Friday update on the excitement

On the way to the postbox I snapped the developing development. A lot of good quality fill has been installed in a big hole that was dug, there have been surveyors and sticks poked in and we believe that "footings" are soon to be added. Closely followed by a concrete day and then, before you know it, a house and all that goes with it.

We watch, from behind the curtains, making notes and discussing our adopted project. It is all we can do until the sun decides to stay out, on a brighter note, we are off to Quality farms now to look at shrubs.

Love is in the Air

Despite the weather, our feathered friends on the Sunshine Coast have certainly been at it, there is seldom the "no I have a headache" or "we should wait until we're married" although there is a lot of "look out, it's a giant with an optical digital recording device" and "stop messing about" the latter in a feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic, egg laying vertebrate version of a Kenneth Williams voice.

Piglet, down at the Marina, waiting for the inevitable.

Old Codger

We actually managed to be out and about around the garden and garage this week, temperature picked up for a few days and we had some sun. Of course, today supposedly being a paddling day it was windy, overcast and threatening rain. No complaints though, besides all the complaining that is.

Cleared

A full day of backwards and forwards with the truck filled with earth, roots and logs has resulted in the clearance of the plot for what we think will be 715 Tricklebrook Way. It was with big smiles that we realized that at least two of the big Douglas Fir trees will be saved as they are actually not on the development property.

Hopefully, the developers have finished their tree cutting and will keep the remaining three evergreens seen here.

Temporary Driveway

Today the temporary gravel driveway went in across the road, the digger, after grading it, started loading up the big truck to ferry all the cut logs and roots to the dump site. All this as the rain poured.

In an unrelated story, we managed to get out for a paddle this morning in a tight window between the high winds and the heavy rain, a short venture around the breakwater and the Government wharf area, some heavy paddling as the wind was switching direction quickly. The rain started with a vengeance as we hoisted the outrigger out of the water, great timing and broke our duck for March.

Flax Bread

Five cups whole wheat flour, half cup bran, half cup ground flax, tablespoon of flax seed, four teaspoons of sugar, four of yeast, one salt. One and three quarters cups of water. Rise time one hour, four hundred degree oven, thirty minutes, time to first slice in bellies about three minutes after that.