It's been a very busy thee month's since I last posted on my blog.
In the meantime we traveled from Weesgerus holiday resort to Rantfontein where we stayed with family for a week, before setting of to Botswana for ten day's, working. We decided to leave the bus in Rantfontein and instead, travel over the border with the Iveco motor home. By doing this we saved a lot of money not only on diesel but also we did not had to pay for a cross border permit for the Iveco because it's not a commercial vehicle like our bus conversion.
A ten day trip with the Iveco turned into a six week trip touring the Northern Cape.
Wile on this trip, friends told us of some houses going on a auction In the town of Grootvlei a hundred kilometres or so from Johanesburg. Anita and I talked to the children about bidding on a house we all liked. And it was decided that it would be a good idea to do so. The day of the auction our friend did the bidding on our behalf because we where on the other side of the country and that's how we became the proud owners of a house that we only saw on photos send to us by friends.
We arrived at the house three week's after the auction, although the house needed a lot of work we where exited to start with the renovation .
We decided to stay in the bus while renovating the house, so I parked the bus in the front yard and hooked up the cable for the electricity and we settled in for a time of hard work.
We first had to take out the old hard wood floors that was damaged. We all worked very hard removing the old floors, every one had blisters and cuts, sore knees and fingers after doing work we are not use to. We replaced the old wood floors that must have been beautiful in there day with lamented wood floors that's also hard wearing and almost as beautiful as the original wood floors.
After the floors were done and after a very good cleaning of the rest of the house that took several day's we moved our furniture and other belongings into the house and out of storage.
The storage of our worldly "rubbish" or belongings as Anita likes to call it, cost us R12000,00 for the two years we stored it this time. The previous time we stored it for ten years and it cost us more money than I care to remember. We are almost done with the big stuff and even the garden is starting to look better already.
That's all for now folks.
Cheers Karel.
