Well we have just spent the coldest eight days we can remember. So cold we wrote out a sign 'Welcome to Mawson Base Camp'. Most visitors agreed.
Dianne and Gary McNamara have welcomed the safe arrival of another daughter, Natalie Rose, born on 1st of June. And she is so cute just like big sister Elly.
Stan framed upstairs around the stairwell and also around upstairs sink.
Our plumber Peter Russo, wife Debbie and then daughter Jane spent three nights at Yarrawonga while Peter and Stan installed all the up and downstairs plumbing. I'm sure we now have shares in Reece. Must mention the great service provided by Reece at Yarrawonga.
It's hard to break the habit of filling water containers as water is now connected to hangar sink.
We only had one short flight late in the day - just enough to fly over Lake Mulwala to see how unusual it presently looks without any water. Enough water left to see the original Murray River winding its way through the lakebed. Apparently they have drained the lake as the area has an algae problem and the best way to deal with it is lower the water and hope for cold weather producing five frosts to kill the algae.
Every other day either Stan was too busy, it was raining, or foggy, or windy, but believe me, every day was cold.
And our solar water service arrived but missing a brace, so when we left it was sitting on top of our roof waiting to be connected (which I believe Cobram Plumbing and Engineering has since finished). They installed most of the necessary internal pipes for the solar while we were at Yarrawonga.
Also a local electrician Luke Brennan connected power to our sewer pump so that is now fully operational.
All our insulation batts are at the hangar waiting for the builder to complete more framing.
The builder is now employed elsewhere so might be a few weeks before we have another progress report.
Peter and Anne McLean and Mark Howard now have lift up hangar doors and there is at least one other to go in shortly for Ingo.