Skylights and Water Features

So we had an eventful afternoon at the block yesterday. Not only was the sunshine beaming down on our little house, but we also managed to instal a skylight and a bunch of water features to boot! A bit premature you ask? Well yes, but you see these weren't PLANNED features ...

Despite the fact that hubby is a qualified and exprienced tradesman, I wouldn't recommend his technique for skylight installation - he literally fell through the roof of the front verandah and by some incredible Spiderman-esque acrobatics managed to land on his feet with little more than a scratch on his leg! So as you can see in the picture below, we now have a "skylight" on the front verandah (never mind the fact that he didn't even discuss it with me beforehand!). Needless to say, this won't be a permanent fixture. For the record, I don't think I earned myself any wife brownie points during this episode - my friend and I screamed and covered our eyes. Extremely helpful. Thankfully hubby is fine, shook the whole thing off as men do. Actually I think he quite enjoyed it.

 The boys on the roof just before the incident ...

 The resulting skylight - adds quite a bit of light to the entry!

See? Rapunzel is fine!

As for the water features, hubby and a friend decided to tighten the tarps covering our roof as water was pooling in them. The boys thought it was hilarious to see waterfalls pouring off the roof! I was amazed by the amount of water that had collected up there over the last couple of weeks. The roof can't go on quickly enough for my liking now!

The boys had a little friend come and play in the mud with them. They had a ball ... although Oliver did take an accidental mud bath (and his mummy took photos instead of cuddling him!). All in all it was quite a nice afternoon - big boys playing on the roof, little boys playing in the mud, and the mums wishing we'd brought a bottle of wine and some chairs!

 Cheeky mud grubs!

Poor little man, he hates being dirty!

x M