Bone Dry Garage

Despite the amount of rain, my garage remains bone dry. I think 90% of the reason behind this is that the building is on sand. It is funny that the garage (my pride and joy) seems like a world away from the main house - kind of a different planet.

Inauspicious beginning

Last Thursday council notified us that we could move in, so yesterday we took bedding, food, utensils, table and chairs and stayed for the weekend. We installed the cooktop (but didn't connect the gas) and Graham cleaned up the bathroom, then I cooked a simple dinner on a plug-in two-burner hotplate and we went to bed.

A while later, Louka sat up in bed and vomited. We cleaned her and the bed as best we could and went, or tried to go, back to sleep. By the third time we were ready with a bucket and damp cloth (from a big bag of rags) but the fourth time she was too quick for us. Not much sleep for any of us.

In the morning she was hot and miserable but of course we had no panadol, so Graham went off to the pharmacy to find some. Fortunately it was open. She fell asleep again and we managed to sort out all the rubbish and cardboard boxes (hundreds of cardboard boxes) so Graham could take a load to the tip. Louka woke up feeling better and had some lunch, but soon brought that up again.

When Graham got back from the tip we started painting the living room, but after a while Louka felt sick again and only wanted to be held by me, so Graham had to clean up on his own. Then he had to pack the ute himself, and of course it rained again on the way home. We'll have to get some sort of cover for the ute.

I can now move in!

I sent the council the remaining certificates that they require for an interim occupancy certificate last week. Unfortunately they never got them in time to give me certificate by this weekend. However, over the phone they gave me the ok to move in. I'm so relieved.

Kitchen drawers

While Louka was at kindergarten today, I spent some time putting together kitchen drawers. Graham had said it was easy.

I managed to figure out how the standard parts went together, but I had no idea which drawer front went with which drawer. So mostly I just put all the backs, sides and bottoms together. I did figure out a set of narrow drawers so I installed them: I hope they're right! I also managed to break one of the big ones. The sides and back click together, then the bottom slides in. However, sliding in the big unwieldy bottom caused the back and sides to come apart, and the little plastic clip holding them together just snapped, and the corner chipped off the chipboard bottom too. I guess we can take it back.