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Tuesday 2nd July 2019

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Big Day out for Mr Mitarai Busy day. Got a call from the water tank folk asking if they could bring forward our delivery... yeah no problem as we planned to be at Marnie to paint the inside of the container and try the BX on Marnie soil for the first time. So to start the day I had, the previous evening, loaded the BX onto the trailer after Jamie towed the ute from the bog.  All good and 1st attempt at loading the BX up on the trailer all went well except when I went to move the ute and trailer, the trailer brakes were binding.  Too late to sort last night so tackled the problem 1st thing this morning. Not sure the cause but we just backed off the tension in the trailer brake cable and all good. Next task was securing Mr Mitarai for the 20 min ride to Marnie.  This was a bit difficult due to finding tie down points which would allow good lashing angles to solid points on both the trailer and tractor. After a few tries and re-familisation with how to use those b...
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Saturday, 29th June

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Waiting for the rain to stop: Well things have been a bit slow over the last couple of weeks here at Noosa.   It seems (according to locals) we are experiencing unseasonable seasonal weather, of the wet variety. Given the early stages of building generally entails a lot of negative changes in elevation, wet dirt or mud as we know it, is not ones friend.    Mr. Mitarai and the ute in particular don't cope well. We have had heavy downpours followed by sun, then heavy downfall, etc, etc.  The ground never gets to recover before the next deluge. One afternoon's shower drop. So what's been happening?   I have had two flat batteries, one on the Merc and one on the ute, plus a flat tire on the ute to give me something to do.  And as I worked on making our temporary caravan surroundings a little more pleasant, I got the ute bogged in the paddock, and beyond redemption until the ground firms. I got into the paddock with a 1/2 ton of gravel, but ...
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Monday 22 July

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Its Stopped Raining Please note: If you wish me to email you when I have added content, please email me and I'll send you the link each time it's updated. Haven’t updated the blog as we have been busy with long days and home to the van in the dark and too tired to blog. None-the-less the dry weather as allowed us to move ahead with a number of things which we can do prior to submitting in the BA. So since last entry we have: - Built a temporary driveway crossing from the street to the front gate, which entailed earthwork and tucking in gravel; - Cut down some trees which shouldn’t be there (according to Cheryl, our garden consultant) and taken them to the tip; - Cleaned up around the creek and pond with a whipper snipper, and cleared under the Morton Bay Fig; - Returned from a dump trip with a trailer load of mulch to spread under the fig tree; - Planted about a dozen trees/shrubs Cheryl (our garden consultant) had bought around to start the screening off of ...
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