A day off, then a rainy day

 Friday once more, and a day off yesterday from both men and, therefore, blogging. Time to crack through now, though.

The sun rises over a misty valley

Angela clears the overgrown bushes

It is now SO much better!

Raining as I finish up mowing that first section

A storm blows past

Enormous fun on the balcony

A hole in the clouds

Yesterday was a lovely day through the morning and Angela got out into the garden to do a job she's been eying up for a while; trimming back the Lilac Bush. I helped a little with cutting down the larger trunks but what a great success and such a huge improvement. At lunch I dashed outside (literally) and pushed the mower around to cut the first section before it started raining. I did get rained on while I was finishing the final few bits but at least I got it sorted as after that it rained heavily, then cleared but that meant the grass was wet. It was nice enough after work to run around a lot with Rosie on the balcony and play catch and kick ball and catch you. Great fun.

Very messy wood room

Old racks are falling apart

Cutting old roofing beams to size

Floor to ceiling dividers

The wood gets stacked

It started raining in the night and rained heavily right through until morning so I text Halil to say that they should still come as I had a couple of jobs inside to do. I took Rosie to school and was very happy to see that they were there when I got home. The first job was to sort out the inside wood store such that we could clear the outside woodstore and access the toilet pipe. It was a mess in there, and the temporary stacking I'd made were starting to look ragged. They spent the morning and reorganised it all, stripping out the damaged pallets and rebuilding some before assembling a really strong floor to ceiling framework and lining it with pallets. Halil then grabbed a wheelbarrow and, through intermittent and occassionally very heavy rain, moved the wood from outside to inside.

Bekir drilling through for network

Grinding metal to support the wood storage

A much neater job

So much better

Yuck rain

With this job completed Bekir moved to the second task - helping me to run the network cable onto the balcony so I can maybe work out there a bit during the summer. I had worked out the plan for how the cables should run but asked him to fit a plug socket for the router, and also drill through and run the cable down onto the balcony. It didn't take long and now I have the cable there ready for me to find time to wire it all together. I am really hoping to do it this weekend. After this I asked them to replicate the wood storage on the other side of the room and they did another fantastic job so now we have plenty of really solid wood storage inside that will last a fair few years, until we finally get in and do the garage and associated rooms "properly". It really was raining hard through the afternoon but as I type this now it has cleared and the forecast is for 30 degrees and sun for the next week.

Thanks for reading; I expect to be back with an update on Monday.