Bring on the Rain, and bring on the Thunder

As rain and thunderstorms had been forecast for today I was thinking of how I could collect the water that flows from the bungalow roof. I wanted to save the water for our vegie patch on the hotter days.
Here's what I came up with:

Our green garbage bin seemed like the right size until it started to overflow after 30 mins of rain! I shut the lid and collected some more in a red bucket.

Methinks I need to buy a tank... and possibly a new pipe for that leak! Oh and gumboots

Meanwhile.......

While the guys where virtually murdering each other, Courtney, Courtney and I had a "Girls Night" in the bungalow....

My sister Courtney face masks my sister-in-law Courtney.

What an IMPROVEMENT!

Attack of the Nerds!

Simon invited all the guys over for a PS3 games night to play Modern Warfare. It required them to all bring their own TV's.... even if they were 42"! and of course, their own PS3.

Steve and Scott try setting up the network.

At 10.30pm they had it all working! But that ment they didn't leave until 2.30AM!!

The next time you guys hold one here (which i hear is planned to be soon), make sure I have plans to stay somewhere else!

Visitor

So went out to water the plants at about 10pm after a hot hot summer day, and lo and behold thought i saw something in the dark sticking to the wall, i squirted it with the watering can and i disappeared. came back with a torch and almost gave up, as you can see its hard to find, when i saw this frog. there isn't any sort of water source out the front of our house. its a nice surprise.

Attacking the Garden.

So we decided to attack the garden this holidays. Went pretty well i believe, ripping all the shrubs and weeds and other plants that have taken over the garden bed, deciding to start from scratch when we plant more.

We found alot of snails, they almost filled a 2L ice cream container. No Lauren, you're not French, they arn't ones you can eat!

First tomato from the vegie garden.

For those of you who know Lauren, you'd know she hates tomatoes with a passion.

Our vegie garden is coming along and we only have a few plants but one is a tomato plant. We've been caring for them for a while now and she vowed that she would have a slice of tomato from our first one picked, well today was the day... Safe to say, she still isn't a fan!!

Welcome.

Welcome to our blog. Hopefully i'm not too lazy and can keep updating this blog.