25 December 2011

It is Christmas day!! What a wonderful time of the year. To remind us of what He has done for us!!!

My brother Ben came for a visit. He arrived on Sunday 18th, and will be here for a full month. What a joy. He has been drawn in to help. (Working holiday, see) Before he came we had a list of things to do. We succeeded in completing some of it, but then we moved the goalposts, we want to do it before Christmas. Well, we managed most of it. Small tasks like getting rid of rubbish in the section, mowing grass, clearing the last workshop stuff out of the house, install a missing part of the weatherboard, etc, etc.

This last week Ben did the rebuild of the front deck. I sat down on the timber to hold it in place, and he nailed or bolted it down. I can't understand why he was so tired at night, I felt OK. We managed to rebuild the existing part of the deck and install the main outer joist for the part that has disappeared. The idea is to install a new top beam on the old verandah posts, and then to reinstall the old curved roofing sheets, just to get the verandah up again. The deck itself will come at a later stage.

I must take care not to load too much work on Ben, he might run away. Fingers crossed.