Well, That’s One Way..

..to see where the leaks are!

We (along with lots of other people) were suddenly hit with a bit of a storm last night.
Pretty sure there was hail, too.
The people over the road had their Halloween display reconfigured, including an absolutely massive spider upending itself on the lawn – I’m assuming it’s some sort of heavy plastic. Now they’ve added giant figurines…

I was feeling snug and dry inside – we’ve been through storms here before.
There was leaking through the roof of the back porch, and a river was running down outside our bedroom window (the guttering is either split, or has a hole), and there was a fair lot of water that had come through the door/window downstairs. That’s happened before, and we had enough spare towels to plug all the leaks, in the end.
The boys were watching the cockatoos grimly hanging on to the tree next door – one seemed to be attached to a branch just by a wing tip – so I went to check the back porch area again.
I thought it was funny that, amid all the sound and fury, one tiny sprig of leaves had stuck to the kitchen window, with nothing else around it.

This little mini twiglet.

It’s not focused particularly well because, just as I snapped a shot, I realised that the kitchen windowsill was rapidly trying to emulate Niagara, and the next chunk of time was taken up by plugging the gaps. I’m not sure whether it was coming through the window seals or around the metal frames – I just stuffed towels everywhere they’d fit.

All dry today, and nothing wrecked.
Glad I decided to keep all those towels when we moved, though!
😀