Sunday, 20 August 2017

Three things of interest around the farm.

The cellar has 6 new shelves:

Excellent.
It also now has lighting, which you can tell, because you can actually see the shelves :-)

And the cellar ventilation holes are now mouse proof.
All set now for useful storage space.
You'll note how the priority items have already arrived.
(Sorry it's not a great photo but wit only one light there will alays be a dark corner. It's just some mesh with a wooden frame round it fixed to the wall.)

The old house continues to gracefully fall apart:

Looking up at a chimney:

And the barn door moved.
Here's where it started:

Here it is, all gone:

And here it is, back again, but shifted to the left:

A very odd job this one. It left the engineer feeling he'd achieved nothing with a lot of work.
Watch this space to find out why the barn door moved.

Friday, 11 August 2017

New kozolec stairs

The kozolec has a new set of steps

The two main beams came from the roof of the old barn that we had to pull down, for safety reasons, soon after we arrived.
I love the fact that we reused them. But it had its challenges when we discovered one was rather twisted....
The treads were new wood. And they did line up. Eventually. 

One project leads to another.....

We have been worried about the kozolec issue with gravity - it has a slightly drunk look. All other kozolec have rocks as post foundations. We could only find rocks under a few and so we worried that the posts were rotting at the base.
In setting a base for the bottom of the steps, we found the foundation stone for that corner - burried under the top soil. A little more digging and we found that all posts have foundation stones, but several are burried. Probably soil moved by ploughing.
So now we need to add to the to do list - 
Opperation happy feet:
Dig out the post bases and back fill with stones.
We will never be bored.

Not too bad

Really rather an issue.

Whereas here is a kozolec with much happier feet.
Dežela kozolcev vabi. Foto: MMC RTV SLO/Bojana Lekše

New farm arrival - Beak

A big first this morning: First birth on the farm. We've been incubating eggs and yesterday morning was day 21. And at lunchtim...