The screen

A trip to Warrnambool for the weekend now includes a requisite sidetrip to the house on the way home...just to have a look...only, if we're going there we might as well take some bathroom floor tile samples, and perhaps some carpet would make sense too to match colours. Oh, and do you think we could touch base with the electrician to confirm some powerpoint locations? And the bobcat driver? Hmmm, at least staying until evening got us some beautiful light. And have a look at this screen!!

If you look closely you will notice that we were short only the very last strip of timber at the top of the screen, so it's not quite finished. And neither is the North side of the deck...or a small fence out the front...and a vertical screen in front of the studio. Hmmm, another delivery of timber and some more staining still to go. Poppa?...Pappa?....Grandma?......hello?

Here is the North side. You will have to use your imagination to add the grapevine covered pergola extending out from both sides of the kitchen/meals.

P.S. the aforementioned stainers would have you know there is 1.2 km of timber in that screen so far.

Putting in some pipes

One of the best things about this process is all the 'of course' moments when you encounter all the jobs that need to be done, in a particular order, so as to build a functioning house. The plumbers were in last week doing the reasonably important job of placing pipes and fitting outlets in the walls before the plaster goes on....so we get, you know, water for showers, baths, cooking, laundry and stuff. I hope they didn't miss any.

Putting the older genereration to work

First it was the young folk, now we've had the older crew on board staining the timber for the screen and giving the site a general tidy up. Thanks Papa, Poppa & Grandma!

Digging in the backyard

Remember the big pile of dirt? Well, it is no more. We hired Stewie, after spying his advertisement for 'mates bobcat rates' adorning the fence of a house in the next street, to shift it around. We will soon have a blank canvas of mounds ready for the planting of eucalypts, callistemons, banksias etc. We'll be going for the natural look which is all about creating habitat and nothing to do with not wanting to high maintenance garden it. Sort of permaculture zone 5, except we have to create it first.

Painting progress

Home from holidays we set off on a weekend trip to check out progress with some trepidation. The chosen colour had begun to be applied in our absence....it looks great! What a relief.