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Upper Mongogarie, impressive thunder storm

Today, Monday, come back to work. We worked with Jamie here and there, no particular project, just cleaning around. We start putting things a bit everywhere ourselves. Some spade (pelle) here, a screwdriver (tourne vis) on the ground, a tape measure (metre) on the roof :-) We need to keep this place tidy. I’ve also started testing all the electric tools because some of them are not working or just ready to explode, this is not really safe… We keep the best one and the others : rubbish! Keith buy every single thing in auction or on ebay. The quality, he doesn’t really care apparently. When he could buy one thing with a good quality he prefer ten of bad quality. End then they want to dig a huge hole and buried all the rubbish, ecologic isn’t it? Yes I’m angry today.

Byron Bay > Upper Mongogarie (by car… of course)

Second day off in Byron bay. We are lucky because today is the last day with sun. From late this afternoon we should have rain everyday for minimum a week… Aïe aïe aïe! We wanted water, we are gonna be serve and even more. It’s sunny now so let’s visit before the storm!

Upper Mongogarie > Byron Bay (by car)

Hey, we just arrived in Byron Bay :-) This is the second time in 6 weeks that I come back along the ocean and it’s nice. Vilma found her backpacker and join us again. Sue and Keith continued their travel towards Brisbane. We have two days to enjoy here :-)

Upper Mongogarie, water supply system, tiny step

Today we are finishing the preparation. Some piece of wood need a special shape to fit inside the cage. It’s long to carve them but then the next step will be certainly faster. No more picture today. We came back to the house to do different short tasks.
Tomorrow we are going to visit Byron bay and Vilma will stay there because her adventure here is finished. See ya!

Upper Mongogarie, water supply system, the tower

Today we work again on the water system. It’s working already but we optimised it. The other tank was not really stable and not protected. Keith and Sue bought those big tanks which used to serve for transporting tomato sauce or whatever. Strange… They certainly bought this in auctions (encheres) and they have 10 like these ones.

Upper Mongogarie, landscaping

Today, we did some landscaping. We dug the ground to continue covering the pipe water system. Then I wanted to clean this area because Sue keeps some plant here but we couldn’t really see what kind of plant was there. I dug around and flatten the ground. Then I took some bricks to make a kind of shelve. It’s much better now :-) I couldn’t move the biggest banana tree (I’m not sure if it’s one) because the roots are actually into the ground…

Upper Mongogarie, water supply system, the big straw

This morning, we worked on the other side of the house, buried the pipe in the trench and cleaning the mess around. It’s not finished yet so I didn’t take any picture :-) This afternoon, I’m adding the second layer on the straw and I look forward to see the result!