We had a big storm last night; lasted about 3 hours. Lots of lightning and thunder, as well as some rain. Our weather station recorded a little over 0.25 inch, but there was almost 0.5 inches at the strawbale house. Nobody in the neighborhood slept particularly well as the storms were overhead with lightning about every minute. Especially Barbara agonized as the strawbales are still unprotected. It knocked the power out for a couple of hours, but it was restored soon after daylight.
But, as always in the desert, today is a different day with abundant sunshine and quite a bit of wind to dry out the bales.
We proceeded with the framing of the all-around porch and finished putting up the posts and rafters on one of the long sides of the house. Dave decided to continue framing all the way around and then put up all the sheathing. We can sheath the whole thing in one morning, when the wind (generally) does not blow.
There are a lot of different lizards out and about now in the warm weather, much to Emma's delight as she likes to ambush them, and I found this guy on my way to the truck to go home. Nice camouflage.
I hope we all will sleep well tonight. There are no storms in the forecast.
1 comment:
Looks like a "now let's see" moment with Dan and Dave gazing at the roof of the porch!
Love, Denise
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