Well another day another task.  I expect this post to be a little disrupted this morning with people coming and going.  I do not think it will take long to establish a routine but that is a future thing.
I expect the Cabin (granny flat) builder will be back today.  I just received a message from the electrician to say he is leaving his place and will be here shortly.  He will be turning off the electricity to the kitchen.
Because the new kitchen is something starting today.  The insulation of that.  Merril spent time last night emptying that.  She has plans and visions for that spot.  I help where I can, but it is implementing the way she would like it to be.  She does a great job.
I can see heaps of work for me when all this installation is over.  We want to use the lino from the Cabin for our outdoor sitting area.  There is heaps to remove before that can go down.  Then there is putting it back again.  Same story for our bbq area.  We want to put the current lino in the sitting area down there.  Again there will be heaps to remove and the put back again.
I’m back again about 2 hours later.  The electrician was the first to arrive.  Then the installers came.  Then the guy working on the granny flat.  Then the plumber.  It is all happening.
I have fed the birds and the fish and Merril and I feel it is ok to go do what we need to do and everyone is gainfully employed.
Hopefully for us it is a bit quieter now.  Yesterday was church and then Merril and I had different things to go to in the afternoon.  It was all good.  For us at the moment it is like one thing after the other.  People come around tomorrow and Merril has an appointment.  Then Wednesday I see someone and then we both do something together in the evening.
If this was an Aldi ad I would say Busy.  Good Busy.

It is the weekend so there is no building going on.  It all starts again Monday.  We are expecting the “Cabin” (granny flat) builder to continue on and the kitchen demolishers and installers to be around.  Big week coming up.
In a sense one would expect a time to relax over the weekend but not so really.  I have people over for breakfast one Saturday a month. Yesterday was it.  For the first time all the bacon was gone along with all the poached eggs.  There were sausages and scrambled eggs left. 18 came along (including me).  That is the most ever here.  I think a good time was had.
Afterwards I had to move the fish tank from the kitchen into my room.  It needed a clean as well.  It sure is a challenge when everything has had to be put in storage and I need to use the bathroom or outside to do what I normally do in the kitchen.  It was done and Merril continued to empty the kitchen deciding as she went what was really needed.
I did get a James Clear email and like what was said.  “A critical quality to develop in life is the willingness to try. You simply must find enough confidence to give it a go. The human mind is fabulous at learning. You will get better at whatever you practice. But before you can develop the skill to succeed, you must find the courage to attempt."
I admit I particularly like “But before you can develop the skill to succeed, you must find the courage to attempt.”
That is something I need to keep in mind.  It is so easy to not give it a go for fear of failure.  Yet for me there is nothing like attempting what I consider is impossible and experiencing success.  I know before success comes trial.  But from my experience it is always worth it.
Today promises to be another busy day.  Still before success is trial.

Well days do not necessarily turn out as I expect.
The first surprise was getting a text message from the builder saying there was stuff he had to do, so he would not be here today.  That was actually a good thing.  He lives at Caloundra.  He used to live in Burpengary not far from here.  He named his business Ocean Edge Plumbing   while still here as he had dreams of living on the Sunshine Coast.  That dream is now a reality.
We were expecting someone to come around and turn off the water (to the kitchen).  It starts to be built on Monday.  We were also expecting delivery of the kitchen so we had to prepare a place to put everything.  They rang me to say they were 20 minutes away.  So  I was waiting for them.  Low and behold the guy arrived to turn off the water.  I thought it was the other fellas.  So I introduced him to Merril as Steve.  It was Tom.  Doh!  How embarrassment.
Turns out there was more involved in turning off the water and the gas oven than expected.  He will be back Monday to cut the wall.  The gas oven is gone. 
It occurred to me, “how can eggs be cooked without an oven?”  But Merril had it all in hand.  She kept out the fry pan for that.
Thing is later in the day I received a phone call from one of the cooks.  He was at the hospital.  He had been sent from place to place.  He had had an accident with his hand and it was not a pretty site apparently.  He phoned in the evening very apologetic to say he could not make it.  Thankfully I phoned someone else who was very willing to help out.  Ok I could cook if I had to - but I am so glad I do not have to.
The guys arrived and delivered the kitchen.  There were so many boxes.  We ended up with the two pantry type cupboards boxed up in the carport.  Out of the way of the car thankfully.  We used to keep two cars in there but that is now one, so we knew there was room if needed.
We also had a guy delivering a skip.  Because the granny flat had been delayed the skip was best on one side of the front verge.  The guy got the skip caught up in trees we have at the front.  We told him not to worry about it.  A couple of branches broke but they were perfectly placed for removal as they were over the skip.
I mowed and tidied the yard and am cactus.  We went and got bread and had dinner out which made the evening more relaxing than it may have been.
We seem to be crazy busy, but we knew it was coming and know there is light at the end of the tunnel.