I check our retirement accounts each fortnight after the payments have gone through. I was happy to see that we have now reached our goal for 2019 which was $420,000!  … and its only 3 months into the year.  Of course the market fluctuates and its been up lately, but its a good feeling being able to cross off one of my goals so early.

The mortgage is now down to $124,287. next goal is end of Year 17 balance – $119,519.

No painting got done again this weekend – DH wants to do a bit more prep work and it will need undercoating in one area. I just want it done asap but I’ll have to be patient – he’s not the most enthusiastic handyman but he’ll get there eventually.

We’ve been having problems with our tap in the kitchen for a while and with a banging water pipe in the bathroom.  We had a plumber organised to come and fix on the weekend but he was a no show and no notification he wasn’t coming – its very frustrating.This is the second plumber we’ve arranged to fix it and the first one did the same thing. Why is it so hard to get a tradesperson to just turn up!  So we’ll have to try a third one now.

On a good note we had a second solar heating company come and measure up. They have a really good system that would see us change to gas hot water and any excess KW gets used to heat water first, then excess over that goes to the grid. It does a cost a bit more and we’re waiting on quotes. They also commented on how low our electricity use is which was nice as we do try and not waste it, without being misers. It will be interesting to see both quotes and the savings projections.

Well its 5.45am here and its raining steadily. The sound of it is lovely. We need the rain and the cooler change is great.  I have only about a month to work and then I’m having some more time off which I’m looking forward to. Time to do a few chores before work.