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The Bath - a great invention

Written by Natasha, on 09-11-2008

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Baths are a magical thing. They are lovely for tired sore bodies like ours! We've spent this weekend working on cleaning out trenches (stump holes) and enjoying the sunshine. It's been a less frenetic pace, and we have a little ghetto-blaster plugged into the ipod - music has been fantastic to keep us energised.

Having power on the site is fabbo, and we've had quite a bit of dancing around today, with some beautiful dragonflies and cockatoos flying around us. Some of the trees we planted in winter are still alive, we think it is because of the worm castings we put into the soil when we planted them. It is so so so dry, I am surprised they are still going, as we have hardly watered them - although it has rained a bit the last few days, which has been wonderful.

Our next focus is finding a concrete contractor to get the 200ml pads laid in our stump holes and trenches. Quite a few we have spoken to are busy until next next year - we want to get it done this week! Once the concrete pads are laid, we can get busy getting the timber stumps in and back-filled. Then we will be well on the way to getting off the ground and out of the dust, dirt and rocks!