A Nice Relaxing Saturday Afternoon....

Well, it's not a usual event for me to be at loose ends...but to-day I am.

Was expecting to have the Summer Kitchen roof tiles off by now and the front room windows painting completed and a bunch of great pics to load!

Neither happened, so am watching some of my fave movies...Love Never Dies being right near the top on the list...and it has been raining gently, on and off all day, with bursts of sun every so often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o06IIuvFBYI     ...That is the link if you want to watch it too.

Got a lot of fiddly stuff done this week as 2 old friends who seemingly abandoned me some years ago, suddenly turned up on Wednesday, very unexpectedly. It was great to have Mo & Jo back again and am now able to fly through a lot of things I just could not find either the energy, inclination or enthusiasm to even look at, let alone do, for a few years.

I really haven't been 100% since about this time 2 years ago when I O D'd on plums!

Yup, plums.

The novelty of picking and cooking my own home grown fruit was too big a temptation, so I'd eat them for breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon tea, supper, tea, dinner...you name it and I just ate plums and youhurt all day, every day for about a month...the colours were stunning together!

Anyways, I started feeling weaker and weaker and quite dizzy while in OZ that July, August, I could not do a thing and just laid on the bed all day. It was a bit of a shock, as I thought... is this what old age is???

I looked up a few things that could be wrong and found when you "pig out" like that on sugars, even fructose, (fruit sugars), the glycogen that shoots out from the liver is not good over a prolonged time...so imagine that happening over a month or so...

Plus, I felt vitamin B12 was depleted and possible lowered iodine levels, so once I got that back into my system, I started feeling physically better, but MO & Jo were still missing, no matter what I did.
I had to force myself to get up, go jogging and even wash up the dishes etc, it was horrible.

Last year, thankfully, it was a bad year for plums, so I was not tempted, but did ration myself to no more than 4 a day...but got the itches all over me! So, nature was keeping me safe.

Then, the other day with the big cherry glut here at the moment, with 5 different lots of cherries...   I O. D'd on them, ate so many, I really enjoyed them, but was so full...

Then next morning I woke up as usual and in my daily "10 Thank-You's Journal", in which I'd beg every day for help to be able to be enthusiastic and empowered again, but seemingly, even though I was jogging regularly 6 mornings a week, without forcing myself anymore, that seemed to be all I could...or as my Mum would say...would do!

In the end, that morning, after thinking over what my Mother would say about it if she was here, I said to my Senior Partner, that I was not going to ask for help any more, until I used what He had already given me to use, but wasn't using.

So, off I went jogging at a bit before 6am, nothing different, and to my greatest surprise and joy, MO & JO were on the verandah when I got back from my jog...and I haven't stopped since then. I suddenly felt empowered, and did a few things and then a few more and so on for the next 3 days.

Painted the red and green stools, cut the foam cushions and working out how to cover the cushions to waterproof them. Am getting Imre on Monday to staple this bright oil-cloth on, which will tidy up the bits sticking out...These are for the completed spa deck. Spa coming soon.

Nearly fainted the other day as 3 of these heads popped out of the nest! Wow, the storks certainly don't muck around! All the chicks are flapping their wings now they can stand on the edge of the nests.

The morning glory is growing about 2 inches a day...

Some hay bale art from the area, in the local paper here.

Experimenting with colours for the floor. If I apply the wash itnthe colour I want the yellow colour of the pine comes thru' and I don't like that. The grey, near the blackish one, is probably best as it allows the grain to show, but not the yellow. A bit hard to see, but it is so different inside to outside!

The workers up the road are building a BBQ area for their work yards...hahaha. Me fixing walls with patches missing and they are making walls with patches missing! hahaha...

A bright array of Petunias in Tiszafured.

A nice icecream and a plant shop next door in Tiszafured.

Pretty roses in the Centrum, Tiszafured.

A bit of a jungle up there on Thursday morning!

Thought I'd died and gone to heaven...I actually found a great black lettuce supplier at the Markets in Tiszafured on Wednesday. Sardine, fetta, sundried and plain tomato capsicum, cucumber and a great balsamic and garlic dressing. Yummo!

Imre will complete this end of the verandah in the next  month, then we can clean up the verandah at long last! Klaas gave me 18 of these little windows, so we used 4 here, 2 in the tool shed, 4 in the new window in the kitchen and 8 will go in the Summer Kitchen. It takes 4 for a window! 2 inside and 2 "outside". But here I only want a wind break, so we only need 1 layer...It is lovely and sunny here all year, so the wind break will be great.

You can see quite a bit of fancy work to be done on the restoration work here, but we have worked out how to do it now. Coming up for July!

Painting these 18 windows in the front room is a nightmare! So I gave it to Imre to do and he's not that keen either it seems, so now I have another guy coming on Saturdays, hopefully, to do them. There's 6 windows in each window space!

You can see the fancy cement work needed to restore this to its original glory. The arched window will look great when it is completed and painted soon.

Outside look at the morning glory growing madly! Imre is going to re-do the pillars as the cement keeps falling off. So he suggested he put that gauze stuff he used inside, around them to hold the render on.

Imre applying the last of  the magic coating before the painting happens for the middle room. But he had a terrible blow this week as his wife found big lumps under her armpit. A trip to the Dr revealed it could be very nasty, requiring possible surgery, radiation and chemo. Poor Imre is besides himself with concern as their kids are only 8 and 10 yrs old. He missed 2 days of work too, so I'm behind, but that is not the worry...the bad news is for him and his family.

Painting these things is not Imre's fave job...or mine, but if the guy does not come next week, I'll have another go, now MO&JO are back. Imre can fix and putty up and replace all the broken glass etc, so it should be relatively ok to do...

This is the last bit of the outside to do. See how close the fence is? Just on 2 foot from the house!Looking at a new front fence, just for this bit here for next year too.

Unusual floral arrangements...Look like boomerangs actually, albeit, hairy ones!

The lovely little park and fountain at my bus stop here in Tiszaigar.

Looks different from the other end of it!

 OK...that's the very interesting, happy early week, then a sad ending to the week here.

Will see how the jobs go this coming week...looks like I'll have to get the paintbrush out and try my patience with these jolly tiresome windows myself, if the guy does not turn up next Sat .

...and there it still sits, waiting to be used and loved again

This is the best of the crumbling walls. There were no footings, seemingly and no inside floors, so the gophers have a ball here and then nature wears away the rest.  Wait until you see next weeks pics of the other end and inside...and the roof at the back and...

I want everything completed inside by end July ish, so Imre can get the outside of the house painted, put down the paths all around the house etc etc, before he gets working on the insides of the Summer Kitchen/Romantic Cottage in August/Sept.

Arhhh well, we'll do what we can with what we have I guess, one can do no more.
Cheers and all the best.
Love to all,
M
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