Lounge/Passage wall

The plasterboard is now up on the wall between the lounge and the passage (on one side, anyway)
and the double bifold doors have been hung.

first panel

second panel in waiting

second panel up

over the door way

the finished wall, with doors

and . . . my little blue wrens !!

Hessian

The internal walls of the house is lined with masonite (or brown board). We are slowly removing it all and replacing it with plasterboard. Today we found evidence that before the masonite, the walls were coated with hessian.

The practice used to be to stretch hessian along the walls, and nail it taut every 3-4 inches apart. Most articles I have read say the walls were then whitewashed, but I found an article that shows another method.

Moving on

The weatherboards are up on the shed.

Now back inside the house.

Next step is to put a wall back between passage and lounge.

and prepare the area for the double folding doors

No Where Else

No where else will you find beauty like this.

A picture's worth a thousand words.

Look and be inspired.

TASMANIA

Boardwalk

Button grass

Moss

Nothofagus gunnii - deciduous beech (endemic to Tasmania)

Nothofagus gunnii

Nothofagus gunnii

Nothofagus gunnii

Fungi

Photographs by Robert.

Taken at Cradle Mountain.

Thank you Mother Nature.

Weatherboards

The machinery shed is now wrapped, the doors have been jambed up,

and now the weatherboards are going on.

It's a wrap!

We now have a wall, and its wrapped in sisalation!

(Those little holes will be doorways)

Machinery Shed 5

We have a floor!

And Robert's standing at the half way point. It's a big area!

And now the wall frames are going up.

Machinery Shed 4

The bearers have gone in on top of the stumps.

And the joists go on top of the bearers.

(Do you like all my builder jargon?!)

Not long now, and we'll have a floor !!

Red Robin

Saw 2 Red Robin's yesterday.

Ha Ha Ha !!!

Rebecca

Our eldest daughter Rebecca came to visit, and found herself in the mood to work.

Here she is transporting a load of firewood to the house.

Fungi

We have a colony of Amanita muscari, or as they are more commonly known, Fly Agaric, toadstools growing in a symbiotic relationship with our silver birch trees.

Pretty to look at, but poisonous, and psychoactive (ie contains a chemical substance that affects the brain functioning, causing changes in behaviour, mood and conciousness).

Probably explains "Alice in Wonderland's" dreams !!

Concrete

Today we had a delivery of concrete.

The bulk of it was wheelbarrowed into the 40 holes Robert had dug.

Another 3 loads went into the hole in the bathroom, that will be the base of the DOUBLE shower.

Any that was left over was used to spread around the foundations,

to plug any holes that rodents could be using to get into the house.