Shed Trouble!

Well just when I think the shed is going to be in before I know it, the shed supplier goes bust with my money!!! DOH!! I simply cannot believe it! They have my 50% deposit and things are looking grim. Still God is on the case and several people are praying that the shed will come, so things are tipping in our favour! :) So anyways if ya like you could pray for us and the shed too :)

Hopefully we will find out more this coming week, when we should be able to talk to the recievers...

Slippery OUT!!

Shed pad begins!

Well, after three trips to the red hill tip I finally got the site works men in to make a pad for our new shed. I must have dug a ton of heavy metal scrap out of the yard. It seems that a previous owner had been invloved in the trucking industry and has left most of it behind. I also pulled down one small shed with my patrol and cut the other main shed in half to make way for the new pad. This was much fun, and was enjoyed by my friendly neighbour almost as much as me. Anyways it was when the Bob Cat man came to smash up an existing one car pad that we ran into trouble.

The start....


We all assumed that the pad would be a relatively thin one and be easy for him to break up with his large bobcat. Well, were we wrong! It turned out to be over 750mm thick in places and nowhere was thinner than 260mm AND it was reinforced!! This pad was made to park a tank! We had to get a rock breaker in for four hours and it was too much for his machine it was broken when he left! But we got done what we needed and the Bobcat man was able to push the remaining concrete mountains around for the outline of the pad.


The end of the day...


He will return tomorrow and finsh the pad with more fill and sand. I will post a short video of the action and some pics....


Cheers
Slippery Out!

Advertising Horror to our kids

I dont know about you, but I am finding the growing level of horror on display in public to be disturbing to say the least. In the past we have found that certain DVD rental stores display all the modern horror films very prominently around their stores making it very hard to take our kids there to choose a movie. We have moved DVD stores since and there is a slight improvement. However today Naomi found SAW V advertising splashed across several display boards in KMART at midland directly in front of the toys area where all young kids would see the horrific images displayed on their way to the toys. Now these images even give me the creeps and I am 38, I cannot imagine how they would have affected me at my sons age of six. God tells us to dwell on wonderful pure and lovely thing for a reason. We are shaped by our environment as we grow up. There's no telling how a child exposed to these evil movies and images will grow up but I think these things will do a great disservice to children exposed, and probably the larger community as time passes. I think the moral desert that our society is becoming has at least partly come about because young children were exposed to things somewhat less than pure. The Bible tells us that Those that Hate God love death, and I see it everyday in our young people and exposing kids to this kind of horrific evil is paving the way for the kind of behaviour depicted in these evil movies. I hear the news readers on TV saying how terrible it is when seeing the tragic aftermath of some mindless violence on our streets and the very next advert shows some horrific movie involving killing death and debortuary and no-one seems to be able to link the media's constant barrage of this kind of absolute vomit to have anything to do with people's behaviour in general. Well it does!!!!! It's called influence, God tells us to be very careful about what we take into our minds because he know how easy we are influenced, this is surely more important now than ever before in this age of information. Some have said to me that information is the key to all problems ie the internut. This is sooo not true. In fact I think that the age of information has just spread the rot to younger and younger people faster and faster. Ultimate information corrupts ultimately.


So after that rant what do I do.....do we boy cot Kmart? Do we send hundreds of letters...?
The fact is that it is society that has become open to these kinds of things that allows them to be there in the first place. I guess if no-one complains or does anything I guess nothing will change.
The challenge for us is to do something. I pray that some of us (Bible believing Christians) will have the corrage to do something....


Slippery Out!!

More of the same

Well, I have got back to the windows this week and now only have the laundry left!
Started with Ben's room a month ago and today fitted the sixth one and the biggest in the lounge room. Phew!!! Luckily the last one for the laundry is the smallest one :) The improvement of just replacing an old stlye badly weathered wood window(no insect screen) with a lovely new white alloy one is just fantastic !! also rennovating and painting the sils you understand...:) Also been moving all crap to the front curb due to an impending curbside collection (my favourite!!!!), the pile out the front respembles the north side of the Eiger! And it continues to grow. The date for putting stuff out starts tomorrow but I started a week early because I knew how much rubbish I had to move :) I have cut down one tree and have one to go...During the week I also picked up my latest machine to help me get it all done....a ride on mower...I know I know my yard is not that big, but my back is really poor and believe it or not pushing a mower around puts me in agony for days after....the ride one (Big Red) also came with a trailer and boy have I been working it hard so far...I recon I have but a couple of ton through it in a week, most of which had ended up on the curb..I really have to get the site works going for the shed soon so have to get the old shed down and get that happening...still have bits in the bathroom and kitchen to do ....so
no rest for me!! :) But I could never be happy with nothing to do!! Will post pics later on.... :)

Slippery Out!

Kitchen and Bathroom nearing completion

Well, sorry but I have skipped a bit! I got so bogged down in the nitty of tiling the bathroom and fitting kitchen tops (both monumental tasks I might add :) that I have neglected to update this blog with some meaningful updates...soz.

Well the kitchen base cupboards are finished, and by that I mean the cupboards that reside on the floor are all done. Tops in, sink in and operational doors all went on 2 days ago and I finished fitting handles today. So the kitchen is fully operational the only things left to do are:

1. Build and fit overhead cupboards (in a few weeks...)
2. Finish new kitchen window installation with some alluminium trim and wood architrave and paint
3. Finish doorway architrave and paint

1. And the in bathroom just need to paint walls that dont have tiles (not very much wall)
2. Replace existing door with a new fancy one and new handles

3. Possibly replace old window with shiny new white alloy one :)


So there ya go, still much to do but really starting to feel like I am making progress...

Am at Grannys now so will post photos of all the action soon :)
Slippery Out!

Added pics :)