We have had more time on our hands to get ticking off jobs in Herbert. There is now a spot to hang clothes in the house truck. I got this free trampoline months ago to create a moon gate. I will get a native climber to grow along it. I did think wisteria as I love them, but natives are always better.

Thursday it is all go, Dave is here to finish the stormwater and a few other bits of plumbing. We need him back one more day to do the last few things once the kitchen is in. Graham and Vaughan worked over at Brough St, they finished the cladding and the scribers (the window edging).

Rowan spent the day making a garden edge around the house and also the driveway. I got the first coat on the trim/doors.

Power pole is here! They replaced the one on the other side of the road too. They gave us the old wooden pole and will bring us another to create a way to get across the creek on Brough.

I did a bit of painting while Rowan did a good site tidy. Removing a few loads of items onto our resource recovery field.

I freaked out a little about the colour of the paint as it doesn’t look like it matches the wall. I talked to mitre10 about it and it is not a miss tint. I am still unsure about it. I don’t want to lighten it and create a colour I cannot replicate.

Paint saga continues… I can’t shake the “it’s not right” feeling. I got a couple of paint samples to look at, now I am sure the enamel paint is not right. I will check it when we next get to Palmerston.

I decided to create some stepping stones for Herbert with beach found pottery that I got for $1 at the Hampden dump. Yes those are my old cake tins haha

On Friday arvo the kitchen arrived at Placemakers. We headed in to pick it up. Then spent Saturday painting the trim and Rowan was setting up fences.

We shave used the next two days doing some jobs around Herbert. Rowan has sorted power and lights in Bette Bedford. The new pump works well in Jo, also the solar appears to be working well. In Camele we also have a solar system too. Lots of annoying jobs now complete! Here are a few AI pictures of potential paint options for Jo!