Week 7...11-18th November...Off to Apply for Staying Visa on Thursday 19th!

Well, I finally got everything sorted and am headed for Debrecen on Thursday next to apply for my 2 year staying visa.

It is really very easy in hindsight but when it's a chicken or egg thing, you end up going round and round in circles wondering the "what ifs" if you do or don't do it this or that way!

Anyways, chatting with neighbours last Thursday, I finally understood the process and am off as fast as I can with all my accumulated 5 pieces of "papir" and we'll see what the next step is!

I only have to pay 18,000ft (about $90 Ausd)and hopefully, that's it!

Never thought of putting a picket fence around the summer kitchen when finished, but it sure looks cute!

Plotted out where the fruit tree holes go to-day too, (Thurs)as it was very sunny and quite warm outside.
The guys will also be here for the weekend doing the rest of the work, so I'll get them to dig the 8 holes with their superior digging powers!

I was really crook for a few days too...Terry gave me some pork on Sunday and I rarely eat it as I it really does not agree with me, but did so and boy was I ill!
No gall bladder, but I have a very productive liver delivering bile somewhere it seems, as 6 years supply must have been recycled over that 2 days. Never vomited so badly in all my life.

So, am taking things easy this week and eating plain ole' boiled vegies and small amounts of chicken breasts...hahaha, Son  Peter will understand that joke...hahaha.

My ribs and back are still bruised!
So no oink-oinkers for me from now on, only moo-moos, cluck-cluck-cluckers and baaa-baaas... if I can find them!

Yup, still have to do all those charades to ask what the meat is I'm looking at. Chicken is OK, but the others...well, it's a full Hollywood production just to find some beef!

They mix pork with everything over here...so looks like I'll have to go to town every week to get fresh beef from one guy I know who supplies it and will also mince it right in front of your eyes for you. No fat and rubbish pieces in his beef mince.

Forget tender steak cuts and all that...they only seem to use a little beef in Goulash and that's about it. Beef in this area, comes in entirely different cuts to the cuts you and I are used to. Just one big chunk of it, weighing maybe 5-8 kgs and they chop pieces of it into cubes about 2 inches big. That's beef, Hungarian style.

20 bags of cement, extra sewer pipes and hot water pipes arriving for the last stages of work before winter sets in....Under the blue tarp is a big pile of wood waiting to be chopped too. Any volunteers?

Very exciting, the bath/bedroom floor being dug deeper before the concrete pour. Have to do the pour next week now as the shop didn't have enough pipes to lay under the concrete to do it to-day...

You can see how deep they have dug here from the pic above. I'm actually standing over the cellar area taking this shot. 

From the doorway looking in. A bit of a mess at the moment, but this time next week...whooowoooo!

Next job after the floor was all dug out was to locate the septic pipes we put in last year but never used. You can see behind them, over at the fence, they have already covered the septic tank lid with dirt, so now grass can grow on it. Amazing huh?

Where the shovel is on the ground is where the old pipes are, but Zoltan is going to intercept it and connect the new pipes to the new pit.

Almost done...only we don't have the correct angled connector pipes and the shops are shut for the weekend. So, another job for next weekend.

So, with nothing else to do for the afternoon, they started work on the gates. Finally, getting the gates Peter made last year, put on properly. Note my unique and one-off pipe letterbox tied to the top of the gate? It's done a great job...now I can finally get a real mail box.

Sunday, to-morrow, they come back, finish off the gates, dig the holes for the fruit trees, put up the back fence and cement under it. The posts were cemented in, in May this year.

That will be all the odd jobs done, leaving only the bathroom/bedroom floor and yard pipes to do next weekend.

Then the following weekend they will come and put the waterproofing or whatever, on the end room and the bath/bed room floors,  finish off the end room interior walls, tidy up the new doorway and fix the ceiling in the end room.

Then I'll temporarily seal off the end room again for winter with a big rug nailed into the walls...just love these mud brick walls. Bang in a nail...pull it out and whitewash over it! Amazing.

That will keep the 3 main rooms warm for winter and then I'll start painting all the internal doors, windows and architrave timbers probably after Xmas.

Gosh, I never thought this day would finally come, as so many unforseen things needed doing along the way.
Everything has to stop until we get the pieces needed to fix the job so the main job can continue... Point noted about both the bathroom floor and the trench pipe connectors to-day...but it is almost done now.

It's not so much work that's the challenge, it's getting Zoltan here, as he has been very busy working away lately.

Now, do you want to hear a really funny story?
What makes this so funny to me, is that I wrote the bolded text in the first section on top of the blog, near my bruised ribs story above, days before I went to town yesterday...not knowing the Hollywood production would be played out in front of my eyes...in reverse...amazingly.

I went to town yesterday to buy the meat for the week ahead.
Went into the markets where the butcher is, who actually sells a small amount of beef.
He knows me now, so smiles and heads straight to the beef section when he sees me, which is only a 1mtr x 1 mtr square display counter, by the way.

I pointed to some diced up meat and said 1kg...but he shook his head and I thought he said ..."bad" ...and he took the tray of meat away and put it behind him.

So then I pointed to the big chunks of beef, about 3kg or so and said 1kg...no problems and he put the tray of cubed meat back in the display area again.

So after he'd cut off a big chunk of beef weighing 1.2kg,  I pointed to the diced tray of meat again and thought it must be OK if he put it back- and said 1KG ...and he said...nem, nem... baaaahhh, baaaahhh...,

I looked at him puzzeled and he said...baaahhh-baaahhh again and his assistant said baaahhh-baaahhh too.

I suddenly understood what I thought he meant and repeated baaaahhh-baaahhhhhh???

He nodded and I roared with laughter, more at seeing in my head that flashing image of the icon that people use, that lays on the floor, rolling around with laughter. I saw it as me rolling all over the floor, laughing outrageously...hahaha, was so funny! That's exactly how I felt...

The butchers, both saying Baaahhh-baaaahhh...too funny!

It was lamb meat and I never knew.
Was so excited, so after everyone had stopped laughing a lot, I asked for 2kg while my luck was in!

Oh, it was soooo good last night and to-night, to taste lamb again. So delicious and satisfying. It was all sort of diced, sort of, bones and all, but it was lamb. I have no idea how they cook it here with those big diced chunks, full of chopped bones still on the meat.

Will have to get some recipes now I know it's lamb.

I've seen that tray there for over a year and he'd never sell it to me when I asked, as he thought I only ate beef. hahaha...

Still ROFLMAO!!!

Will post this now.
Cheers,
M