Life goes on...

Things here have not changed much, other than the mornings are getting a bit chilly as we get further into fall. We are very settled in the new house at this point.

I did plan a great dinner to do on the bbq last night, forgetting that this weekend, we ran out of propane. Revamped and did it inside. Will get fuel today.

We are gearing up for the arrival of 2 more staff in 2 weeks.

Other than that, pretty "normal"...

I finally did it!

I have had this wild bird seed block out since we moved (3 weeks ago today) trying to attract these birds.

Success this morning. I had 3 pair eating...they are so beautiful... bright green, blue, yellow and red. If you double click on the picture to enlarge it, you will get a better view. I did not want to get too close and startle them.

The hat, the water rack and the mouse story

We went out in the garage this morning to wait for the guy"s ride to work.

I saw that there was mouse poo on the grocery bag (it came out of the rental car that left us yesterday) that appears in the picture under my hat.

I picked up the hat to see a mouse still there. He jumped at me, landed in my hat that was up-side-down in my hand... I screamed, dropped the hat, (it landed just as i was holding it) and the mouse continued to run laps in my favorite hat.

Ya I screamed. I'm not afraid of mice, but at 5am, I'm not in the mood for them.

Will take some more aggressive measures to cut down on the mouse population today.

Just havin' way too much fun here. ok, so maybe not!

Another sunset

We attended a cookout just outside of town on Saturday night.

The sunset was very nice. I had to share.

It's my bicycle

He doesn't seem to care!

I explained it to him as I nicely put him out in the lawn.

A new car?

The brakes have been having issues for the past 4 or 5 days so yesterday I took it up and had it checked. They told me that there was nothing wrong w/them. ok fine... frank called and asked them to just bring us a different car. They just delivered this. Bird shit all over it, ants crawling on all of the door gaskets (inside) and tree sap and debris all over it.

I promptly backed it out of the garage and onto the drive, where it will stay. I will NOT drive it.

I have been the ONLY one to keep our rental car clean and washed. So today they take my clean one and leave this. When was the last time that you had a rental car that looked like this?

ya, i'm pissed off! only advantage to this is that now I'm not going to worry about running my errands today. I have nothing on my list as of 10 minutes ago! It can all wait until this is dealt with.

Address mess-The Resolution

What a week...
When I got the e-mail from the county council telling me that nothing could be done unless the owner got involved, I shot an email to the owner and he immediately wrote to the council.
We have an official address and on the right street...

we are now: 2A St. Andrews Chase., Dalby, QLD.

something so simple should not be so exhausting.

It's Sunday, Frank is working, nothing else terribly new...
Another engineer arriving today from Saskatoon.
Another in 3 weeks and one more the week after that.
So busy...

Address Mess, part 2

Well, everyone but the town council agrees on our address...
they appear unwilling to budge. They said that they would need a request from the owner.
He did that this morning.

They said that we could move the mail box... ok it's a 3 ft. wide x 15 in. deep x 38 in. high, brick gizzy w/the mail box inserted in the center of it. and it's on a concrete pad...
not likely that anyone is going to agree to moving it.

So, despite the fact that the developer, the builder, the owner and Australia post all agree, the city gets to overrule them all. Hopefully the letter from the owner will help.

This is all just dumbass.

Easter

Easter has come and gone, even though today is Easter Monday and considered a holiday, so nothing is open again today...

We had an Easter supper at Derek and Darcie's house on Saturday eve that was very nice.

I cooked yesterday and we had a quiet dinner w/just the 2 of us. Frank is having exactly what we had last night in his lunch today, as we had way too many leftovers! He did take yesterday off and took advantage of it by sleeping in!!!

The weather's yucky... cloudy and damp... no real rain today but it's due in later. cool enough for jeans and a hoodie. I also dusted off a pair of socks! not my favorite weather.

Many discussions later...

They (county and post office) have determined that we are in fact, St. Andrew's Chase
Now, what house number on St. Andrew's Chase is still to be determined. 2 is right beside us, then 4, 6, etc. odd coming back the other side of the street... So the lady suggested 2A, I thought that sounded like a mobile home...I suggested double 0...

Apparenty when they layed out the addition, the intention was to build the house toward Glen Eagles. I am not sure why anyone would do that, when if you face it toward St. Andrew's it faces the fairway on the golf club. BUT, the one across Glen Eagles from us does face Glen Eagles, not the golf club...their patio does face the golf club, BUT there is a 6' fence, so it doesn't matter.

Our "postie" had our mail, but could not find the house. SHOCKER.
oh well, still waiting to hear the final word on what our house number will be and for the owner's to visit, as they built this house w/o ever seeing it!

Address Mess

When we moved, the leasing agent told us that our new address is 18 Glen Eagles Drive.
I paid $66 to have our mail transferred to that address. Now we find out, that actually, our address is 18 St. Andrews Chase. We are on the corner of the 2 streets, but face St. Andrews.
The builder believes that our address is St. Andrews. The city believes that our address is Glen Eagles...
In the mean time, we are getting NO mail at all. Basically the leasing agent told me that it's my responsibility to straighten this out. Excuse me? I'm not the builder, I'm not the home owner... like the city is going to listen to me.
If the address is St. Andrews Chase, do I have to pay another $66 to move the mail again?
And where is our mail from the past 2 weeks? We are not even getting the flyers that arrive twice weekly. No one knows that we are here.
and of course, EVERYTHING is closed Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday for Easter!

Whitney's award

My grandaughter Whitney, won an art award for her picture that you can see here. The awards were presented today at the Fort Wayne, IN children's zoo. In the last picture she is w/her auntie Val and sister Katie. She must have finally relaxed, as she is attempting a smile!!! (she is in grade 1)

I am a very proud Grammy.

SO green here

That even the church has florescent light bulbs! Somehow, that just doesn't seem right!

Thursday morning

It's Thursday morning here. The weather is iffy at best. It is extremely windy and raining off and on, plus the power and internet have been out. One of the bright spots in my day was this lovely rainbow...