ATTIC AND SHELVES

 

Today is going to be all about THE ATTIC.

We are enlisting Steve's help to get the wooden planks, and get it set up.  Then we can put all the 'hardly used, but want to keep' stuff up there, out of the way. 

After that, I hope the guys can put shelves up in the laundry, toilet and kitchen. 

The guys will go out sometime this morning to get said wood and shelves.

ABOVE: This was the last thing to come out of the storage unit... and it's finally hung up again.  I love this shell painting SO MUCH.  It got hung late yesterday afternoon.  I actually managed to get quite a few paintings hung yesterday.  

While the guys work on the attic and shelves, I am going to unpack all our Britto, and put it in the cabinet.  I fully expect that to take me a couple of hours, if not longer.  

8.52 am:  It is FREEZING.  I've turned on the heat pump, happy to say it works and the room is warming up nicely.

ABOVE:  Yesterday I was starting to feel really despondent.  I had unpacked all the boxes, except Britto/China, and Sewing room.  And I had not found my Te Awamutu painting.   It is so precious to me.  We got married in that little church in Te Awamutu, when we lived there from 1986 - 1989.  It just turned up in a Britto Box!

ABOVE: Stew working on assembling the Ketter Shed.

ABOVE:  I tried a Caramel Hot Chocolate somewhere recently.  Bloody lovely!  So Stew got some Caramel flavouring while out shopping yesterday.  I had a cuppa this morning, added one cap full of the caramel stuff... oh YUM!

ABOVE: All the Britto is ready to go into the cabinet.  I am just taking a little break.  My hips and back are really, really bad today.  I keep getting shooting, sharp pains in my lower back.  Pain killers are on board, but not working yet.

ABOVE: The Ketter Shed is done, and I am so proud of Stew for getting it assembled.  He is chuffed with it too.  Now all the various bins are inside it, and that area is super tidy.

Steve has arrived, and looked at 'the list' for today.  😂😊 Now he and his Dad are off to Mitre 10 for shelving shit.

And I shall get the Britto in it's cabinet.

Coco is 100% OK today.  I do believe she's a hypochondriac! 

The guys are powering through the jobs ... I'm so happy it's slowly but surely coming together.

7.30 pm:  yep, it's been a long time since this morning's update.  We have been very busy.

ABOVE: The lounge is getting closer to being done.  That pile of boxes to the left is the new kitchen appliances, and some lighting.  

ABOVE: Steve installed shelves in the laundry, and now it's finished.  I might have squealed with delight!  Crazy how much I love it.

I mean, it's just a laundry!  😂😖

ABOVE: The attic has heaps of areas with 'flooring' now.  And the guys got everything in and there's heaps of room to spare as well.

ABOVE:  the boys being nice and quiet...

ABOVE:  I can't help it, I always give her a sweet when she's here, same with the boys.

ABOVE:  Getting the Britto in the cabinet took several hours, not two like I thought it would take.  I only had ONE breakage.

ABOVE: Lily LOVES joining Stew in the Wood shed!  

ABOVE: She plonks herself down on the floor, but only for a moment.  She's far too busy to sit still for long.

ABOVE: The new shelving and key rack in the kitchen.  

ABOVE:  This shelving unit will have glass bottles and ornaments on it.  Tomorrow.

We had dinner at our favourite Indian Restaurant, then home and straight down to the pool complex to have a long soak in the hot tub.

It was SOOOOO GOOD after a long day's work.

Home now, and time to relax some more.  

I'll be off to bed early again.  I am sleeping like a LOG at the moment, it's great.

Catch ya tomorrow.