progress

Well we have our new fridge and freezer installed downstairs.

The freezer is packed full of food, the fridge will need to be filled because a full fridge runs more efficiently than a half full one.

We are set for Xmas as far as food storing space is concerned.

We bought a whole lot of pies and things from the last school pie drive of the year, so until we get that order I will not buy anything else for the freezer.

I am still clearing the computer room upstairs ... I am up to the sewing phase now.

Once I finish all my sewing jobs, I will put the sewing machine and all sewing supplies into a new location.

Meanwhile uni spent all of yesterday clearing space in the store room which will become the new computer room/office.

It is in a pretty bad state at the moment, smells awful and still has damage from termite attack, but it is almost empty and uni worked his magic last year to paint and vastly improve the look of the fish room, so he will no doubt do the same to the "computer room".

This room has the advantage of having a door that can be closed and locked(so will be safe from Bella), is raised higher than the rest of the downstairs rooms, so is unlikely to flood. Downstairs is also cooler usually than upstairs, but there is only one window in the room so will have to see how well ventilated it is.

We will still probably get a laptop for upstairs so I can use it in the evenings and not have to leave the kids (hee hee, the kids!) upstairs by themselves while I unwind with the computer at night (hee hee, that sounds a bit odd too).

At the moment our fish room has plastic wrapped baby furniture and other assorted odds and ends all over it.

The baby stuff will have to be unwrapped, cleaned and taken upstairs once the baby's room has been emptied and uni wants to paint the interior walls which have some paint peeling off them.

We are certainly going to be busy!

Uni has also cleaned and filled the pond and introduced some plants into it. The plants are so happy, they are growing and flowering like crazy. The pond leaks from the top, so once he has sealed the interior we will fill it up to the top, let it sit for a week or so and introduce some fish into there. We have noticed an influx of dragonflies coming to investigate the pond!

Yesterday Kt went swimming wearing her new rainbow swimmers!

Very cute!

We also did a lice combing in the afternoon and I didn't find any lice at all. There were a lot of eggs (nits) but 90% of them were ones that had already hatched (and those lice have been dealt with in previous lice combings/lice treatments) and there were about 10% unhatched ones which I believe were rendered useless by the hot hair drying I have been doing.

Very happy ... will now just continue to remove any nits that I can see until her head is completely clear.

Only 3 months worth of work involved in that success!!!