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Worshipping workers? When the team is your dream…

In a world where entertainment is king, where fun is a requirement, where feelings are worshipped, where possessions indicate success and where holidays are the reward, what I am about to say may seem ridiculous to many…  Financially I have little. Physically I am in pain and battle sickness constantly. Emotionally I often have nothing to give. I don’t recall the last time I went on holiday.  But right now, today, I have to turn away from the workers on this building site as tears of joy flow freely. I am genuinely overwhelmed…  I am standing (in shorts & thongs …

for thought | Parenting   | |

Disaster Day – collapsing concrete…

How many times in a day can you fail? Today, a new record!! We had planned to do a small section of concrete – only around 40m2 – which I thought we would have finished in an hour. We hoped to get it fished before the worst of the rain hit.  The truck arrived 10 minutes early, and amazingly, the driver managed to get right were we needed him with only knocking down one fence. In the past, we’ve had huge issues, so the only hurdle for the day was already passed – or so I thought…  As he reversed, …

Building | Concrete / GFRC   | |

Concrete Benches? An intro

Thinking of doing concrete benches? Read this first! I often joke with people that when doing the rammed earth, we would be mixing large amounts just adding ingredients by hand and eye – no real measurements – then when we came to the concrete benches we were literally using drug scales and measuring 20 different products at 0.1g accuracy!! Talk about chalk and cheese. Side note: Just in case you were wondering – yes the scales used to be used for drugs. Something else Jesus has redeemed ?. I was amazed that there was an actual legitimate use for them …

Building | Concrete / GFRC   | |

Racing to beat winter

We had thought it would be easy – but due to sickness, finances and a number of other issues, it is now going to be very difficult to get a bathroom sorted for hot showers before winter… We have running water (mostly) for doing dishes, though the main plumbing for waste water needs to go right where the north verandah will be. To make things easier and cheaper in the long run, the verandah had to be next!

Concrete / GFRC | Rammed Earth   |

Building Progress: A Month of Serving

The last few weeks have been CRAZY with a capital K. Often we have deadlines with working on the house, jobs or building, however this last 6 weeks or so has been mainly about entertaining and blessing people – birthdays, Christmas, New Years and more. Today, being my birthday I would have liked to have had time to reflect, but this is the best I could manage: 

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A property in Sovereign Hill?

We had always loved the area around Guilderton. We regularly camped on the beach in the area and tried to whenever possible. So we looked at looked for properties in the area. From Woodridge to Guilderton to Redfield Park to Sovereign Hill to Seabird and further east – to Gingin, Beermullah are beyond. There was a big jump from large farm type properties to the smaller semi suburban lots.Woodridge was well established but we couldn’t afford it. Sovereign Hill was smaller lots (2.5 acres) and scrubby like bush, Guilderton was more holiday tpe housesout of our price range. Redfield Park …

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