Little Gizmo is missing :(

 

Friendly little Gizmo

Unusually today I open with a picture as we have been told that two days ago Gizmo, the really friendly little puppy from the farm, disappeared and hasn't been seen since. We saw him when we arrived back from the airport on Monday so he must have gone shortly after that. I'm really sad, and we haven't told Rosie yet because she loves that little puppy. They really don't care for their dogs so it isn't a surprise in one sense but still it sucks majorly.

Rosie dancing with a cushion

The sun rises over a frosty view

Slotting the final bits in

Halil prepares the floor for cement

Bekir checking out the angles

Trimming a block to size

Walls going up up up

Another little patch of floor

Putting that very sad news behind us and back to before we knew he was gone, this morning Rosie demanded (and got) Christmas songs on the stereo before school and was dancing around the kitchen. She even roped me in for a bit. I had the pleasure of taking her to school today and grabbed a stunning sunrise picture from by the gate as I was leaving. When the men arrived they were up into the roof again to keep working on the block laying. With all the little bits done on the right of the corridor they turned their attention to the left hand side and started building up a cement base to lay the blocks on. They then did begin with the blocks and spent most of the rest of the day cutting and laying blocks. They used up the extra mortar that had been mixed to extend a little more of the floor down the corridor.

So there it is. It is nearly Christmas and the men will probably take a week off so wherever we get to tomorrow will be it until they return. It has been great to get this progress done late in the year, however. I'm loving seeing how it looks. Thanks for reading, back tomorrow.

Building walls

I'm late sitting down to write this as I've been out for a lovely beer and food with a mate; it was a lovely evening but now I'm gonna get this done, sip a cuppa, then go to bed. Onwards!

Bringing sand and stones for the mixer

About to start mixing

Putting cement in to the foundations

Foundations are laid

Blocks are being laid!

Halil bends metal to fix the mixer

First course of foundation bricks are laid

More sand delivered

So the title of this update really gives the game away; today we had three men working and they were continuing on the raised beds. This meant mixing up more concrete to build the foundations up and then they started to lay the first course of blocks. It is very exciting to see this coming together! Halil was hammering away at a couple of pieces of metal to fix something that isn't right about the cement mixer during the afternoon and also we had two truck loads of sand delivered. I was very busy with work and didn't get to see much of it really however it was lovely to get out at the end of the day and see so much progress. Hopefully another good day tomorrow!

Dinner is served

Treated myself to dessert

After some lovely time with Rosie when she got back from school I was dropped down into town by Angela and had a really cool time with my friend at a local bar and restaurant. We talked and ate and had a couple of beers and then I walked back up the hill in the rain to home. It was a very nice evening, and much needed.

So there it is; blog done, tea not even touched so time to drink that then bed. Thanks for reading.