Week 4 Ends With a Surprise!

Things can and do go very different ways to what one plans at times, like last week the plumber turned out to be a carpenter...

Well, this week the odd job boy went to Germany for a month with Sabina's husband...leaving my gates laying on the ground and rope strung across the posts for temporary barrier!

So, it's another job for Zoltan when he completes his Budapest jobs.

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Bought a couple of couches and 2 single beds from Sabina the other day and she also threw in about 10-15 huge wooden, double glazed windows, in good repair, which I'll gladly take. The couches are a fawny colour and will be great in this room when I empty it out finally.

A neighbour was at Sabinas' with his horse and buggy and he brought all the stuff home here for me, so that was a great job over and done with in no time at all. I'll collect all the windows as soon as the floors are completed here.

Well, at least the furniture is inside!

Am missing having a junk room for sure...all the odds n' ends out of the end room and the bathroom cum bedroom are in the kitchen, this room, the verandah and it is so messy, but should be all cleaned up in the next 2 weeks, hopefully.

I took my mattress off its base of bricks yesterday and put one of the single beds there instead, piled all the mattresses onto it and now there are 3 mattresses I climb up onto at night! It's only until the floor gets done in the bath/bedroom when I'll move everything out of here and set this room up properly at long last as a lounge/dining.

Will just use the small dining table I have here until after winter and  place the 2 new couches and my computer desk in the room. It will be strange to begin to use the place as a real house and not a construction site.

The rest of the stuff will be stored in the 2 bedrooms until the repair man takes all the furniture to his factory over winter to restore. The rooms being worked on will be without their dividing walls until after winter, so it will be easy to place a lot of gear in both rooms.

Am in no hurry to get them done yet as there is so much else to do without having to navigate passages and room doorways. Am getting excited to be able to think past this new challenge of the present dirt floor in the bath/bedroom, dust everywhere, having to cut out windows and doorways and so on.

Still have one doorway and 2 windows to cut out yet, but now we've found a new way to get it done, it's a lot easier for me to understand the entire process and it seems faster too. So am not concerned about that anymore. Have actually started thinking of paint colours, so things must be moving on in my mind at least!

Dragged out all the pics and old brochures I've carried around for the last 40-50 years and nearly fainted when I saw them this morning. Talk about vision boxes...This place has the very doors I collected pics of, plus the interior decorating moods I want to try and create are all in these old, old bags of brochures I've kept forever.  I am all amazement...as Lizzy from Pride and Prejudice, would say.

Jogging time for me this morning...

There was a lovely sunrise this morning too...
Am up to 3klms a day now...6 times a week...very happy with myself.
I'll tell you what though...having those raw vegies as a blended "drink" every day is amazing. I can really tell the difference in just over 2 weeks of regularly having a glass sized amt each day.

Before blending...

I have 1/4 each of the following fruit and vegies...an apple, orange-with skin, banana, kohlrabi, beetroot, then 2 inches of cucumber with skin, 2 inches of carrot, a fresh small pepper from my garden, some herbs in season and a garlic clove. Sometimes I have red grapes, but if it doesn't blend easily, add a few tea spoons of water and blend for a few mins, pulsing the mix-on/off-until it's nice and smooth. These sizes will make just over a glass of mixture.

My magic mix! All raw and fresh vegies

The spoon should stand up in in the mixture, then add a spoon of yoghurt if desired, sit on the porch in the sun and eat it straight out of the blender container with a parfait spoon...yum-yum-yum!

Apparently you dry them out, cut the leaves off and place the bulbs in an old onion bag and hang in an airy corner of the cellar until spring!

Pulled up the gladiola for winter and started to clean up the gardens today. I had nothing planted last year except tomatoes and chili, so it will be interesting to see how the herbs pan out over winter this season.

Well, that's this weeks wrap up...
Catch you next week with great steps forwards I hope. Zoltan worked away all this week, so nothing further got done on the septic or floors etc. Hoping he's free on the weekend.
Cheers.