Okay some of you ,I know. will want to skip this general interest and personal life stuff but I may just seed it with health tidbits so be warned! If all your friends are up on the comings and goings of Joyce & Chris, and you are still in the dark you may want to read on.
Joyce is good. I'm good
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Just kidding
We are good, that much is true. I was going to write a bunch of email to day but my fingers are getting tired so please forgive me I'm going to write it here then email my blog address to you as reminder that I've put news up.
It's two days after my 55th birthday and isn't that a kick in the pants! I realized the other day that I am actually looking forward. I don't mean that i wasn't positive about my future and confident in the doctors but I just wasn't really daydreaming on the possibilities, like I have been lately. Let me give you an example....I am so looking forward to getting our new slasher. and using it on the tractor to inilalate the pesky grass along the south fence. Picture a 6 foot wide 75 horse power spinning blade of steel housed in a bomb proof square cutter deck on the back of a four wheel drive CASE tractor. It is the biggest lawnmower you have ever seen. It is seriously MORE POWER ouhh ouhh ouhh. This is something that I haven't thought about until the past week.
I so want to be able to travel. To be at Melissa's wedding, to get to a nice sunny beach in the winter but that is a ways away. Even if I get the go to travel I can't be in the sun 'cause of the drugs. But i've started thinking about it. Looking forward to it.
I'm looking forward to Joyce getting a break. She's back at work having gone from full time carer of me to full time carer of her chunk of the Bay's population. She is definitely the trooper here.
I'm a little worried and I think Joyce is too about the current Flu epidemic in Australia. There are kids dying (okay only 4 and they had complications and they are all, way away from here, but still). I try to stay out of big crowds at the shops, I don't garden and the yard looks it!
I called up some help the other day from a yellow pages ad and got two "Rent a Hubbies" they were great and I just told them what to do and they did it. Who knew that that's what Joyce and I needed was our own hubbie?
I have the house sketches into the draughtsman/designer! We get the first real sketches back next week it looks like we may start the steel shell in October if luck holds. We have a builder but we have to get the approvals and that is a nightmare. Everyone keeps saying that it's not so bad it used to be way worst. You may know all about this but the local guy does the drawing for the interiors based on the engineers drawings from the Steel kit House company, then they go to two places. To the hydraulic designer for the rain water system(required), and the water treament system (required because there is no town sewage). Then that bit goes to council plumbing section for 4 weeks for approval which is pretty much guaranteed because the Designers are also certifiers. The main bit goes to the private building certifier who goes over it in 5 days then to council for 5 days for approval.
It used to all go to council and could take up to 12 weeks for approval so the new private certifers are working out I guess. It looks like council doesn't trust the plumbing certifiers though.
We are putting in solar electric grid connect systems with battery storage, solar hot water, tons of rain storage, and as of 6 months ago we can actually plumb our toilets and laundry to the rain tank but you have to have a "rainwater management system". That is basically a float value low in your tank plumbed to town water so that your toilet never runs dry. Although if we didn't have town water, which many rural properties around us don't have, would they make you have a second tank plumbed to the first tank? Don't laugh some of the building regs are that ridiculous.
Anyway I wanted to reward your patience with news.
More later
Chris
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