Sunday, 11 December 2011

New House?

Hi there Have not been doing much outside, if it's not raining, we are having heatwaves!! Just maintaning what is already there. Decided to start cleaning up the house too! That is really a mess. The walls have not been painted in years and are long gone been white and the tiles in the dining/living room are 20 years old! Really needed a revamp, so I started painting the walls and laying ceremic tiles where the novilon tiles where, but I wasn't thinking when I decided to do this. It's not a big space, about 7m long by 4m wide and full of stuff that had to be moved in order to do this, what a MESS!! Can not get anywhere without hitting stuff over or stepping on something and seeing that I sleep in the livingroom, I have no place to rest in the afternoon when it gets to hot to do anything, so I invaded Boet's room! He is not keen on this, but what else must I do? The biggest challenge is in the evening when everybody is at home!! Four people in a space that is not even big enough for one at the moment can be dangerous! Everybody is in everybody's way and it takes a lot of planning to get anywhere!! Finding stuff is impossible as nothing is not where it's suppose to be and I can not remember where I put stuff during normal times, how am I suppose to remember where anything is now!!! As I love mosaic I decided to use all the odd bits and pieces of tiles that gathered here over the years, but trying to fit all of them are a nightmare!! I'm not good with puzzles and this is a puzzle without a picture, but I'm getting there. Cutting tiles to fit if they are to big or ramaging through the pile still lying outside to find one that will fit. I do not have to mention that it takes a LONG time to do this. Will have to finish with this as the people are getting really upset, but I'm also starting to get frustrated when I can not find anything or fall over something!! Will post some before and after pictures as soon as I'm finished, hold thumbs that it will be this week!!

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Newer pic of smallholding

Just got this new pic of Google Earth so I can plan better and see where all the old changes where, LOL, but none of them are visible by satelite!!! Everything was done either under the trees or is so small that is wasn't noticable!!!

The previous pic was taken June/July 2009, mid of winter here in SA, and this was taken this morning, where all the green of spring can be seen. (now I have some difficulty making out where which tree ends and the other one begins!!!)
Have made a list of which trees and plants is where and which ones i want to put in. Will see how it goes!!!
Back to digging and showeling for me!!!
buy for now!!!

Where to start?

I live on a smallholding roughly 2 ha big. We have been living here for 20 years and always just manage the top part of the plot. It looks like dumpsite with all the stuff being gathered for 20 years and i decided to start cleaning up.
Will post pictures of the before and after as i go along, seeing that it's a big piece of land and i am only one lazy person!!!

A google pic of the smallholding. will post pics of the flat areas as i work and change them.