Some weekends are better than others

Well, what a splendid weekend, weather was great, and we managed to achieve some jobs around the block too. Thursday evening and Friday, Connor, Ronan and I went up to Mum and Dad's so as to collect a 1.5m wingspan model aeroplane (my new toy :-). We had a pleasant trip, and the highlight had to be having fish and chips with the boys sitting on a grassy patch near Napier wharf watching some boys fishing (not ours). Saturday and Sunday saw us do a little bit of wiring in the extension, I started putting the data cable in, and digging down to the lid of the septic tank (not really a nice job). Whereas this morning, we moved meemee and PorkChop into the area beside the arena with lots of grass, and Connor and I spent some time in the workshop. He was making a plane, whilst I was starting on the CNC milling machine. We both made progress so that's pretty cool! Then this afternoon we mowed the lawn, and basically strolled around admiring our last 8 years of hardwork. Now to have tea, put the boys to bed, and then maybe play a board game with Steph, a very pleasant weekend.

Sunrise

Didn't realize Ronan was a cat or dog.

Building progress

Looking at the theatre from the south

My office window, and the ensuite (closest to the camera)

The master bedroom window, and walk-in-wardrobe window

Inside our bedroom, walk-in-wardrobe on left, ensuite on right

Wardrobe

Ensuite

Theatre across to office

Theatre from door

New door to a yet to be made deck and sitting area.

NightLapse

The reason for the apparent increase in speed of the stars later in the movie is because the exposure time of the photo became greater than that of the interval between shots...Very cool all the same

Wairarapa Sunset

Eeling

Another weekend, and it's been quite pleasant, Connor, Richard, Nuala and myself went out this afternoon for the Longbush Monster, this time using a trap we made. It came to within a few inches of the opening, but got scared and swam away, another time!  Also managed to get away for an overnight hunt in the Mangatoetoe valley, didn't spot anything, but saw sign, and had a good time all the same!
As for around Littlebush, since our bonfire is right beside where I intend to put the new plastic water tank, we decided to burn the pile down, so that we don't destroy the tank :-), so Saturday was spent feeding the fire.

Steph's been busy too

Whilst I've been in the kitchen with nasty chemicals and UV light, she's been in the lounge making these for Connor...he really likes dungarees.

This is her first attempt a clothes making since I've known her at least!!!!

Hectic Day

The first barrow going in

Quite a few barrows later

Me getting my hands dirty with the undergrounding of the power line

Admiring the slab

The Man from Council, He Say "YES"

Well, after a bit of rain, and what looked like a potential problem, the building inspector came around today, and signed off on the foundations, so tomorrow is
Concrete Day, how very exciting!

So far, over 1300 photos have been take of the build!

Photos

I think we might need to find the boys something to sit on

The finished intervalometer.

The weekend

As you might expect, the builders haven't done anything over the weekend, however, we have now got carpet and lino for the extension, we've picked http://www.carpetexpress.com/products/carpet/residential/Smartstrand/ingenious_flair.html in the color Key Largo, it's a very nice carpet, and whilst slightly expensive, it was on sale, so it brought it down to an affordable price.

Over the weekend, we've moved stock, harrowed paddocks, been down the range (Connor shot a rabbit target 2 at 50m by himself), and I've printed a few PCB's, they are starting to look a lot better!

Photos up later.

Day 4

No photos today, (well we have some, but they don't show that much progress), but we have plumbing now.

In other news, Steph and I went to a presentation about early childhood and brain development, very interesting stuff, and it was quite nice to have our main ideas about parenting validated
 1: Child needs parents around as much as possible (hence we've tried to have Steph and I around as much as possible) for the first 3 years
 2: TV doesn't cut it! The boys watch as little TV as possible
 3: Childcare isn't a substitute for parents (see 1)

There were a few things we both took away from the sessions (we went at different times of the day), and I had pizza.....never complain when I have free pizza...

Also, when we got home, our friend had a gilt with farrowing problems, so we went down and tried to help her farrow, but to no joy, the piglet is truely stuck, hopefully she would have passed it over night :-(