Last week

Last week Wednesday I went to the Craft and Qld. Quilting Show. Went to the city with the bus and enjoyed the trip. There were the challenge quilts. The first was the Alaska challenge and the second was an ordinary challenge. The quilters got a fat quarter and this fabric they had to use in the quilt.



Challenge fabric.



Alaskan challenge.



Ordinary challenge.

Last Saturday was a busy day. Had to go to computer club first and did a little bit of shopping. In the afternoon changed first my smoke alarm. This is now compulsory here. For every level at least one.




Took the old one out and had a couple holes in the ceiling.



Could not put the alarm straight in there, had to use some plugs for the screws.



The smoke alarm is installed and tested. It is working fine. Now have to test it every week.

Started late in the afternoon with baking of speculaas for the birthday party for Ernst. Of course I forgot a present for Ernst so went on Sunday first to the shops and got a present and made mum very happy by giving him felt pens and a colouring book. Ernst became 3 years old.

In the afternoon I checked the gutters and cleaned them. We were expecting a thunderstorm. As soon as the storm hit as the electricity went off. Rang Energex to know the reason. It went off because of the high wattage use in the street.
Heard then outside a noise as if I had a waterfall. It was a waterfall, the gutters were overflowing, it could not cope with the amount of water which was coming down out of the sky. During the night we had 18 cm of rain.
The electricity was not earlier on then about 2 am during the night. Woke up and set the clock, woke again about 3 am and the clock had to be reset again.

At 7 am I was again cleaning gutters but this time in the rain. Have water damage in the face boards.




My dam got some water too, a 10 cm for sure.