What a difference a couple of days make ...

They've almost finished the external face brick walls and my bedroom window frames are in.

From the back alfresco corner: Down the laundry side: They've even done some of the internals too. This will eventually become the kitchen:
We're finally getting somewhere ... woohoo!!

No real progress yet ...

Took the boys out to have a look on Saturday thinking there might have been a bit more done but there wasn't. Managed to get some photos of them (looking really impressed) standing where their rooms will eventually be:

and Bradley trying to work out how deep the water really is ...

Woohoo! The nosebleeds are done!

The nosebleeds are the bottom course of bricks for those 'not in the know'.

(because of the constant bending over with their heads lower than their hearts,

the brickies could get nosebleeds)

From the front door:

You can just see the beginning of the back wall in the photo above and

really see what it looks like so far in the ones below.

From the alfresco back corner:

From the other back corner: And the workshop/garage has been started too:

Hopefully we'll get some fine weather next week so they can do a whole lot more...

And then the rain came down ...

... pouring down and wet everything so thoroughly that

the brickies haven't been able to do anything yet.

Even the birds were complaining and hiding in the trees:


I know we need the rain (desperately) but it would have been nice to
have been able to report a little bit of progress.

Oh well.

These things are sent to try us and patience is a virtue ...

yada, yada, yada ....

I want my house built!! Waaahhhhh!

We have bricks ...

... sitting on the pad! They're all from Austral Bricks (got to keep myself in a job!). The red ones are Sandfire; the cream ones are Prevelly and the rest are Armaclay internals (the ones we make at my plant).

We also have window frames and a front door frame:And they have filled in the 'swimming pool' with all the extra dirt:They should start actually building in the next week or so ... woohoo!! I'm loving all this progress!!

We have concrete!

At long last we have a concrete house pad!!

Now all we have to do is wait about two weeks for it to dry/cure and then they can start building. Woohoo!!!

We have footings and the beginnings of a house pad!

Looking in the front door:

From the alfresco:

From the other back corner:

Now we just need concrete!