Throwing mud begins

It's been another hot and busy day here so let's get to it.

Wasps nests out of the aircon

Bekir dealing with more nests on the roof

The day began early as I woke and immediately went outside to start dealing with the wasp problem that has emerged. I must have knocked down about 15 nests over about an hour. There were some that I couldn't get to, like inside the higher of the two air conditioning units, so when Bekir and Halil arrived I asked them to help and while doing the aircon unit we found four more huge nests underneath the tiles above the porch. There are so many this year! One funny thing was that when Bekir tried to throw one of the nests off the roof it went straight down the downspout from the guttering so that then had to be disassembled so we could get the nest out.

Bekir measures for the light fittings

Power run for the lights

Cables done and held in place

Bekir works on fixing up the ceiling

Halil starts throwing mud at the wall

Good progress late afternoon

Polished off and left to dry

After this they got back to the regularly scheduled work which was first of all fitting the wires for the lights in the chicken house and then, when this was done, mixing up some cement with lime and plastering and repairing the ceiling and walls in there. They worked steadily all afternoon and by the end of the day they had done quite a lot of the damage on the far 2/3 of the building. This was in such bad shape, with the roof leaking for years and years, it's good to finally get this building safe and secure again.

Tomato harvest at lunch time

Angela making awesome ragu preserve

At lunch time I helped Angela by harvesting a big bowl of very ripe tomatoes and then she did something awesome and turned it into a very tasty ragu. This will preserve well and we'll enjoy eating this a lot. We'll probably do another batch tomorrow I think.

So there it is; another day done and tomorrow is Friday. Thanks for reading, back tomorrow.