Sunday, November 22, 2009

Now the fun begins...

And today was fun, even though we were met at the door by an unexpected guest. After charging the batteries for the cordless tools and packing the car with a few bits of equipment borrowed from dad's garage, we headed to the Chateau. Lee unlocked the door and as soon as it opened the surprise guest appeared. Kerry kindly provided the following creative version of the encounter:

(To the tune of Incy Wincy Spider)

Giant fuzzy spider climbed up the door frame.
Along came the human and down the spider came!
"Aaargh" screamed the human and did a little dance,
so giant fuzzy spider ran up the stone manse!

Yep, when Lee opened the door, the worlds largest ever (he reckons) huntsman spider dropped from the top of the door frame and landed on his leg! He bravely squeeled like a girl and broke into the 'get it off me' dance. The spider, probably laughing so hard he couldn't hold on, eventually dropped to the ground and ran off up the wall.

CREEEEPY!


Today's task was to rip out the ceiling in the old post office/shop front. The previous owner of the building had decided to put in a nice new ceiling of PINE FLOOR BOARDS!!! Perhaps they had wild parties in mind complete with Lionel Ritchie dancing on the ceiling???

 

Anyway, we hated it straight away and knew getting rid of it was our first opportunity to make our mark on the property. Here it goes...





 

 

 
Tadaaaa!


Ok, so it looks pretty daggy at the moment but we know it will end up looking spectacular. If you have seen the ceiling in our apartment at Port Adelaide you will know what we mean :).


After the clean up we noticed a cable and plug in the rafters near the chimney and upon inspection located an old portable light fitting at the other end of the cable. Just for a laugh we plugged it in and it actually works. It's about as bright as a 3 year old's birthday cake but it was still a cute find. And we're keeping it!

 

A bientot!

K'n'L

PS: If anybody would like some nice pine ceiling/floorboards for fire wood, let us know!