Stone work
I have been in lockdown so long, I even started to weed the hedge. The clocks went into summer time on the weekend and I found myself outside at 7pm at a loose end. I didn’t want to go in. So I ambled past some weeds and launched in.
But you don’t need to see that.
Well, okay.
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But the main thing to show you is the departure of the stone masons. It felt so strange to say farewell to them after three months of work.
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Their main job is done. The walls of the new extension are up.
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They will need to to come back and do the mortaring. And possibly rebuild some garden walls.
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So. We are all ready for the main building project which might kick off in May.
If anything can be predicted these days.
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For an encore, Simon and Stephane made me a little dry stone wall with some of the leftover stones.
I saw them piling them up at the end of the dry garden. It was actually where the septic tank heavy diggers left a few random rocks way way back last year.
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And believe me, we are so used to random piles of rocks dangling about this farm…
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I need to go back to take a better shot without the shadows on the wall.
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But it’s so lovely to know that the careful stone work is done. And the structural wooden extension can begin.
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