Rain Days

The rain fell and fell and fell.

We were worried about the power going off. I was so relieved and satisfied to have so much fresh, frozen and long life food on hold in case we were blocked off for a long time. We can get blocked off from the road in wet season.

I needed some distraction. Look at this beautiful, sumptious velvet. Pure wool velvet I bought at less than half price. I needed a lot of metreage for this project, and would never have bought it at $50 per metre.

Tentatively, I took the first stitches..... I wanted to really focus on this while stitching, to give it the attention it needed to work and turn out beautifully.

Slow and steady, zigazagging edges too...

Would you look at the lint you get from a glowing wool velvet after only one bobbin of sewing!!!

And then this plush and fluffy hood lining and cuffs....

Oh! Look at these colours together!!!

But this only distracted me for a little while....

The wet came 2 months early, and we were relieved that we had half the holes for the house footings concreted., although the other half were filling with mud and water and were constantly caving in.

Salvaging the holes by sucking out water and mud then filling with more concrete increases the cost of the build, and we were worried about the rising level of the water.

For a while, we kept our eyes on the water levels by pulling on the cardboard that had been the formwork for the concrete footings.  The air and water were warm as you can see.

Fresh rain water, checking out what was floating along, and a little boy loving the splash and fun in the water.

Let's hope it eases up soon.