Thursday...9 April 2015

Here we sit in Casino. Casino is a town in NSW. Must be careful to say we are in Casino not at the casino! We were lucky enough to make camp before it rained for four days. And we got another roof leak! (Same place as last time) Definitely not a happy camper! We paid a bloke an awful lot of money not too long ago to fix the last leak and that repair came with a ten year warranty and that was in November 2013. So we spent another few nights sleeping on the mattress on the lounge room floor while water dripped into buckets in the bedroom.
Eventually it stopped raining and the long wait for the fine weather to dry out everything (including us!) began. Once it was dry enough Himself was able to look on the roof to see what our problem was and has managed to do a spot repair that should get us far enough up the road to have the head office of the fix it company look at our problem. Fingers crossed that they honour their warranty.
So ever noticed that when one thing goes wrong lots of other little things go wrong too?
Because we leaked, I needed to dry the feather doona, woollen underlay and foam eggshell off the bed as well as wash and dry the doona cover, the top sheet and the bottom sheet and the four pillowcases, or in other words all the linen that goes to making a bed! This needed lots of one dollar coins to feed the washing machines and dryers. It is Easter and the park is packed and it is raining. Many people wanted to use the laundry facilities. I was happy to take my turn but alas, myself and several others could not do our washing as none of us had the correct change to work the equipment. The office had no change for the entire Easter break and it did not occur to them to empty the machines to get some change! By the time we gave up asking and Himself went into town to the bank to get me some change, the linen was going mouldy! Well at least it did eventually get washed and although it was not hot, it was not raining and a cool breeze was blowing which meant I could put the washing on the line and not have to use the dryers. The first sheet I hung on the line, the line broke and dumped my clean sheet on the muddy ground. That did it! That is when I finally lost my cool. The pegs in my hands got thrown in the air and the air turned a black shade of blue for several yards around my vicinity! And to add more insult to the story, not long after picking it up and rehanging it and its mates on another line to dry, it started raining again. Back to the line to get the washing and put it into the dryer after all.
In the meantime it continues to stay dry and our little house is slowly drying out both inside and out and life is starting to feel normal for us again. The days are warm without being too hot and the nights are cool enough to allow comfortable sleep. But more rain is forecast later in the week.