I am not sure how I did not respond! But rather late than never. I hope that you are still well, and that the snow hasn't fallen too much!
Your Xmas sounds idyllic! I would really appreciate such a quiet moment in the festive season. It is always such a running around and people always move around too much! Just listening to the sounds of nature would be perfect.
I hope that the first couple of days of the new year was good! And I hope that the winter is not too cold.
Yep 😋 rather late than never. All well here. The snow reached up to about 63cm some places even more.
Yesterday the weather turned and we had 4 hours of sleet coming out of the sky. It turned everything into ice. The top layer of the snow and every object. I hear news that loads of people couldn’t go out with the car as it is one ice 🧊 block everywhere. Lot’s of accidents on the cities.
We wanted to go grocery shopping today in the city 1,5 hours away, but we wait a bit.
Temperatures go up to 4 degrees today and tomorrow, so more ice to be expected. It is not a normal winter here… normally more snow and below -15 degrees Celsius.
It was just what we needed… we experienced something wonderful too. The deer are coming every day to the cabin now since we are feeding them (started just before Christmas) i counted 7 of them.
I made even a video about it with photos in the post. If you missed that post check it out Here… roe deer. you hear the crunch of the snow of me walking… later the birds in the tree and at the end the deer eating.
Thank you so much. We had lovely first weeks. We started renovating the cabin even more now. So it is fun.
Hope you had lovely days too and it is not too busy.
Take care and have a wonderful week 😊
Nature is protesting, I am sure of it. The weather is strange here as well, as we are getting rain when we should not get any!
Stay safe on the sleet and ice! It sounds dangerous, I am sure food is not more important than safety.
It sounds great, you are so lucky to have experienced that! Nature is so special and wonderful.
Sorry for again the long reply, and I hope the renovation is going well.
Yes, I talked with more people about the rain down there. It is crazy…
Our driveway turned into solid ice 🧊 I made a post about it yesterday if you want to see it.
We would choose safety first. We waited u til last Friday to go shopping. Just before the roads got worse, so we made it all safe back home and we could stock up. Thanks!
No worries 😌 I understand, we are busy too.
Here we got a lot of progress, ticking boxes of things we finished. I wallpapered all day yesterday. So good to see some nice surfaces and fixed walls.
Have a wonderful week, hopefully with not too much rain.
Take care!
So sorry for again being a week! I had to participate in a PhD defense and had to read 350 pages of the PhD. It was so mind draining work.
It is crazy that snow and turn into ice and all of that. Or not the snow, but the rain. These are things my moderate climate brain cannot fathom!
I am glad that you are safe. Even on the best days, the roads are unsafe. I cannot imagine having to drive in such conditions as well on top of driving being inherently unsafe!
If one can tick boxes from the list, then that is awesome! Few people can say that. It took me a couple of weeks to read the PhD and to do normal work related stuff, so no real boxes ticked on my side, and it just shows how much time can quickly go past so fast.
Oh I can imagine… that’s tough. It does drain your mind.
Haha yes, some places will never see it. The roads are still tricky and we have to pick the days wisely when we need to go for supplies or other things.
You do learn a lot in a climate like this. It is such a different life style. If you can drive here… one can drive anywhere 🤣😂
Thank you so much.
We are progressing well with the renovation. We finished yesterday the master bedroom. Today we clear out the living room so we can start renovating. I checked… there are 5 layers of wallpaper and an immense amount of paint layers on them in crazy colours… all from the last 100 years. So we go back to bare wooden walls and start with a good base. Hope the boards on them are good 🤞🏻🤞🏻 Although I probably need to fix the walls too, just like the bedroom.
It is fun and keeps us warm and busy. I do need to be finished in 2 months. The 2 hallways have to be done and the stairs plus staircase, sanded and painted. After that paint floors of kitchen, diningroom and livingroom… we will see how far we get 😎
You ticked boxes too. You read the pages and did other work etc etc… little boxes but still boxes 😉
Have a fantastic weekend!
Little boxes are indeed still boxes! Thank you for that. Crazy how time flies when you tick these smaller boxes as well.
Driving is a strange skill. If I can only take some videos of what happens ons South African roads… it is scary stuff! People cannot drive and it puts so many people in danger.
It must be therapeutic in some sense to peel so many layers. I can and will probably get very philosophical when doing that. All those layers representing years of experience and also layers of sediment that can be taken away. So many thought provoking ideas in the process!
You are welcome… never forget that.
The same here. Time flies right now.
Oh I can imagine. When I lived in Malta, people couldn’t drive there either. Crazy stuff too.
A shame you can’t capture the craziness there. You better focus on the driving yourself.
Yes, exactly like that hahaha layer after layer. Imagining the people that have lived here. The colours or wallpaper style… thinking how they would have dressed the rooms.
Me too… I really enjoyed taking it all off.
Now, I am repairing the walls as they are bad. Probably still 2 days of that before we can start the next phase.
Have a wonderful new week 😊
I will never forget! It is so good to tick off little boxes.
For sure. I will one day get a dash cam and record some of all the crazy events taking place here. We just drove past a really bad accident in which one car was really badly damaged. We did not see any body bags, but it is likely if the person survived that their lives will never be the same.
That is the best part! Now you can give your own touch, add your layer of paint to the forever growing past that accumulates with each passing year. Enjoy the process!