So with Bongani away, I can take stock, do planning and ordering of materials, do a bunch of 1 man jobs and get a streaming cold
My handyman with a streaming cold look
Tuesday 07 August – I put up the rain gauge before breakfast, unpack the dishwasher (yes it works but we haven’t been able to fill it before now), feed dogs etc. brrrrr its windy, chilly, stormy outside. (I have emptied it 3 times, 10mm, 38mm and 18mm – Sunday 19 Aug – so the garden is doing well, but nothing much on the catchments, the dams here are as low as 7% and farmers are having to bring in feed for the cows, its a big dairy area, some towns are running dry…)
Wed and Thursday we cleaned and set up house for our first visitors, Dee had a joll, I grunted disapproval for two days and helped with heavy stuff, and humble pie, humble pie, I was wrong, it was lovely, I am struggling to upload pics so FB it is….
Thursday Holly, Natalie and Olivia arrived mid afternoon, Tom and Margit arrived late afternoon, familiar people yay! its been 7 weeks since I saw someone I know!
Friday – Holly, Natalie and I went to J-bay, beenie shopping, there was a small incident with Holly and 20 odd bikini bits, “I’ll just try 2 OK daddy” hmmm when any of my kids use the daddy word…something is going down… We braai’d and Tom did most of it, a break from doing most of the cooking here. Thanks Bud, very excited, Tom brought the first bits for my powersds drill that is super cool, its a beast … just in time for some floor work, and I don’t mean dancing..
Saturday – The gang did a whistle stop tour of the canals, and hit the harbour for calamaris after which we went to the lighthouse and SANCOB (penguin rescue)sadly SANCOB is closing, a tough strategy but getting the work done in a high tech facility and shedding the expense of this one đ Tom and I id a spagetti fest for dinner and Sunday – 4am I cooked breakfast for Holly, Olivia, Natalie and me and they left SNIFF! Tom and Margit headed off a few hours later SNIFF! – I loafed all day.
Monday, I fetched Bongani from Humansdorp at about 17h30, hooray, my man has returned.
Tues 14 – by the time I had returned from dropping Dee at the airport – Bongani had moved the whole lounge and was almost done removing the carpet, I broke a cold chisel, and mr B, his back, he was pounding away with a 20lb hammer for hours, grinder with a cutting blade = DUST. I had to go to J-Bay to get a special tool to remove the trellidor. Had a braai with Glen and Alison Buchner who are in town for 10 days holiday.
Wed 15 Aug – I hired a pavement breaker machine and we got the screed off the floor, 2 trailer trips to Humansdorp dump and 2 broken bodies later it was done, I dunno if Bongani will be able to get out of bed tomorrow.
Thurs – tiling fail, tile cement layer to thick, cast a screed grrr – dustbins of sand and pockets of cement and Friday finished the screed and started tiling but my only gutter was blocked … Dee arrived back at about 10pm
Saturday was tiling day 2, its gonna take a couple more
Sunday, after a lazy start for me and an energetic one for Dee and Charlie, we went to the Buchners for a lekker Braai with a milk farmer with his wife and children and a SA surfing champ and renown board make and his wife, It was such a fascinating time, I loved it!
I will try to get pics back as soon as I have a moment..
