They do come bearing gifts. A roof. A roof over our heads is most definitely a gift. A man on his little machine, that was attached to the back of his semi trailer when he drove straight past the road closed sign, pottered down the drive carrying the beautiful corrugated iron roof that will keep The Coupe dry for many many years. 
Such a little package. We have to wait for the weather to clear up now though. No men on the roof in high winds. Sigh.
Maybe next week.
The lambs were loving their little field time yesterday afternoon. Watch closely.
Yup he jumped over his brother. Do you want to see that in slow still motion?
How is that for high spirits.
We opened the way through the barn so that Sheila and Charlotte could walk from their indoor pen right through the barn, across the yards and into their outdoor pen without supervision. Wandering to and fro at will. Pregnant girls need exercise.
This shot is from the pen back to the barn.
The pig pen is behind me here. Now, to show you their pathway we will cross the line and look back. Crossing the line is a very important concept in film production. In fact it is something you should not do as it upsets the logic of your viewer and gives him an jolt as she struggles to reorient her thinking. Imagine a line that cuts through the middle of the scene, the camera is on one side or the other, the image in the middle. Crossing the line and shooting from the other side without warning, changes the viewer’s perspective. And breaks a kind of contract we make with an audience. I try to avoid doing that on these pages too. But today we will.
Here we are in the barn, in the winter quarters actually looking back out at the new pen. In the opposite direction. We have crossed the line. Do you feel sea sick yet!? Though hopefully you have a better idea of what we did yesterday.
Good morning. Outside it is blowing a gale again – with more rain in the forecast. We are starting to get water in the basement. It seeps in through the old foundation walls when the ground is very wet. We are living in a reclaimed swamp as you will remember. So this is par for the course. There is a sump pump and a drain down there and the freezers and washing machine and dryer, etc are up on blocks. So we are prepared. I just wear gumboots when I am doing the laundry! Fixing up the basement is very very far down on my list.
Have a lovely day.
your friend celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
43 responses to “Crossing the line… they come bearing gifts”
Good morning Celi Now that was a fantastic post . the roof is not to be put on cause have you ever tried to hang laundry on a windy day yup hard to do every thing is flying around now just imagine something that can cut you in that wind not safe right the actual roof is already on.this just makes it last longer and look better mike
like you didn’t already know that. 🙂
I’m a sucker for corrugated iron roofs – love the sound of rain on them. Can’t wait to see it on the coupe.
i was watching the weather on tv this morning and they were broadcasting rain and winds in your area. i thought…no roof for celia today! i can’t wait to see it on the coupe. i love metal roofs!
In case I ever start a new career in film production I will be equipped with lingo such as , “don’t cross the line.” And I can think of other instances where that expression holds weight as well. Bt now we’re talking about interpersonal relationships!
oh everything seems to green up. so nice to see that. have a good day!
Oh, my, look at that green green grass. So lovely to see this morning as I gaze into my grey world with more snow in the forecast. But I see hope in your photos, joy in that leap of the lamb, promise in the budding bush. Thank you for this gift of spring this morning from grey and gloomy southern Minnesota.
Obviously Ton Ton doesn’t give two hoots about line-crossing – he maintains his big, doggy grin whatever side he’s on!
Your grass is so green!!! Ours is just soggy wet brownish still but it will green up. I had 5 deer munching on tender young shoots during the middle of the day during the downpour yesterday so I guess it is coming. Love the lambies jumping!!!
Oh I do hope you can put the roofing on soon – this is such an exciting project for us all to follow along but I am sur eyou want to get it all finished now so you can get to all the other goodies that need your attention, like your basement floor.
Have a super day C.
🙂 Mandy xo
What happy animals!
I can empathise with the wet basement. When I first lived in Georgia, the basement of the house had a very steep sloping driveway to the garage and no drainage. One night, during a storm, I had to pump out gallons of water to stop everything in the basement getting waterlogged. I dug a drainage moat the very next day 😉
We need some cheery lambs cavorting here in Chicago. We got about 6 inches of water in our basement this morning and it’s still raining, pouring off and on here now. Forecast is for two more days of this. We’ve lived here almost 40 years and have never had this much water. Last time the water heater went out and stayed out for days.
The clean-up is a marriage-breaker–the hosing down, the disinfecting, the growling. the swearing. It takes at least one full day, and when you’re as old as we are, time is everything! Ah, well,–as Cecelia says, things could be a whole lot worse. (I’m wondering if Chicago John got flooded too.)
you have had way more rain than we have though we seem to be averaging about an inch and a half a day for a few days now. I hate the basement, sometimes I could just fill it in with concrete and shut it off! c
Rain on metal roofs – I remember that nice sound – our house is so well insulated, I don’t hear rain unless it’s pouring horribly bad. Miss that rain sound.
We don’t have basements (water level too high being close to the lake and the bay – and it would be full of mold in no time) – but sounds like a mess. Is it an old stack rock foundation?
Love the lamb hop shots! Outstanding
Now I know where that phrase came from…See? you learn something everyday reading C’s blog! 🙂 One question though….If Charlotte and Shelia are going to and fro unsupervised, how do you keep them from not wandering all over the Farmy? Is there pathway also fenced? Can’t wait to see the roof….rain on corrugated metal…doesn’t sound like a pair, but it is! 🙂
They are wandering through the barn then across the fenced concrete yards then into their own outdoor area and this morning I left all the gates open in case they wanted to go back in out of the rain, they didn’t though! c
I love that smile on Ton’s face…it says that he enjoys just being with you and doing whatever you are doing! YIPPEE!!
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
How cute the lambs…! New roof? Great!! As for the whole “line” … Well, I did feel a bit confused 😉
Great shots! 🙂