Something has finally happened at the building site after a period of nothingness. I took these pics 2 days ago so (hopefully) they’ll have progressed a bit since then. But everything stops again in 2 days ’cause no one builds here in August. Hopefully all the columns will be ready to pour before they stop work, so come September they can get right back to it.

Still, it was good to see a few things had been done.

On the container front, I was finally able to get ahold of the big crane guy and get that sorted.

You can see the steps below – first he had to pick up the container from its precarious drunken position and move it onto his truck.

Once it was loaded, he was able to maneuver the truck into a better position in order to lift the container straight out onto the concrete.

Using some odds bits of timber as measures, he placed it as square in the center as he could.

The idea is that there is a concreted area on both sides of the container which faces north to south (front door north, back south) giving me shade in the morning on one side and in the afternoon on the other. That way, once I put up shade sails, I will have usable space outside the container on both sides in order to work.

All under the watchful eye of Vincent – mom’s faithful assistant.

So, now I have the container in place finally. Once I get power to the land (don’t hold your breath!) I can begin working on it!

One thing I learned from the big crane guy was that my container was a meat transport container. That’s why it’s so heavy and extra tall. It has metal pipes running the length of the ceiling inside which I presumed were for the cold air, but they’re for hanging meat.

Lovely.

I hope it’s not ‘silence of the lambs (or cows)’ in there…

Oh well, the good news is that the insulation should be really good…

So, all is moving right along at a snail’s pace, but at least one thing has been ticked off the mile long to do list.

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