Day 9 of the Construction of the Building

The shell of the building is virtually done.  The walls are completely up and you can see that when these pictures were taken, there was only a little of the ceiling left to cover.  I'm sure that by the end of the day, they will be completely done with everything but mounting the large overhead doors.  The opening for these doors is clearly seen in the pictures.

Nice view looking through a nice grove of trees toward the west side of the building

Inside of the building - looks like an airplane hangar right now

The workers' truck uses our porch for a carport

East wall of the building.  Plain Jane but not a common view

East wall from the northeast.  Decent view

The previous few pictures were taken around 9 AM so they made good progress at the end of day 8 and early on day 9 to get the roof almost done.  You can see in the following picture taken after lunch that they are down to tiying up the construction (see the worker on the roof of the porch).  Also, note that the local doves have taken up a perch on the porch - like the building is now theirs to sit on.

These may be the last pictures I post prior to flying to the US.  I'm out of the house within 24 hours.  The Chilean volcano ash is still acting up in the area, so let's hope that we can fly in the morning.  Right now, all the mainland Australian airports seem clear but the ash is hovering over Tasmania and NZ.  Air NZ (with whom I'm flying) has been flying all along during the ash problems, so let's hope they don't have a change of heart.