After lunch the long awaited moment arrived:) It was time for the wall construction to begin. Whilst not quite as easy as lego, pre-made frames certainly made it faster. Great team effort, thank you boys you have made the job so much easier{{}} I’m so excited with it all I have a perpetual grin on my face. I’m trying to restrain myself from leaping too far ahead and planing just how I will lay out our belongings. I just love looking out the window watching it all go up as I’m in the kitchen baking afternoon tea. Just in case your interested they had scones, jam and cream for afternoon…

Today the weather prediction was lots of rain. It rained heavily through the night, but as breakfast came and went and no rain appeared it began to look like we could work after all. The last row along the back of the house had to be laid. The final piece is placed! What a relief. With all the rain the job had become rather drawn out. The next task was to saw off the joist ends. ‘I can go a little faster boys.’ ‘But if we work as a team we just might keep up.’ “I will teach you how it’s done son.” (Thank goodness this ‘Papa Bear’ really knows…

We continued today laying the flooring sheets. The rain is definitely hindering progress. Once again we worked in between the deluges, covering the floor with tarps as the clouds hovered above. The weather was far more co-operative though than yesterday and we had bigger stretches of time. By 8pm the strip along the back of the house was all we had left to complete. Sharing a photo of one of our very cute workers;)

The boys have arrived and we have started laying the flooring. Continual rain though is drastically slowing progress. In between the rains we glued and nailed the sheeting down. Progress is slow though as we have to keep covering the beams and sheets with tarps. Unfortunately rain is predicated for a large part of the week. By the end of day we were nearly half way.

Last weekend we began bolting down the bearers. Working all weekend we managed to complete the task. During the week we began laying the joists in the late afternoon hours after PC got home from work. With great team effort a little help from our friend Ug lots of help from our big ones attention to accuracy and perseverance we completed laying all the joists yesterday.

Monday last week we received a call, our ‘house’ was ready! The flooring was on the first load. As well as the bearers and joists. We covered the flooring sheets in case of rain. On Tuesday the second load arrived; the wall frames. It will all go together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Our yard is covered in timber frames waiting for my brothers to come and put it all together. On Friday the trusses arrived. It’s going to be fun boys, even better than when you were small and played lego. We can’t wait till you get here:)