Big Job

G'day Mates!!

Finally I can show you another job we have been doing on the farm. It took so long because it was a huge job and we just finished it two days before we left.

By the way, the farewell was tough as I already predicted. Of course I had to cry but I was luckily not the only one, Lorraine had tears too and we figured out that it must be the date of birth; she has hers too on the 18th of October haha. Oh well, we might go back some day, you never know!

To come back on our job, we built a toilet/shower block and the main issue of it was, that we had to build it with material what we could find on the premises. Except for some screws, sheets for the roof, the plumbing stuff and a toilet which all was new, we succeeded very well.

This was the beginning, David had sorted out were he wanted the toilet and shower and already had digging 4 holes for the poles for the walls and one big one for the sceptic tank.

with putting some heavy iron poles in the four holes we figured out it needed to be bigger so we dug two more holes and found two more iron poles...

Thinking, thinking.......

Aah yes, cement is needed.....

Fred was looking for tools or material or was just thinking how to secure the pole I am holding....

As you can see its not only a toilet and shower but David also wanted a big "veranda" for shade along the caravan (which will be used later for visitors) ......

New sheets are being mounted.....

of course they sometimes have to be adjusted to fit.....

David screwed the sheets on the wooden frame.....

The plumbing had to be done before we could put the cement floors in.....

Its very difficult and scary (Fred was sweating) because it had to be proper done as once you put the glue on it, its stuck and you can't adjust it anymore.....

It was time for the floors.....

As you can see here, we did the floor in three stages.....

this is the last stage which was a bit lower because it is the floor for the shower...

after the floors were finished we searched the place for corrugated iron sheets....

David had to demolish a little duck, geese and chicken shelter to get some more sheets....

We had to go all over the place, and its pretty big as you could see in my "Farm" edition, looking for material and during this activity we one day were confronted with a huge snake. I alarmed David but before we came back it was gone .......

There were even two doors laying around somewhere.....(with peep holes haha)

it is becoming a real Aussie Dunny!! (Australian slang for toilet)

The new toilet was delivered by Lorraine and now its nearly finished.....

And then we had the grand opening!!

Unfortunately David had given a whole speech but before I had my camera on filming, the half was gone already, so you hear just a little bit.

Sorry David!

David had given me a iron sheet to make a sign and he wanted our names on it, so I complied with his request....
With him hanging up the sign, the toilet/shower block was officially opened haha!....

of course everyone had to have a look......

and even wanted to try, but the water still has to be connected and the sceptic tank is not connected yet, so there is still some work left for David.....

Then Fred popped the cork off the bubbles bottle and we had a nice drink (soft drink for the kids of course)

To be honest, 80% of the building has been done by Fred, I only helped with thinking, handing tools, searching for stuff etc. and David made the cement and mounted the sheets on the roof and telling Fred regularly he is doing a great job haha!

So I'm very proud of my hubby!! 

OK mates, we might have left Kangaroo Island now but I still have some stories of our adventure there and I can tell you, especially when you are a horse lover, you HAVE to watch the next blog!!

See you then.

Cheers!