Ramps and a storm

 Another day in this wet year, and the storms haven't left us alone yet. Indeed the forecast is not looking happy for a little while to come yet. The pool is not full either, not quite.

The pool, early morning

Clearing and digging

Digging through tangled roots

Building the wall

They're "strimming in the rain" (I couldn't resist that one)

It was another hot hot day all day until later afternoon. The pool had kept filling and was now deep enough to swim properly in finally; I did get out at lunch time for about 10 minutes tops but that is all the use I got of it. Angela also got a lovely swim and really enjoyed it but by the time Rosie got back it was raining and stormy and we had covered the pool again. However we are getting ahead of ourselves. Bekir and Halil worked today on the other side of the ramp and it was hard going with lots of very thick tangled roots from the tea trees to hack through. They got it to a good state, however, with the wall completed and drying just before the heavens opened. Not put off they went into the chicken enclosure and strimmed it all down for us while the rain fell.

The storm, incoming

The pool, being rained on

Rosie admiring the pink riders

As I've said there was a crazy storm, it dumped huge hailstones on our friends up in the high mountains near here, but mainly missed us however it did dump some quite heavy rain and it was rumbling continuously without a single break for ages. It did blow over and it has been clear since, however another very similar one is brewing right now. This has meant that Rosie got no pool time, sadly, but she did enjoy watching Mark Cavendish winning the stage of the Tour de France today. I got a sore throat from shouting so loud.

So there you are; let's see how the weather holds for tomorrow. Thanks for reading.