Accustomization.

So......yesterday we moved the rest of the furniture back that we moved to allow for the painting of the bedroom floor. We levelled and secured the bookcases and unpacked the 12 boxes of books that have been lying around for weeks.Will removed the post that was riddled with termites and we now have a hole in the floor which we need to fill.The garden is looking good though the zucchinis (courgettes) and beans are faltering as we have not been harvesting as we should....well, we haven't really been here. 'Audrey' (the yam) is thriving and the lettuce, sweetcorn, broad beans are all looking good.We did a dump run in the afternoon and got rid of the old mower and lots of cardboard. Luckily the local dump was open so we didn't have to make the trek out to the back of Stanthorpe to the main tip. We need to get a key for the local dump as it is suppose to be locked up again after you leave.We popped into Stanthorpe for some shopping but forgot that it was Sunday....the supermarkets are not open here as they are in Brisbane but Spano's IGA was open so it was not a waste of time and petrol.We ate like Kings last night, big steaks and chips, corn on the cob, mushrooms and homemade coleslaw.We watched some TV until the power suddenly went off....somehow we are going to have to be careful with our use of the power we have available. It is difficult to predict what is and isn't using too much.We are doing Ok though as the solar panels are 10 years old and only attached to 2 car batteries...It would be good to upgrade it but you need money for that.I made sure I put a heavy box over the hole in the floor before getting into bed.We slept with the window open last night....though it was only allowed as I have fashioned a makeshift 'bug-keeper-outerer' from an old mosquito net.We still sleep under a net too but last night there was suddenly a loud buzzing in my ear and something touched my shoulder and I leapt up and switched on the torch but could see nothing.I knew something was in there with us and wondered how I was ever going to get back to sleep. A spider, though not a very big one, was stalking up the wall a few inches away on the other side of the net. I resisted the urge to squash it.After 15 minutes of waiting and searching for the buzzy intruder in vain, I switched the light out and settled back down as best I could. Sure enough it buzzed past my ear again as loud as an Acacia Ridge helicopter and landed on my arm.I leapt up again expecting to find a huge flying creature and found a small Christmas beetle as big as one of my fingernails on the sheet. No matter, it was unwelcome and I picked it up and threw it out of the netting.Will was oblivious to the whole of this drama as he soundly slept.I did get to sleep eventually despite the frog chorus from the dam, the scraping of the branches from the overhanging tree on the corrugated iron roof, the hot water overflow dripping like a ticking clock, the distant sound of rifle fire and some creature skittering about on the old guitar and playing the low E string.It will take some time to get used to all this. We are off again tomorrow, back to Brisbane to do some work for Wendi and for my date with the Surgeon....we just can't wait to get some real Frogknot time without any interruptions.