Renovate Australia

A home improvement blog about renovating our Queenslander house in Townsville, Australia

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Entries from November 2006

How Far Behind Schedule Are We?

November 26th, 2006 · No Comments

At the moment I have two weeks of unused leave for this calendar year. In our original plan I was supposed to be using those two weeks to paint the exterior of the house.
Instead right now the only thing that I have that I can paint are the new front stairs. There are no walls [...]

Tags: Planning

Daytime Watering Finally Band

November 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

As I have said before, I think that daytime watering should be banned almost all the time anyways. It is a complete waist of water to be watering in the heat of the day and the Townsville City Council had finally agreed.
There is now no watering allowed between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm in Townsville.
Although [...]

Tags: Gardening

Large Tree Finally Gone

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Caleb and I spent the weekend finally finishing off removing the last of the tall Eucalyptus tree from the back of our house. We spent the better part of a half day removing all the mulch from where the stump grinder had ground up the remainder of the Eucalyptus trunk. The trunk was probably about [...]

Tags: Gardening

New Template on Renovate Australia Wordpress Blog

November 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments

While building a few new web-sites at work I finally got a bit tired of the old site design here at Renovate Australia.
So I changed it.
First I used Fantastico on my hosting plan to upgrade to Wordpress 2.04. Then I downloaded and played around modifying the Cutline Wordpress template. I added a few new Wordpress [...]

Tags: Site News