Ouch

Yesterday I was carving up the concrete drive to do a new connection to the 1960 clay storm water pipe. Using the rented demolition hammer, 3 hours standing over the concrete and another 3 hours in the hole. I managed to baby the large hammer so as not to fracture the exposed pipe.
Afterward, wife wanted a small but deep garden wall broken up and removed.
So after 8 hours hard work, my back is extremely sore, my arms have pins and needles 12 hours later and I've worn the pads of quite a few fingers (luckily not my index fingers, I can still type).
I now have about two and a half tons of concrete on the side of my drive, waiting disposal.

Today I returned the demolition hammer to the hire company. Got the young fella to lift it out the car as I'm just too sore for such a heavy lift

And followed it up with a bit of shopping and coffee and cake.
I was surprised to get "mam" and even invited to a Ladies night promo, with free food.

Suns shining at last.

Early rise before all the other bods get up.
Had my coffee, read the newspaper, then decided to check out the beach activity - joggers only.

 
 

After the beach, I did a quick change to skinny jeans, then drove past the rock climbing building but realized I didn't have the right shoes for climbing - drove home to find wife and 2 daughters awake in the living room, the youngest stating in an accusing way "so that's where my denim jacket went!".

my idea of fun...

Great weekend with the wife, Redwood forest walk, great dinning, private geothermal spa (swimsuit optional......) and a little adventure in Rotorua, our little geothermal playground.

Big thanks to the great guys and girls working at Kaituna Cascades

Sleep deprived outing

Just worked 5 am yesterday to 6 am this morning (25 hours for those not counting)
It wasn't so bad, I did have 90 minutes sleep half way through.
Desperately trying to sleep, but with dogs on the bed and the sun shining on the curtains, it's not going to be one of those mornings.

So I get up after probably 1 hour sleep, dressed and took the daughter to work before heading to the shops.
Need coffee and it's always a good place to start the day.

 After an hour of checking out all the women's shops in the mall, I finally found a top that I had a liking for, if only it came in a large. I also really loved the red flowers on the form fitting skirt, again a large size would have had me parting with my money.

I would love to post more picture in the coming days but I'm off to Rotorua to get a bit of white water rafting (in boy mode), see some volcanic activity and get some naughty nights away with my wife. 

renovation weekend

Been plastering what few walls the builders have fitted drywall on, painted some of the exterior of the new build.
Visited a friends and fitted an oven range hood.
Feels like I'm covered in plaster and paint, hair messy, been so focused on the renovations I haven't even thought about girl time.