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Hi, some extensive progress is being happening this week, even though, it rained on Tuesday. We've just came back from VP , we are really excited with the work done so far; but also a little bit sad because we can't follow the process more closely as we both work full time and the only time we can check what is happening is during the night or during weekends. Anyway, spring is coming and with longer days we will be able to go after work and at least see something in sunlight. Some photos we took today:

 

Slab.. done!!!

Our slab was poured today :-) It was very early in the morning, so no chance for us to take a look. We hope things keep at the same pace.  We just came back from VP, we had dinner in front of our lot, as a celebration for the slab :-) (it was just pizza, coca cola and 15 degrees Celsius), somebody was walking the dog close to our lot and gave us THE look. I hope she didn't think we were doing something weird. Anyway, here some photos. I reckon nothing else will happen for this week, so we will stop going to VP at least until next week.

Waffle pods

Hi, we still haven't heard anything from our SS, however things are still happening in our lot. Today we found that the waffle pods were already placed, we reckon the slab is getting closer everyday. Here I'm leaving you some photos of how our lot looks at the moment. Enjoy :-) 

Hedges

Some months ago we decided to start cultivating the hedges we will put on the path towards the main entry. We were trying to decide between English boxes and Japanese boxes. At the end we decided for English boxes as these grow taller than the Japanese ones (1.5m vs 1m). We bought our first 3 in Masters, it was 2 dollars each. Next week we went to Bunnings and bought 5 more to almost 3 dollars each. At that time I saw some business selling hedges on ebay, but I wasn't sure about buy as most of them are in Victoria, no sure why there aren't any around NSW. Anyways, the other day we found some disposable pots that went thrown away, around 20. So we decided give it a go and buy some hedges in ebay. I found a business that was selling plants of 25cm for 3 dollars (but without pots, just single plants with naked roots). In Bunnings a plant of the same size is $15 each. 

At the end we bought 15 plants, so it was $45 + postage = $60 + 3 pot mix bags = a Grand Total of  $72

If we would have bought the same in Bunnings it would have been 15$ x 15 = $225 

So far, the plants seem to be perfect. The old ones have plenty of catch up to do ;-)      

Piering and drainage works

Today we went to do our usual visit to our land. Unluckily, it was already dark, we weren't expecting any change as we weren't notified of anything to be done in our land during this week. In fact our SS doesn't have our  file yet. Well, results that the piering and drainage work has been already done :-) a little bit surprised (but surprised in a good way). I think we will need to make our visits more often. This week was the end of the estimation phase, and the orders for materials have been already requested. I guess our slab is getting closer every day :-). It was really cold today at VP, we took some pictures and left really quick as we weren't prepared for the weather.

Excavation works have started!!!

Hi, more news today, the excavations works have started and now the site is totally flattened. I hope things keep happening at the same pace :-)