All cut out and put in... in one day.
Imre cut out the hole, made a window frame and added 4 windows to it, bought some antique hinges and now we have another 4 windows to add to the 18 in the front room and 4 existing ones here, plus these new ones to paint!
But...I'll be able to look out the window and see who is at the front door now, plus later on will put a little ledge outside to pass things thru from the kitchen.
It looks good and lets in a bit of extra light and as soon as Imre completes the wall repairs around it, the entire room gets painted, (ceiling, beams and walls) and exciting, exciting, the timber floor goes down!
I had a great confirmation yesterday when I was invited to a neighbour's house to look at some furniture in an uninhabited, really big house for here, that is for sale.
I think they said 3 million ft...about $15,000 Ausd.
Lots of rooms, a really big bathroom, with bath, basin and loo inside, real kitchen space with water connected to a basic kitchen bench and sink, large hot water system, huge square, sunny entrance, parquetry floor in formal lounge, 2 or 3 big bedrooms, roomy central passage, gas heaters everywhere in the place and a few wood heaters too. In great condition from a quick first glance.
All on a lovely big block of land, with the normal big sheds and outbuildings etc for over here.
Any takers?
Lo and behold...they had floorboards in most rooms, just like I am putting in here!
The first ones I've actually seen in real life over here, so am thrilled to bits that I am indeed on the right track with trying to make the place authentic...sort of!
Found the BIGFOOT flooring place about 50 miles away to buy the glue too.
It is $10.20 a litre, comes in 13 litre drums and needs 1 litre per 1 M2 of timber floor coverage!!!
Boy, I knew it was costly, but wow! It is an expansive, expensive, water resistant and sound reducing adhesive, especially for glueing floor boards down onto concrete! Who would have known?
I need 65 M2 timber, so the glue will cost twice as much as the timber!
Then it only needs 12 hrs to set before sanding and after that I'm not sure how to apply the whitewash to the floor boards, which will be the most exciting thing for sure.
The weather is nice and summery, hitting the 30's outside, but inside it's still only 22-24C, so it is perfect for me.
We had a big thunder and electrical storm the other night, which reminded me of our early Qld days and the daily, 4pm thunder storms in summer.
It lasted a lot longer than the 30 minute Qld storms and was not too humid the next day, thankfully.
Bear is still here and I've had to tie him up in the day and lock him in the inner yard at night as he lays in my garden and has been eating the pansies!
I wondered why the pansies in one area in the oval garden, kept on dying out disappearing altogether and was pulling weeds out the other day and heard "chomp, grunt, chomp grunt(of delight) under the bushes next to me!
I sprung the blessed rascal, laying there, munching on my "prize pansies"!
For some reason he does not understand the garden is off limits, but he also thinks he is a cow...or maybe a deer, as he loves lettuce, carrots, grass, weeds, roots of weeds, spinach leaves, strawberries etc etc.
Dog was easy to train not to go near the garden, but Bear....another story.
So I have to tie him up over at the old lean to on the summer kitchen for the time being, until it is pulled down in a few weeks time..and then hopefully, he'll be gone.
I had no idea how much energy the dogs drained out of me...worrying if they barked too much, it would bother the neighbours, concerned all the time they were contained within the yard and not digging escapee holes everywhere, having to keep an eye on Bear incase he bolted off with tools, gloves, gumboots etc etc...which he seemed to do so effortlessly...all the blessed time.
But after filling in all the yard holes they made in the lawns and finally, digging up and eating my plants, was the last straw this week! After about 2 hrs of Bear being tied up...I realised I could sit outside, have a cuppa and not be stared at by big, soppy, beautiful brown eyes in a sideways cocked head, staring adoringly and ever so wondrously, at me.
Sighhh, so sad I'm not into dogs, as he is just like a teddy bear, you can prop him up anywhere and he stays! Such a lovely natured doggie and he is going to be a big one indeed.
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| Lunch Burger...of feta cheese, fresh pineapple slices, capsicum and tomato on rice cakes with baby spinach leaves, with a garlic, balsamic dressing. Much too yummo! |
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| For anyone with arthritis or painful joints, here is a simple pain relief remedy. I spread it on my 2 rice cakes before I add 2 soft poached eggs in the mornings. It is a teaspoon of turmeric, 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper...and I add some cinnamon, as it is supposed to be good for something...probably memory? hehehe... |
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| A neighbour dropped over some red cherries, an early variety, the day before yesterday. So I went cherry picking again, only inside this time. Had just returned from lunch in town with a friend and on the way home we stopped the car by the roadside and had a nice dessert of fresh cherries from the trees growing wild along the roadsides. So it is cherries everywhere just now. Then another friend brought me a big bowl of yellow and red early cherries yesterday, so I think I'm a bit over cherries for a few days! |
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| These are tiny miniature roses on tiny bushes! They smell lovely too. The cream one is really beautiful. |
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| This was a graph I found on a video about using Turmeric and was shocked at the results when 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper was added to the mix. You need to also have it with natural fats too to help with the uptake and absorption. eg...runny egg, avocado, nuts etc.The bottom line is without the black pepper and the 2,000% line is with 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper! |
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| Imre fixing the carbie, air filter and wheels on the mower. This time he ran an axle right through to both sides and put the wheels on that. Wow, it is sooo easy to mow now. |
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| The only thing I planted this year are the little white plants. Everything else self grew! Having Bear is such a deterrent, but he'll be gone soon when the people who took Dog, bring their car from Belgium, so they can take him to the vet for his desexing op. |
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| Some of the darker cherries we gathered from the roadsides. |
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| Imre starting on chopping out the hole for the new kitchen window, before he completes this end of the middle room.. |
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| All done in here, now he's gone outside getting ready for another chop-chop! |
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| These are 4 of the 18 the windows Klaas gave me from a reno he was doing. We used 2 in the tool shed, 4 on sealing the doorway arch on the end of the verandah and will use 4 here...2 inside and 2 outside and the other 8 on 2 windows in the summer kitchen. This is as authentic as it can get and recycling at its best! |
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| Chop-chop inside...You can see he has broken thru' already, as there was a window here once but it was sort of sealed up. This unpainted area was where my son and a friend put the big shower while we sorted out rooms etc. |
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| Yeahhy, breakthrough...You can see inside now. |
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| The blue door at Imre's right is the door leading up to the attic. I'll get him to make a bench with drop down hinges on it to use for passing stuff in and out thru the kitchen window. We'll use the drop down hinges when ever having to go upstairs to the attic. I'll get him to put it in after everything is completed. |
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| So, window frame in, now to seal it with that foam stuff. |
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| I still can't believe the mess that these mud bricks make! |
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| Foam in partly and mess cleaned up! |
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| Inside windows hung...now to do the outside ones... |
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| All done...4 windows extra now to paint! Next he will make the mortar mix and fill the holes, make it neat and paint both inside and outside. |
Hope all is well with you,
See you all next time,
Cheers,
M
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