There's nothing like the good clean smell of country air...........

Well I think I can remember it LOL. This was sunset last night from the top of the Yarra Boulevard. Admittedly it is not just petrochemicals in the air. Since Black Saturday the State Government has been a weeee bit over the top when it comes to burning off and clearing the forests that surround Melbourne. As you can see they were burning on a day that had absolutely NO wind, so everything just settled over us. Made for a great sunset LOL. The painting and plastering continues and we have nearly finished the front half of the house, so that means all the furniture will now be moved from the lounge back to the bedrooms. Apparently there is already strong interest in the house and the "For Sale" sign hasn't gone up yet. There is an overflow from the sale of our neighbours and they have signed up for first up inspections when we finally get it all together. Pics are being taken on the 8th so it has to be fab by then.

Home Sweet Home

Well it used to be Home Sweet Home, now it's much more like a bare and featureless wreck LOL. The Art has all gone into hiding and the books are about to relaunched themselves down at Taralgon.

The bedrooms are in the lounge and the dining room is half in storage and half under the bedrooms LOL.

But the end is in sight. Now that everything is sort of out of the way the real work can begin.

We are finally seeing some results

The back garden is finally coming together with the addition of the bamboo water feature and the positioning of some of the rocks. We still have to move the small rocks from in front of the window up into the garden beds with the mondo grass and then we will fill a free form path just in front of the windows, should look great. The front is also coming along with the dry water course going in today.

Hello from packing central.

Not much news apart from the fact that we are being lethal with our sorting through things and trying desperately to get everything into a small storage shed. So far so good. Work has started on the house and we have revived the Japanese garden both in the front garden and the rear garden. We have worked out a new water feature using old bamboo pipes and it looks really good. Maybe at the end of all this we wont want to move LOL

We had a storm yesterday

Well Melbourne has been beaten and battered to within an inch of her life in the last 24 hours.  I have never seen such rain and hail. This was the pic I took of the weather bureau site before the official warnings cam out. Everything was grounded, no trains, no trams, no transport of any kind. Roofs collapsed at the new Southern Cross railway station, football grounds, casino, Jeffs Shed and lots and lots of smashed windows both in cars and houses. What a day. Still Miss Guided came through without a scratch and the house is ok as well. We just planted a vegie and herb garden and wondered how we were going to keep the water up to it and now we don't have to worry LOL.

Good to see both hans and bruce are at each others throat instead of mine for a change LOL. Hans the port barrel will be up on ebay this weekend, but it's pick up only so unless you are planning a weeeeee trip downunder you will have to do with a pic LOL.

Ebaying to death

The selling has begun and I have spent the last two days madly loading up my ebay account with "Rare and Collectible", "Once in a lifetime" and "Vintage Antiques" all over the place LOL.

Truly there is alot of good stuff up and so far the reaction has been really good. The funniest thing up so far is a complete Library. I tried to sell off all our books to the second hand book shops but couldn't find anyone that was interested in buying 700 odd books. So up on ebay it went complete with the Book shelves, so someone is going to buy a complete library and the interest has been great so far.

This is such a crappy job...............

As you can see by the state of the dining room, the packing has begun. The place is a mess and we are trying to keep it livable as Steve is still living here. We come in each day and do a bit more but with 30 years of stuff it doesn't seem to make any difference. I have started ebaying so hopefully by next weekend some of it will have moved house LOL.

Bruce has set up house in Thailand and seems to be getting a grip on things, at least one of us at least has started the big new adventure LOL.

Di the first of the clarice will be up on ebay tonight, happy bidding, really good set.

Hello from Melbourne

We arrived back here yesterday (Sunday) and checked into the park at Templestowe before heading to the house and see Bailey. Today was the start of the packing and we have launched ourselves into it with much gusto. So far the pub rubbish (records) have left the building and I have started to list some things on ebay as well as sorting through 30 years of drawers.

The builder came around this afternoon for his final instructions on what is needed before the sale. So far everything is going great.