Anywhere is paradise, it's up to you

How beautiful......Amy's words describing her first impressions of her school. 

The children take great pride in their school grounds.
They range in age from 5 to 19 and are very thankful and polite to the teachers and volunteers.

Her job each morning, after her 25km tuk tuk drive ( two or three wheeled open carriage pulled behind a motorbike wearing a face mask because it's so dusty on the dirt roads), is to fill the tank with water from the well, which then runs through a filtering system and is used for drinking.
The children wash their hands at the well before each class. The soap is donated by a group in town who melt down the leftovers from hotels. 
Talk about real life Hay Day!


And back at Frog pond Farm........

Thank goodness Bill's a bit of a handyman or nothing would ever get done here.

The gravel between the shed and the tank makes it a much more serviceable area now, especially when using the pump at the tank.

Sadly our dam has been dry for a few weeks now.
The ducks still wander in each morning and stare vacantly at the empty hole.
In anticipation of the next downpour, Bill has extended the pipe that runs into the dam and it now pours in from above ( reminds me of Nessie!).

I've been working on a project.
This old sewing machine was rescued by Dad many years ago while working at a farmer's property. It was in pretty good condition and I had used it as a display table.
The timber top was completely burnt in the fire but the metal base remained intact.

After the fire, we put a bit of wood on the top (probably from Bunnings throw away pile) and used it as an outside bench while waiting for the shed to be built.. 

I decided to turn it into a table for the garden room so got busy with the wire brush to get the rust off.

And a spray or two with some Kill Rust.

We found some left over floorboards in Bill's stash and I have applied a couple of coats of clear varnish. This will be the table top.

A final coat tomorrow should do the trick.

A walk around the garden path tonight.....

Some warm days are in store for us.
Stay cool everyone.