#2030 Saturday 25th July 2020

Kaylia's looping is driving both Naomi and I to distraction!   Having a quota of DVDs.... that are a ransom against her deliberate loops.... it's good but she still loops in her room.  This is allowed as she has to have some outlet...... but she has taken to shouting it out in her room.  

As a consequence we now say to her that if she shouts it out we will do one blast on the bugle.  She hates that...... so it might work.

The garden is growing well and the chooks are a delightful set of characters.  They are fascinated by the sparkly jewelry on Naomi's fingers and try to peck at it.

The building is progressing.  I'm fitting the decking to the upstairs balcony...... a bit early but it's a safety measure as the temporary floor is a dangerous thing. 

#2029 Tuesday 21st July 2020

Kaylia had a good day back at school.... singing all the way home ..... and then straight into the bath!  She has "body doctor" this afternoon.

The roof is off the bungalow ..... now I have to bag up all the insulation!  Lovely job.

Then I'll start on the floor structure for the new room.

#2028 Monday 20th July 2020

Alberto and Rebecca left today.... they leave Australia in the near future.... Alby to return to Italy and Bec to continue solo travels. 

Alby and Bec left the bungalow in a spotless state..... this was very impressive..... and gratifying as the previous aupairs had left the room in a disgusting mess when they departed.

Now that the room is not occupied I can start the next stage of the building project where I remove the old roof..... and construct the walls of the "new" bungalow.

A floor will replace the old roof. 

#2027 Friday 17th July 2020

The day is cold ..... with alternating sunshine and rain.  Each time the sun comes out and I think I can get something done, the rain returns.  Ah well.

Kaylia is counting the days to "Daddy's birthday" .... that's the current loop.  As usual she is is really fixated on it and we have to manage the frequency.  She would literally do a continuous loop if we cooperated the way she wants us to!  We have to hide the calendar to stop it.

Fortunately, it's just a few days till she goes back to school again ..... yay!

#2026 Wednesday 15th July

The hot water system has been a saga!  I'm glad it has reached a satisfactory conclusion.  After Friday when I thought it had decided to work again, it turned out that it was just the sunny days giving us some solar hot water .... when the clouds came again the cold water came too!

It turned out that the heat pump had died ...... a new one costs $850 and takes a week to build ..... so no hot water?  Disaster!

Fortunately I managed to get a second hand heat pump and I was able to modify it to fit.  So we have hot water after all!

Kaylia has been enjoying drives with Alby and Bec.

Ably and Bec are leaving us on Monday.  We are not going to look for a new aupair at this time.  We plan to just have an after-school carer for a while and see how that goes.

#2025 Friday 10th July

Today has been one of those days from hell!  If it could go wrong, it did!  The day began with the hot water system failing..... cold shower.  Then Kaylia was having a really bad day and just making everyone else miserable. 

Then the computer was doing weird things in the accounting software.....  I had to lodge reports with the ATO twice.....  I still can't understand how the errors could have occurred.  I'm just happy that I was able to fix it.

After lunch Kaylia wanted a long drive so we drove to Northam and back.

When we got home I found that the hot water system has decided to work again! %$#&!

#2024 Thursday 9th july

Exciting day!

I'd taken Kaylia to Fremantle for "Friendship Club"...... a 9.30 to 2.30pm session..... and after 2 hour stint of payroll preparation (sitting at the library), I headed fo Bunnings for a bit more time killing.

At Bunnings, I always have a look at the tool chests..... I have a yearning for one and my birthday is coming up!  I walked into the store and a staff person was working in that area.... so I asked him for his opinion of the best value item.  "This one" he says "cos I'm about to mark it down by 50%" .!!!

SOLD! I sez! 

On my birthday I'll be able to post a photo of the bargain.