two steps forward...

...two steps back. It feels like we're standing still. I know the big jobs are done and it's down to the smaller details but I'm finding it hard not to bogged down (literally) in the rain and the mud, and hurdles we keep encountering. Oh, and the bills...they never stop! I swear we should have shares in Bunnings!

Last weekend on Saturday we got heaps done. I lifted (from the old driveway) and cleaned down 400+ pavers. The boys formed up and created a path bed with road base and crushed concrete, then packed it down with a 'wacker packer'. They then began to lay the pavers and start excavating another path for the back door. The system worked really well. Awesome day, feeling really excited to get one path down.


Saturday night it rained...and rained...and bucketed down some more. Sunday morning before returning the wacker packer to the hire place they tried laying the road base and it all turned to slush. The wacker packer sunk itself into a messy, muddy hole. Devastated. Nothing to do but clean up and get dry. This rain is not going to stop until next weekend. Back to the sanding and painting inside. Oh how I want this to be OVER!