Week Nine

As I explained at the start of week eight, it's been a busy couple of weeks, so I've not updated for a bit. And it's been raining like a bastard, too. That's nice, because we now have water in the night, and I didn't even have to follow through on my bluff to use my car to run over the horse-riding viejo that was shutting off the water every evening. And now it's raining far too much, which has started to slow down the construction a bit. But no matter, it's still progressing, as you can see, and as soon as we get the roof up, the rain won't be much of an issue anymore. In any case, I hope you enjoy these pictures from the last week!

This is the front bedroom, in the corner. As you can see, in the last few weeks they've gotten up most of the crown beams.

Harvey working on a complicated crown beam in the corner of our bedroom. This was yesterday (Saturday, May 24) and they were trying to work quickly before it rained.

Workers working on setting up the crown beam in the living room, and cussing a lot in Spanish about the drill.

The view from the front corner of the house. It's been pretty gloomy looking lately.

Here's the thing about putting in all that dirt, and then having it rain a lot: it creates gigantic areas full of mud. Here Angela is sinking in.

Fortunately, they're washable. Around here, we have a saying when this happens: "Aw shit!" Mainly because I cuss in English or German, and Angela learned all the bad words she knows from me.

The right side of the house, which now looks a bit like a pirate ship.

The view from the back.

This room in the center of the house was going to be our laundry room, but then we decided to put all the laundry crap in the garage and use this room as a TV room. Right now, it's where we're storing our extra rainwater and mud.

The corner of our bedroom-to-be.

If you were wondering why there was all that weird wood crap sticking out from the windows, it was to form these structures. The windows are going to be poking out of the main structure. We saw it in a house we liked and thought it was cool. Hopefully it turns out OK. It's pretty fancy for Berlin, after all.

Saturday, May 24, 2008. We're thinking of having a bikini mud-wresting tournament in our front yard, so be sure to register today!

As a clean antidote to all the mud, we saw this tub in a movie we rented (The Nanny Diaries... Angela was complaining that the movies I was renting were "puro zombies!"). Now we'd kind of like one, but can't find them around here, so if you come down, bring one with you.

So, that's it for this week. Hope you liked the pictures, and keep on checking in for more new ones!