More steel work

The title says it all really, though the men have had to go out a fair bit today as well.

Bekir gets stuck into the welding

Having fun in the garden

A good haul of plants for our garden

Sitting on a beam, ready to weld

The scaffold makes this much easier

A bad picture of the wafer they inserted

The first thing Bekir and Halil got to was finishing off shifting each beam exactly into place and securing it there. This did not take long and once they had finished they headed off to order the wood they need for the next stage, and also to buy some strong drills for all the drilling they'll be doing tomorrow. Unfortunately Rosie is still not well so was off school again and spent the day both playing quietly on her own and also helping Angela a bit. When the men got back with Thomas, Angela went straight out to pick up some plants that had been delivered from her contact up north. For the men's part they went back to work this time adding little slivers of metal either side of where the beam met the top cross beam to increase the surface area of contact and make everything more secure. They brought the old scaffold down from the roof as well to make it easier.

Angela and Rosie sorting through the new plants

An awesome preying mantis

Halil continues the huge splitting task

Bekir welding - nearly done this task

Angela did a load of tidying and cleaning today and then headed out into the garden to sort through all the plants. We need many more, but this is a really good start. While out there we found a preying mantis on the grass and watched it for a while; I had to stop Rosie wanting to pick it up! The men were cracking on while Halil was back to splitting wood (he's getting close to done now) while Bekir continued with the welding.

There's another metal bending task to be done as they are going to tie the columns by the wall into the stone there to add another level of security. Hopefully tomorrow the wood we ordered today will arrive and this project will continue cracking on at the pace we need. Thanks for reading, back tomorrow.

Path finished, on to chopping wood

I'm feeling quite jaded today, missing Dad a lot I think. Let's just get to the blog.

Halil mixes up some cement

Off for a run in the fog

Rosie helps Angela with some planting

The final blocks are laid

Starting to make their way through the wood pile

Lots of wood split, lots left to do

It started off a lovely morning but very quickly the fog rose and it stayed around most of the morning. Autumn is definitely here. Bekir and Halil were working to finish off the block laying first thing while Angela and Rosie had a really fun time in the garden, both planting things out and playing. It is a national holiday here today so no school. By the time the sun had burned through properly and the day was warming up, the last block was being laid. The rest of the day was spent cutting and splitting our wood pile ready to be stashed. The steel was being cut today and apparently it will be delivered tomorrow now.

Rosie cycling her trike

Rosie and Xena sat together

Making a sandcastle

Moving the wood towards inside

I had a little hobby time with Rosie as we painted a bit more of her cardboard castle then we went outside onto the now clear patio and she had a lot of fun with her scooter and her trike. After that she went off playing with Thelma while I started to shift some of the wood away from the pile and into the wood room. I shifted a load onto the driveway then got about 1/3 of that inside before dinner.

So there it is; one more day of the week and is there a chance we'll have our steel tomorrow!? Let's hope! Thanks for reading, back tomorrow.