Good news!

At last, the news I’ve ben waiting over a month for, during which time I’ve got a bit twitchy, causing me to fire off a couple of slightly sharp emails to my house builder. But the news is that the beams that need to be positioned on the columns that will anchor my new house’s foundations to the underlying rock have now been specially fabricated at the factory and will be delivered on site this week. I’m hoping that this means they’ll actually be put in place on the columns and not just dropped on the ground, but I’ll have to wait and see.

It’s been over a month since any work was done on site and the builder said that it’s usual for there to be periods of no activity, when concrete and similar materials are drying, times like that. I pointed out that I accept that that’s normal but that as the project manager, which I am, I expect to be kept informed and in the picture. That means that I want to know what the next stage of the project is and when it will happen, so I hope that that message has now got through.

I was then going to spend some time at Malbec running up my aircrafts’ engines but when I checked the weather forecast I found that rain was forecast for this afternoon and possibly also for tomorrow. In that case, as my grass is already getting a bit long I decided that today would be a good time to cut it while it was dry before the rain came in.

It turned out to be a good decision because just as I was finishing some big drops began to fall and I just had time to get the mower back in my ‘abri’ before the rain came on much harder. Here are some shots that I took while getting wet walking back down to my caravan.

The rain actually became quite persistent and there were a few rumblings of thunder, which quite surprised me. Although we have had a bit of a dry spell and probably do need the rain, it was nice enjoying the warm sunshine while we could. Hopefully this damp spell will depart as quickly and unexpectedly as it arrived and we’ll get back to some more pleasant spring weather that will allow me to turn my attention to my ULMs – and get some flying in which is now well overdue.