15 January.

We have been in the house for seven months now. I think our progress is remarkable, even though I am saying it myself.

In this time we have repaired the cookhouse, cleared the outside, and finished two rooms.(although they are technically one now.)

It is so nice having Ben here, our progress is remarkable. Yesterday Ben did the varnish on the walls in the living room. I kept myself busy outside. We have decided the combined living /dining room is technically finished now.

The floor still need to have the cap filled out, and be cleaned and varnished. The ceilings are still the original dark lacquer, and will stay that way. We will also have to improve the lighting in the dining room area, we have a light on permanently in there. Most likely a roof light.

We decided to move on, and tomorrow we will go back to the outside and build a scaffold and continue cleaning the weatherboards and paint it.

We have also put in a tender to demolish a old double garage in Hamilton. We will know on Monday night and it has to be removed by Friday. TIGHT! We will be taking Ben back to Auckland Airport on Thursday.
We very much enjoyed having him here and he will be deeply missed.