Day 20 Gulmarrad Wednesday 27th June 2012

Hi Folks,
Some days ago I tempted fate by entitling this trip "Ending the Wet". Fate has struck back as it has been raining all day with the only variation being the rate. Some of it has been pretty darn heavy.
We awoke this morning to rain, lots of rain. I hopped up at 7 and piled into my rain gear to check the plastic protecting the straw bales. It was mostly intact except for one small gap which I closed. No great damage done mainly due to the low wind and the fact the gutters were cleaned the other day so the rain wasn't flowing down the fascia boards.
It was not a particularly fun day.


The wires from the rafters to the clamping plates. have to build a window frame to go between them.

The plastic and the rain

I started off slogging around feeding the animals in the rain. Followed by blundering around inside the dark hay bale room clamping down an end plate. Under Carl's instruction I started stringing the tie wires from the rafters to the top plate. He has decided there will be windows at both ends so more work to be done before rendering. If the rain doesn't cease tomorrow it will be a wet day since the wire has to be fitted from the outside. The upside is my rain wear is good although the "water proof" gloves seem to be wet through.


What I was saying was "fortunately the plastic held up".



Speaking of wet the camper held up pretty well last night. However a little bit of water goes a long way. We had a couple of small leaks, one in an area that is normally under the awning and another from a different spot. I am confident these can be fixed as other touch ups seem to have worked. For what ever reason the door seems to have sprung a leak through the canvas but that should be easy to reproof. I took a trip to the local outdoor shop and bought 5 litres of canvas water proofer today. Overkill but 2 litres was $44 and 5 was $60, go figure. I have a suspicion the leak may be self inflicted from lubricant over spray on the zip similar to the experience with the car awning.
The annoying thing of course is the leaks were onto the bedding. Susan took a trip to town and 10 minutes in the drier fixed the damp spots. Had it been sunny today we could have dried them easily in the tent.
Unfortunately while she was in town she slipped over in the mall on the wet tiles, whilst collecting the pigs stale bread,  so is feeling a bit sore tonight.

Funny when we arrived here the place was pretty swampy and with the string of fine weather it had dried out a fair bit. Tomorrow we will be back in the swamp again. Susan has rubber boots and I am wearing my waterproof hikers.

The highlight of the day was Susan's delicious beef stroganoff for tea. Excellent!

C'mon Sun!

cheers from Soggy Bottom

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