Such a long time
since I opened my computer.
Those new phones
make one a tad lazy for sure.
So many things have
happened since last time I did a blog report, it is amazing when you
look back and see how things have changed.
It rained for well over 4
weeks after 2 of the most beautiful months of my life in March and
April. PURFEEECCCC weather, lovely sunny, cool days. One could not
ask for anything better.
Then came May and
the clouds gathered and it rained, and rained, and then rained some
more.
It let up a week ago
and the grass grew a foot, virtually overnight, it seemed...and it
turned hot, very hot.
Normal for this time
of the year, but no introduction last week...just a cool rainy period
of 5 or so weeks, then...bang!
Anyways, it's all
good, once you manage the closing of windows and doors etc. to keep
the place cool inside.
One thing I noticed especially in that beautiful 2 month period was how lovely life in the moment is...How really glorious time is, how appreciative of life itself I was - am.
I def am NOT a heat fan...nor am I a dead of winter, 6 hours of light a day person either.
Interesting...that I'm here now, in weather as hot as OZ for 3 months of the year, which is considerably better than 8 months of the year in OZ, but not my ideal at all. One redeeming factor is...hardly any humidity that affects me at all, just the heat.
This time last year we'd just come back from Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia...then a few weeks later Austria and Germany. Most of the time was spent in air con trains or buses or by the sea at times, so any heat was not noticed as much as it could have been, I guess.
The cottage has come to a grinding halt again with a shortage of the pattern of roof tile being the culprit this time.
A friend has enough of the same very old tile, but works away a lot, so when he returns, the tiles will arrive.
Then I'll have to find someone to put the roof tiles on...
Imre is so busy over this summer, I doubt I'll see him much until near winter...here's hoping.
I have people to complete the 2nd gable end and do the exterior and interior rendering etc...so will get that happening next week, while waiting for the roof tiles to arrive.
I have a friend who said he'd do the roof for me, but he sent a guy who tried to do the roof...but it was always raining, so not much got done, by him and his assistant in the 6 days promised to complete the job.
In the meantime I'm building a slab floor at the back of the tool shed and putting a lean to roof on it to store pipes and spare timbers etc. The tool shed is not long enough, now I've taken a third of it to make a sauna room next year!
Also, now my yard is so nice and clean, I have nowhere to dump broken bricks and left over builder rubble either...so it looks like a trip to the dump with a dump truck is on the agenda soon!
The straw gardens got a bit out of hand in the big wet...so we had to weed it. It was easy work, as the weeds came out so easily from the mulch under the top layer of straw.
Will toss all my left over seeds into it tonight and see what happens as it is getting late in the growing season to plant stuff now.
I skipped out on my lovely veggie gardens this year, with dog having pups, cat having a kitten which she abandoned. I had to spoon feed the kitten every 2 hours in the day until last week. She eats and drinks by herself now. Funny little fuzz ball scamperer she is!
I did get some tomatoes in before the big wet and baby animals arrived though and they are bearing tomatoes now.
In the middle of all of that, I completed 2 of the floors and began moving the furniture back...when my Hungarian friend, who now lives in OZ, came back for 5 weeks to sell up all her stuff she had stored in Debrecen, from the sale of her house almost 2 years ago.
Most of her things were exactly what I needed for the cottage, so I committed to buying almost everything from her last year. The fridge, freezer, washing machine, Queen bed and bedside tables were almost new.
There were 2 lovely antique type pieces of Hungarian hand painted furniture also, which will be the WOW factor pieces for the cottage. A wardrobe and a blanket box.
So, in the middle of a thunderstorm after weeks of rain, she arrived with a truck load of furniture and over 50 boxes of things she had to sort before going back to OZ, where she has an extended 2 year study visa.
Last week cat was taken to the vet for her desexing operation. Poor thing...was so sick, she vanished for a day and I thought she had died, as she was so thin, so wobbly, not eating or seemingly drinking in the heat. anyways, she turned up, still hollow, but a bit sprightly and is gradually recovering now.
Then, after eating too many mulberries and cherries, I broke out in hives again...all over my arms and back...got bitten by a wasp on my shoulder whilst weeding the garden last week and to top everything off...our internet went on the blink for over a month.
Shop keepers could not use their credit card terminals for days on end, computers were on the blink, things slowed right down for about a month. I was told that a necessary tower got struck by lightening and a satellite had problems too.
That, along with google and fbk, trying to transfer data to hide or destroy it in the upcoming billion dollar lawsuits they are facing for breaches of privacy, selling people's info data and blatant censorship against conservatives, their services were actually out in Europe and USA for hours on end for a few weeks...it has been a ride and a half for sure.
Am just recovering from it all, so am not too worried about nothing much happening on the building front here right now!
The 2 pups go to the vet tomorrow to get their passports for their
upcoming trips to Germany. Hahaha, really, they have to get vaccinated, a
chip in their neck and have a valid passport...but Germany lets certain foreigners into the country without legal, valid paperwork ???
Catching up on my blog and uploading pics from the phone to my computer...is a very nice way to spend an afternoon inside the house, in the cool, away from the stifling heat outside.
Have begun filling out the B&B info and have finally started the new website for it all.
It will be a 6 month process until something is ready, but as long as I keep going forwards, all should eventually come to pass.
Thundering outside again...it must be 4 o"clock...she looks up...and it is 10 to 4pm!
So...now for some pics...
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| In the park opposite the markets in Tiszafured on Saturday morning. |
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| Before the first puppy went... |
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| The lovely bedside tables that came with the Queen bed ... |
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| Part of the lounge suite. a 3, a 2 and a one seater. The 3 seater is a pull out bed and the 2 seater has a pull out drawer. The colour is really nice in reality, but does not photograph at all well... |
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| In one month, this morning glory will be over the top of the fence! |
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| Strawbs and celery on the other side of the fence. Forgot about the herb garden! |
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| The last 2 puppies head off on Wed to the vet for the travel documentation process, then in 2 weeks or so, they go to Germany. |
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| Would love to keep snuggle pot...but 2 dogs is a pack... It has been fun though... |
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| What a placid little critter Pugsy is...too cute... |
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| 2 bar fridges and a bar freezer in the corner there. Have to store them somewhere safe! The cottage was supposed to be locked up to store the big stuff in there...but, not so. Once all this stuff goes, the new white U shaped kitchen comes in. |
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| Poser kitty playing with her feet...so much like a real baby. |
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| Sorting out how to find space to put all of Andrea's stuff I'm buying. |
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| Kitty in her box, being quiet for a change...Had to move the robe out to the end room...which I did all by myself, yesterday. Quite amazed at how a thick rug and estapol flooring makes for an easy slide! Only had to empty it, tip it over and slide it into the end room, tip it up straight and hang up all my clothes again. A good time to get rid of most of my gear too...as I don't get to wear it over here. |
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| The sink will go where the left fridge is and drawers where the right side fridge is. Nothing under the window as I want the window seating there. |
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| Baby storks are about a foot in height now...One of the nests blew away in the storm a few days later and poor mother was standing there for days. i noticed this morning while out jogging, that she has started rebuilding the nest again. Someone said (at least this is what I think they meant) that the mayor took the baby storks to the local "zoo" for protection. |
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| The poor old bus stop is hidden under the green jungle! |
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| Not far to anywhere from here. We are pretty central to all of "mainland" Europe. |
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| My little herb garden before the big wet! |
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| Patches asleep on the couch, in a seemingly awkward position! |
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| Getting the next bit of paving the path done... A real stop go project, this one. |
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| One gable end completed to the stage of being able to be rendered on the outside, with the window frame in place. |
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| Looking into next door's yard from the big deck. |
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| The elderberry bushes grew really quickly in the big wet and is full of helicopter sized mossies! The old tyres are for an idea I had to recycle tyres into seating. Bolt 2 tyres together, put a circular wooden and foam covered seat on the top and paint it. Hoping it will work. Easy to lift and move around this way. Could also fill with rubble and cement into place. |
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| Finally the battens are all done properly, the waterproofing and lining timbers are in place and about half the back roof tiles are on. Waiting for delivery of tiles to complete the front.. |
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| From the big deck...gotta mow the grass! |
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| Some of my Chinese gooseberries ready to eat. |
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| Poppies and wild flowers from around my jogging track... |
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| Gotta get that bucket of cement up there somehow! |
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| Dug up some bulbs which turned out to be nice juicy fresh garlic cloves. Yummy... |
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| Part of the new pantry with Andy paraphernalia decking it out! Still needs another coat of paint once the screw holes are filled up, some knobs added and a few more shelves added when the timbers arrive this week. |
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| One of 3 blanket boxes from Andy's collection. My awesome sister bought 2 of these cane baskets from her for me! Nice sister, huh? |
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| Some lovely flowers from my garden...before the pups wrecked my lovely garden displays. Grrrrrrhhh... |
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| Plums, cherries and mulberries ahead on the way to the bus... |
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| The footpath is covered with berries... |
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| Thick, luscious fat, juicy white mulberries... |
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| White Mulberries from the trees along the nature strips here... |
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| Mother and baby storks... |
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| Really nice fluffy plants... |
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| Looking the other way at the bus stop... |
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| Looking back from the post office and bus stop in Tiszaigar... |
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| One of the local official buildings...this is where I ordered my 3 big hay bales last year. |
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| A neighbourhood garden... |
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