topsoil.

He laid some pavers in that corner so we can put a BIG pot there, and grow a passionfruit vine in it.  Well that's the plan.

ABOVE:  Now all ready for new topsoil, then grass.

I spent about 2 hours this afternoon chipping back the asphalt from our house bricks.  I used a small chisel and my hands.  It wasn't hard to pull the bloody asphalt up!

I'll show you what I got done tomorrow.  For now... I'm done.

Stew and I had our lunch very late in the afternoon, so are going to wait until late this evening for dinner.

I think we are having ice cream.  Judge not.  We are grown ups and can eat ice cream for dinner if we want!

Well, we didn't have ice cream after all.  I cooked up some chips and fish cakes!  Super fast and easy.  

Now, it's getting late and I'm off to bed.

Stew has a headache.   Testing him again in the morning!