Day 2 of the retaining wall build and they have found their rhythm with three times the blocks laid today than was laid on the first day. The block-layers I was lucky to get have the reputation of being the best in town. The wall is perfectly neat, clean and straight.
I come up to the block almost every day at sunset. This morning I came at 5:30 to see the sunrise as well because I needed to make up the orange electrical mains conduit so that the block layers could cut a hole in the wall to let it through. You can see it poking up in the above picture. This evening Paul and Fiona came up, and for the second night running we stayed well after dark as Paul and I discussed the perennial problem of how we are going to handle the storm water. Building the house will be a piece of cake compared to the effort we have put into the groundworks to mitigate the storm surges. Erosion is the enemy of living on a side of the hill, but I am confident we will have it sorted, thanks to Paul's insistence.
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