slabs

June 18th, 2009

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slabs are good. we have a slab where was once a teapot with toast and jane. its a nice slab. for awhile it was wrapped in plastic like a christo installation (he wrapped up north head once so this is a small christo). we planned to polish the concrete which has become my way, particularly because it doesnt cost so much money. last weekend i did that so the builders could come and turn the slab into a building. grind grind, sweep sweep, hose hose. do that 20 times and you’re there. quite therapuetic. helps to temper my need for a quick result. after the grind sweep hose i am ready to paint the little thing trouble is the paint i get is wrong and the builder doesnt get to make a house for longer. i must get my paint from sydney. is anyone coming our way you could drop it off. still slabs are good and we get to enjoy it a bit more. i am hoping that everyone who reads this will sleep on this slab. thats my dream.

Back in Web World

June 12th, 2009

After several weeks of fading and intermittent and then no web access, tonight all seems to be working as it used to. I spent 2 hours today trying to communicate to Telstra, the telecommunication giant. I think I must have got through. Any way, we’re on again! When you live in the desert you can’t take these things for granted.

So much has happend since the last blog I don’t know where to start. We have had many visitors and important progress is being made on cabins. And we had a couple of days of rain and my tomatoes are growing and the weather has got cold. And we wish we were in Guatamala for a certain wedding in about a week.  And last weekend we did Finke! What’s Finke you may wonder. Well, I might let Keith blog that one as he has photos.

But we’ re back in the land of the net living.