March 29
A very gray Friday. In the town, the clouds looked threatening, but in a good way–there has been no rain of any significance in Alpine for over two years now. So gray clouds that might make me a bit nervous are good news here. We headed up to the building site thinking the clouds would disperse, but they remained. And grew darker. And stranger in their appearance, with smaller clouds hanging down from the gray sky like huge grapes. Lovely, but scary.
The house felt like Fort Krevit indeed by the time we made it up there. Even with no roof, I felt safer standing inside it, taking pictures of all of the sturdy lintels now in place throughout the house.
technical
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- Big sky, but gray this time
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- New cloud formations for me–I never saw clouds like this in Houston!
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- You can see lintels through the lintels
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- Straight as an arrow and love that texture
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- The windows in the hallway
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- The lintel is gorgeous–and so are those clouds!
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- First adobe block course over a lintel
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- Everything is getting connected
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- The lintel hallway
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- The color in the wood is so beautiful
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- Wood is everywhere now
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- Left=my office; Right=my bathroom. A frame wood wall will separate them
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- The strangest sky I have seen so far
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- I love the way these natural materials just meld together
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- Kitchen windows–makes washing dishes a dream
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- The corbels seem to be getting closer to the house now…
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- Immense but no thunder or lightning–so just beautiful
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- Those posts continue to wait patiently
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- The trench for the water line is being dug now–good news!
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- The water line goes up and down the road
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- Is it ever going to rain?
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- This is the new mountain we will be climbing–but not today
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- Looks threatening but…
personal
I just knew it was going to rain. Up on the mountain, there is this feeling that lightning will strike anything that stands taller than 5 feet. Bella and Niles are safe. But not me. So no walk.
Did it ever rain? No.
Nice post.
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