You should try mountain weather. It seems to rain in clear blue sky except for that one lonely cloud over a km away.
I've tried English weather, where it can be so bright you have to squint despite wearing dark sunglasses while also raining hard enough you get drenched.
Well we've finally got the thunderstorm. I was doing some prep work ready to fiddle with my upstairs lighting - I've got three-core cable fed to where two switches are, the live feed laid out and the next section of cable going from the first light to the next light mostly in place. Sadly the next light is going to be in our bedroom, which has a drop ceiling some distance (I think about 3") below the original lath-and-plaster ceiling. So trying to figure out just where everything needs to be is "interesting", although I think the term is best used in the same sense that sharing a bath with a bucketful of electric eels is "interesting". Initially want I want to do is drill a fine hole in the ceiling and poke something through it, so I can look for where it pokes through in the attic. Sadly the hole took about 3" or so of copper wire before I couldn't push it any further. Just to make life interesting, it looks like there was once a light in the original ceiling but it was concreted over, to the point that a wire nut used to terminate the end of the wire was set into the concrete. At this rate I may end up just using my hole saw from above so I can see what I'm up against. If the drop ceiling in our room ends up coming down (possible but I really hope not necessary) then the lath-and-plaster is coming down too. And if the drop ceiling stays then a hole in the lath-and-plaster won't matter because it won't be visible. At this stage all I want to do is run a cable into place, cut it to length with a bit to spare, and run the cable to where the next light is going to be. For now I plan to just join everything together with wire nuts, ready to put the light in at a later date.
Something in my house turned out easier than expected! Woohoo! I bought a 1/8" drill bit that's about 18 inches long. I figured I could drill a fine hole through the ceiling tile where I want the light to go, drill far enough that I'd definitely get into the attic space, and then look for the drill bit to see where it ended up. If it ended up too near a joist to drill exactly where I wanted it should still land within the 4" hole I need to drill to house the backbox for the light to go in. And as it turned out, the drill emerged exactly where I expected it would. So maybe tomorrow I can do some drilling and make some progress on my electrical work. If it ever stops raining my roofing man can fix the roof, and then I can really surge forward with the room underneath where the roof leaks. I really want to get that room sorted out.
I'm waiting to hear from my roofer as well. My carport has a leak. I found a roofing company that will do small jobs and have paid the deposit. Now it's just a case of the work getting done.
Glorious day and forecast to be the only one this week so I went for a walk in the woods. Now I'm going to look at some more windows - I need warm weather for that to make sense. The electrical work can wait until tomorrow when it's supposed to rain.
Re-seating a commode onto a concrete floor, I lets it slip out of my hands and "CRACK!!! goes the porcelan Oh joy
I got two windows done. It was hot enough that I decided to stop there. Getting the second one done was a bonus because of things in front of the window, but thankfully the porch roof was strong enough to hold me so I could attack it from the outside without having to get the panels out. The caulking along the bottom of the window was mostly perished - I just hope I don't have major problems with wood rotting behind it. For the price the window fitter charged to fit the windows I'd have thought he could spare $2 worth of caulking around the flashing but apparently that's too much to ask of him. There are three more windows in that room, three windows in our room, and two other windows (one of which is an old one that means more contortionism), and then the caulking is done for upstairs. Then I get to play with the downstairs windows.
Sunny again today as the weather forecasters appear totally incapable of getting it even vaguely right just lately. On Sunday they forecast "chance of light rain" for the afternoon with "current observations" being listed as "cloudy, light rain". Sadly what was actually going on at the time was a monsoon that had already lasted for three hours, so their rain estimate of "less than a tenth of an inch" had already been well and truly washed away. So maybe I'll get some more window work done. There's apparently a chance of thunderstorms later today. Maybe this time we'll actually get the thunderstorms.
Got a couple more windows resealed. One of them was the worst I've seen so far, almost all of the sealant around the flashing had perished. At least the guy who fitted the windows didn't do anything with that window so it's understandable it's in a sorry state. The others are just a disgrace - how he could fit a window and not bother to reseal the window is a mystery. My advice to anyone in town feeling like they might have him do any work in their home would be to lie down until the feeling passes. I've heard a few people talk about him and his work, and not a single person seems to have anything good to say about him. I just wish I'd known that before I paid him to fit windows for me.
Three more windows done. Only three upstairs windows remain. At least with the downstairs ones if I do misjudge something and fall out I don't have very far before I land....
Two more windows done. One to go, and this one is a nuisance because I need to move stuff around in a very confined space. My wife found it a bit disconcerting when she got back from visiting a friend and drove up the road to see me standing on the porch roof.