Lookin' good

Popped out to the block yesterday to see if anything had been delivered.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.....we have waffles!!!!  a ton of them in fact, all held together in their pretty fluro pink netting, all the reinforcement and the little stands for them had been delivered.
Wow! this means that they are definately going to do something and soon.
Our block had been re-scrapped and it looked all neat and pretty with the scoria all mixed in.

The waffles and reo

Neat and pretty site ready for boxing

Should have known better.

Should have gone by my own rule..."take note of what the SS tells you not your CSC"...  :(  Our slab is going ahead this week but is not booked in to start until wednesday, looks like the CSC got the wrong end of the stick.  Still hopefully we can still have our slab party on the weekend.

What a difference a day or so makes....

After all the rain on the weekend, we didn't go back out to the block until Tuesday....boy oh boy...the ground was dry...and the water had started to disappear.

So out we went again on Wednesday...still alot of water in the dug outs but it was slowly going away.  That afternoon we got a call from out CSC telling us that we had been put on hold....that was understandable considering the amount of water that was still in the cutouts.

We elected not to go on Thursday, so Friday lunchtime we headed off to the block after Tony had finished work, prepared to bail water out of the dugouts, took Mia with us...went to KFC to get some lunch and out to the block.

Surprise, surprise! They were in the middle of putting our pipes and our meter box in, so we sat in the car on the block next door eating our lunch and watched them working.  The water in the garage, porch and veranda must have gone cos they were dug over, meanwhile the alfresco was still underwater, they were actually going around the 'pool'.

Tony called our CSC while we were at the block and left a message for her, so when we got home i sent off an email letting her know that we had work happening on the block...she called me back within half an hour, she'd gone chasing info...so, now we have a forcast finish date for the slab...next wednesday....
...we looked at each other and thought...'holy crap' the alfresco is not going to dry out before then, so back we went to the block at 5, it took us just over 2 1/2hrs to empty the alfresco out.
I was helping until i kept getting stuck in the mud..fell over and nearly ended up in the water...luckily i was near the edge and landed on the bucket with my arm...smashed it to pieces...uh ha..no more i was not going to end up wet.  We found a couple of empty plaster buckets on the site next door so we used them, Tony in the water filling up two buckets, then giving me the third bucket to empty...this went on until 7ish then we had visitors to the block so i played hostess while Tony kept on working...Adee and his fiance had arrived by then after visiting their block at Mandalay so Adee helped his father finish the water.
8.30pm they finished it was getting rather dark by then...we deceided that pizza was in order for dinner..too late to go home and actually cook something.

Thank you Adrian for your help :)

The offending pool of water in the Alfresco

View from the back of the block, note the pipes on the RHS

The now empty waterhole.

And a little bit more...

As promised we went up to the block today to check on the condition of the block...and bugger me if it wasn't alot dryer than we thought it would be.  After 2 days of heavy rain, we thought we would have a quagmire up there but the only water on the block was sittiing in dug outs where the alfresco, porch, garage and veranda are going.

We were also surprised cos they had put out the markers for the slab, we are assuming that we wont get our pipes until the water has disappeared.  So keep your fingers crossed that it doesnt rain a whole lot until after the slab has been poured and is set.

The only partcially wet block, the large pool is actually the alfresco.

View from the driveway, not as wet as two days previously.

...but wait, there's more....

Sunday we drove upto WW for a slab party for the latest slab....I know, I know, it was pouring with rain, but that doesn't stop us....we ended up across the road in Bec & Robs house sheltering from the rain.  With kids running around an empty house it sure does echo.

We were so surprised when we arrived to see that more work had been done on our block on the Saturday, now we have a definate scrape done and a load of scoria had been delivered, it would have looked great if we could have gotten out of the car to have a look, so i will apologise now for the photo as it was taken from the comfort and dryness of the car.

Later during the day we did manage to go for a walk around the estate and look at some of the house designs....we managed to walk onto our block and check out how deep the alfresco and porch scrapings were....ankle deep in the alfresco and a bit deeper in the porch.

We shall endevour to go there this afternoon and try and get more pics for you.

As you can see it was quite wet

Hooray for the Red, White and Blue....

Yes! after more than 12 months work has started on our house...well the block really.
Adrian and I went for a drive early this afternoon and I almost had a heart attack when we saw the digger on the block next door and a fence around our block and what was in the middle of the fence...our site scrape, mind you you do have to look twice to actually see the scrape but it is a scrape none the less  :)

We are now very happy campers.

View from atop Mt Berner

In this pic you can see the veranda (foreground), front porch and alfresco scrapes

Signs....

We've been waiting with baited breathe for something to happen on our block, so we decided yesterday to venture out, as we know that PD often start before logging anything onto 27/seven....so out we went.....and what do you know?......we have a BIN....Yayyyyyy!!!!!!
And whats more on the way home our SS rang us to introduce himself and says that we should commence in the next few days.  Fingers crossed please.  :)