August 16, 2010
Fluffy goodness
With an amazing amount of help from a wide variety of friends (profuse thanks in no particular order to Grant, Dorje, Trevor, Marcus, Dave A, Bernadette, Shane, Leonie, Andrew, numerous kids) over the last couple of weekends, we pretty much have the bach fully insulated and partially gib-boarded. Ildica & I had pretty much 12 hours straight gibbing & insulating yesterday, followed by an hour of tidying up and getting the scissor-lift back out (with interior doorframes now in, there's one doorway the scissor-lift had to go through that only had 1cm clearance above and on the sides) and on to it's trailer before a slow & foggy 2 hour trip back home, getting to bed after midnight. Another milestone was spending our first couple of nights over the weekend in the bach, even if it was on camp-mattresses in a corner upstairs.
Posted by conor at 12:21 PM
August 2, 2010
Gumboots in the lounge
We finally got the log burner sparked up, and it really makes the place start to feel like a home! 70km/h winds and rain outside proved to be good conditions for testing the waterproof-ness of the roof, with a couple of little leaks becoming apparent (on the bright side, this is the right time to find these things out, before we start installing insulation and drywall). The house feels absolutely rock-solid in those windy conditions, as it should. Most of the internal framing is now done. Most of the wool insulation is piled up in what will be the bunkroom, so the kids spent probably a couple of hours in there bouncing up and down like in a big foam pit at a kids activity centre!
According to the Porters website, their anemometer broke after recording 220km/h winds today, so it would seem to have been relatively sheltered in the village!
Posted by conor at 1:47 PM
August 1, 2010
Evie's 7th Birthday
Evie had her 7th birthday at Science Alive with a great bunch of friends. Lots of activities, a demo on interesting things to do with liquid nitrogen, spins on the gyroscope, etc. And cake obviously.
Posted by conor at 11:25 AM
July 27, 2010
Amy’s Birthday at Clip ‘N’ Climb
It’s that crazy birthday time of year when all of Evie’s friends have their birthdays (Evie’s is tomorrow), so it’s a continuous round of parties at the minute.
Posted by conor at 12:21 PM
July 26, 2010
Spot the difference!
What a difference a year makes. This time last year we were working through ideas & plans with Craig Boslem, and I put together my Google Sketchup model and rendered it to produce some "artists impressions". It's great to see how the real thing compares now the scaffolding has come down. Still a fair bit of work to do inside, although the drain-layer, plumber, and log-burner installer should all be in residence this week.
Posted by conor at 9:42 AM
July 22, 2010
Bridge Hill Panorama
Another image revisited with Lightroom 3. A 6-shot panorama with images processed in LR3 before being stitched with Hugin & Enblend.
Posted by conor at 11:41 AM
July 19, 2010
Evie came first in her 3rd Rhythmic Gymnastics competition!
Evie's just loving her gymnastics, and getting some results too, including a trophy this time too. We're delighted for her, we're not pushing her at it, but she's just thriving.
Tricky getting decent shots in what from a photography point of view is a reasonably low-light environment...
Posted by conor at 4:13 PM
July 13, 2010
Kids first taste of skiing at Porters this year
Ruairi's first time on snow, Evie's second, and they had a blast. 2 mornings up at Porters and after they seemed keen, we signed them up for a lesson each morning. Evie "gets" it already, and is snow-ploughing and stopping like a good thing. Ruairi less so, getting so distracted by everything else going on around him. Both managed the button lift a couple of times on their second lesson.
Posted by conor at 10:52 AM
Roof finished
The roof is finished, so it's the window manufacturer's turn to cock things up, by making our 2 large north-facing triangular windows a little on the small side. Like 500mm too small. So they're frantically getting a replacement pair made by their subcontractor and they should be going in tomorrow at the same time as the scaffolding is coming down.
Posted by conor at 10:44 AM
July 5, 2010
Bach fly-throughs
I moved the previous movie renderings of my bach model to YouTube.
(All videos, renderings & models are © Conor Boyd 2010, and are not to be reproduced without permission.)
Posted by conor at 4:44 PM
