Eight Weeks Already

As the title suggests we have been here for eight weeks now, time has certainly flown by...

I think I may have mentioned we have signed contracts with Rogers Pools, Stuart Bevan our pool designer and builder has started by laying out the pool ready for the excavators to start on Tuesday.

Pool Layout looking West

Pool Layout Looking East

Pool Layout Looking North East

We are pretty excited about the pool and can't wait for it to be completed.

Luke and Jo Jephcott visited us this week and we had a great time catching up, we did our best to convince them to move to Brisbane and were able to demonstrate many of the positive attributes of greater Brisbane, luckily they didn't visit QLD when the Kelly's did!

I also had the opportunity to catch up with Wardy and played some poker with him and Errol, unfortunately I was dominating before I had to leave, but my normal form returned and I was able to donate all of my $180,000 chips in three hands before I had to depart.

Chip Leader

Rosie has settled in beautifully at school and made some new friends, she was lucky enough to spend the day today with one of her school friends. She visited a Lego promo at Toys R Us, then went to a post match function for the Queensland Reds where she secured some signatures from blokes she doesn't know of, who play a game she has never seen - apparently they play Rugby or some such?

Rosie came home from School on Friday and was super excited about joining Auskick, I am amazed, when in Victoria the home of AFL she wasn't interested, now we are in QLD she wants to play AFL?? I just don't get it... I have also been asked to join an AFL Superfools side, those of you that know the depth and breadth of my footy skills will get a laugh out of that. 

Today we did some more garden work, we planted a lovely Firewheel Tree Stenocarpus sinuatus it is a member of the Protea family and can grow to 30 or 40 metres in a rainforest but in gardens normally grow to about 10 metres. We will be getting serious in the garden over the next six months or so.

Firewheel Tree Flower

I will post some more photos of the pool works over the next few days...