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100 posts! I can't believe this project has gone on as long as it has.

Michael Green had been lamenting the end of summer. Well, we got one last day of it and a really fun 27 bricks, followed by the arrival of Hamish and Tatum, some tennis, high jumping, dinner, and cards.

The line “we’ll fix that on the next layer” has become a catch cry.

Earlier in the day I went down to North End Sand and Shingle Supplies near Woodend to pick up some more mortar sand. The guy there gave me an amazing deal on my sand. Thanks dude.

The sand was a lot finer and performed really differently. Better.

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The 6th (current) layer is going to be the last easy one. Bricklaying is at about rib height just now; the next layer up will require some difficult lifting.

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How easy was it to lay 6 bricks in a session after work? I’ll tell you how easy. Real easy. Good to be there. I get 2 weeks off at Easter so maybe I can hit it hard then.

A couple of outstanding jobs are annoying me – getting the roof tidied up, and fitting that new window. Detracts from bricklaying. I just need to toughen up.

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The best day of bricklaying. I even claimed that this was my best summer Saturday. Michael Green and I got into a really good rhythm, we were laying bricks so fast. We could have done a heap more, but the chicken was smoked and it was time to call it a good day. We completed a layer and then some. Paul arrived later on in the day and shot me in the ass with a BB gun.

In other developments, Aaron gave me a big old awesome window today. This thing is going to add so much style to the shack. It opens.

Thanks for coming out today lads, I couldn’t have come close to doing that without you.

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Simon Peterson had said I should have one of those DOC signs pointing towards the shack. And I should. Today I met a guy who used to make those signs for DOC.

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I was on track too. I ran out of cement. Someone said didn’t you see that coming? I should have. I was 3 bricks short of 4 layers, and that would have been a new day high also.

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A good day. Michael was today’s guest and we got into a rapid rhythm, rocking out 12 bricks in about an hour at one point.

An early evening fade saw me lost to the world on the couch for a couple of hours. I then returned and had a really enjoyable headtorch-lit 4 brick session, finishing in the dark.

Tomorrow is my last day before I return to work. It has been a productive couple of months on the shack, and I shall remember this time fondly. On the whole I’ve really enjoyed the work. That being said, I’m looking forward to a return to work too.

I need to lay something like 28 bricks tomorrow to finish 4 whole layers. I think that’s on.

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I was full of aspiration about today, but church, lunch with friends, Simon Peterson, a game of netball, a game of tennis, and dinner out got in the way.

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Hamish Dean made his debut on site today, and it was a fine one. A few of us had been up till 4 am playing cards, so I was unlikely to be in particularly good form. And so it was. I had a headache that Panadol couldn’t beat. That being said, we managed a bit over 3 hours at it and worked some nice combinations, laying 29 bricks.

The bricks are 3 layers deep in places now, and I’m really pleased with how it is coming along. They’re really starting to look like walls now, solid and hard. Enthusiasm is high. If only I could sustain 20 bricks a day.

I have decided to abandon my post title notation. There are a few bricks, I don't know the exact number, that I've deemed unsuitable. I'm now just going to keep track of the number of bricks that I have laid.