If you have arrived here from my marathon sponsorship e-mails then a quick update. I've been running well since the horror run and am feeling a lot more positive about finishing the marathon this year. However, this weekend I skipped the long run and focused on the house and yard which is a lot more exciting. Over the past few months we have been working on the front yard and cleared the concrete to leave a big sandpit. This weekend we have been getting on with installing water tanks and improving the soil so that we can grow some vegies. We started off digging a trench to put the tanks in but stopped to take delivery of the the sand and soil.
I left Eleri and David digging the tank trench while Callum (our tank man) unloaded all the the bits and pieces to make the water from the roof end up in the tank.
You may notice that all the soil from the hole has been spread around the yard to give a base for the new soil and make it easier to get the sand into the trench.
Once the tanks arrived we had a good old measure and realised that I still can't count, add or subtract and shouldn't be a foreman. The trench was a little short and a little deep but we are sure that the tanks won't be sticking over the fence. Here I am looking grumpy and getting plenty of stick from the people who had been digging.
David then made sure that the rest of the plans were OK and I went back to the wheelbarrow to try and make ammends.
Once the tranch was full of sand we had a good old jump around to start bedding it in, we are going to leave it for a week and hope there is a good rain to compact the sand a bit more.
Once we had the sand in we broke for lunch and recharged the batteries to attack the soil and tanks in the arvo. Eleri lead from the front and showed us how to do it with the shovel and barrow.
Once we had the soil spread out then we put in the first tank to check for height which confirmed that we will have plenty of space for the filters to fit on the downpipes.
The we parked all the tanks in the front yard and compared blisters. I was amazed we managed to do so much in one day but it's great to see it all in place and looking fantastic.
We are now setup to put all the tanks together, stand them up and connect up the clever plumbing bits. Today I have been working on digging out the storm drain and clearing the gutters so that no rubbish gets in the tanks. I think it is the first time the gutters have been cleaned since the house was built so there might be some reno required on them too.
I left Eleri and David digging the tank trench while Callum (our tank man) unloaded all the the bits and pieces to make the water from the roof end up in the tank.
You may notice that all the soil from the hole has been spread around the yard to give a base for the new soil and make it easier to get the sand into the trench.
Once the tanks arrived we had a good old measure and realised that I still can't count, add or subtract and shouldn't be a foreman. The trench was a little short and a little deep but we are sure that the tanks won't be sticking over the fence. Here I am looking grumpy and getting plenty of stick from the people who had been digging.
David then made sure that the rest of the plans were OK and I went back to the wheelbarrow to try and make ammends.
Once the tranch was full of sand we had a good old jump around to start bedding it in, we are going to leave it for a week and hope there is a good rain to compact the sand a bit more.
Once we had the sand in we broke for lunch and recharged the batteries to attack the soil and tanks in the arvo. Eleri lead from the front and showed us how to do it with the shovel and barrow.
Once we had the soil spread out then we put in the first tank to check for height which confirmed that we will have plenty of space for the filters to fit on the downpipes.
The we parked all the tanks in the front yard and compared blisters. I was amazed we managed to do so much in one day but it's great to see it all in place and looking fantastic.
We are now setup to put all the tanks together, stand them up and connect up the clever plumbing bits. Today I have been working on digging out the storm drain and clearing the gutters so that no rubbish gets in the tanks. I think it is the first time the gutters have been cleaned since the house was built so there might be some reno required on them too.
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