Thanks to a lovely lady friend, I can now put some photos taken over the past few weeks onto this site.
Many photos taken around this time show our hangar walls as a yellow colour instead of white. It was caused by the sun shining through a blanket of bushfire smoke.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
What a change in a week!
Apart from the inside of the hangar covered in red dust, we now have a one metre wide concrete footpath right around the hangar, AND a large area to form an outdoor area directly off what will be our kitchen/lounge.
We hadn't planned putting in all the concrete quite so soon, but Brian Godfrey our concretor arrived to put the floor in Mark and Jeanene Howard's hangar next door so he completed our concreting at the same time. But at least we hope it means we will be out of the dust. When it rains (if it ever does again) the soil immediately turns to red clag which sticks to everything. Nothing like walking along and growing taller each stride as mud builds up on the soles of your shoes.
And our driveway from roller-door to the boundary is also concreted. Just a few metres left to do from our boundary to the road. It would have all been completed but for an electrical pit fair slap bang in the middle of the drive so we had to wait for electrical company to increase the height of the pit. And the best part is there are no electrical connections to that pit, we were instructed to use one a few metres away.
Stan had the sliding glass door frames set down in the concrete slab to overcome the problem of a small ledge when you walk in or out, and we're extremely pleased with the result.
Darren from Cobram Windows came with our fly screen security doors to go on the sliding doors and he also changed the glass in one sliding door from clear to grey glass. It was incorrect when it was originally delivered. The grey sheet glass certainly cuts down glare from the surrounding white hangars and we know we'll never be sorry we used it.
As our concrete onto the taxiway was still above ground level by about four inches, Glenn Saunders came in and excavated soil with his bobcat and refilled it with three truckloads of crusher rock which he compacted to a solid surface. The taxiway is to be resealed so we will pay for this area to be sealed at the same time.
And Stan hasn't been at all idle through the week. He has secured in place all the floor struts for the upstairs section, and just on completed the sheet flooring on top of them.
And when I arrived home from Yarrawonga today I opened a letter from Moira Shire saying they have renumbered John Duigan Drive and our number is now 35. It doesn't really affect us apart from advising utility companies, but it will be painful for businesses with stationary and advertising printed with their original numbers.
It's very strange to come home and not find dust and grit all over the kitchen benchtops. And no, the dust in the hangar isn't at all like household dust!
That's it for this week - the camera is still at the hangar so unless I work out how to get photos off a little disk, the photos still won't be updated for at least another week.
Apart from the inside of the hangar covered in red dust, we now have a one metre wide concrete footpath right around the hangar, AND a large area to form an outdoor area directly off what will be our kitchen/lounge.
We hadn't planned putting in all the concrete quite so soon, but Brian Godfrey our concretor arrived to put the floor in Mark and Jeanene Howard's hangar next door so he completed our concreting at the same time. But at least we hope it means we will be out of the dust. When it rains (if it ever does again) the soil immediately turns to red clag which sticks to everything. Nothing like walking along and growing taller each stride as mud builds up on the soles of your shoes.
And our driveway from roller-door to the boundary is also concreted. Just a few metres left to do from our boundary to the road. It would have all been completed but for an electrical pit fair slap bang in the middle of the drive so we had to wait for electrical company to increase the height of the pit. And the best part is there are no electrical connections to that pit, we were instructed to use one a few metres away.
Stan had the sliding glass door frames set down in the concrete slab to overcome the problem of a small ledge when you walk in or out, and we're extremely pleased with the result.
Darren from Cobram Windows came with our fly screen security doors to go on the sliding doors and he also changed the glass in one sliding door from clear to grey glass. It was incorrect when it was originally delivered. The grey sheet glass certainly cuts down glare from the surrounding white hangars and we know we'll never be sorry we used it.
As our concrete onto the taxiway was still above ground level by about four inches, Glenn Saunders came in and excavated soil with his bobcat and refilled it with three truckloads of crusher rock which he compacted to a solid surface. The taxiway is to be resealed so we will pay for this area to be sealed at the same time.
And Stan hasn't been at all idle through the week. He has secured in place all the floor struts for the upstairs section, and just on completed the sheet flooring on top of them.
And when I arrived home from Yarrawonga today I opened a letter from Moira Shire saying they have renumbered John Duigan Drive and our number is now 35. It doesn't really affect us apart from advising utility companies, but it will be painful for businesses with stationary and advertising printed with their original numbers.
It's very strange to come home and not find dust and grit all over the kitchen benchtops. And no, the dust in the hangar isn't at all like household dust!
That's it for this week - the camera is still at the hangar so unless I work out how to get photos off a little disk, the photos still won't be updated for at least another week.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Last weekend I forgot to take camera to Yarrawonga, so no photos to add. But Stan, with Peter McLean's assistance, placed the front glass sliding door of our accommodation on the Saturday, a day which turned out to be 46 degrees plus, and Victoria's worst fire disaster. We were in stifling heat, but luckily many miles from the fires.
Smell of smoke filled the air Sunday morning, and after a few hours visibility was down to less than one kilometre. Stan and Peter put our four metre wide glass sliding door in, and by that time smoke was visible in the hangar, and our eyes started to sting.
I was going to drive back to Pakenham and Stan was intended staying the following week, but with the fires still raging and the road we usually take impassable, Stan decided to come back to Pakenham with me.
We actually thought he would go back to Yarrawonga a few days later, but now, nine days later, the fires have taken their toll and are presently contained, but the road up the Melba Highway is still blocked.
We came home on the Hume Highway via the city of Melbourne, which meant driving through 15 kilometres of blackened countryside around the Kilmore area. Homes and sheds were scattered through the ashes that had been saved from the devastation of the fire, and others that hadn't. Very emotional journey.
Back to Yarrawonga via the Hume on Friday night, 13 February. The temperature was at least 15 to 20 degrees cooler this weekend.
Brian Godfrey, our concretor and Glenn Saunders, our excavator and bobcat driver, had been busy for a few days getting Mark Howard's hangar ready for concrete and ours ready for concreting around the surrounds and driveway. Stan and Brian continued over the weekend and some concrete might be poured early this week. This Sunday I did leave Stan there and came home alone.
Smell of smoke filled the air Sunday morning, and after a few hours visibility was down to less than one kilometre. Stan and Peter put our four metre wide glass sliding door in, and by that time smoke was visible in the hangar, and our eyes started to sting.
I was going to drive back to Pakenham and Stan was intended staying the following week, but with the fires still raging and the road we usually take impassable, Stan decided to come back to Pakenham with me.
We actually thought he would go back to Yarrawonga a few days later, but now, nine days later, the fires have taken their toll and are presently contained, but the road up the Melba Highway is still blocked.
We came home on the Hume Highway via the city of Melbourne, which meant driving through 15 kilometres of blackened countryside around the Kilmore area. Homes and sheds were scattered through the ashes that had been saved from the devastation of the fire, and others that hadn't. Very emotional journey.
Back to Yarrawonga via the Hume on Friday night, 13 February. The temperature was at least 15 to 20 degrees cooler this weekend.
Brian Godfrey, our concretor and Glenn Saunders, our excavator and bobcat driver, had been busy for a few days getting Mark Howard's hangar ready for concrete and ours ready for concreting around the surrounds and driveway. Stan and Brian continued over the weekend and some concrete might be poured early this week. This Sunday I did leave Stan there and came home alone.
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