Friday before holiday

 Welcome back to the final blog post for a week; next week the men are having holiday.

Beautiful sun rise

Halil mixing cement

Breaking up the small bits

Sally and Halil cover the door

Halil repairing the walls

Bekir doing a little electrical work

Sally finishing up the ceiling

The day dawned again cooler and again we sat on the balcony after the watering and enjoyed some time of Rosie running around, watching the sun come up. The men arrived on time and set to work, Halil and Sally mixing up more cement while Bekir got Salet (I think that's his name) going again in the wood pile in the chicken house. With cement prepared the plastic needed to be hung to protect the doors so they could get on with the rest of the repairs. Sally was back up the scaffold working on the ceiling and getting very close to completely finished by lunch time. Indeed, he stayed a little late and did the final polishing before going for his break.

Ready for sanding tomorrow

Cleaning and repairing the floor

Sally climbs down for the final time this week

Cutting our own wood

Looking up at the house

Top corridor drying

Dinner in the lounge

After lunch I had the men help me move the new pool, and then Bekir helped me shift the dining table into the garage. We have some Danish Oil to work into it as it's getting quite jaded and we'll do it out in the garage because of the smell. After this Bekir fixed up some gaps in the floor with cement and tiles and Sally got the final bits of the wall repaired then it was all hands on deck tidying. Outside the new guy was working away reducing the pile of wood to usable lengths. I reached the end of my work day, a long week it has been but successful, and went and lay on the grass in front of the house and relaxed for a bit, then spent time with Rosie. We checked out the state of the upstairs corridor and both wowed at it - it does look great. Because the dining table is in the garage we had our dinner in the lounge on one of the gaming tables which was rather nice.

Wood delivery

After dinner, just before we put Rosie to bed, another wood delivery arrived. Rosie was so tired (and so are we) that she went down very early so I've got the blog done, got a little hobbying to do, then it'll be an early one for me as well.

Thanks for reading; back soon, but not sure how soon.