2.2.2011
BUILDING NEWS
This is the big day. The spine of our new home has just been poured. Truck after truck of concrete arrived and was pumped over all the metal work in the back trenches. The two slabs for the wing walls are particularly massive; it looks as if we will be well anchored to the ground. Today we have a large team at work, which is essential as it is still very hot. The forecast predicted storms at one point but so far there is just a rather good breeze.
I feel as if we have now actually started the build it is the first time I have felt this. We have been checking up about the next stages and have contacted the water proofing company again to try and get that system totally sorted. The window company says the windows are so heavy that they will need a crane to move even without the glass!
OTHER NEWS
Once again it is a red-letter day. We got in the last load of hay yesterday and it is all stacked in the shed. Edd and I were almost too exhausted to tackle the job but our son Wayne and son in law Simon turned up and with the four of us we got the last truckload in just before darkness fell. We feel over whelming grateful top the two young blokes, especially as they had both already done a full days work in over hot temperatures.
Tonight Yasi, now designated to be a category 5 cyclone, is due to reach land in Queensland.Bella’s father says his wife, Trish, evacuated to friends and has now been evacuated again. It is so terribly worrying. Josh did his first degree In Townsville so he has many friends in that area. There are out of control bush fires in Gippsland in the west of Victoria but they are not getting much press with the revolution in Egypt and the cyclones. There are just too many dramatic event happening all over the world at the same time to take it all in.
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