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| A pretty hello! |
Well, Zoltan finished digging finally and we found him wandering around the streets in India...wow it's a deep hole he's dug there!
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| The extra depth is to allow for a very thick cover, plus soil on top... |
There is a footing trench for the brickwork to sit on plus another foot extra of depth to allow for the top and the cover plus they put dirt over it so you can only see the pump out hole. He's making the top cover stronger to allow for the garage to go over a corner of it if needed later on.
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| Looks like a billiard table...it's so neat. |
So, tomorrow he gets the brickwork underway and then when that's finished, they locate and adjust the old septic pipe trenches we dug last year and add a few lengths to it, then we have a septic pit done!
We also shifted that mountain of dirt today, 3 of us plus Zoltan for the last hour and finally got the yard tidy around the area to make tomorrow's work easier.
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| Already started...moving the mountain by lunchtime is my goal... |
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| An extra pair of shoulders always help... |
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| Working...Hungarian style...hahaha... |
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| Zoltan hard at it... |
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| 2 hours in and it's on it's way... |
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| 2 and a 1/2 hrs... |
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| 3 hrs... |
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| Zoltan emerged from the centre of the earth and got things moving along... |
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| 30 mins to go...will we make it? |
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| A few last shovels full to go... |
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| Hurrah...just as we finished the last barrow load, the church bells chimed 12mday! How cool was that? |
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| Going for a walk up to see a friend... |
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| Autumn is here... |
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| It was a bit late to get good shots...I must go earlier... |
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| This is that beautiful rose bush...the loveliest of roses... |
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| Pink on the outside petals only... |
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| Hello! |
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| I love this rose... |
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| It is an amazingly beautiful rose indeed... |
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| Homeward bound... |
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| The end of a perfect day...First time in well over 3 weeks we have had a clear sky in the evening... |
I have finally worked out a great system to get everything done, decently and in order...
- I help the guys for 4 hours, 8-12md to do the work how I want it and then everyone goes home...
- Then I clean up inside, wash, laze in the lovely sun...yup, the sun...and
- then cook andhave tea at 4pm clean up again and
- then jump on the computer at 5 pm and catch up on my blog etc etc and
- go to bed at 10pm ish...and watch 2 episodes of Hogans Heroes.
I'm going to have to get some more DVD sets to watch and meant to buy Downton Abbey box set before I left, but the new computer put paid to that for a while!
Anyways the new routine is very efficient as it gives me order and routine and I found I even had time today to go visit a friend up the other end of the village.
So very organised...but not quite the ending I wanted for this week as the guy who came out to give the plumbing quote turned out to be a carpenter!
hahaha...
I wondered why he kept on measuring walls etc on Wednesday when he was here.
He brought his English speaking son last night to go thru exactly what I wanted and the son looked at me after I'd shown him the dirt floor in my bathroom...with the space age shower sitting on it's wooden piece of floor...and he said..."well, then, what exactly do you want us to do...I said "hook up the water" and he said, "we can't do that, we are carpenters".
Anti-climax indeed...
So, it's back to traipsing across planks for another week or so until I find a plumber!
That's it for now...cheers.
Good to see a break in the rain, and the carpenter story is hoot!
ReplyDeleteYes Jude, it was...so funny. Gotta luv 'em tho'! Got a bit extra done today and Zoltan goes to Budapest working tomorrow he thinks, so that will give the footings a longer time to set.
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