The front lawn doesn’t grow against the house out the front and has always been a bit of a dust bowl. So to solve the problem, I have start to put a garden in it’s place.
Below is a photo showing the progress so far. Hope to have this finished next weekend and then look at putting some nice hedging plant in. Want something that will grow about say 90cm high. Will create a bit of privacy and probably cut down on the amount of dirt dust that would otherwise blow onto the porch.
Purchased a TiVo 160gb just the other week. It’s a run out model in a brown box. I had my suspicion it was a refurbish unit, however couldn’t get a straight answer. In any case I was going to purchase one, as it was far cheaper then the current 320gb models available. It comes with 12 months warranty.
Managed to get a bit knocked off price too. Brought it home set it up, then had to wait about 12 hours for the device to get the latest updates, then get enabled with the device name I selected. We already owned a older TiVo 160gb and I had the home networking package enabled/purchased.
While I was waiting for it to update I noticed TiVo offering a 1Tb Expander drive by redemption. Just need to setup a Caspa Wallet, then purchase a unit between a certain time frame. Of course pay for postage costs. Submitted details and got a error. Which clearly said the unit was believed to have been previously registered prior to the offer. Contacted the people behind the email address pointed out this was a unit purchased a few days earlier and falls within the period, and isn’t excluded by any conditions. To my delight, they fixed the problem with in 2 business days and then a few days later my credit card was charged for the postage. 1Tb Expander drive arrived today and it only cost me $10 for the postage. Very happy.
Sydney has been getting a fair bit of rain of late. Each weekend we have managed to get a bit of rain too. Which means being unable to do much outside.
On the upside, the grass seems to be growing so fast it’s hard to believe. Problem is, you mow the lawn and then within days of doing so it’s needing another mow. All we need now is for the rain to ease up a bit so that those lawns can get another trip.
I’d love to be able to run the remote control car a little more, haven’t had the chance to do so due to the weather. Managed a short go late today and then we got a serious storm in the late afternoon.
I wish I got a video clip of the water tank overflowing. The rain was very heavy and the tank was overflowing with a very high flow rate of water. Pretty impressive to see, but shame we didn’t have another tank to collect all that water. Oh well.
Managed to get a replacement air compressor today and a friend gave me a tyre pressure attachment, so I can pump up my car tyres when I want. No more need to visit the garage to use the tyre pump. Sweet.
Finished off the DIY Garden job yesterday, below is a photo showing the area before we started, and what it looks like completed. Of course I’ve since cut the caps to fit, so it’s now a complete job.
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After:
I know it’s been sometime since I last posted, and yes I have certainly been busy. Lot’s has certainly happened.
Hope everyone had a lovely Xmas period, and soon to be New Year’s.
I noticed Simon Rumble has been somewhat busy with DIY projects, and funny enough so have we. Thought it was a good as time as any to post something about what has been going on.
We’ve purchased a shed, and constructed it. Will post photos once I take some, as I don’t have any of it at the moment. However I spent the Xmas period doing a reintaining wall mainly to create a nice area for a garden. Believe me I need to cut back on the lawn, as mowing all the lawn we do have takes too long. Further more I am sick of having to do the edges of the grass against the house, I wanted something between the house and the lawn. So we installed some 400×400 pavers, and it came up alright too. Pictures all below, the wall is still not finished. Working on the last 90 degree turn back into the slope, and then I need to dig the hole bigger to hook it up to the storm water pipes.
Had the House warming last night and it seemed to go really well. Managed to show a number of people the new house all in one go.
The food was great. Got to love BBQ food. My mum made some of her famous sausage rolls and other stuff. It was all so nice.
House has been completed, we picked up the keys yesterday and paid the final amount.
Removal’s are coming tomorrow, appliances are being installed tomorrow too. Hope it don’t rain while we are trying to move.
We’ve booked in to move on Thursday, so as the day fast approaches we still have to pack up a number of rooms. Namely the kitchen. Will be alot happier once the move is completed. Although the house still has a few things needing to be fixed, hopefully that is all done tomorrow.
On Thursday we have booked in a number of things to happen, so it’s going to be very busy. A/C is going to be finished off, appliances have to be installed, Telstra is doing phone service and Antenna guy will install antennas and booster/amp for all the tv points.
Soon as I have a phone line, I’ll apply for ADSL. Will schedule a bit of time to then setup of the new desks in the office and unpack the computer gear. I also need to make time to do the various network ports in some rooms. Looks like it’s going to be a busy few weeks going forward.
Yesterday our concrete for the driveway was laid, along with the concrete for the patio area out the back.
Previous to this the main living areas had tiles laid a few days ago, and the pictures below show how those areas look with the tiles. The colours certainly came up well.
Just when I thought we’d sorted out things, along comes another problem. My wife and I are seriously starting to get very annoyed.
It would appear the cleaners went through the house and removed the coating from the glass on each of the windows. In certain places the glass had concrete on them which the film hadn’t protected too well. So the cleaners in the attempt to remove it, managed to seriously scratch the glass in a few windows. So far my wife has counted at least two, however didn’t check every other one. We’ve since pointed out to site manager the issue.
No way should we be expected to just keep it as is, it should in my opinion be replaced and resolved for windows which show serious signs of the issue at hand. If the builder has an issue they can take it up with the people who work on site and continue to cause problems like this.
Further more the tilers were on site, and apparently had no power. Oddly enough the
