No Hot Water

I noticed yesterday that my hot water was not exactly "hot", but didn't think too much about it until last night.  I went to wash the dishes and realized the "hot" water was not "hot" at all , but almost stone cold.  I figured it was a fuse that had blown and was going to fix it.  But no, my neighbour informs me that they don't have hot water either and it will be out until Saturday!!!  Vector, our Power people, have on their website that there is and 'issue' and it will take until Saturday to be fixed.  Hello???  This is 2018 not 1818, where's your back up system Vector???  Not good at all:-(

Wet and Wild!

Well we had yet another huge storm over night last night:-(  The weather is still wild, lot's of heavy rain and lots of gusting wind. The tree above is form another neighbour, they lost part of one of their trees. Luckily it fell away from their house.  My neighbours have been to look at their tree that fell on my place, but there is nothing they can do right now.  You can't hire an Arborist or a chainsaw anywhere.  Everyone is booked up for weeks, if not months.  I can hear chainsaws buzzing in every direction.  And that's been going on all week. The only good thing is, the temperature has gone back up and it s now warm and humid!  Oh, and very wet!  I have brilliant neighbours and told them to leave the tree until they can get their Arborist in, and hopefully by then, be getting  some dry weather.  The main thing is, no-one was injured and there's no damage to property.  We are ok😊!  But please, no more storms!  Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

 

Owl Card

 I'm still not feeling well with a sore throat, so I'm not doing much crafting at the moment.  However I was inspired to make this quick and easy Owl card after seeing something similar on the internet!  Wow, talk about super quick and easy!  I just punched a circle of red card, and then cut into it with the same circle punch to make the ears.  I cut out a pink circle in the same size as the owl and then cut into it so I got the pink piece for his tummy. I embossed that piece using my Swiss Dots embossing folder.  For his feet I punched out the bottom piece of the SU Owl punch so I had a half circle with his feet attached.  I glued that to the back of the red circle for his feet.  More circles for his eyes and a red heart from another SU punch and he was pretty much ready to go!  As I said, a super quick card!  The word sentiment is from a "Crafters Companion" stamp set.  Oh, and I used some of my paint sample flowers I made recently.  

We are still getting really strong wind at times, as well as very heavy rain over night.  There are still 17,000 homes without power 3 days after the storm and there are still tree's down as well as power lines down.  And I still haven't found the other pieces of the smashed bird bath.   My neighbours are coming over the weekend to chop up their fallen tree on my place, and it's going to take the whole weekend I think. We do have the sun, but OMG, it is COLD!  The temperature has dropped dramatically:-( It's winter clothes for me today!  Even the cats want woolly blankets at night, and sunny window ledges during the day!  Me too!

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

More Storm Photos

This is the public footpath outside.  It was a nightmare trying to walk up the road yesterday, tree branches and rubbish all over the place. 

As well trying to get past the fallen tree branches, it was pouring with rain and the path was really slippery.  When I got to this bit below, I had no choice but to walk on the road.  It's a narrow two lane road right on a sharp bend.  Jot a safe place to walk.

 The gutters were full of leaves and sticks and the water had just run over the top and down the footpath.

 It wasn't a pretty sight at all!  So many trees down and so much rubbish.

This photo below is of a neighbours Oak tree outside her place.  Thankfully the branch fell away from her house and onto the grass. 

 I had a doctors appointment and had to walk there and back as I had somehow lost my bus card that morning:-(  I know it is in the house "somewhere", but for the life of me I cannot find it:-(  I have searched high and low and everywhere in between for it, but can't find it. I was forced to go and purchase another card and get the balance swapped over to the new card.  I had about $13 on the old card so that card has been cancelled and the balance has been put on the new card.  It cost me $10 for a new card and I had to put $5 on it because it takes up to ten days before the new balance shows up on it.  I was NOT a happy little vegemite!  The weather today is still really icy cold, and I am in winter clothes!  There's snow down to 800 meters not far from here which is why we are getting such a cold snap.  It went from Summer to Winter overnight when we had that storm.  Even my cats are feeling the cold and want their blankets on at night!  On top of that I have a sore throat and blocked nose, and aren't feeling too well.  I just want to go and get into my pajama's and my fluffy slippers...see you soon!

Auckland Hit By Massive Storm Over Night.

This is what's left of the neighbours tree after the storm!  t was one wild night for sure.  Wind gusts up to 14o km and hour and ran the was horizontal not vertical.  No power from 9 pm until 4.30 am the next morning.  The wind sounded like a jet plane taking at at close range.

Above is what is left of the bird bath.  I don't know where the rest of it is, but it isn't on my place!  

My back porch roof has gone, and I found a large piece of it on the ramp at the front of the house.  It must have blown over the roof of the house.  Just thankful it didn't smash any windows on the way. 

 This is what's left of the neighbours tree.  I hope they take the whole tree down because it now has a lean on it and if it comes down it will ht my house or the neighbours house.  Part of the tree came down on my place about four years ago.

It's a big mess with leaves and branches everywhere.  Not sure if there's any damage to the garden shed.  The neighbours are coming on the weekend to chop the tree up and remove what's on my place.  Ill know more then.

Just as well the tree didn't fall any further the left of this photo above, because there is a house really close to the fence line. 

I had to wait for about three hours to take these photos because it was still pouring with rain and the wind had not let up.  Not a good day to be outside! 

It was a big tree, maybe three stories high originally.   

Below, Bella-Rosa checks out what's left of the bird bath!  Not much!  Oh well, I'll get a new one!

I have just updated this with new photos, so it's now a bit jumbled!  My apologies!  We were not given any warning that the wind was going to be so severe, so no-one was prepared for what happened over night. 

We were hit by a massive storm  last night.  These photos  show my neighbours tree that has come down at the back of my place, and onto my garden shed.  We had winds up to 150 km an hour last night, heavy rain the was being blown horizontal, not vertical.  Power was out right across Auckland most of the night.  I lost power here at 9 pm last night and have no idea how long it was out for.  I was still awake after midnight and there was no power then.  I was able to use my laptop to play Solitaire on because it also runs on battery as well as power.  And it gave out some light as well.  There are tree's down all over the place, rubbish bins everywhere, roofs blown off houses, fallen trees blocking roads.  Its a real mess.  The wind was so strong last night the house was shaking - really scary stuff.  This is by far, the worst storm I have ever experienced.  No damage here, except for the neighbours tree coming down, the bird bath being smashed, a deck chair being blown off the porch and into the middle of the lawn, and my porch roof being demolished.  And it is COLD!  Still raining and still got a lot of very strong wind, but it has calmed down compared to last night.  Around 7 pm last night I had the foresight to fill up the thermos with boiling water.  I just knew the power was going to go off as it had been flickering on and off for some time.  So glad I did because while the storm raged and I played Solitaire on my laptop, I was able to have a cup of tea!!  So there I was in the dark, with a miners torch on my head, sipping hot tea and playing cards!

 Thanks for dropping in, have a SUNSHINE day!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

Bits an Pieces!

I made this (above) from a sheet of corrugated plastic, (Below).  I covered the plastic with a piece of blue material I had bought.  I am going to use it as a backdrop in my photography.  I found several sheets of this corrugated plastic that was being thrown out in the rubbish, so I asked the shop owner if I could have it.  She said, "take the lot!"  So I did!  Luckily I was with a friend who had her car, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to carry it home.  It is about 3 feet by 3 3/4 feet in size.  Some of it has a white background.

 Someone gave me this container (below) of coloured cards in different shapes some time ago, and I have yet to use them!  Since making all the tint flowers from the paint samples, I am thinking of using them on these shapes and making some cards with them.

As you can see, the cards come in various colours and shapes.

Each card is roughly 1 1/2 inches square, although some a tiny bit smaller than this. 

There are about 20+ of each card in each colour, so there's a lot of cards! 

 Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)

Flower Card!

 Here is the first card I have made using the paint sample flowers I made recently! A really quick and easy card to make.  I used a piece of black card that I had cut using the stitched hillside dies.  I stuck the black card over the bottom of the folded white card, attached the flowers, stamped the sentiment and it was done!  I am seriously loving those paint sample cards! 💜

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  {HUGS} from me to YOU:-)