A busy house

Monday 24th August: A gorgeous warm sunny day. Three loads of washing got dry on the line today! High of about 16 degrees in the shade.
Today was a school day but it didn't go very smoothly today. We got some maths and writing and reading done but nothing else. At lunchtime we headed out to the house with a big pot of chilli and a bowl of rice. Today Gordon was still rewiring the house, Steve was busy helping out, the power pole and wires to the house changed, and the ducting for the new heat pumps installed. I popped down to the local carpet store to get a price for the lino I had chosen, and collected the wallpaper from the decorating shop. Back at the house we found lots of jobs to do around the garden. I cleared more of the veggie garden but there's still a lot of work to do there before we can plant anything. The boys were busy making obstacle courses with tree rings and planks for wood.
At 3.30pm we were of to gymnastics for the boys, then rushed home for chilli then walked Edward to Cubs. We walked home via Barney's (Steve's boss) to deliver a fruit cake I had baked for him. Steve put the younger two boys off to bed and I walked to collect Edward from Cubs. Once we were back Steve returned to the new house to help Gordon with some more rewiring until late.
The heating men gave the boys each a length of tubing. The boys ran round the garden waving them round above their heads to get a whistling sound, then Peter found you could twist and tie it into different shapes and blow through it.