Framing progress...

 

The third floor is here!

 

Framing... April 2011

 

We were fortunate to find some awesome chippies, and they've been hard at work now for 3 weeks.  Very impressive guys!

The new shed... March/April 2011

 

The shed is coming along nicely, although it could have been completed much faster had MOTH not wanted to play Meccano. 

Stumps... February 2011

How exciting... it's all starting to take shape.  The stump holes are finally concreted and the gang worked damn hard to put the stumps in and have it all braced ready for the final pour.  We are grateful this happened smoothly and the inspection was approved without too much trouble.

Caddy joins the family... January 2011

LOTH doesn't feel very useful.  Just tending to the accounts is not enough and as we all know, fresh air and sunshine is important.  So is the appearance of our land. 

Since all the rain over summer, the green stuff on the ground, some call it grass, has gone mad and taken over. LOTH comes up with the bright idea of acquiring a ride-on mower.  Sounds like fun, hey?  There's no chance whatsoever that a standard lawn mower would cope and Fuzzy's tractor is not quite ready for this job, so we adopt a new member of the family and name her Caddy. 

Thankfully, she was placed on the trailer for us to take her home, but getting her off at the other end wasn't quite so easy.  Actually, it was hilarious to watch.  It took 4 of us to do the job.

Driving it downhill to the flat section looked scary, so MOTH took on the task of taking her out for a test drive, and to ensure Caddy was safe for LOTH to drive.  She is!  and LOTH enjoys every minute of it!

La Nina wreaks havoc... December 2010

Things were on a roll and we were finally making progress... but the weather had other ideas.  In December, we suffered our first calamity when the rain started... and ultimately continued during the entire Melbourne summer.  Other parts of Australia suffered horribly, and our crisis was only a speck in the ocean of how rain affected the whole country, but when our newly dug stump holes filled with water, some even collapsing, all of us were totally gutted. 

Then it happened again!  What next? we asked ourselves.

It then became a salvage matter.  MOTH and Fuzzy put their heads together and came up with Plan B, and putting all their time and energy into ensuring the holes were saved, usable and inspected for approved without delay.  Quite an expensive Plan B, but ultimately essential.

The building process starts... November 2010

Finally we have our permits... yay... and the initial house works begin.

In no time at all, we have the house marked out and stump holes dug.  Luckily Fuzzy organised the big guns to come in and dig holes, cos we hit a few rocks and it could've ended up an extremely long and drawn out process had we ordered the baby digger.