During this weekend’s trip to the Charlton house Victoria was in the midst of one of the coldest winter snaps for many years with snowfalls recorded in some of the last places you would ever think. Yes, Charlton was bloody cold, but not cold enough for snow. The snowman encounter was on the way home after we made an impromptu decision to turn off the Calder and visit the township of Macedon, after spotting snow on the side of a hill that not so long ago hosted a raging inferno… the sight of charred sticks that were once flourishing trees rising from a blanket of snow reinforcing the extremes in climate that Victoria often experiences.
Skylar was unsure of what to think of the snowman, unlike the hoards of families who had stopped on the side of the road to take a few snaps who left us thinking that it wasn’t only Skylar’s first snowman encounter.
Rewind two days and we were just leaving home for the cold and wet trip up the Calder, complete with MDF sheets wrapped in a tarp and strapped to the roof and other building supplies loaded up in the back of the wagon.
A few days earlier I had ordered some corbels for the mantle we were building around the old brick chimney and was hoping to have them for this visit, but they had not arrived before we left. 20 minutes into our trip however I received a notification from Australia Post that they had been delivered, so we did a quick turnaround and headed back home to collect them, much to Skylar’s confusion, given we had told her we were going to Charlton.
On arrival the car was unpacked and the heaters turned on to high and I retired to the study to catch up with some office work, whist Shirleen relaxed in the lounge room.
Saturday morning work started with a vengeance. Shirleen continued stripping paint from the lounge room dado… paint that would make Sarah Lee proud… layer upon layer upon layer!
Meanwhile I started cutting up the MDF for the new mantle around the brick fireplace surround in the kitchen where the stove will eventually be housed. After a full day’s work we were both tired and sore but pleased with the progress we made this trip.
Next trip will hopefully see the walls being replaced in readiness for installation of the kitchen cupboards.
Excited!!
What does a Snowman smell like??
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After