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New House, who dis?
Oct. 25th, 2021 03:26 pmWell OK, we moved in over 2 months ago now, a day before NZ went into COVID19 Delta lockdown. This put a crimp in getting the internet physically connected, so for a couple of weeks I was commuting back to the rental which still had a fibre connection. This was actually in breach of level 4 rules, but I wasn't changing bubbles anywhere and it was a very safe drive from one end of the motorway to the other with little traffic. E came with me once online learning started so she could access her lessons and class chats (and spend the rest of the day playing Minecraft). D. tried not to go slowly mad at home with only a data connection.
It's taken this long for me to have the downtime and energy both available to complete a post. We had a deadline for reaching a certain level of unpacking, that being the boys week down for the school holidays. Various things have been purged in the process including some bits of family furniture which were very hard to let go of. It's weird how items which came with Gladson, which I have lived with and used for 20 years I was able to pass on without a second thought but items which came from my grandparents but I personally rarely used tore at me.
There is still a garage half-full of boxes to be gone through, and the wardrobe in the spare room and some containers under beds/desks.
Anyway, the house itself.
Unfortunately landscaping did not come as part of the package. I'm currently playing a wait-and-see-what-grows game, in which if something looks like it will serve as manageable ground cover it stays. De-stoning and smoothing is probably going to be a several year project, as is cleaning up the unwanted cabbage trees / flax on the back hill (the sound barrier between us and the state highway / railway line). I have long-terms intentions to terrace this a bit and utilise the height for raised garden beds.
(Despite the hill traffic noise is a constant, even at night with big trucks and goods trains, but it is no worse than living next to a busy roads in town. It actually makes for a kind of soothing white-noise. Can't rely on the sound of a vehicle to tell us that visitors have arrived though, constant false-positives.)
( Internals #DontRobUs )
It's taken this long for me to have the downtime and energy both available to complete a post. We had a deadline for reaching a certain level of unpacking, that being the boys week down for the school holidays. Various things have been purged in the process including some bits of family furniture which were very hard to let go of. It's weird how items which came with Gladson, which I have lived with and used for 20 years I was able to pass on without a second thought but items which came from my grandparents but I personally rarely used tore at me.
There is still a garage half-full of boxes to be gone through, and the wardrobe in the spare room and some containers under beds/desks.
Anyway, the house itself.
Unfortunately landscaping did not come as part of the package. I'm currently playing a wait-and-see-what-grows game, in which if something looks like it will serve as manageable ground cover it stays. De-stoning and smoothing is probably going to be a several year project, as is cleaning up the unwanted cabbage trees / flax on the back hill (the sound barrier between us and the state highway / railway line). I have long-terms intentions to terrace this a bit and utilise the height for raised garden beds.
(Despite the hill traffic noise is a constant, even at night with big trucks and goods trains, but it is no worse than living next to a busy roads in town. It actually makes for a kind of soothing white-noise. Can't rely on the sound of a vehicle to tell us that visitors have arrived though, constant false-positives.)
( Internals #DontRobUs )
