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electriclandWeekend of masonry, mostly. After a detour at the World's Biggest Bookstore (because I am weak) I spent Friday evening with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monkeycommando and S, eating Thai food (yummy!) and watching Breach. Got to see F, who was in the bath when I arrived and went to bed soon after. When I got home I was informed that there was now one entire course of cement block laid in the Hole -- 15 blocks in total. Hurray!
Saturday morning I read. John and Jen went to Home Depot to rent the cement mixer, and we spent the afternoon in and out of the Hole, taking turns to fetch and carry and lay cement blocks. We're actually getting fairly good at that. Managed 24 blocks on Saturday and a further 21, I think, yesterday -- almost 2/3 done. We're also out of gravel; we put what we had in the middle of the Hole, as footing, and we need more footing and also, obviously, some to mix into the concrete when we do that.
In the eveningslife_on_queen came over and we watched -- naturally -- the Tour de France. Which is getting very exciting.
Books read this week: Territory (I liked it a lot, but I think I missed out a bit because I'm not really that familiar with all the myths surrounding Wyatt Earp and the OK Corrall); The Mislaid Magician (delightful, I liked it more than the first sequel); The Secret Countess (aka A Countess Below Stairs, which is a much better title, I'm not sure why they saw fit to change it; anyway, utterly wonderful, she's solved that plotting problem that was especially evident in A Song for Summer, and you always know where you are with her -- the good are good, the villains are villainous, and everyone gets what they deserve in a highly satisfactory fashion); Saffy's Angel (reread); The Star of Kazan (in which the Spanish Riding School plays a minor but important role).
monkeycommando and S, eating Thai food (yummy!) and watching Breach. Got to see F, who was in the bath when I arrived and went to bed soon after. When I got home I was informed that there was now one entire course of cement block laid in the Hole -- 15 blocks in total. Hurray!Saturday morning I read. John and Jen went to Home Depot to rent the cement mixer, and we spent the afternoon in and out of the Hole, taking turns to fetch and carry and lay cement blocks. We're actually getting fairly good at that. Managed 24 blocks on Saturday and a further 21, I think, yesterday -- almost 2/3 done. We're also out of gravel; we put what we had in the middle of the Hole, as footing, and we need more footing and also, obviously, some to mix into the concrete when we do that.
In the evenings
life_on_queen came over and we watched -- naturally -- the Tour de France. Which is getting very exciting.Books read this week: Territory (I liked it a lot, but I think I missed out a bit because I'm not really that familiar with all the myths surrounding Wyatt Earp and the OK Corrall); The Mislaid Magician (delightful, I liked it more than the first sequel); The Secret Countess (aka A Countess Below Stairs, which is a much better title, I'm not sure why they saw fit to change it; anyway, utterly wonderful, she's solved that plotting problem that was especially evident in A Song for Summer, and you always know where you are with her -- the good are good, the villains are villainous, and everyone gets what they deserve in a highly satisfactory fashion); Saffy's Angel (reread); The Star of Kazan (in which the Spanish Riding School plays a minor but important role).
