Reno #23 + Grandad

Its been quite a week, hard to know where to start.  Dad has been enjoying his style of cooking on the griddle..

We put the two main ceiling lights together for the lounge, and it was good to come home one night to see the electrician had hooked up outside lights and the lounge ones too :)

Marks bedroom has been wallpapered and painted and the carpet patched..

The tiler has finally started the Wincklemans in the front entrance, and will get on with the steps this week. Each step just has a dark grey edging tile like the one in the front of the photo.

Graeme is back finally from selling his house and shifting, has taken all the cladding off two walls of the  spare room, yes and that is a jackhammer!! Its so much fun waking to that kind of noise.   Concrete everywhere again, and now starting to reclad with timber.  The windows have to be removed for new reveals as we go, so a mess inside the room as well :)

Roy got the front garden boxed and poured Friday, so might be able to get the digger in to remove the hard fill and put some dirt & compost back in to plant the roses soon.  We had to cover the front entrance for the tiler... then 6am saturday morning Stuart was standing up there trying to get it down because the wind was trying to remove the gutters with it!  Glad we're not having sails again.

And this was lunch today.. Grandad stopped eating last week, managed to feed a couple of bits just with his fork, but then couldn't work out how a spoon would work better for him... so he ended up being fed, and couldn't even finish it.  Seems his right hand isn't working as well as the left and certainly not with it.  He did have a nice smile when I asked for one though.  He is wearing a lifting belt to make it easier to get in and out of a chair and the car.  It took three men to cart him down the stairs at Muirheads this morning..

This is how Stuart cleaned the garage carpet at Kihilla Rd friday night... vacuum system wasn't really sucky enough (or maybe it was really sucky!), and the carpet clung to all the jacaranda leaves and twigs!

Removing most everything from the wardrobe, I couldn't help but leave the hats - seemed to ens-cap-ulate the past!  Left a lovely bunch of colour on the dining table for open homes yesterday and today.  

There were 12 lots through yesterday, and 10 today, so will be interesting to see what comes of it all.  Its been a lot of work and a lot of down memory lane the past couple of weeks.  Ross decided he'd lay low instead of help with the cleaning... can't really blame him.

If anyone wants to view more photos - http://www.nz.open2view.com/properties/274665 

The rhododendron is in full bloom and looks gorgeous.

 The garage looked huge once it was all cleaned out..

That's us for another week.