Well as I'm sure you spotted the weather over here got even worse over Sunday and Monday fortunately we were ok, no leaks or flying things off the roof.. and slopey concrete might be bad for the spa but it kept the water away from the house nicely. So it was a good test for the house withstanding the elements. We did know we weren't in a flood area when we moved here which certainly paid off for us. However it was very windy and there were lots of fallen trees and branches around the area. Forest Lake itself had quite a few areas without power due to falling trees on power lines. On the grand scheme of things though we were very fortunate, its areas like Bundaberg where the whole town is wiped out that you feel for. It was weird being part of it this time, seeing how anxious people were and hoping the results weren't as widespread as 2011. I went in a chemist on Wednesday to find they were closed as restocking... they had emptied every shelf in the whole store just in case, as last time they lost everything and wanted to avoid a repetition as they were in a flood area. Fortunately although some areas are devastated it wasn't as bad as before, although that's no consolation for those that have been flooded.
So the kids ended up with an extra day off school as they had a dodgy water supply along with intermittent power. Josh braved going into the city with a friend to watch the high tide and see how high it got. Rebecca just pootled about, although at 9.45 pm she had a mad frenzy tidying her room and making mad comments about 'waking from her sleepy cocoon of the last 2 weeks and wanting to get back to school' ! 8 weeks holiday is really too long.
Well the spa saga is ongoing, Mark having spent all week thinking of solutions other than having all the concrete dug up and re-laid for which the quote was another $2500. We have at least found some jacks that we can hire that will move it... so that's a start. Anyway we need to decide this week as the landscaper starts tomorrow and we will soon run out of space to move it, if that's what we have to do.
We also got the wrong colour steps to go with it, but a least they are going to change those!
Well Mark finally got some more work from the fostering agency this week, taking an autistic kid to school every day...its a start. He also had an interview for after school care in Forest Lake too ... the advert said part time, but when he got there it was casual, but he may be able to juggle the two jobs the moment as see where it goes. However he's trying to reduce his pain killers again and its not going as well, as proportionately its a bigger percentage drop as so taking linger to get used to.. we'll see how it goes. His main reason for dropping now is that due to Medicare rules he can't get it on repeat, so has to see the GP every month to get them, which is a hassle and expensive, but hey ho, we'll see how it goes for a few more days.
So the kids finally went back to school on Wednesday and were very pleased to do so, although Josh had worked out how many days he has left of school which was a bit scary! He's all raring to go with prefect stuff and yr 12 stuff and both of them are practising Joseph music at home too.
Ceri had a normal week, was just peeved she didn't get any extra days off work.
the weekend came and has gone..I did an 81km bike ride yesterday, my best yet, but I was so tired after. I then went and bought Rebecca a new phone (that she paid for) in the afternoon and she managed to drop her's down the loo and it died despite drying out really well. Mark spent the day mixing concrete and filling in one of the areas where we were going to have a raised bed.. very hot work it was too. Today was church am and pm which was really good, we are so fortunate to have such amazing pastors who preach so well, we then had a church BBQ after which was fun. Mark found our Scottish friend had taped the 6 nations rugby England v Scotland, so he went back there this arvo to watch that... we are going to have to get foxtel so he can watch the sport.. he does miss so much.
I'm sure more stuff happened this week but I can't really think right now so that's its for this week.
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