THE BIG MOVE

Photos of last night's efforts:

ABOVE: The object of the exercise was to move the carport BACK and to the right.... then take off the front left post, so the driveway can be dug up, then concrete put down.

ABOVE:  Once the carport was in the right position, Steve put the metal support pole up...

ABOVE:  Time to take the left post off!

I was literally shitting myself, imaging the whole thing falling over!

ABOVE: The only thing that fell down was that part attached to the post... right on Griffin's head!

ABOVE:  And there ya go!  Nothing on the driveway getting in the way.

Tomorrow.... the concrete company arrives to start the prep work.

ABOVE:  While the carport was being moved, the little boys had fun prising up the asphalt.  Crazy to think that two little boys could do it !  

I can't wait to see NO DAMN ASPHALT on my property.

First job of the day?  Water the grass seed.

Then... I think Stew and I will be having a quiet day.  Yesterday was crazy tiring.

11.32 am:  And that was scary!  My computer decided to just DIE.

No reason.   Just went black.   Nothing I did worked to bring it back for AGES.

Then suddenly... it started popping up with random screens.... not what I had open at the time it froze either.

Crazy.  That was scary. 

It's a worry when so much is now done via computers, and how much 'stuff' we store on them.

So anyway, it's decided to work again.

Stew is outside mowing the grass verge.  It's the only grass we have right now, so it should take him.... about 5 minutes. lol

I spoke with the concrete company this morning and got answers to all the questions we forgot to ask.

Like what time are they arriving (early tomorrow morning), how long before we can walk on it (36 hours or so), when can we drive on it (7days) and so on.

We have decided to stain it 'full black', which is actually just a dark grey, instead of light grey.

We are going out for a nice lunch somewhere.

Knowing us, it will involve a water view.

We ended up at Lake Karapiro for lunch at the Podium Cafe.

Gorgeous food as always.

Then we did a little drive around the lake...

ABOVE:  We stopped at several lay-bys, boat ramps etc.  The lake was picture perfect today.

Then on our way home we stopped into Cambridge and visited a newish gift shop.

We'd visited it before, and each time it was closed.

Today it was open...

ABOVE:  I found a couple of new little glass bottles.  The one on the right is 'supposed' to be for oil.  Me?  Nah.  It's just gunna be a pretty bottle on the table.  😊

Stew cooked our dinner tonight, pork sausages, mashed spuds and veges, with a really lovely brown onion gravy.  Griffin came over and had dinner with us, after he baked a Feijoa Cake under my supervision. 

Now... we have moved our cars off the driveway in readiness for tomorrow.

Can't wait!!!!

Catch ya tomorrow.