Of all the days to pick to pour the slab, they chose Saturday and the day it's rained most all week! We drove via the site on our way to the boat show today - not expecting anything to be going on following yesterday's flurry of activity, and there were three guys trying to level off wet concrete in the pouring rain!

This is the base for the house - Aussie equivalent of foundations.

So, we don't expect there to be a huge amount of activity on the site now for a new weeks. What tends to happen is the slab gets poured, then left to settle and dry out for a few days. Then it gets smoothed and buffed with a power mop thingy before another bit of drying out and the brickies arrive. In between this however, the bricks and window frames normally get delivered to site and sit there looking useless for a few weeks.
So that's the excitement on the house - sorry if I bored you with the pictures of wet concrete, but for us, it's kinda exciting! To think that each one of those pipes will be a drain, sink, bath or toilet....... OK! I'm sad!
The boat show was OK. Didn't buy anything (hoorah!). We saw lots of gorgeous boats, but for us to upgrade, we'd probably want one that we could sleep in and because we have an abnormally large family ;-) it would involve another $100,000!!!! So, we shall dream on and save our shipping expeditions to swimming pool companies and landscapers for the time being.
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