C'est fini
Today saw an extreme weather event over much of the island. We got strong wind gusts and some (mainly horizontal) rain. However it suddenly went very calm about mid-afternoon. Someone 'up there' threw a switch. It didn't tail off; just went from hooley to zero in seconds.
Strange.
Power outages, trees and powerlines down, fires in remote areas (and no sky-bourne firefighting could get off the ground), trucks and vans blown off roads, .... Christchurch City closed parks, schools and public buildings in preparation. The running of public transport was even under review.
We did some time-consuming small finicky jobs indoors - fixing rickety chairs, improving the door latch, reducing a door gap the produced a draft,
Indoor days can feel productive for getting all these fiddly little tasks ticked off the to-do list.
That weather front sounds like a doozy.
ReplyDeleteWhat a view from your window!!!
That ceiling is seriously high….Mr B must have very long arms!
ReplyDeleteAnd look at that view outside the window. I take it (and you probably explained it in detail ages ago) that this will be your home while the main house is being built.
After the extreme weather yesterday it’s been all calm here in Melbourne today
Ladders and scaffolding. Mr B is vertically challenged. I have the longer arms so I did the 'holding up' and he operated the nail gun.
Deleteih and yes to the rest. We are building a 1 bedroom cottage so the cabin was meant to come later as a guesthouse. It turned out to be easier and more useful to build it first.
DeleteThat looks beautifully cosy...and the wood sets the quilt off very well.
ReplyDeleteI saw the Marlborough weather warning....I wonder was that the eye or the edge of it?
Not an easy situation where everyone just has to hunker down and do what they can to stay safe. Hopefully they can get onto the firefighting now?...
We got the edge. Canterbury and Wairarapa coast got the serious and destructive gales.
DeleteWe heard about your weather. We have kiwi visitors at the moment. That wind was incredible.
ReplyDeleteNice to see the inside of your home. All that wood looks amazing
Congratulations on the finish. What an achievement.
ReplyDeleteThe storm sounded dire and dangerous. It's good that it's settled again now.
There's a good deal of satisfaction to be derived from finishing off fiddly jobs and little things, and better yet when it's forced upon us.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteHaving an extra pair of hands surely helps, too! Freakish weather is becoming all too common. So glad the Wee Hut On The Sound (WHOTS) stood up strong! YAM xx