Week 5...28th October to 4th November 2015

Wow, just over 7 weeks until Xmas.
Can you believe where this year went?

Just had the last grass cut to-day for this season, before everything stops growing here over winter.

Also accidentally made a nice garden edging around the area where I want to plant a big Xmas tree later on. It is made out of some of the rubble I was going to get a big dumper truck to come and collect after winter, so am chuffed that it happened so quickly, with no planning at all.

Only took 2 hours and a few more to try and level out a bazillion bumps in the land around, from all the blessed gopher hole diggings!

Alex mowing around the bountiful plum trees.

I really need a car fast...so I can get around and look for things I need and want, so in March or April, after winter, one car coming up!

Florie, my odd job boy,  went to Germany with a friend's husband, for a month, so 2 of his brothers came in to-day for an hour and mowed the nature strip and the bottom 1/4 acre of the block and I did the rest.

It was good to get back behind the mower again.
I enjoy mowing as it's nice watching the grass become tidy and look nice as you mow along.

Note how long those shadows are and it's just gone 2pm! This is Felix, Florie's other brother and they live over the back fence from me and up one house. Zoltan lives over the back fence directly, so I am very lucky to have so many helpers on hand..

Zoltan was working away again today, so I hope he's free tomorrow (Sun) as I have to get this work completed soon. There's only about 7 full days of work to go for this season, but dodging the rain and his own work schedule, stretches the jobs out into weeks or months, not just the few weeks it would normally take.

Will tidy up the mess I made of the yard creating the awesome garden edging the last 2 days and will take a pic for you.

That bush in the middle will come out later when the big Xmas/conifer tree is planted. 

If my visa is approved in the next few weeks, I can stay in one place more than a few months, so I can begin to really get things done around here. It takes a few weeks each time I come back to get things moving and then a few weeks winding down to leave the place for a few months, which is very time consuming.

Here's hoping all goes well next week when I go to Szolnok to get my health insurance, then straight up to the visa office, receipt in hand! Sabina went to Szolnok to-day, Monday, to import her new car from Germany and wow, what a job! I went with her and the Hungarian parents of Florie.

Back and forth to Transport place, the Roadworthy place, Customs clearance and Stamp duty places, the Post Office which seems to collect any Govt monies over here, the bank to pay some fee and finally, back to the transport place, collect all the growing pile of "papier" and some new number plates and home we came!

Arriving at the Roadworthy certification place...about 1pm...ish

Mission accomplished at 4.30pm!

Ferenc applying the new set of Hungarian plates...

4.45 pm, back at the roadworthy place to collect the car...Sun has set.

Homeward bound...Taken going across a bridge, from a speeding car. Not too bad. Home at 6.30 pm.

Now I know the place a bit, will jump on a bus and head up there and get my health insurance on Wednesday and by Friday, all going well...???

Who knows?

Catch you in a few days...
Cheers
xx