work being done on the house. On the 19th of September, just prior to the slowdown, we were very surprised to go up to the house for the second time that day to find the walls upstairs were up!
We can now see how big our kitchen and bedroom will be, how perf
ect the pantry and hallway closet will be, how wide the hallway is, and how tiny the guest bathroom will be! Well, it won't be that tiny as it is big
enough for a toilet, bidet, and sink! Probably even shelves or a small piece of furniture! 
The silver part you see is for a sliding door for the pantry. The two walls are connected by a roof on top so that the light from a window can shine in both the kitchen and the hallway. The ceiling for the pantry, closet, and bathroom is made from brick.
The first slowdown came when they started making an opening for a door downstairs. The workers found that when the second half of the house was added-on the two walls had not been connected in any way. Over the last hundred years or so, the weight from the top began to cause the walls to separate! They spent the next few days rebuilding the wall.
The man who does most of the work (in the plaid shirt) is an artist when it comes to building a wall from stone. He would go to the rock pile and dig and dig until he found the rock he wanted! The wall i
s almost 4 feet across! 
After the work was finished on the wall there was still not a lot accomplished. The supervisor of the "muratori" (masons) was sick and the workers were sent on another job! This week on Monday, we were told they would be pouring the concrete for the floors downstairs and f
or the "scala" (staircase) the next afternoon. We went up only to find no one had been there since the weekend! Last night (Thursday) we got a call that the work would happen today at 10:00. And it did!!We took over 80 pictures of the whole operation, but I will only share a few here. The two cement trucks arrived just a little past 10:00. The man wearing the yellow remote control is able to raise and lower the boom from that as well as control the flow of the cement!
They poured the floor first and then the stairs.
When we first got there two men were finishing up with the stairs. When it was time to pour the stairs, the older man had everyone wait while he pulled out all the nails that the younger man had done and replaced them!
It was so fun to watch. We were so glad we were given notice so that we could be there to take lots of photos--even if the workers think we're a little nuts for always doing that!
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