Tip-tastic

We've been at the tip again. It may seem as though we are at the tip at every opportunity, well it's true, we are! Inspired by Nad's $2 Myer dress (reduced from $129!!) I am on a mission to source stuff for nuffin'. Here's what Esther wore on our tip trip yesterday (it had been raining heavily and was v, v wet and muddy):

Needless to say she stayed in the car, here are some photos she took:

Me, fossicking

Debating whether the hostess trolley would make a good nesting box for our planned chooks, deciding "no" and going with the chest of drawers instead, a superior nesting environment we think!

 

 

Backyard plans are go despite it being wet (a lot) and Ade and I working every second of the day... The girls and I went to some garage sales on Saturday and scored some bargain plants and pots, on Sunday our kind and generous neighbour-colleagues gave us heaps more potted plants (and I have established that they are owners of a whipper-snipper, lawn-mower and trailer!!). Chooks are planned, although the design of their abode is dependant on what we can source at the tip.

Didn't we do well?! My 2 enormous pots were $5 each, chuffed with that!

It continues to be a very wet 'wet' in the Pilbara, TC Carlos threatens Port Hedland, Karratha and Onslow and TP reaps the stormy and precipitatious rewards. The girls dig the rain but are still  a bit wussy about the thunder!

On a rather more important note, the weather is having a bit of an impact on TP babies. Expectant mums usually head to Karratha or Port Hedland but this is currently not an option because of the approaching tropical cyclone(s) and associated road closures. Mums-to-be (including a heavily pregnant TP hospital nurse/midwife!) are having to alter plans and divert to Perth. King Eddies can expect a run of Pilbara parents while the wet continues.  We are also bracing ourselves at TP hospital,  I have dragged out and dusted off the midwifery texts...

STICK, found on the front door this morning :)