Monday through Wednesday I prepared the last 8 floorboards.

Thursday

Out on site I screwed down the previously positioned 4 runs of floorboards and then went on to lay another 5.

I had no tarpaulin cover and it was extremely hot at the edge of the temporary roof.

Friday

I installed the last two runs and then put the temporary roof back together again.

Again, it was very hot and I was only able to work 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off.

Even the floorboards, in the sun, were so hot that they burned my skin on contact.

I had a brief scare at one point - I saw a whole lot of whiskers coming out of the structural steel and thought I had a major mould problem.

I then realised it was a possum sleeping between two back to back PFC's.

By the end of the day I had buttoned up the temporary roof again.

So hurray ! After 7 months I had finished the last of the floorboard installation.

Saturday

I stayed overnight so that I could start first thing in the morning.

I was up at 5.00 am and outside by 6.00 am.

My first job was to bring all the tools down from the roof space.

I also drilled some holes to remount one of the support frames but this will have to wait for another day for completion.

I have been trying, for the last 3 weeks, to have a crack at knocking down all the wild rye and wild barley as well as the crab grass.

Today I managed to get in an hour and a half on this before Barry arrived.

Another 2 hours needed I am estimating.

After this, the rest of the day was devoted to dragging away the canopy while Barry climbed the next pine tree and dropped each section.

Ian came over and helped - which was much appreciated.

Barry stopped work at 13:00 and after cleaning up and packing up we dropped a load of canopy at the local transfer station and I then gave him a lift to the Sawyers Valley pub where a friend would give him a lift to Midland.

I had intended to go bacl and load up again but I was too exhausted.

I was almost home anyway so I called an end to the day.

Sunday

I was up at 5.00 am, left home at 6.00 am, loaded up out on site and was back home by 10.00 am.

I will drop this load off to the Coppin Road transfer station some time on Monday.