Do you think that my title is the start of some corny joke????
No, it is the truth... Jack just had two weeks off and on top of going away to SA, he had a little house blitz.... He headed back to work today, with his drivers license back. I don't think that I have told you all about Jack driving 127 kmh on the way home from Echuca and losing his licence for 28 days - sort of forced him into a couple of weeks off. I think it has slowed both of us down!
Back to the hard working husband....
First Job ... replace section of back path. Due to very unfavorable septic tank issues... a section of our back path went last year... so that was replaced and I am afraid that I was the lacky that was yelled at.. Poor Jack tried his hardest not to yell at me for doing something wrong but concreting in hot weather is hard work!!
So that little job was done before we went away...
Then the painting. The house was only painted prior to us buying the property - so nearly two years ago, but they painted all of the windows and doors etc mission brown. Now, please don't get me wrong... but out of all of the colours that you could chose from, mission brown isn't really my cup of tea. We have painted EVERYTHING this same shade of green. It used to be called Rivergum green and I think it has been changed to Wilderness?? It s a colourbond colour... new fence is also that colour.. that job was also done before we went away....
Next job wasn't really planned, but Jack was going crazy on one of those hot days last week and he took to our driveway with a pick... digging up the gravel put in a garden bed. The finished product look fantastic... even if I do say so myself!
After all of that.. no wonder left for work today with a smile on his face!! I think he was looking forward to a break!!!!
9 comments:
What is it with coutry boys and their speeding? Ben lost his licence (sometime ago now) for speeding too. Unfortunately, he still has a lead foot. :( I had to laugh at your comment about being the lackey and being yelled at. Sounds very familar. We painted our house when we built and nearly divorced before we were even married!!
What a great job he did. The house looks brilliant. And as much as I love the character that comes with an old period home, the heating and the cooling just drives me mad.
You sure do have a great husband there :D
Wow, the house looks great!!
I too am often the lackey that gets yelled at (or gets grumpy at) - what is it with men and wanting to be the "foreman" on any house related projects?!
Hope you're having a good week xxx
The new colour looks great!!
I have a leadfoot hubby too..lol
It looks gorgeous, what a great job he's done on all of it.
Hey there! the house looks fab. Your man jack sounds quite a catch. Very different in my house, Mr A is very much the city boy - its me yelling at him most of the time! My sister lost her license a few years ago - I can still hear mum "The boys I can understand Belinda! but my daughter!!" Oh the shame!, so glad we can laugh now :)
est xox
Doesn't your house look fab! It's amazing the difference such a small thing can make, it's like your house has had her eyebrows expertly plucked ;o). Whomever championed the rise of mission brown should be shot.
Glad you had a great break in Adelaide. Your kids are little spunks. May as well get your fella to install another three phonelines now, you're going to need them once they get to highschool!
Thanks for you lovely comments re my Nanna's birthday, I blew her big kisses over the phone.
LOL at your most recent comment - I AM a country girl! I grew up on a dairy farm in the middle of nowhere, 200km east of Melbourne. I know what it's like to have a mobile that either doesn't work, or only works if the wind is blowing dew east while you stand on one leg, hanging out over the egde of the verandah, to need a lift to go anywhere, to have to have 2min showers and bucket the water out to the veggie garden, to have a snake in your bedroom, to leave former snakes in unexpected places for others to find, to laugh at city people who get scared of the wild pigs (koalas) they heard last night, to get yelled at for hanging off the water tank pipe that was conveniently located over the swimming hole (it got moved), to not have been on a waterslide but know how much fun it is to hold onto your dog's tail while he drags you and your lilo upstream before turning around and racing him back down and to learn to drive in a paddock bomb. (Sorry, that went on for a bit, I'm all nogtalgic now!)
I was just hanging it on friends in Sunbury who call it a part of Melbourne. The way I see it, if you're going to live in the city, live in the city, if you're going to live in the country, live in the country - there is no such thing as the best of both worlds! Now we live in an area that touches the CBD and our place in Melbourne is in the same location.
My partner is from the country, but was close enough to the city commute to school. He wants to move back to where I am from eventually, and that scares the bejesus out of me as I am not sure we'll be ready for that at the same time. I want to go back to raise kids in that environment, but that's a looooooong way away.
Oops, that'd be nostalgic.
Your place is looking great! :-)
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