Where we live

 Rattler,  it doesn't surprise me that some parts of Germany would be similar to here.  The hay is rolled into those large bundles and then sold to people with horses and cows.  It's always a pleasure to see your handsome face, so yes, post a pic. of yourself.  

You really look like if you were fron Cameroon. LOOL, I will never think you ar a spakraut. jajajajajaja 

Depends on the age of the houses.

Gigi´s must be around 60 yrs old, mine is 140 yrs old, those are *really* simple and small (we use to say: "We ain´t got a metro station here" when people complain about the lack of luxury when we rent them out).

Me, e.g. (while we have running water since 3 yrs now) still got no *hot* water, so it´s either "cold shower" or heat up some in the kitchen and use it... Just an example (I am planning, though, to get a 15 ltr boiler ofr the shower).

OTOH, when ground was cheap and at those times w/o construction rules, people knew where to place houses: Many modern ones have humiditiy, mosquitos, etc, mine is just different: Placed well against the cold winter winds ("Tramuntana") I have no humidity at all, no mosquitos, sun in winter and shadow in summer, never more than 28 degrees inside despite 45 outside and never less than 18 inside at zero outside... Can´t have it all, but if you live at the waterfront, better to live in an old and well seasond and adapted house...

Of cause, houses after the ´70s have everything you expect from a modern home, and we have quitesome chalets aroundhere, but you cannot live in them the whole year, they are ok in summer, but bad or terribly costly in winter...

Some of my house (from 2001, though, when a female hand still had some influence here, it is not so tidy and cosy today), I will post some current ones soon:

My living room (still more or less the same): NOTE the rounded stone structure on the left, this was where the donkeys fed (in the old days the chicken and donkeys in winter lived with the inhabitants inside the house). Also, the straw hats you see (and see also in Gigis home) are a habit here in Mallorca: Everybody has straw hats and large plates as wall deocration.


Same, by night. NOTE this is the winter outfit, there is a door to the left to the rear terrace which - as it is open in summer - requires to re-arrange everything in summer/winter. In Mallorca, you enter through the main door straight into the living room ("salon"), there is no foyer or anything in front of it.


My kitchen with its view to the sea (also more or less the same today), 1.5x1.5 mtrs, more apt for a boat, and you have to keep it tidy all the time or you won´t be able to move about or less cook...


My main dormitory (has changed a lot since then, now is really cosy and beautiful)


A detail from the staircase to the 2nd floor


Living room again, with mentioned door closed and blocked by the christmas tree (quite obviously winter set up), we had chosen a dead one this year as 70% of all pine trees had died that hot and dry summer... NOTE also, dogs and cats can go along very well...


Dinner at my place takes place on the ground (as I have no table, and the sofa is the only place to sit, and the living room is just 3x4 metres, being the biggest room in the house: The whole house, on 2 floors, got 42 sqm living space), in this case with my ex wife and eldest son... Of cause, we employ a lot of cushions to make it comfortable...


Enjoy,

Rattler

Ouch, what a nightmare to keep clean...! I am having enough with my small rooms, a big house, you need to be cleaning it all day, no? If you have time, show us some pics!



Should you ever come to visit you will see its not a big prob at all (how do you think people lived 70 yrs ago in Canada?): In winter there are always two kettles at the fire place, one with water, the other one with stew... (yummy!... either lentils, green beans or chickpeas...). In summer, (cold) water is 30 degrees, you just love to shower at that temperature when every move you make makes you break out in sweat... In the times inbetween (spring and autumn) the kitchen is always having some 10 ltrs of hot water ready...

When you live on an island with water shortage you get used to get along with a 5 litres shower faster than soon...

And as far as the house size is concerned, we live 80% of the year on the terrace, there are tables, plenty of chairs, room (200 sqm), etc... It is only when it is either raining or really cold (January, as in the pics) when we live inside.

And when it´s really, really cold, we sleep in front of the fire place:



Rattler

Yesterday,  captured these images of my walk with the dog.  Not long now before the snow covers everything and no more green is visible, but for now.

We get a lot of 'Wheelers' (ATV vehicles) in the area and they leave these muddy tracks once they've been over the same ground many times:

Yes,  tell us more Koen  

A couple of days ago,  I went to a walk and found a trail that I didn't know existed, it went on for about a mile and ended up a house with smoke coming out of the chimney.  It was getting dark, and I didn't want to bump into any bears or coyotes, so decided to walk back home.  This is one photo I took just as it was getting dark,  I have others of that walk if anyone is interested.  



Yesterday,  I spent nearly all day painting,  I painted this shed,  it came out a lot brighter than I thought it would:

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Those are really bright!  I think the person who mixed the colors for that blue got it wrong.  But,  I'm 'kind of' getting used to it!

It matches the deck,  I painted this too,  another color that was a 'mistake',  but looks like it's going to stay  

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I managed to paint half my body blue too with the deck paint,  it took days to get it off my hands, legs and under my feet,  'cause I walked barefoot on the deck while it was still wet!

My kitty didn't escape completely    The day after I noticed blue paint in her fur,  it's all out now though.

hmm...maybe my chosen profession should have been a painter?  Do you think? 

Yes,  I think I've finally put my place on the map permanently now. 

That's easy,  just find one blue dot, in all the green.

        <------(I couldn't resist it)