20 May 2012

Tomorrow it will be one year since we took possession of the house. Our first night in the house was a few days later. Now, we had a target of one room every six months, disregarding or forgetting about the outside. We have nearly achieved that.

Our front room is sooo nearly finished. We finished painting the walls and now we are working on draught proofing the windows. We learned that the bay was definitely installed at a later stage. They re-used the original window and added two narrower windows, one on either side. Now, the original window was made of Kauri, and was riddled with borer. As soft as Weet Bix and broke in several places. It had to be repaired / replaced. The sliding sashes are OK, why I don't know. So I set out to remake the surrounding frame. Not as easy as it seems. I am more of a carpenter than a joiner, so everything takes a lot of time. Hopefully it will be finished some time this week. We have a forecast for the coming week of clear sunny days and frosty nights. I want to move over as soon as possible.

Marike notified us that she is coming to visit us in June, for a month. We need another bedroom. No pressure.
Just joking. she has slept in an Ice Hotel in Norway, so the Waikato climate should not be too bad.