Blue above Brodgar (Nine days)

My day has been spent wrangling pipes in the boiler room, again. It is all beginning to take shape, but I have a load of stuff to do before I can finally fire up the boiler. The grumpy old Rayburn continues to drink vast quantities of oil in the interim.
It seems to have been a pleasant enough day weather wise, but I missed out on the dog walking duties in favour of fiddling with pipes. My only excursion of the day was heading to town for more bits.
The very nearly wife took pity on me and took me out for a bit of a look at sunshine and huge clouds. It looks like the timing was perfect.

How did it get to be only nine days left???