work in progress

While we work on installing the new back-of-the-wineshop, we have a special niece visit us from the Nederlands. Lotte agrees that the skateboard installation has a charismatic godlike presence. This evening we could once again enjoy our skemerkelkie (my translation from Afrikaans is evening chalice) in the bright new back of the shop. All this while the last days of the school holidays are upon us.

The kitchenette needs work but to mark territory we have moved in with kettles and coffee machines.  The resident plumber has installed the dishwasher and  basin and things are functioning. I have to be positive so I shall admit that now the list is indeed getting shorter: install toilet and basin in guest washroom, build book shelf in living room upstairs, place hardwood floor upstairs, create courtyard terrace, build stairs to this terrace, install heatpump before winter, paint walls up-and downstairs, fix and finish unplastered door openings etc etc etc...  Summer has been a whirlwind balance of visitors, frantic work, management of tools, clearing living spaces and if there is a flower to symbolize such dedication, it has to be love-lies-bleeding. Janet, your amaranthus caudatus is still flowering!