We awoke to the rural eau-de-cologne of effluent as it permeated the caravan this morning. Had our cat Muffy forgotten herself and had a bad accident overnight? So we checked in all the corners, just in case. Should have known better, Muffy was the absolute lady she always is. Looking out the window, we could see the dairy farmer spraying his paddocks with effluent. So that’s what the smell was, and that’s what you get when you live in the country environment. The wind must have been blowing the smell towards us.
With that mystery solved, it was time for a leisurely breakfast, time to put a load or two of washing in the machine, then morning tea with our hostess, before heading off to Levin once again to check on the progress of our new house. The line of traffic was flagged down and stopped before we drove onto the bridge over the rail way line. We soon found out why as an “Oversize” truck and it’s extra wide load hurtled past. No wonder the traffic was stopped – there would be no room to pass safely by the truck on the narrow bridge.
Oversize load coming by
The carpet layers were finishing up when we arrived. They have sets of long rods to stretch the carpet evenly over the floor, called power stretchers, they told me. The carpet was mostly laid, and they were finishing up the edges around each room by tucking the carpet over the smooth edge. Check here to see how power stretchers are used. We gathered up the larger left over pieces of carpet and will get the edges bound to make floor mats.
Trimming the carpet edge
Tools of the trade – power stretcher rods
Other surprises awaited us in the house. An awful lot has been done since our previous visit only the day before. The laundry tub has been hooked up in the garage – that will keep the person in our family who takes laundry duties very seriously quite happy. The plumber has been to install the toilet, and has been busy in the kitchen too putting in the dish washer drawer, and the sink bench with garbage disposal unit. Guess we will have to read an instruction book or two, we have never owned a dish washer before. We are still waiting for the new stove to be fitted, that can’t be far away now.
Our very first dish washer
Yesterday we spoke to the builder’s foreman about fences, and today the fence posts were all in place. That’s certainly fast work.
Posts for back fence dividing the two properties
It certainly is “all systems go” now, and we will start moving in from 1st March. Exciting, isn’t it?
1 comment:
My goodness. March 1st is coming up so soon! Exciting. :-)
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