At The End of The Day

With the weather forecast to be wet all day, it was decided we would get on with some repairs and decorating indoors.

Like all new houses, we have had a bit of drying out resulting in cracks that require to be filled and painted. However, the main job was tightening the bolts that secure 8 large oak beams to the roof. When the beams arrived over 2 years ago they were green oak, meaning they hadn't been seasoned or dried out. Since then they have dried slowly and developed cracks which give them real character. Only problem is as they dried across the grain they shrunk by about 5% meaning there was now a space between them and the metal plates that secure them to the roof trusses. On a windy day pieces of rust would fall from these spaces onto the floor or furniture. So the task was to tighten the bolts and fill any remaining spaces left. Not easy when the beams are 12 foot from the floor! Anyway, by late afternoon the job was done and the house tidied up again.

As I was putting the tools away in the garage the sky started to clear and some colour from a sunset elsewhere was being reflected off clouds over the sea to the south.

Time to grab the camera and get a quick blip of the only colour there has been today!