First floor balcony showing finished wood.
Painted Ceilings.
Door and windows fitted in the basement.
Terminus hard at work.
A great week for building! Although the photo doesn’t show much external change, nearly all the wood is on the outside walls, just odd holes where scaffolding is placed to facilitate the painting of the ceilings and rafters inside. The plastering is finished in the basement so the windows and doors have been fitted and look good. One window had to be redone as it was put in upside down but if that is the worst that can happen we are doing fine. I have done a bit of wood sealing with the liquid sun filter. I thought it looked great and was a bit disappointed to find it had all been sanded yesterday but I am told that it gets lightly sanded after each coat and is not a reflection of my poor painting skills. Jeff is still plugging holes with dowel as well as doing his contractors job of sourcing materials and equipment. Today he is in search of an internal window to go in the utility room. He has also designed a way that our solar water heater tank can be inside the roof rather than on top as they usually are out here, so that will give a much better look to the roof.
I made another trip to the agricultural depot and bought some more plants, they are all £2 each and seem such a bargain for well-established hibiscus, gardenia and mosseander. I am still not officially landscaping, just filling in some areas that are nowhere near the building site.
On our weekend off we did a few bits of boat maintenance and then we rested by the pool. On Sunday we were invited to the inaugural Sunday roast at a friend’s house. Maggie moved in a few weeks ago after many delays but seems finally settled in a beautiful house with a couple of beach puppies who have just won the doggie lottery in life, having found an owner who feeds and loves them rather than the normal life of strays out here which is to be stoned and kicked, not fed and eventually die young of worms, mange and worse. They are cute skinny little things that are slowly learning to trust humans and realise that the food comes every day and they don’t need to fight for it or gulp it down in one.
It’s been a short week this week as everyone had Tuesday off as a national holiday for the Prime Ministers funeral. On Wednesday evening there was a land holders meeting to discuss the need for a land holders association to address things like water and electricity supplies but it was mainly to challenge someone who was running an access road through his lot to get to some other lots behind him. We had already had a chat with them last week and found nothing to be worried about but others were less convinced and wanted the public meeting. I think most have been reassured that he his not opening up a ten lane highway so a mega estate can be constructed, as was the fear of his nearest neighbour (and as it turns out his enemy for the past two years!) Life can be a bit like taking part in a soap opera out here, sometimes you have the main role and at other times you are just part of the background chatter, great fun though and we wouldn’t change a thing.
I made another trip to the agricultural depot and bought some more plants, they are all £2 each and seem such a bargain for well-established hibiscus, gardenia and mosseander. I am still not officially landscaping, just filling in some areas that are nowhere near the building site.
On our weekend off we did a few bits of boat maintenance and then we rested by the pool. On Sunday we were invited to the inaugural Sunday roast at a friend’s house. Maggie moved in a few weeks ago after many delays but seems finally settled in a beautiful house with a couple of beach puppies who have just won the doggie lottery in life, having found an owner who feeds and loves them rather than the normal life of strays out here which is to be stoned and kicked, not fed and eventually die young of worms, mange and worse. They are cute skinny little things that are slowly learning to trust humans and realise that the food comes every day and they don’t need to fight for it or gulp it down in one.
It’s been a short week this week as everyone had Tuesday off as a national holiday for the Prime Ministers funeral. On Wednesday evening there was a land holders meeting to discuss the need for a land holders association to address things like water and electricity supplies but it was mainly to challenge someone who was running an access road through his lot to get to some other lots behind him. We had already had a chat with them last week and found nothing to be worried about but others were less convinced and wanted the public meeting. I think most have been reassured that he his not opening up a ten lane highway so a mega estate can be constructed, as was the fear of his nearest neighbour (and as it turns out his enemy for the past two years!) Life can be a bit like taking part in a soap opera out here, sometimes you have the main role and at other times you are just part of the background chatter, great fun though and we wouldn’t change a thing.
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