One more working day and all the doable for now jobs will be completed!
I can hardly believe it. There are heaps more jobs to do but these are all those left over bits from here and there...all being completed before beginning anything else! Such a relief.
Then the 3 door shed repairs begin and according to Zoltan, it will only take a few days?
I think he may mean 3 days with 2 guys to pull off the roof tiles, battens, roof rafters, prop up the ceilings, cement/underpin around the base and put the roof rafters and tiles back on.
That seemed the schedule from the way he threw his hands around up and down and here and there, while chatting away in Hungarian yesterday!
The volunteer family has settled in here and seem to be doing well in the bedroom area set aside for them all. Eric and Maria both speak excellent English and a variety of other languages and the little girl speaks Polish.
Erik has worked on 2 robes since being here plus 2 chairs, put a new wheel on the mower, cut the grass yet again, helped level the big deck for next weeks dumping of mud bricks from the 3 door shed repairs and built a sand pit for little Malenia.
Maria has been doing the cooking mostly, washing up countless times a day...until we discovered her hidden talent...
She is an artiste!
Guess who is now going to hand paint the flowers onto the 2 chairs and big box coffee table???
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| Maria is painting the flowers onto a table/box I have just like this one here. See box in image below. |
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| Prepping the big box to be painted by Maria, as in above image...Plus the 2 chairs to match in reverse colours. |
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| Maria is on the task of painting 2 chairs to resemble this one here. |
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| A friend dropped these antiques around yesterday! Wow, 1875 or something like that it says on the bottoms of the set of 3 salmon trimmed , gold embossed fine china pieces. How blessed am I! Thank you young Zolly and Renata. |
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| How pretty is this? It is a flower from the ornamental chestnut tree. Beautiful! |
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| The cement bag princess... |
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| The water metre man's private gate! |
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| The last pic before the roof comes off! |
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| Construction styles...circa 1920! |
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| This is for Zoltan to make sure the overhang gets put back the same sizes! |
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| Fence extended to outside the well area. Now I have to pave the rest of the path to match the existing path and garden edgings...and plant more vegies now the garden area is safe from workers feet! |
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| Fence extension from outside yard. Looks enormous inside now. |
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| Eric shoveling the last of the white sand into the new work area, just beyond the yard area I want kept tidy from now on-wards. Then when the yellow sand and last bit of gravel near the roof tiles is used up next week, we will have an empty and tidy yard at long and weary last! The new work area will be inside the area for the new room. |
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| More bags of cement, lime and gravel arriving for the reconstruction of the 3 door shed. Woweee! |
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| Back in use with knobs and all. The brass door locks are a bit hard to remove to clean up, so they can stay as they are! |
Yes, it still is a discovery time here, but I think this may have been the final lot as there isn't that much left to tip upside down.
We only have to rake all the yard where we have been working and then take the tidy pics for you and then it's onto the next bit of demolition!
So we will see you all next week with all the beds sanded back, cot sides and all, the wine vat coffee table all sanded and prepped repaired for use, a painted salmon coloured box and some chairs in various stages of flower power, the 3 door shed maybe half completed and the big deck sorted out and tidied up for use!
So, bye for now,
Cheers,
Mary
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