In case you are wondering, we did end up adopting another dog from Blacktown Pound, Sprocket. He's been with us for a little while now. We suspect he's an alien disguised as a dog, as he doesn't quite behave the way we expect, but he's been great at Howes Valley. We just need to watch out for any fox baits :(.
I wanted to post today as I'm very excited about the Nectre Bakers Oven being installed! It'll be installed in the nearish future once we organise the last bit for the 45 degree pitched roof! I'm really looking forward to being much warmer there and in front of a wood fire where we can cook on it and in it as well. I think the easiest and quickest thing we can do is pizza... but I can imagine roasts and all sort of goodies coming out of that oven.
In terms of progress, we have since that time have finished all the floorboards (and sold the excess on ebay). There is still 1 strip of skirting left to go but we need to purchase that. I've painted the front door... Will has installed 2 antennas -- one for FM radio and one for the TV. Oh yes, we have free to air TV!
AND we have internet (Telstra NextG). I suspect we'll have another antenna soon as the reception on what we have is terrible and drops out a lot. But internet is still goooooood. We went with a 10Gb which lasts for 365 days. That should last us a while on light usage. We purchased the modem/router thing from ebay which accepts a NextG SIM card.
The other thing Will installed is a set of security cameras. This is after the breakin we had at Kellyville Ridge. So now we monitor both houses to some extent.
Outside there has been quite a bit of work, with fruit trees installed and watered using a rain water tank (which we fill up using our main tank), some 'paving' being done -- you'll see the photos in another post I'm sure!, a BBQ site set up and lots of mowing! The rain water tank had some drainage piping installed so the overflow goes to the dam. Thanks to Chris, Susan, Ben and Jenny for helping out on that one!
