Kitchen view
Snowy garden
Snowy garden
Snowy garden
Here it’s #snowing. There will be a #WhiteChristmas after all heavy rain last week
But, let it snow! I’ll save shoveling till later today
Under all that snow 272 bulbs were planted Tuesday
The garden is ready for spring
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That’s it for this thread … the year has turned & from now on days will be longer, slowly at first and then faster. Definitly a reason to celebrate
I do hope those present at the #Newgrange sunrise had clear weather, enough to see the whole chamber lit up
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We are now appoaching the longest night of the year, at least on this hemisphere.
It is more or less 12 hrs until the winter solstice at 4.24 am 22:nd of december.
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Here is an example of the above with all parts included (to satisfy foreign watchers?) so it’s long - roofing, sanitary, new port, etc
It’s a female in the lead role for once & does not conceal that there’s a crew & not 1 person at work as most videos
youtu.be/L2LE0BX2dwQ?...
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If you’re interested in how to build a brick wok kitchen (always ripped out and a new similar built (I know enough now to build one on my patio), how to use bamboo in construction, hand carpentry with chisels and how roofs are made, have look.
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Apparently those videos are part of a new housing & employment policy - back to the empty countryside again, trying to empty the overcrowded cities & using loads of concrete... No wonder they try to vote down any suggestions about scrapping fossil fuels in Dubai.
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Time for sanding and primer on the yesterday cleaned surfaces …
And thaw salt.
I’d better get dressed. And avoid the fascinating instruction YT videos of #Chinese #DIY #renovations of old houses (look anyone can do it)
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Traces of Ticka
Present brass hardware
New Ticka hardware is really expensive and the former left huge holes, like this below, that need to be covered, so keeping the brass is the cheapest option for a kitchen that a future owner will most probably rip out completely….
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Ticka hardware
The replacement was fairly cheep & matches the rest of the brass handles in the kitchen. Not really my cup of tea any of it, but the original hardware of the kitchen, Ticka, was nowhere to be found, not even in the garage
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Knobs
I spent yesterday steam cleaning unpainted surfaces instead and fighting a stubbornly stuck wooden knob on one of the drawers. In the end I had to break it with severe force, leaving a surface badly in need of putty.
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Kitchen view
At half past 4 it was 10 days until the winter solstice & I wake up to a grey outside
After days of thaw, most all snow is gone & another week of cold weather. Almost all snow is gone and the little left is frozen solid
-1° outside.
Actually a color photo
Hard to believe.
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Talk about last minute to get rid of those leaves
Here’s the first snow at 8.30 am next morning, Nov.22:nd
Thermometer says +-0° & it’s 29 days, 20 min until the #wintersolstice
This afternoon we expect heavy downfall, rain/snow & #stormy winds
I’ll definitly stay inside
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… (sent him off with Coldzyme & my last copy of @Skolinkvisition ’s book, now on its way to the staffroom in a sec school in Borås of all places)
I’m still shivering … I think I’ll spend some time in bed, planning for dinner (fish perhaps?) & solving #sudokus
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Very tidy. Also up front
Remains tulip bulbs for me & return to painting in my kitchen without bad conscience
Of course the person accomplishing all this had a just as severe cold as last time he was here …
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Plus the two large Rhododendrons were severely watered and new soil added in the flowerbeds in need.
My herbs behind the logs along the fence got cover
The pile of branches to be mulched grew as the trees in the far back corner were pruned
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Leaves
And today my garden was prepared for winter sleep.
This morning … there were leaves everywhere as beeches and oaks are now finally bare.
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