Saturday, July 28, 2018

Slow momentum defreeze

We arrived back on the building site almost a week ago. We found the building site considerably changed, which is quite thrilling!! It starts to look like a real building site now :)!! 
The momentum is slowly coming back, or is it faster then I think? I probably still have to get used to what it means to build a house and the time it takes :).
The wholes in the ground for the foundation have been dug and filled with cement and metal reinforcement. There is also material stored up everywhere ready to be used and it keeps coming... Before yesterday the cement and more metal reinforcement came and yesterday the mason was working on the second round of our foundation, the above ground pillars on which the first floor will be build on.
Now it is obviously full summer here and the afternoon hours are hot. We are still working on strategies on how to deal with the heat without a heat proof shelter. We are currently also not sleeping that well in the trailer. Last year we slept in our great canvas tent and I am missing that, but for now there is no space for that.  I wish I would be more efficient at shaking off the mood the lack of sleep puts me in :), as well as this lingering worry state if-everything-is-really-going-to-happen-without-further-delays, which is probably enhanced by my poor sleep... 
The envisioned schedule for now is, that the wood structure arrives on August 6, the carpenter will start to put it together on the August 20, and beginning of September we will start our part of the work!!!