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My hands are covered in cuts, scrapes, and splinters. The surface feels sore. Does this mean that I have office hands and I just need to get hard?

I got the remaining trusses up pretty easily. The next task was to put bracing between the trusses, what the corrugated iron will nail onto. But before I could do that I needed to know exactly where they would sit. I headed to Justin’s house to pick up the roof cap he had. Due to the length of the shack I needed 2 more so I bought them from the Auction Rooms for $12 a pop. My car/ute fatted them in there easily. I also bought some roofing nails.

Paul, Simon, and others stopped by for a while to teach Simon’s sister to drive a manual out in the paddock. Paul and I laboured away in the beautiful still Canterbury heat, enviously viewing the fun paddock racing. Not really enviously, my enjoyment of working on this project remains. I did hanker for a spot of paddock racing though.

I sunscreened up today, but I still got burned. My legs are showing the worst of it, but I don’t think it is so severe as to impede sleep. I’ll need to be more careful tomorrow.

MC Hammer provided some background support today.

We got one section braced up, and I proceeded to cut all the bits for the remaining sections. This was a good achievement, I normally get bored with cutting and want to do some nailing, but those lads suggested they might return, and nailing was a good easy job when done with more than 1 person.

I was leaving the 2 overhanging trusses till last because I was still working out how I was going to do them. Because I am going to have about 1m overhang, and non-traditional purlons, I decided that I do need trusses out there. I think I can reason that out with you, Justin. I managed to finish 1 of the 2 trusses, so tomorrow’s tasks in order are: build the other truss; brace all the trusses; fit the purlons that will hold the overhanging trusses; fit and brace the 2 overhanging trusses; and fit a perimeter board. I’ll then be ready to put the iron on the roof, but I may need to rip that to length.

I had hopes of getting the roof on today, but I was unrealistic about how long things would take and didn’t get there.

I started about 8 this morning and finished about 6 this evening. There were breaks – I didn’t work right through, but I was really done when I stopped. I pushed the limits of my capabilities today.

I don't know how long the Post date and time has been out, annoying. I manually changed this one.