This Week in Hungary...

Wow, it is very hot outside to-day already and it's only 9am on Monday. House all closed up, but even so, it has gone to 25Cinside...

Too late shutting the door and windows this morning...was outside, beating the heat, making a big brick seat out of all the left over bits and pieces of bricks and filling the brick outline/frame with rubble as we have nowhere else to put all the newly created rubble now!

Will end up with 2 big brick seats now...hahaha...
 

The guys have gone to get the big ladder to take off the temporary roof on the cottage and make a temporary lean-to for Andrea's little car at the end of the tool shed...and you can bet it will rain as soon as the roof comes off...(12hrs later, it's raining!)

Then Imre will finish the bathroom walls in the cottage and I'll take the left over old beams, not used on the lean to roof and add them to the back of the big deck for some extra height to the retaining wall.

A lovely neighbour gave me a dozen hibiscus plants from 6inches high to about 2 ft high last week...I planted them straight away but I think the heat has knocked them around a bit...we'll see.

I was thinking hibiscus would make a nice screen at the back of the big deck...3 hrs later, Margit turns up with a dozen Hibiscus plants for me! Amazing.

Roof off the cottage, roof half finished on the lean-to for the car by lunch time...
Beams up for the wooden panels we'll use, that were on the cottage for a year..

They used my clothes line posts for the corner poles of the lean-to. When in Hungary, do as the Hungarians do!

So the guys have gone off for lunch and I'm back inside in the lovely cool...in comparison to outside to-day. Will make up a big cook pot of tomatoes, bring to the boil, mash a bit with the potato masher, leaving some whole and bottle them when cool, then freeze them for winter to make nice tomato whatevers throughout winter.

Just wash the little tomatoes and pop them into a big boiler with no water or anything else. Easy as.

Yesterday I made some apple and blackberry spreads...and some crab apple puree/sauce. I collected the crab apples and blackberries from my jogging track roadsides and used some of the trillions of my apples, falling everywhere now.
2 neighbours have already taken a barrow each of fallen apples home to make palinka and you'd never know...and I also made an apple pie with rice and oat flour for the pastry...

Need more practice with pastry from rice and oat flour!

A huge apple year this year. My freezer is full now of stewed plums, apples, tomatoes, apple and blackberry spreads, crab-apple puree, with a few spaces for the elderberry syrup, spread and juice I'm making now, as I write this.

Some of the girls in the family at Xmas 2016...

The much awaited new camera still has not turned up...but am taking pics on the phone.

I'm going to see another guy re seeing if he can get the pics from my phone to a memory stick instead of the computer...which won't upload them now after I fell on the computer in Munich and ended up being taken by ambulance to hospital for a few hours.

All good with my ears I think, they have been good for about 10 days straight now...but am not going to Scotland next week for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo... Not game enough to risk all that travel yet. I have a big trip coming up later in the year and need my balance to be better by then.

Make hay-bale art! Sponge Bob and the Snail...

Just this minute heard from one of my workaway volunteers...He's arriving tomorrow afternoon, so that will be great to have some help with the heavy lifting on the big deck brick seats I'm making.

He's only staying a week, but that will be enough time to get a few inventive jobs done and out of the way.
Cleaning up around the place leads to all sorts of inventions.

Found this pic of the 3 door shed on the left with the dunny in the big collapsed part of another big shed before we pulled it down!

All the left over pieces of plastic pipes can be made into wine racks, tool shed containers, if cut to size, or garden pots. I'm going to stand them on end and push/bang them into the ground, fill with soil and plant flowers,(or veg) in them...then paint them different colours!

3 door shed now renovated and in this pic it is almost a new tool shed!

Left over bricks and broken concrete pieces make great retaining walls and seating, old plastic drums, made fabulous seats that I use every day. I keep 2 of the stools inside and use for foot stools or ladders to close top windows or climb up onto the table or bench tops. 

One of the best ideas I ever made!

My 3 Hungarian friends in OZ, at my sister's home.

It was so funny today...I picked 3 big containers of tomatoes...takes an hour or more, fighting my way through the rogue bushes in search of the tom thumb tomatoes, as they hide easily under every leaf!
Anyways, I bagged them up and gave to 2 neighbours, along with a giant zucchini I grew...and as soon as I arrived back, another lovely neighbour, who borrows the cement mixer at times, brought me in more tomatoes and a zucchini! LOL...

Too funny for words!

The rain is cooling things down now, so will fly off and catch everyone next week.
Take care,
Cheers,
Mary







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