six months

[bees4breakfast]

it's amazing the difference a couple of months of rainfall make in australia.

Comments

[superluser]

A house with no basement!

[bees4breakfast]

they don't have basements here! it's so that the cooler air doesn't sink down into them and away from the main floor. they also don't do two-story houses here, except some nouveau-riche people (who really want the prestige of announcing "i can afford to air-condition a two-story house when it's 42 degrees for a month straight") still build two-story. by and large, it's all single-story houses with high ceilings. ours is on stilts, because there's about four inches of topsoil, and then solid rock underneath.

[eggstorm]

Bitch! Why aint you on Skype! :}

[superluser]

Well, congratulations! When will it be ready?

[budhdra]

Is that wilderness???

[budhdra]

it's out in the country, but it's not wilderness! it's not so terribly remote. about 40 kilometers from the center of the city.

[trufflepigs]

not pictured: thousands of poisonous spiders

(how big is the house going to be? I am terrible with scale)

[trufflepigs]

i'm pretty bad with scale, too! toe to tip, i think it's 25ish meters.

[trufflepigs]

i hell of didn't notice i wasn't logged in.

[bees4breakfast]

oh, here's a scale reference. (adrian is the reference. he is 181cm tall and as wide as a slim human.)

[billazilla]

Shit, you're building a house in Australopithica, and I'm still in a two-bedroom apartment in The Dirty. I need to get on the ball here...

[bees4breakfast]

bear in mind, i didn't earn the money i'm using to build it. there will be a sign: "graciously sponsored by non-hodgkins lymphoma and my dead father"

[djkim]

You're going to have a pretty awesome yard.

[bees4breakfast]

awesome if you think sheep are awesome. i hate sheep.

[djkim]

Sheep are some dumb motherfuckers.