We have a roof!

And to keep things spicy, I think I will use this post to show you how my world has changed since purchasing a polarizing filter for my camera...

Without the polarizer...












With the polarizer...












Notice how the reflection from the roof disappears when the polarizer is used!

Oh, it's just all toooooo exciting!

Sometimes we gotta go walkabout...

I know you're all tuning in to check the progress on the house build but we haven't been so can't give you an update!

Instead I'm going to tell you that we just had a fabulous weekend in the Flinders Ranges. Highlights included lunch at the Prairie Hotel, Parachilna (population of 5); staying at Wilpena Pound Resort; climbing Mount Ohlssen Bagge; and a fantastic drive through Brachina Gorge.

I can't wait to see the new Australia film and heard about the new adverts Baz Luhrmann had made for Tourism Australia. I googled them on Sunday evening when we returned and thought "yes, I really went walkabout...!" Dan and I have found ourselves dreaming of the Flinders Ranges since our return and the Aboriginal child in the advert even visited me in the night on Sunday night - honest!



Here's some random photos from our trip -

We have gutters!

BROWN PM is just not the same..

You can't quite imagine 'Hello, i'm Gordon'. Even the Australian Prime Minister is cool and laid back.

The big plan...

We've received our weekly email update for this week and it was a bit of a 'copy and paste' effort from last weeks update... The good thing is that the builders are communicating with us really well, the bad news is things sound like they've slowed up a bit... watch this space - we'll go and have a look ourselves tomorrow and see what's new.

In the mean time, I've realised we haven't put any plans on here about what we're actually building! Here goes...

This is the plan for the front aspect of the house -









This is the floor plan -













Plan of the development (we're lot 27)

Proudly introducing...

...our brick colour! Coming to a house near you soon!














And... our bedroom frame and window!

Our first visitors (other than the centipede...)

It was very exciting on Sunday to show our first visitors around our 'frame' - Taryn, Mark, Nigel & Anne-Marie. Even nicer that we'd all had a lovely Sunday arvo lunch at Red Poles in McLaren Vale.

We look forward to many more visitors in the future! We'll get that spare room ready! (we'll even arrange for some bricks)

Roof and windows!

Enough said.