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My sand got wet in the overnight rain. I wanted to just lay a quick 2 bricks before church, to get on the board for the day. But the wetness of the sand mucked my ratios up, and the more sand I added to dryen the mixture up didn’t work. I had a heap of mortar and that made us late for church. We rocked up at 11. It starts at 10. Was there for the good bits though.

Deidre helped me out today. We laid a quickfire 15 in about 2 hours to make it 19 for the day. A good effort, we were by no means bored by the end either.

I’m up to my line of black paper – I’ll need to put another layer of that on now. I don’t know where the rest of that paper is, or if I have enough left.

I’m on layer 8, and I’m pretty confident that there will be 12 layers. That should make it pretty easy for me to calculate how many bricks I need. For some reason I am shirking this calculation. If I am going to finish my brick laying by the end of my Easter break though, I probably need to be making more bricks, if I need them, now. I think I’ll need a few more. It is just unclear to me how many bricks the new window will occupy. But it is an easy calculation if I just get onto it. My mindset right now is just get out there and lay bricks, while the other tasks of finishing off the roof and getting that window ready remain neglected.