No rest for the wicked (Antti)

Dragonbane Diary
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Älvdalen, Sweden

So it finally came, the dreaded day that I had to go to the building site instead of taking it easy in the kitchen. We woke up a bit late, at ten, and went to the building site. I took some leftovers with me and a microwave oven. My first task was to help Essi to take off the plastic roof of the longhouse one, she took the supporting planks off and handed them over to me and I removed the nails and put them in neat piles.

My work was interrupted when it was time to set up the kitchen. We took the large aggregate and connected the microwave oven to it, then I proceeded to smash some frozen pea soup into the containers and then inserting the containers to the oven. Now the problem was that I was right next to a rather large gasoline engine, so I had to use earprotection, which made it impossible to hear when the microwave oven made it's characteristic ping sound that signaled that the food was ready.

I considered this problem for a short while but then I realized that the running sound of the aggregate was different when the microwave was using electricity, so I could use it as a signal when the food was ready.

After lunch I did all kinds of odd jobs, like helping Essi and Antti making roofs and signaling where we wanted our concrete rings to our front loader's driver.

We ended our day at about 18:30 and I put some more leftovers in the oven, a real oven this time so it could be seen as an improvement. After that I went to sauna and the swimming pool, and I had to admit that it felt wonderful.

And so was my first day of actual building. The Cinderhill village is growing steadily, there are several new small houses and a few new toilets set up, and one longhouse has a real roof on it.

Antti Oksanen