Just painting

 Another weekend passes, and another Monday update that will be super short about Monday, but with lots about the weekend.

Chilly start

Rosie watches the chickens

Shadow people

Rosie splashing in the water

A beautiful view here

Rosie playing in the leaves

So to Saturday and pretty well straight after breakfast I was out in Thomas with Rosie to go to the garage to get his winter tyres swapped on; it was cold enough when we got on the road and Rosie was wrapped up well when we got there and went for our walk to find the river. We made a few false starts, meeting a puppy and some chickens but eventually found our way down there and Rosie had great fun splashing and watching the running water and getting soaked. When I took her back to the car I changed her as Angela had wisely put a change of trousers in. It was a lovely morning and an awesome way to spend the time while the tyres were being done. The rest of the day was almost entirely Rosie as well, with brief breaks to do little bits on the Santa's Express, and we had a lot of fun playing in the leaves and running around outside. A good day all round.

A cloudy but interesting start to the day

Rosie helping me with the leaves

Angela gets some seedlings separated

Sunday started off cloudy but was an OK day in the end; not as glorious as Saturday. It was again a day for Rosie but we got some chores done around the place. I found the toilet was broken again, the fan not running and therefore the reservoir was totally full, but worked out it was the socket broken, not the fan. This reservoir has never been a good thing in my eyes and next year I think we'll do something else and get rid of it. I have never liked it. Anyway before that I spent some fun time with Rosie in the garden raking up leaves and taking them in the wheelbarrow, with her sat on top to stop them blowing away, to both put on the garden and also collect to make leaf compost. After I found out about the toilet I raked and stashed as much as I could in the big leaf box and put it in the garage as we are back on the old humanure for a while until the new toilets fix themselves. If they do. Angela got some time as well to split the carrots in their pots as they are doing really well in the glass house. It was another good day, and ended with me getting a full evening to paint.

A horrible miserable day all day

Painting the steel

Warm by the fire for coffee break

And we reach today. Today has been miserable. It has rained all day (apparently right now it is snowing) and has been grey and horrible and the worst of weather. I really dislike miserable days; I thrive on sun, never mind the temperature. The men had balcony work but other than cleaning up a bit they were able to work inside all day as Bekir and I got out to order wood and metal for the weatherproofing of the windows (very much needed) and then they were in the garage all day treating the wood and painting the L profile steel that will seal between the windows and the other framing. They lit the fire in the workshop while they were working in there, and also for their breaks. Very sensible. Our wormery arrived and, as feared, all the worms were Dead on Arrival so tomorrow Angela will be on the hunt for some local worms from the fishing shops. She had the first day of the next five weeks with the school shut with Rosie at home and did so well keeping her entertained; I am so proud of her. It is SO difficult with Rosie when it's so nasty outside you can't even wrap her up warm and let her outside. There was hopscotch done in tape on the kitchen floor and lots of drumming. Wonderful work!

There it is; another day done. Tomorrow is forecast sunny and cold which is MUCH more my type of weather and Bekir and Halil should be out fitting the things they painted today. The window people will come back this week to fit the rest of the windows and then we'll be weatherproof out there finally! Thanks for reading.