Well at 9am this morning some moving guy called me call me Mr Neguen (mangled L's last name) and said are you ready for delivery. Well that was right out of the blue. He said that they'd deliver by 2:30 and by 3:30 they showed up. I'd say that's pretty good for NT time (NT means NOT TODAY, NOT TOMORROW, NOT TUESDAY, NOT THURSDAY). Well all of our stuff is here and the living room no longer has that echo. So my dad hopefully won't notice when I call him on the phone. L's statue did suffer some damage which is weird it was in a crate and was pretty well packed. I think we can glue it back on and maybe do some repairs to make it look passable. I assembled our bed and for an IKEA bed I managed without too much swearing and actually got it together without many missing parts. All parts fit. So now some unpacking for the next few days.
The garden is pretty much done as far as chopping down all the palms. There is the odd one that's gonna need a trim but we took down a pretty big one on Monday (it was a holiday here some horse race day). Now all we need to do is drag it to the frond area which is overflowing and if I put the stumps there it will burst so I'll wait.
We have put up some solar LED lights wrapped around a couple of palms. It almost looks like Christmas at Mandarin Buffet Restaurant (we miss you). For those of you that don't know what that looks like I'll see if I can take a night photo to capture the atmosphere we are trying to create. The only problem with this house is there is no electrical outlet outside. They said "you can plug it inside and run an extension cord thru the screen door. Anyone see and issue with that ?
SO for now we're going solar, but it's hard for them to stay in the sun (the collector thing) because of the palms so I have to turn them off every night to preserve the battery. We will be starting on the fence next, just filling it in with either some sort of bamboo cover or some sort of green mesh type of stuff. I try to do pics later to show what I mean. This will stop people from looking in the backyard. We have some stuff up but it's old and falling down.
We just had to stop for a possum moment. They climb all over the trees/palms they fight all night usually about 4am. It's night here about 9pm and we are sitting out in the dark with the LED lights on. Oops a big fight happening over there in the field. L's got a LED torch (flash light) we use it to spot the wildlife.
Ok gotta go now my tea is here I am having a Coles (grocery store) doughnut we get 6 for $2 which is a good deal but the icing isn't all that good. I think we'll try to get their 6 iced donuts on special for $1 (ok there are some deals here but not many).
Take care
