Monkey business

… Thurs PM

painted all the balustrading and got the first piece up onto the Deck, hopefully we will be able to fit some of it finally Tomorrow.

Friday – Cleaned floor, in preparation for sealing tomorrow and finished stripping Olivia’s deck.

Sat – So mr B and I spent the morning on our hands and knees removing all the tile cement and grout from the tiles surface with acid, the monkeys arrived mid morning and danced on my roof and upset the woofas until I went for my cattie and they scarpered, its so nice to see them but I don’t want to encourage their visits,

mr B mopped and sealed the floor 1st coat and I took my membrane and rubber paint to solve a leak or two over the sunroom / bar. We are expecting some rain tonight so I had to get it done early enough for the 2nd coat, I would like to have done a 3rd coat but the 2nd was not quite dry (opening the tin for 2nd coat was a challenge as it had rubberized itself closed, I almost had a hernia getting it open, needless to say I cleaned the tin nicely before closing it again. I will have to seal the floor (2nd coat) Sunday morning or it will be Tuesday before we can use the floor, a pity to work on my day off but we are trying to get ready for the influx of people towards the end of September, Matt, Heidi, Tendai and Thuli are coming on the 20th as are Colleen and Nikki, Angie and Mary her sister arrive (armed with art supplies and 2 sewing machines) on the 18th, the latter 4 people are “coming to help”, that should be interesting.

Sunday so after silly night… one of the alarms went off 3 times and because Bongani had sealed the floor from our wing, I had to go on the friggin GREAT TREK to get to the 2nd alarm system, I hope in the future to put in one system covering both the others and controllable from your cell phone, we currently pay 2 sets of alarm monitoring and 2 armed response… madness! … after a small lie in I got up and sealed the floor again, it now makes the old one look soooo shabby LMAO now I have to clean and seal that one as well… maybe next year. So its raining and I still have leaks in the thatch… the new bit… and the sunroom… I need a ciggie! FOK! –

Dee and I went to nearby paradise beach to look for bokkies and lo and behold bambi (Cape Grysbok)

and rudolf (Nyala) made an appearance, I was relieved because when I suggested to Dee we do that, I think the mild word might be sceptical, but there they were 🙂

Monday – I have a floor to walk on yay!

of course just as we got all the tools out, the rain came back so I drove to J-Bay to borrow the trellidor screwdriver and mr B and I re-installed the trellidor after which we did the banister rail to the deck outside my bedroom and the Simon deck.

– a good day except for the afterwork woofa walk when Zeva almost pulled my arthritis off at the house with 5 border collies that all go NUTS as we walk by. Masterchef SFB also went a bit wrong when I added a tupperware full of sheep lard to my mashed sweet potato thinking it was leftover mash from a couple of days ago – GROSS! emptied 38mm from my rain guage…

Tues – the sun is shining – ripped an old beam and made a new one out of it, sanded, painted and installed, decking tomorrow, Oh, I went to FNB today and the sign said, open Mon, Wed, Fri lol village life.

Wednesday rain stopped play, 11mm, a bad day, did some angles in wood beams, it all went pear shaped grrrr! shopping and not bank, its open  only till 15h30

Thursday – still raining, painted the entrance / dining area, first coat and repaired some furniture.

Friday – 30mm – painted the entrance / dining area, 2nd coat and finally sorted the workshop some more, with most of the shelves and cupboards in their correct places I can now get on with organising it.

Saturday, There is a big East swell so Bruces Beauties is firing, looks amazing, Dee did the harbour (Granny’s pool) to harbour (Port St Francis) walk with Charlie and says it is wild out there, it is still raining so Bongani suggested we cut the decking for Olivia’s deck in the shiney new workshop then at least I can install when he is in PE on Monday – that is why I dig him stukkend! The sun came out for a bit so we are decking a for bit.