Countdown to OZ...14 More Sleeps Until I Begin the 3 Day Trip.

Well, Summer is going out with a heatwave few days!
Just like it introduced itself in March when we had spring coming, but it hit 34C a few days and confused all the plants!

Humidity is high today for me, temp 30C, but feels like Hades!

Tomorrow will be a nice 19C and 16C at night.

The guys are here, one doing the bathroom walls and the other painting the gable on the 3 door shed and the wall under it, plus a quick coat of paint over the multi coloured bricks to tidy things up a bit...

As I go past in the bus, all the 3 door shed work looks unfinished, so I figured a quickie coat of whitewash would suffice until the new big room is built. The end wall thenbecomes an inside wall, so all is good.

Imre cut through the wall to the outside today and threaded the loo pipes out, so it's all happening.

He's lining the chimney now with a render of sorts, then is about to do all the walls for the bathroom with a special washable coating, similar to the original plastery stuff, so it looks authentic.

He is a very skilled tradesman for sure. Neat as a pin, sweeps everything up as he goes, washes all the tools at the end of the day and leaves the site in excellent condition. Does one thing at a time and completes it all. Amazing...for here.

Some more pics!

6am this morning and the chem trail guys are up there. Probably seeding to make it rain or disturbing the weather in some weird way. 

One single pink rose...no other buds in sight.

One massive asylum plant...

The top part of the chimney hood is about to come out...to make room for the shower stall.

All done. The new supporting lintel is in and the old one is about to be cut out...

In the meantime, I bought myself a patio swing, I think...If i can assemble it, that is!

Yeahy...it IS a swing after-all! Only lost one bolt, but will buy one easily and complete it and then put all the rubber stoppers on the ends of the 50 odd bolts!

Looking up the big chimney. The top will be sealed off and the part where my head is will have a ceiling put in it to seal it off too.

The loo goes here...Imre is about to cut the hole through 2 feet of mud or whatever the footings are made of, to bring the septic pipes through.

5 minutes from now...light at the end of a 2 foot tunnel to the inside!

The neighbour digging in tomatoes. they pick them all at the start of August and then dig whatever is left on the bushes, in to the ground!

Yup...daylight . We have a septic pipe hole now. The pipes will be connected to the pit next, then the water connected to the bathroom, then he moves the loo next weekend.

Now the hole is cut thru, it's time to scrape back the walls to put on a special coating than can be wiped down!

Meanwhile, outside, Istvan is painting the west end of the 3 door- new tool shed. He's just varnished the timber gables. Looking nice hey? A new fence from where the ladder is and a new gate come soon. The wooden fence is solid enough for a few more years. Will be able to mow all around the entire property then and hopefully keep out the pest of a little dog from a few houses up. It comes at night and eats all Dog's food, I've just discovered! So, no more midnight snacks for Dog!

This is how it was....Wow...it looks amazing now. Can't believe it myself! 

There's always some cement being made!  This was last week, doing the west end of the shed that has just been painted.

A rice cake hamburger. Fresh beetroot, tomatoes, cucumber, rocket, fresh mince squashed into a pattie and cooked, plus some of my own grown and dried tomatoes. Yummoo!

Was out looking at the moon the other night and saw one lonely stork, silhouetted against the moon...Waiting for the kids and mum to come home. But I think they all flew out a couple of days ago, leaving this poor one alone...

On watch...waiting, waiting...

I think I have a berry bush of some description???

Now I'm just finding out, the inside walls that have been redone in the end room, could have been done heaps quicker and cheaper, this way! Dohhh...

Just whacking a quick coat of whitewash over this east end of the 3 door shed as it looks so horrible from the bus! I will be so pleased to see it all nice and clean, from a distance only, as I go into town on the bus each time! hahaha...vanity, but I like it to look neat at least, for me, if no one else. The gable end will be done tomorrow, I think. We weren't going to worry until the big room was built, but because I'm so far behind due to the guys working away most of the past 3 months...I'll get it done now. This wall will be rendered, as an inside of the big room wall, so all the wobbles will be covered up.

Pretended I was on the bus...ahhh, looks heaps better!

One wall almost completed. Just under 2 hrs so far. Then he does the nook area where the power points are, then a 2 foot area on this white wall you can see on the right here. He may complete this today??? Hopefully.

I accidentally bought some furniture the other day.

Was out with some friends for a drive and they called into the big German shop that has heaps of German stuff for sale.

Saw a few things I really wanted and came home with a rowing machine, an awesome drinks trolley, a couch, similar to my fave little one in OZ that my son bought, a white vintage looking dining suite, a new bed on wheels and a low coffee table that I'm going to cut the legs in half and add a section to them to make them into a bench for the new kitchen...hopefully!

It will look like this, but only fancier legs! We will have to add a lower shelf as you can see here. It has a huge drawer all along the side where the chairs are. So happy! Saves a ton of work too. My kitchen will be mirror reverse.

They threw in the rowing machine...a wizz-bang German model and gave me free delivery too...

AND...

It turns out that the guy who delivered the furniture is the grandson of the original owner/builder of this property.
He called his rellies on the phone, as they were visiting in Tiszaigar, from Budapest and about 7 of them came thru!

The place was A about Face as the furniture had only been delivered a few hours earlier and the kitchen had been gutted the day before and the chimney removed etc etc.

They all said how many happy memories they had here and 2 of the people were actually born here in this house!

Amazing.

Well, I'm about done now.
See you thru the week with more pics and hopefully the place will be a tad tidier by then.

Count down to OZ.
All this work must be completed before I leave for OZ in 13 days time, so that when I get back, we can start the pull down and rebuild of the Summer kitchen.

Cheers,
M
xxxx