The Weekend That Was...

On the weekend, the weather was absolute crapola. It was cold. It was windy. It rained. So we got out in the garden between the showers of rain and did a few bits and pieces. Pete did a bit of spraying round the place to take out the explosion of weeds that had come with this rain we keep getting, Tyler jumped on the ride on mower and mowed the lawn and all around the house. Out by the shed, we excavated a big bloody hole where out pool is going to live from now on.

Said hole out by our house shed. We will backfill it with sand and then compact roadbase over it to give us a firm base, put the pool up (which is just a metal framed above ground pvc variety) and then pave and fence it so it can stay there permanently.

Then Pete and the kids decided to pull up an old path that used to go out to the clothesline when his Grandparents and then his parents lived here, so in came the heavy artillery yet again to make short work of that! 

The kids decided to use some of the lawn we'd dug to clear the space for the pool, to fill in the gaps where the path was, so Tyler and Kianhi lugged chunks of lawn from one side of the house to the other and filled in my path! They did get it completely filled in after a few more loads and a fair bit of hard yakka. Now to fill it in with sand to help the lawn establish new roots! Its kinda a bit lumpy and bumpy at the moment.

When all this was done, we went for a drive to Jude's place to check her fridges and freezers, as she's been away for a few weeks on holidays & we always go and check just in case the power goes out. (Her brother and sister in lawn (that she's away with) had their freezer die while they were off enjoying themselves, and their lucky son and daughter in law had the lovely job of cleaning it out!!!) We didnt want any nasty surprises so we now check. Anyhow, on the way home I felt sleepy and just really lethargic and exhausted, so I decided to have a rest when we got home. I woke a few hours later with a splitting headache, my body in absolute agony from the inside out and all over, a temperature and I was freezing cold! Figured out pretty quickly that Id caught Pete's disease he'd had on Friday night and it was out to take me down. Went back to sleep and in between hanging my head over the toilet bowl, slept till 11:30am Monday, woke with my head still clanging and my body still aching but no temp, vomiting or fevers anymore, although I did have diarrhea & felt like Id been run over by a whole station full of buses!! Eventually I started to come good and the headache subsided this morning - well it was gone when I woke up and hasnt been back to visit yet! - and Im starting to feel a tad more human than I had for a few days. Tuesday night and I still feel puffed, Im still spending the majority of my day sitting on a toilet & Im still a bit achy, but Im on the mend. Looking forward to the last of it going away and me getting back to feeling healthy again. Also fingers, toes, ears and nose crossed that none of the kids get it..touching a whole lotta wood right now!!! 

Me this morning after I managed to stomach a couple of pieces of toast and a cup of tea - my first food in 48 hours, besides the water Id been skulling non stop trying to keep my fluids up. I also managed to make a no bake slice, clean my back verandah, do a couple of loads of washing, fold some washing & tidy the bathroom,in between getting heaps of rest - dont stress, I aint going to overdo it and put myself straight back to where Ive just been! 

Till next time xx