Saturday was a day when we had the house to ourselves. I headed in early to build some natural stones back into the great wall and start preparing the surface for the final task of joint filling. Now anyone would think cementing some local rough stone into three cavities would be straight forward...right????? WRONG. First up you need to get the correct colour for the cement. This entailed driving to the local supplier in the pouring rain and then having to shovel it myslef into 5 large buckets. From there it was off to another location some 15 kms away to pick up some local sand. Easy right????? Wrong. This sand I had to sieve and bag myself.
So back to the wall. I was soon into the swing of things with the natural stones and old bricks soon in place. This took the best part of 4 hours. Reggie turned up with Raphael to help on the wall. This was fun as Raphael really enjoys the dirty stuff. In the afternoon Raphael went off to visit Christoph his uncle. This allowed us the finish preparing the wall. We called it a day with the task complete at 7.00pm. Where did those 11 hours go?
An update on the jacuzzi. We have a lovely location for the jacuzzi, between the chicken house and the workshop. We have also found one for sale second hand. Today I took the 2.5 hour drive to go and view it. This turned into a 9 hour round trip. The good news is that the product is just perfect. We now need to work out how to get it to Tenniken from Geneva. We also need to plan on laying a slab to support it. Work Work Work.
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