The Last Post
(of the house)
Well the house is gone - yes I mean gone. I felt just a teeny bit emotional standing there looking at rubble and see familiar items. I felt like I should have a bugler play The Last Post, salute it and lay a wreath, but in the end the house was down in one day with no ceremony what so ever.
The week started with more anger, this time all our rubbish bins went missing. After talking to our amazing neighbourhood watch people (the elderly couple over the road) I found out the council took them. So I rang the council to check, wonderful conversation with the council:
Me: Hi, I'm Sara Lucas, do you have my rubbish bins
Council: Let me check, yes we do
M: Why?
C: Because someone told us to take them
M: Ok who was that?
C: I don't know our system doesn't tell us that our record it
M: So do you know if they had authority to do so? We thought the bins were stolen
C: Don't know it was probably the owners a Sara Lucas or a Frederik Lucas - do you know him?
M: (I am getting sarcastic now) Well I am Sara Lucas so you would hope I know the guy I own the house with, he's my husband.
C: Well then it must have been him
M: He's the one who thought the bins were stolen!
The Demolitions people rang on Wednesday and said they were starting on Thursday with salvage. I drove past late afternoon and discovered a digger taking away the last back wall of the house. Talk about quick. I came back 1.5hours later and everything was down.
From this beautiful autumn maple tree
To this....
All our beautiful palm trees from beside the deck flattened.
We went back on Saturday to view progress and while there was more evidence of clearing, the garage is still mostly up and there is still lots of rubble.
Getting a look at the bigger digger
They have told us it will all be complete by the end of Tuesday and then we will hand over to the builder.
Exciting but also sad.
We may need to use the tape at home for Annabelle, after the demolition is finished :-)
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