Busy week coming up!

Monday worked from 7.30 to 1.30 early knock off. Picked up DD from friends house. Visited Scrap shop, i needed some photo squares.,,,,,,im making some 6x6 pages for a project by Julie Stone....Off t visit granny at the hostel, home to get DS then off to the block t cut pears,,,,after that off to woolies for some chockie heehee home for tea dishes bed soon:)

Tues DH has a conference he has to speak at tommorrow for *arrive home alive* he has to talk aboutthe accident in which he broke his hip and his views, the families view and how we all coped with his hospital stay and life after he arrived home.
The diary i kept at the time was very insightful reading it back and they have used it as part of the project. HE has to talk in front of like 150 people and he is so nervous...poor baby!

Wed DS is off to his Airbrushing course, it is progressive and continues on from last years....he really loves it and has talked about it being a job for him later on so any experience is a good thing. He at the moment is passing his resume around town as he is looking for work.

Thurs is our audit day,,,,,,so before this we have to getback tothe block and tidy things up and make sure everything is shipshape...bit hard when you are in the middle of cutting fruit.
I have to be at work at 6.45am this day and will be working until 5pm! *Yawn* LOL

Fri i start at 6.45am again but finish at about 2.30 so that will be nice.

And all of this is a brief outline...we are also hoping to sign the bank papers and really begin to start packing.

Im a little superstitious and am not game enough to start packing too much stuff yet!

Broadband gets turned off on thurs too ready for the move so i wont be travelling cyberspace very fast so it is likely that i wont be about much.,......but no one will miss me i am sure of that!

For the girls i promised the pear pics to, i have taken some and if i can get 5 mins i shall upload them here for you to peruse:)
Cya and take great care charxxxx

Getting ready!

This weekend we have been quite busy. On saturday we went to the block and picked three bins of pears. Tidied up all the fruit that was left in the shed ready to be taken into Angas Park for processing.

Cleaned out the shed a little and gave it a bit of a tidy up all round. In the afternoon we came home and cleaned up the house, this included a little bit of packing.

Im still scared because the bank manager didnt manage to get back to us on friday as he was sick so we are still in limbo really as to whether or not we move....

Darrel keeps telling me that we are but im still scared we wont be able to afford the repayments and will have to live on mince and bread for the next 30 years LOL.......

I am afraid that i cannot get excited until we actually sign the papers and really sign our lives away hahaha. Silly huh!!!

Anyway we will know for sure this week. And i am also scared of letting the owners down and not being able to go through with it all.

Never mind....

Well sunday has proven to be a busy day.......i dont know how blogger will upload my photos so i shall do that first and preview my post the tell you about the photos.....

Okay top two are out near the outside dunny which we have gotten ready to paint, inside already painted, we have eede all along the fenceline.

Next two pics are our new house, they are using it as dining we will use as lounge area:) And continuing along from the chook yard, these are all our fruit trees, nectarines and peaches.

The pic with the blue drum in it is the chook yard, that got all cleaned out today as we are expecting 4 new additions to our pen...making total chicken tally to 9!

The next photos are of the front garden where there used to be roses but they have died. We are going to lay bark chips arund the whole garden before we leave and crusher dust out the front driveway:)

Next we played with *Shelley* she is he funniest bird...she has three balls with bells inside then in her cage and she spends alot of time chucking them in and out of her water and feed bowls.....well now you can put your hand in her cage and ask her to play soccer and she will hrow the balls to you or come and grab them and throw them about her cage....and TALK!!!!!! omgosh....she whistles chatters and cheeps all day long......so cute.

The last photo is dedicated to the moving of the tank. We had it on the other end of the shed but decided it would be better in the yard so we moved it around and will set it all up.

Here where we live we are not on town water and each year you have to divert to tanks for all your water needs while the system shuts down for maintenance for a week.

We also went around the outside of the house and hammered in more clouts to the hardi plank and are in the process of no more gapping ready to paint, how exciting....we have chosen our colours for the outside and a friend who is a painter by trade has offered to get the paint at cost price for us so that is pretty awesome of him:) We were pretty chuffed about that. We save quite alot of money that way .

I have started packing just a few things...like the dvd and video collections.

I was perusing Ebay last night and have bidded on an xbox for the kids, theirs has died anyway while there i got to searching and i have so much junk here to get rid off im wondering if i would get more for it on Ebay rather than a garage sale.....eg i have a dressmakers dummy here and they are going for about the $50 mark...hey id be happy to get that for it:)

I have kids wetsuits here i can sell, books, oh gosh all sorts of stuff!

Im keeping a mental list of things to sell at garage sale, things to give away, things to chuck. Oh i have heaps of For Keeps and some other scrapping mags im thinking of listing in lots of 8 i can get them in a $9.30 post bag.....any takers????

They are all in fantastic condition and i just wont have the room in my new place at all for them Boo hoo!!!!

On a sad note, it was two years ago yesterday since my sister lost her partner to snakebite. She rang me yesterday and we had a chat, she did mention it in passing i had said that i did remember.....the kids didnt rememeber, as kids dont...the two youngest ones (his) certainly didnt remember.....one was 7 and the other 4 when he passed away.

She is in a new relationship now and all is going well..the kids have settled well into city life and although they *apparantly* lol miss us they have settled in really well. Im hoping if we do move they can come for a visit:)

Okay this post has turned enormous and im sorry for that but i wanted to get alot of stuff down at the moment. Trying to capture feelings and thoughts about the move......i am really eager and determined to make it work......i told my dad and mother in law and their reactions were very discouraging......one said *oh Christ, why?* and the other just didnt seem to enthused........:(

So i for one are going to damn well prove em wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay on that note i really am off

Cya Charxxxxxx

BUGGER BLOGGER HAS CHANGED THE PHOTO ORDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it is official!

Just a tease pic...this is my new kitchen:)

We are moving into our new house......OMG i cannot believe it.

We spoke to the owners last night and they gave us 2 dates either the 14th or 28th March, which is really funny because we moved into this house on the 22nd March 10 years ago!!!

We were talking about it last night and it seems that our life runs in cycles of 10 years.

Oh my there is SO MUCH to do...painting the inside and outside of this place, fixing up everything, getting an agent in to list it..our plan is to move and then paint here so there is nothing we have to move about or trip over in the house.......

We will be able to move some of our stuff to our block (which for those of you who dont know is the neighbouring property) We have 2 big containers, the kinds that go on the back of a semi trailer...that we can lock stuff in until we actually need it.

Oh my....i could hardly sleep last night for thinking about it...no second thoughts but still a nerve wracking night....oh its all going to be good!!!!