#2101 Saturday 3rd July

It's 10.30pm and Kaylia is still awake......  she's doing her squealing thing and not sleeping.

I've been collecting freebies again..... more steel.

This will be used in the next project...... which is to excavate the space under the side verandah.... that is the space immediately outside the side door toward the bungalow. 

This photo is the space before work has been started. 

There's enough space here to make another room. My idea is to have a concrete roof and walls so that it could be used as a fire escape bunker. 

#2100 Sunday 27th June 2021

It's a quiet evening after a normal weekend.  We've managed to keep to the routine while still fitting in the things we adults need to do.  Kaylia had her quota of dvds and she had hours of stimming on them.  She usually just keeps hitting the FF button..... droning away all the while.

The day is cold and wet...... and another covid alert is in place.....

I hope your life isn't being messed up with the pandemic. 

#2099 Tuesday 22nd June

Kaylia's class often has cooking lessons..... to teach a whole range of vital skills.  Here she's enjoying the food yesterday.

#2098 Sunday 20th June 2021

Happy birthday Ian Allen!

It's 11am and the traditional sleep-in is good.

Last night at 3 minutes past midnight I dreamt something.... I'm not sure what.... and in my dream I flung my arm around and managed to punch the bedside table.  Woooeeeee!  Pain!  (for those that have forgotten, my right wrist is fused.... see the blog from May 24th 2011) Lately the pain has returned due to further degeneration of the wrist...... and that wack last night has really done a good job!

The wrist is making it hard for physical work at times.  I'm told that I might be able to have morphine patches to help control the pain. 

#2097 Saturday 12th June 2021

 Kaylia's in her room ..... squealing.  These days she has a squealing thing that sounds as if she's in great distress ..... but she tells us that it's a happy noise!  We asked her if the noise was a sad noise or a happy noise ... and she says "Happy"...... so we accept the noise but it gets to be tiring.  We try to keep it as a noise to be made when she's in her room.... 

Today Naomi was away all day at a work thing in the city.  Kaylia and I had a good day together.  

I like following the 'freebies' on Gumtree .... and today I scored a good one .... a set of Brownbuilt steel shelving.  It will be very good in the shed.

The 'chateau' is making good progress....  Yesterday I moved some furniture into the top room. 

 This week I've been tiling the shower recess in the bathroom.  I should finish the tiling next week.  Then I will finish a bit of painting downstairs before starting to lay the cork floor downstairs.  

There's not a lot left to do before the project is complete.  I should finish it before summer.

#2096 Saturday 5th June 2021

It's a long weekend..... and unfortunately the Monday on the calendar has (in very small print) "Queens Birthday NZ).  Of course Kaylia doesn't notice the NZ bit and she latches onto the birthday bit. " PRESENT" says she. .... and it's on.... she obsessed on the possibility of presents for her.  It doesn't matter what the present is..... she just wants a present.

And because it's a public holiday, the op shops are all closed..... so this morning she was happy to have a purchase of dvds that I put aside for Monday.

It's a beautiful afternoon and I'm sitting in my favorite place...... the new balcony.

#2095 Tuesday 1st June 2021

 It's been more than a month since the previous post ..... I was about to write "since the last post" ..... and I thought that statement might be prophetic!   

Yesterday was the funeral of Ian Moyses .... and as always happens at these family gatherings, people ask "What are you up to?  How about some photos?"  I put a few on Facebook but this is probably a better way to do it.  I can summarise the history of this project.

What has the project been?  When we bought this property in 2002, there was a side room about 7 metres away from the house ..... and this room was only one metre from the property boundary.  This was always a problem as it made access to the rear of the property very difficult.  

In October to December 2017, steel foundations were built to one side of the room (code name "the bungalow") and then in February 2018, the whole bungalow was lifted and slid sideways onto the new steel foundations.  This meant that the room is now about four metres from the boundary and only three metres from the house.

The next step was to  extend the roof of the house so that the bungalow  became part of the house.

Here the  roof extension has begun with a steel truss spanning the gap between the buildings. 

This view is of the main house on the right and the bungalow on the left.

Now the first stage of the roof extension has been completed.

This was completed 3rd May 2020.

Then the steel frame for the upstairs deck  was constructed. This joined the two buildings and allowed the roof extension to be completed.  The roof was finished 14 June 2020.

The upper deck sitting area  can be accessed from both buildings.  The deck was finished July 2020

 Here  the deck can be seen with the roof beams in place.

Further work on extending the roof.

 Here is a view of the building showing the original bungalow in blue below the added room in cream.

This is an aerial view of the house.  The roof part outlined in yellow is the extension.