Mia's Folly: Bits n Pieces....

Well Saturday was busy, the skip finally arrived...wasn't as big as i thought it would be, hmmm...can we fit all the boxes etc into it?....was going to be a tight fit....so, when Tony got home he started on filling it...in the mean time Adee, Ash and Esther along with Lincoln, Esthers baby and the dogs arrived to watch the Grand Final...
The Lounge, Rumpus, Study and Hallways were blocked off with large sheets of cardboard, not a good idea to have 7 dogs running rampart through the house...and yes, all except one were Berners...the exception was a pug ( who thinks he's a Berner).
Watched the first quarter of the Grand Final, whilst eating lunch, then went outside to help Tony fill the skip.....he jumped and jumped on the skip trying to fit everything in...didn't quite make it, so for the next few recycle days, we will have to cut the cardboard down and get rid of it in the bins.
Sunday.... we got rid of some more boxes..yay!! and Marion collected the brass bed, mattress and base and two side tables.......boy!, we now have some space in the alfresco. :)

Monday.
Tony was on two days off, so we decided to put up the lights in the Master bedroom, WIR and Hallway...that took nearly half a day....as we had to assemble the darn things first.....did the two in the Master bedroom and when we got to the Hallway light, it came half assembled did we then realise that we had put the first two up with the rim on upside down....so poor Tony had to undo some of the light so he could turn the rim up the other way...it does look so much better now.
Finally, we are able to put the chair we bought into the niche in the ensuite...at this stage there are only the fans for the Alfresco left sitting in there.

Tuesday.
Busy day today.....doing what, i hear you ask....it was one of those days when you barely get time to sit down but in the end when you look back, it looks like you haven't done much at all.
We organised with Telstra to get the phone connected today...2 hours he told us...yeah! right!....8 hours later we get a call to organise for someone to come out on Friday to connect us.
Our fireplace has been acting up, it is taking me at least 4 goes to get it to ignite, so we rang Jetmaster, who tell us that apparently at one stage water got into the pipes...oh? nice of someone to let us know this.....so now we have left a message with our SS to get something done about it.
Yesterday Tony organised a plumber to come out to have a look at our recycle tap out the front as it looks like it is leaking underground...the bobcat has run over the meters on several occassions, so they can fix it....he was supposed to come out today, but we didn't see anybody.
Today we moved our outdoor table from the garage into the Alfresco...once we get the courtyard grassed it will go out there but for the moment it can live under the alfresco.
Moved all the boxes from the craft room into the garage where the table used to sit.
Then we started putting the outdoor lounge setting together...this was done late in the afternoon...it got a bit cold and then the rain started, so we decided to go down the street and get food for dinner.

Our puppy is improving each day...but she still runs on full power....she does learn quickly tho, which is a blessing, still have the occassional accidents when she doesn't quuite make it onto the pet loo. We love her to death.
Found all of Mia's soft toys that had been in storage, so Nikki thinks it is Christmas, Mia get rather possessive of Patch, which is a large soft puppy that we got for her before we picked her up...Nikki rather likes him...and as Mia did, shakes the living hell out of it...he is also good to cuddle upto when you sleep...Mia tonight was holding patch down with her paws and snapping at Nikki so she couldn't get to it..."My Patch, get your own"