Snakes & Ladders

Today has been a lovely hot day, with our car thermometer reaching 33c. I love days like today because it makes everywhere have that 'foreign' feel which reminds me how I'm living on the other side of the world to where I'm from! Ooo, you can't beat that migrant feeling!

So this morning we set off on our usual round trip to see how our build is progressing. We have found a new route that we have called the 'airport route' which basically means that it'll be the route we take through McLaren Vale when visitors arrive to take them to our house because there are some stunning vineyard views that really show off the area we've chosen to live in! We've also named it the 'guaranteed kangaroo sighting' route as well because we've discovered at twilight heaps of kangaroos come out to play in some of the fields! (and occasionally venture on to the road, eek)

Today however, we have upgraded the name of the 'guaranteed kangaroo sighting' route to be the 'guaranteed Australian wildlife sighting' route because we saw our first SA snake! It was just sitting (do snakes sit?!) in the road but scarpered (if snakes scarper?!) as we approached. I felt like I was at one of those drive through safari parks!

I didn't take this pic, but it was like this -
















We presume it was a brown snake (because it was brown) and these snakes are "considered to be one of the most dangerous snakes in the country; even young snakes are capable of delivering a fatal envenomation to a human." (thanks Wikipedia) Eeek.

Anyway, back to the purpose of the blog update. We were ecstatic to discover that the carpenters had been on site and begun putting our frame up! Yet again we realised just how big our house is (hehe) and did a few little dances of joy. The site is such a mess at the moment and I'm feeling bad because they've delivered our entire roof but put it bang in front of next door. Oooo, I'd be annoyed if someone did that to our house as it'd mess up the photos!

I started my photography course last week and one of the things we talked briefly about was photographers capturing the moment where something happens that just makes it a fantastic photo. There wasn't a lot of action happening on site (other than those little dances of joy) but I was practising ISO and shutter speeds and if I were to pick a photo that summed up this visit it would be this one - blue sky, sunshine and frame!













But as I'm not a pro (just yet) here are a few more pics to help explain!