Wow, it was windy in the night; I was up in the small hours collapsing chairs, the gazebos survived quite well (one broken pole and very loose guy ropes). We adjusted the guy ropes so that they are now tethered to the top of the frame; hopefully this will help when the wind gets up and under the roofs of the gazebos.
After his success moving stones yesterday Brett decided to move the HUGE stones that make our track access narrow; he only had a hour in the morning before we were off to Pam and Marks for lunch, to meet their builders (English) and ‘workawayers’ (American).
The ‘workawayers’ had been due at noon; they hadn’t arrived by the time we left. Their builders had done a great job; cutting doorways between their three buildings, cutting out and inserting a window, and were in the process of putting up plasterboard in the middle room, which instantly made the room look bigger and brighter.
After lunch it was back to moving the stones; Brett levered I put under small stones and then helped shift them with a spade – it was hard physical work. At one point we had this really big stone, shaped like a turtle (lying on it’s back), stuck in the middle of our track; but Brett managed to manoeuvre it after a hard struggle – he kept tackling bigger, then bigger stones (i.e. “saving the largest for last”). Then we had a text from Pam and Mark “El Clube for drinks?”; yes, please!!!
Still no sign of their ‘workawayers’; we had a relaxing hour sitting in the shade, drinking and chatting however .................... when we got back Brett started on his stones again! Our track is now a minimum of 9’ wide; which is masses big enough for our camper.
Text from Pam to say the ’workawayers’ had arrived.
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