Inside job

Yesterday we painted the outside of our wine prep room. Today we shifted to the inside. I did the corners, baseboard, and filled screw holes and cracks, while Alex rollered. They didn't give me nearly enough paint. We used the entire tin on just one coat for the ceiling and two walls. So it's back to the paint shop tomorrow. No way will we be able to install the linoleum until the paint is all done and two coats are on. We'll get the lads to help with the linoleum. 

It's a good day for it as it's been bucketing rain all day. It's less windy than yesterday, but the air feels tropical. Must be the remnants of what was Hurricane Don. 

We are installing Alex's mother's giant carvings as wall art on the outside. The lads are going to build a staircase to the top of the room where we plan to have a storage loft. Under the staircase, we'll mount a rack with hooks for hanging stuff. 

Alex revealed today that he's got the name of the winery and its labels figured out. The winery is Aleria, the same as our boat. The origin of the name is Alex and Daria, so it's quite fitting. The white  wines will be White Seahorse and the red will be Black Swan. White Seahorse has been one of our company names both in the States and here, and Alex designed a beautiful seahorse logo stylized from the pictograph on the wall of Clare Island Abbey. Black Swan is the crest of the Blackwell clan, so it all fits together beautifully. I love it!

Alex picked up the materials for the next phase of the build, which includes shelving and a workshop. The final phase will include a loft made up of the broken dock sections Alex brought over from Ross and telephone poles he acquired from AIB. This is quite the project. 

Ghost does not like the room. She's afraid of it and howls when we work inside it. The insulation is working, as the temperature inside the room is warmer than in the shed. We have a resident population of gulls who use the top of the shed as an observation platform. When they land on the roof, it's scary. They fly around and make lots of noise -- laughing and screeching up a storm, which also scares Ghostie. But she is a good inspector 12. 

I picked more stones from the field yesterday. It seems there is an endless supply. Alex has planted more trees behind the shed now so it will be shielded from all directions except west where the vineyard lies.