And another roof raising

Well, this is our third roof on the property - the shed, the house and now the garage. Only one more to go - the stables. After the heat we've been having, it was nice to have a much cooler day to put the roof on the garage. Of course, Murphy's Law being what it is, it was windy which made construction a bit hairy. As we didn't have any scaffolding we had to make some up out of wood and ladders. Not very good OH&S but heck, it kinda worked. Our builder friend, Peter, arrived nice and early on Monday morning and whipped us into gear. Thank goodness we had someone who knew what they were doing! Having said that, it was easy enough, we just had to work out which part went where - sort of like a big meccano set. While James and Peter did all the heavy and high rise stuff by clambering around in the sky, Tracey helped by throwing things up to them like trusses for the hip parts, nails, dropped hammers (etc). All in all, it was a great day. We're now just putting on all the bits and pieces to make the garage nice and sturdy so we can untie the tractor from it and then we'll put on the guttering and then the roof.

The external walls will arrive around the first week in March.

The window people are hopefully coming out next week to instal the massive bi-fold doors and the sliding door from the kitchen to pergola area.