I'm Excited!!

It's getting closer!!! and I'm getting rather excited.

I've had the electrician here for 2 days getting electricity over to the shed and then putting power points and lights and fans and the outlet for TV, phone and air conditioning where I want them. To make sure that I didn't make too many mistakes I chalked the positions of all my tables, machines and shelving and everything else I wanted in my sewing shed on the floor. Then when Lance (electrician) and workers arrived I knew where everything was going. I hope when it comes time to move everything in it all fits.

6.15am Thursday morning the crusher/cracker dust arrived. This is for the driveway into the shed. Here we have black soil and it means that when it gets wet we do one of two things, sink out of sight or get taller with the build up of soil on our shoes, tyres etc.


To fix that problem and instead of spending another few thousand dollars getting cement or bitumen laid we have opted for this dust which apparently sets like concrete. It is the tailings from rock crushing or breaking - I think. We got 2 quotes, one from Biggenden Quarry and the other from our local council. The quarry won hands down, delivered for $20 a ton + gst, the council wanted $38 a ton with delivery and gst on top and guess where they get their supply from. So we ordered a truck — 26.3 tons. Now with that amount you'd think we could spread it from the shed, round the roundabout and down the driveway to the road. But no, this is as far as it went, apparently it weighs really heavy.


Now if we can just shift the stuff sitting inside the roller doors we could park our cars in there. See that white pipe sticking out of the ground next to the right roller door opening - that's my power supply. The whole shed is now wired, Ian just has to line the walls in my end and then the electrician will be back to connect it all up.

I'm getting really itchy feet to start moving over and suggested to Ian that he get the pink batts for the wall insulation tomorrow when he and SIL Pete are visiting Ag Trend. I didn't get very far with that suggestion. So I'll guess I'll have to scratch the feet and wait a bit longer.

When we bought this property and first had the wiring checked we found that the cable going up to Ian's shed was a tad too small, so another trench was dug and in went Ian's new cable. Now he'll be able to do what he wants in his shed. He also got a power point put on the outside wall under the caravan carport for the van to plug into. Boy are we getting somewhere in this place finally, it all seems to be falling into place.

I finally got to the (temporary) sewing room this afternoon, because I still hadn't finished my Mother's Day pressie for my Mum. Last year when I was down in Buderim I went into Absolutely Patchwork at Maroochydore and spent some quality time with the fabrics. I also left behind a small amount of money. It was well spent, I bought the embroidery Kiss of the Sun by Sally Giblin. I finished the embroidery in plenty of time but didn't get quite enough material for the border, so put it on the back burner until I had more material. Well that arrived a month ago, so I have no-one to blame but myself for not getting it finished before this. Well it is finished now and would you believe wrapped and ready to post in the morning. I know, I know, it will be late for Sunday. I have a wonderful mother who understands that things like this happen, but would you believe I forgot to take a photo. Now do I unwrap it to take a photo?

You bet I do!!!!