Monday, November 27, 2006

Trucks!




Yup, that's what we're into at the moment... hard to avoid them really! Last week work started on the block next door, and they work 7 - 4:30 mon to fri and 7 - 2:30 on saturday. Entertains Jacob nicely! Last week we put his step out the front so he could watch to his heart's content (until it got too hot and he had to come inside). The water truck accesses the water from out the front of our house so we feel like we're right in the thick of it! 7:30 saturday morning while i was asleep it sounded like they were digging up concrete a few metres from the bedroom... cos they were! Doing something with the water pipes, i dunno. It would have been polite if they'd told us they were going to be blocking the driveway for a few hours and if we want to go anywhere to move the car, but, well, good thing we didn't have any plans! They've also removed most of the trees from the edge of the area so looks quite different from our back yard. Especially since a few bits of iron have come off our fence so we've got a gaping big hole near the compost heap - was very strange hanging out the washing while watching them chainsaw the trees! The first photo is what i was greeted with when i opened the front door about half an hour ago, and the rest are pretty self explanatory! I'm sure you'll be updated on progress again :)

2 comments:

Cherie said...

Excellent news for Jacob, but not so good for Mum and Dad. Reminds me of when the subdivided the blocks behind our old house. They used to park all of the tractors, earthmovers etc behind our house, and at 6am every morning they would start em all up and then at 4.30 every day they would trundle back to our house! Poor Rob was shift working at this time of our lives, and I am sure he didnt like it one bit.

Bugger that they arent being more accommodating to your needs re blocking the driveway.

Heth said...

The driveway's not really a huge issue... I'm sure that if we had an emergency and needed to go in a hurry it would be all cool, and with Al's time now soooo free and flexible if we have to wait a bit to leave it's no big drama!