Entries from May 2009

May 18, 2009

You’d think it would be easy

We haven’t even started on the house itself yet: we’re just focusing on the retaining wall, which should be a relatively simple thing to construct, but we’re having long and intricate debates about how exactly to do it. This is probably a good thing: better than just going at it thoughtlessly and getting it wrong. [...]

May 3, 2009

The digging is nearly finished now

And I have, wearily, run out of hole puns so I’ll just show you a picture of where we’re at:

Ali has done 95% of the work: he goes out there every day to do some. I am very pleased that I haven’t had to do it myself and have been able to concentrate on the [...]