Not much to report this week. I spent time to move our junk behind the new wall, and have the two remaining sheep grazing there now. Billy the goat got moved back to the neighbours, he was eating too much of our grass.
We had a rainy day, and I started work on the new bathroom. That is inside work. I removed some of the sarking boards. It takes some time. I use an angle grinder to grind away the heads of the nails, and the pull the board off. Otherwise it would just split up. It does leave an ugly burn mark or groove, but when we reuse it, we use the backside. No dating evidence yet. I was hoping to find some newspaper or something inside the wall.
I also visited our local museum. They have the original map of the farmland allocated to Jackson. It was 400 acres and was awarded in 1865.
We started painting the new wall on Saturday, and got halfway before lunch. We stopped and when I went out after lunch, we had a slight drizzle. We packed up and had a lovely sunny afternoon. Just our luck.
Anneke and Matt visited today, Sunday. They were in Hamilton for the official opening of the Tudor gardens, for which Anneke made the sculptures. Anneke made us a lovely colouring and drawing of the street view of the house, as it should be. Now I have a lot to aspire to.
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