Progress

Help arrived about lunch time today - by motorbike and van (with trailer).

First we had a walk down to the jetty. Then an hour or so was spent fixing a brake light switch on my van (I really didn't regard it as a priority. )

When work began on the cabin it went as fast as a dog can lick a dish.

Lickitysplit.

We stopped with the ridge rafter up. The sun had set and there was a meal to think about. And sometimes you need to stop and think about what you have already achieved rather than careering on.

Roof on and windows in tomorrow. Maybe even the verandah sorted as well.

Nephew even built two sawhorses out of scrap when we needed them to do the join in the long rafter.

There is quite a bit of time-consuming exterior finessing that has to be done to cover joins and corners, put up guttering, and sort out a disguise for my unsightly foundations.

There is an internal partition to put up and that is about as far as we can go until I pick up another load of T&G for the internal lining. I can do the insulation and lining on my own. I might even have to hang the doors on my own.

I'm already planning the lavender garden along the front of the verandah - lavender and rosemary, oregano and some sages perhaps. Aromatics.

The building is red cedar - so the building alone smells divine (like the inside of a wood sauna room).

The place looks like a Travellers' encampment at the moment.