Week 2, day nine

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Waiting... For:

New to The Block: bricks, sand, cement, and the all-important bogger

• The tree man to come back and grind out the last stumps (promises, proimises)
• Then the services (plumber, electrician) to get going on their digging and installing (where the tree stumps were)
• Then the brickies to finish up on another job so they can get cracking on the retaining walls that the slab will be poured into.

Dry-press face bricks - be impressed!

At the end of Week 1 we were a week ahead of schedule, but after a week of waiting, we're probably right back on schedule again. There were some small victories this week, however: bobcats took away some of our large piles of unusable soil and levelled things out a bit; the first delivery of our face bricks arrived (ie the ones being used in various spots on the outside of the house that will be visible, unlike the internal ones which are cheap and will be painted over); a large pile of sand and bags of cement now also await the busy brickies; and an enormous skip bin arrived out the front this morning, to be loaded up with any other rubbishly bits around The Block (hopefully not our neighbours' too) and our unwanted extra mulch etc as we try to work out the lay of the land for the back garden, before it gets harder to access.

S for shed, C for chooks...

I also took to the back corner with a spraycan - quite satisfying - to mark out an approximate position for the chooks (yes, there WILL be chooks, Mat! Small phobia...) and the shed. So far these both seem to hold prime position in the yard, sheltering under the only remaining trees. When it's been 30+ degrees for over a week this seems important, but maybe I won't be so jealous come the middle of winter.

Can't wait to see some mini walls around the edge of this mini house! Of course, they are forecasting rain...