Time for updating you a little
heya dear reader….
I was away for 2-3 weeks as you can see, but I have valid reasons.
- I have to renovate a farm that screams for attention
- my wife is trying to get to know me better, so we spend some more time together
- I have hardly any energy left after a day of hard work in the open air to open my systems
OK, deal with it, I am a busy guy. I run a farm with animals and 8000M2 of ecologial garden. Since I bought the farm, there was still life on it, but the owners did not worked on it anymore. In the last 3 weeks I was a busy little bugger demanding YES for an answer and tollerated no delays or excusses.
The renovation of the farm contains the following fases
- I an renewing and pumping up now my own water, and are able to feed the farm with cold and warm streaming water. I can deliver around 30 Liters per minute thanks to my pumps and water pipe system.
- Bathroom Kitchen Renovation. These 2 are in the same part of the Back house of the farm. They deserve a complete renovation. A new floor has to be made. A new kitchen interior. 2 weeks of work, starts on 1 October. The bathroom will be done in the same time, the bathroom will have also a separated toilet corner. The kitchen will be 40 M2 and the bathroom and toilet 30 M2
- The hall way from back house to Front house will be painted and renovated with new lights and floor.
- The electrical wire mission has been done today. Since last week a electrical installation service team was here to take all the power cables out and away. All the wires are replaced with new wires and EU certified isolation pipes to secure the house 100%. around 1500 meters of cable is used to replace 800 meters off old and damaged wires. A third wire is added to secure the whole electricity network from a fatal power blow. All the plugs are renewed and dimmers are added.
- The front house of the farm is fine, solid and nothing wrong with. It actually needs no renovation at all. But my wife wants a nice life, so we need to make a living room, a Work room for me, and a Bed Room. We have 3 large rooms in the front house. The rooms are wide and open. I have a free feeling of breathing when entering the Front House.
So .. for the next months I have still plenty of work to do.
I also have 8000M2 of garden to maintain and keep fresh. So for this I have my workers. But today I was not in the mood to see them. I harvested the corn today, I started at 1 O clock and was done at 10 O clock. I toke by hand, and cut them with a corn knife ( those you see in ” the children of the corn ” ) I cut my fingers a few time, and I was pretty pissed of today, and used this energy to take a small 50 Kilos of corn total. I am tomorrow busy with cleaning the corn and packing it up for the winter, the corn looks to bad, so it will be food for the pig extra, it is a small bag also, kind of disappointing considering the fact that corn toke a lot of space of my garden, and was not really productive for me. I am going tomorrow for sure back in the garden to clean the mess I left behind and plow the ground and find me a better product for that space.
So, When my work office in the front house will be ready in october, I will be more online. For now I will have to find that creative moment when I am done with work, and sometimes i fall asleep at the dinner table and my wife drags me to bed..
Outdoors life in this wildernis here is more then a dream. it is a fucking adventure every day again. Everything can happen, and yet, all those moments I am aware of who I am, i feel happiness cause of beeing so close to nature. This is also for the first time in 33 years I experience some sort of a HOME feeling. What my parents we`re not able to give me, i can now give myself and perhaps to my future kids.
I do think back offten to those years I was a kid, and not aware of Adults and how they had to fight for a living. Never the less, I cant feel sad about it, i just experience huge floods of emptyness around my heart.
For now, i got get some sleep my friends, It is 11 AM, and I am so TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TJ