Day 33 - BUSY

The worker slaves sure were busy today, with Mark arriving at 6.30 am and getting straight to work so by the time I got up at a little after 8 the first frame was secured in place. It seemed like such a huge exciting thing to me, but Nathan and Mark were so blazee about it. Nathan had to zip across the road and wake up Chris to get a third person to help lift the second frame to go in as the window ones weigh so much more than the others. Poor Chris, he seems almost as anti social in the morning as Maddie and I are.

Only and hour later I went back out to supervise and discovered that they had actually managed to put another two of the frames in place. I can not believe how fast this bit is happening, it is insane! I have to say going with pre-fabricated frames is definitely the way to go, it has saved us so much time. I am loving the little windows more than I expected, as so much heat comes in that end of the house hopefully they will help keep the house that bit cooler in the summer, and they are just a bit funky! I am starting to wonder how we will go getting the blinds that we have in mind for them though.

Once the door frames was in place and the back wall for the bedroom was on, I stopped freaking out that the small room we are putting in was going to be too small, its actually an OK size, so I'm glad we didn't cut into our room. With those walls up, the boys put all of the big frames into the structure as well as all of the trusses which has freed up our driveway and yard finally so that Maddie can play out there and the storm clean up can begin.

The final frame took quite a bit of work to get into place as it only just fit in the area, it took all three men holding and hammering to get it into place, and was very exciting to watch. Maddie loved being able to get up in the house and make sure that everyone had done their work properly. She spent ages hammering on as many pieces as she could reach and seemed to think the work was acceptable. 

 Maddie is definitely loving learning about building and being able to get out into part of the yard to play again. She now comments whenever she hears someone hammering or sawing and wants to get out and watch or help. It is such a funny experience for us watching her fascination grow with the extension.

I still can not believe how much happened today, while Nathan said it was the easiest part, it does seem to have happened super fast and seems like such a huge part of the construction. Thank you to Nathan (head slave) and Mark for spending the whole day out there working, and to Chris too for popping over whenever any heavy lifting was required, even when it meant almost walking back home just to turn one truss around!