Getting down to busy-ness

The day started like every other this week - pouring rain. When will I learn that this does NOT signal a day off for T2 & Co.? A visit to the drenched Homemade House this morning found our carpenters cheerfully working on high, completing those second storey verandahs. It's possible they were above cloud level anyway.

It is a little known fact that T2 & co get together at the start of each morning and plot what question they can throw at me during the day to confuse me at best, or send me off on an overnight panic mission at worst. 

The topic can be almost any genre, certainly not limited to carpentry. Sometimes it's plumbing, other days it's electrical, and today it was cabinetry. It's like a spot quiz for owner-builders, and guaranteed to give me the heebie-jeebies until I work out the ramifications of what is being asked. 

Frankly,I don't know what the outcome was today, other than that all parties with a vested interest are happy. I simply employed my second-favourite survival strategy which is setting the experts on each other and quietly slipping out of the picture...

Lunch delivery was my special job today, as the mother in me doesn't like to think of all the boys out there in the cold and rain. Little did I know I was also going to be providing the entertainment, with my spotty gumboots raising a laugh or two from the fashionistas on site. 

Meanwhile, the Special Ops painters were back! Their cheery faces seemed to pop up around every corner, intriguing the Homemade Baby who finally spotted an activity she thought she might like to have a go at. 

The Glamour Boys of the week, however, would have to be the plasterers with all the flash and dazzle they have coolly put into the house. Stunning, stunning cornice work. Beautifully cut corners. Each room has suddenly gained a sense of weight and permanence.

"So what's happening on the kitchen front?" I hear you ask. Well today an actual date for the kitchen installation was made - November 6. That is barely more than a month away - goodness! The production manager assures me he is open to, nay, expecting bribes to ensure delivery is on time. 

Sigh. Whatever it takes I suppose.

And a meeting with Tiler Candidate #3 who was extremely nice and I hope quotes accordingly.

These....

...will go here:

Spooky question of the day from one half the carpentry team: so how does the light fitting get attached now the rose is there?

(The answer is, I don't know - that's not my job.)

This is the underside of the second-storey verandah, i.e what you will see if you look up as you approach the front door. Head of Special Ops drew my attention to the raw pine - what colour is in its future?