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
THAT is gorgeous! I feel right at home under that ceiling- comfort! Good on ya- well done. My eye sight is shite so i do not read everything- glad to know the plan- I thought that the cabin was a hiding place but see now that it is for guests, later on. These days I am fond of the idea of "hiding". Anyway, splendid job!
ReplyDeleteThe interior is beautiful and the view outside isn't so bad either. 🙂
ReplyDeleteI am so happy it did not harm your little red cabin, I just love it. the wood on the inside brings joy to my soul looking at it.. the wood itself is art to me.. that is a really freaky storm, we have those once in a while, and that horizontal rain is bad to drive in, we once got caught driving to a doctor appt in that and waded in water up to our ankles to get inside... glad all is well with you and I hope Scully was indoors to
ReplyDeletethat's a great looking ceiling, the house is going to look cosy when it's finished. we had the same weather, power was out for 3 hours, but all good now.
ReplyDeleteIt’s looking very cosy and homey. Just like a hobbit home
ReplyDeleteThose winds came to you by way of passing us. It was a tad terrifying.
Thankfully it’s all over now. We did get a thunderstorm warning earlier and I could hear the thunder. But it changed direction and missed us.