LIFE ON "THE BLOCK"

We are spending more time on what is affectionately know as "The Block", that is of course our little piece of land that we are about to build our new home on.

On "The Block" today there was a little progress and that was the preparation of the slab for Allan's work shed. See photos below!

On "The Block" today we all checked out the progress of the swans in our pond, swamp, wetland or whatever it's called on the day. Today it was the swamp, though I would much prefer wetland, it has a much more sophisticated ring to it than the SWAMP! Nevertheless, we checked the progress and I'm not sure if there was any! The swans are leading us on a bit of a dance at the moment.

T & R doing a bit of bird watching....


We have 2 big beautiful black swans who have built the very large nest and we see them coming and going and sitting - and we wait in anticipation for the 'ugly ducklings' to appear. A couple of weeks ago, Allan and I became very excited when we saw two big swans and two little wee swans floating in our WETLANDS! Upon closer inspection we realised it was a couple of little black ducks visiting the swans and were most disappointed that they were not the little hatchlings.

Note to self for future reference: Cygnets are not black they are greyish whitishy kind off!
Anyway we are waiting patiently to see if anything appears, hope so!

BUTT! - moving right along.....
Doesn't that just 'crack' you up!

Okay, so back to the business of preparing a slab!

There's digging....
And laying of orange plastic.......
And putting down great big grids of stuff...........

The snipping the great big grids of stuff in certain places .....And standing on orange plastic so it doesn't blow away (in the gale force wind of the day) before it can be held down by great big grids of stuff!
Then there's the apprentices who were the only ones sensible enough to get out of the wind and direct from the ute windows!

Although some time was spent in the rough - lots of fun to be had on a building site and no toys necessary.

All of the above of course....Needs a site manager - and that happens to be ME! Holding that coffee was jolly hard work - considering my back injury and all!!! Something Allan has yet to come to terms with! I am usually his go'fer! But today all I could go 'fer was my coffee!! Though, come to think of it, standing on that orange plastic took some doing!

I know what you're thinking? "Can't wait for the next update!"