It’s been raining for about 18 hours straight down here. The BOM says we’ve had nearly 60mm in the last 30 hours. Great for the garden, but this morning Peter noticed a fair bit of water collecting under the house. We tracked it down to a 2cm high and 30cm wide gap at the bottom of the laundry door frame. The rain’s coming in sideways thanks to the strong southerly and I think that’s the problem.
Jayne’s down there now bailing out with the “turkey baster” thing that we use to get rid of water that collects in the transom area of the boat. (I’m upstairs in the warm writing this on the computer). She’s a champ, isn’t she? She tells me she’s removed 15 buckets’ worth so far.
Here’s where it’s coming in
Then it’s trickling along the wall under these shelves
And collecting here (Peter put those boards down so we could walk around down there without covering ourselves in mud)
She wasn’t smiling like this after the 15th bucket
We’ve put down a tarp to plug the gap for now, and hopefully the rain will stop soon. We’ll get the gap fixed properly as soon as we can!
Been busy these last four days so haven’t had a chance to post about Peter & Christine’s arrival yet, but today’s rain is preventing us from doing much so now’s my chance.
Their flight arrived at 11.20pm on Wednesday night, which was about 20 minutes late. Apparently the ground crew at Perth airport went on strike just as their plane was about to leave - literally. They walked away from the plane leaving the stairs still attached to it and it took JetStar (presumably) 20 minutes or so to find someone to do it. Lucky they weren’t on a later flight or they may have been really stuck.
Jayne and I were struggling to stay awake (we’re usually in bed by 9.30) but we were all home and unloaded by about 12.30, which wasn’t too bad. Jayne took Thursday off to help them unpack and help them settle in, and the removal van arrived at about 1pm with all their boxes and furniture, some of which has found a home in the house, with the rest down in the garage and spare room for now. We’ve swapped our fridge for theirs ‘cos it’s huge, but unfortunately it’s about 10cm too high to fit in the recess so it sticks out a bit! We’ll do something about the cupboard in due course. Replace it with a shelf or something.
They spent Friday sorting out boxes and yesterday in town. The sorting’ll continue for a while … there are still 20+ big boxes in the garage from last year when the shipping container came over from Tassie! Other than that I think they’re settling in OK, and Max is certainly enjoying the company during the day. He’s put himself to bed at 8pm for the last four nights - clearly he’s not used to all the activity during the day.
More photos and stories in due course.
