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We have a family of these living in the garden so I recon the snakes are looking for their evening meal

I think they are carpet pythons, we have one living in our roof space. Never seen him but found three shedded skins up to now.

So, we are nearing 4 yrs now in OZ. In that time we have seen lots of wonderful wildlife. However, we haven’t see too many snakes. Until this week!!!! Monday we saw one slithering across the road outside our house, that was a thin brown one. Wednesday, this fella was hit by a car outside our neighbours house. He managed to get to the grassy verge but was unable to survive unfortunately. Last night, I went outside to get some washing in, it was dark but we have good lights installed. just as my flip flopped foot met the door step I noticed something moving in the corner of the door jam, it was him I will admit to some nifty tap dancing and a giant leap into the laundry accompanied by a strangled squeal. He wasn’t aggressive at all and once I calmed down he was rather handsome lol. Fortunately both cats were inside so we locked the cat flap for the night and Mr Snake was nowhere to be seen this morning.

Thanks, today is my day off so I was up early to see Mr M off to work. A quick sprint round with the vacuum and filling of the dish washer left me a bit on the sweaty side as it’s already 29 degrees. Put my cossy on and jumped in. Yep, now I know why we needed a pool, it was bliss.

We have been to a couple of Christmas in July parties. One was a camping weekend on somebodies property next to a big lake. About 30 campers all having a ball. It was really lovely

So, we have moved on a bit more The fence was finally finished this morning. Big umbrella is in place so just the landscaping to do now.

It’s a magnesium, mineral rich, health pool. It’s an alternative to regular salt or chlorine and it’s environmentally friendly and apparently good for your health. Water feels really soft and no horrible chlorine smell.

Well, we are almost there. We swam last night for the first time and again this morning. As you can see, we still have temporary fencing in place and there is a boarder of messy sandy dirt all around the pool. The concrete guy comes tomorrow to measure up how much and where we want it, also the fencing team will be here to measure up. The big umbrella will arrive this week some time once the concrete is down. After Christmas we will concentrate on landscaping. We are having a mini retaining wall across the back to stop any heavy rain coming down the paddock and pouring into the pool. Very happy with it so far

It holds 47,600 litres of water Here is some of the equipment

You need a lot of gear to build a pool

Pool is starting to fill

Temporary fence

Yes that doesn’t surprise me. Lost count of the number of times we had our cars broken into. Was so glad to leave that place. We used to have to leave the telly on and the lights when we went out so we didn’t get burgled.

I will give a ball park figure when I total it all up. The extras are costing a lot because we are having frameless glass fencing and upgraded filters and stuff. The big brolly will cost $5000 because it is sunk 1 mt into the ground on a big steel frame and it’s hurricane proof. We haven’t had the invoices in yet from the electrician and then the concrete guy who will do the surrounding sunbathing areas. Here is the work so far today

Glad you are settled in Frodsham Amber, I spent some time in Huyton during the early 80’s and hated every minute of it. The place was full of thieves.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/fires-rage-across-queensland-as-firefighters-battle-to-contain-blazes-20181128-p50it1.html Hope everyone stays safe

For those who are interested we are having Magnesium Salt with Glass Media filter and a variable speed pump. Also, automatic PH control.

The beginnings of the pump housing

Quick update The tiles are now on around the rim and the electrics and pipes are all in place. Big day tomorrow, the colour will be applied and it will be mixed with something called “sparkles” which is like a glitter. When the sun catches it, or the pool lights, it will sparkle. This is an extra that you can opt for and is quit expensive. We are having colour changing lights which are on a remote control so we can have some fun with it (-: I will post some more pics when the colour has been added.

Tomorrow the umbrella guys come to do site survey for our massive brolly