It has been a while since my last post. So I feel I should write an update. Unfortunately there is nothing new to say. It continued to rain...Now it stopped, maybe about a week ago I think, I lost track. The soil finally had a chance to dry, which is good news.
However, the mason who has to lay the foundation has so much delayed work that we still didn't get our foundation. To be fair the latest we need it is probably the last week of July. So we are probably not on top of the list. At that point though we really need it, because our wood structure is going to arrive...So we are a bit antsy. Will it be done in time? All our plans got really so delayed and changed.
Because of all this, to distract ourselves while we are waiting and for a bit of change, we decided to go visit my mom and next Monday we will go visit my grandparents. We might miss the foundation laying or not...we will see. For now we enjoy swimming in the river and next week in the Mediterranean Sea. I guess we are working on not loosing that momentum that we had when the excavation started...We freeze it to keep it fresh and defrost it in August :)
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| The river we swim in ;) |
Today we signed the order for the wood frame of our house!! We hoped to do that several weeks ago... So we were quite inpatient about it... We are trying to be cool about the fact, that the delivery will be more then a month later then expected...Still it is happening!!
These last weeks were a further exercise in patience, and I say that with humor not annoyed :). We still couldn't put our foundation in. Our plot is a big mud puddle.Last week we had continuous rain and in the current week it doesn't rain all day anymore, but we get daily thunderstorms in which in short time we get as much water as if it would rain continuously all day...
At this point we are also very grateful, because we are safe and have a dry shelter. Our caravan is keeping up very well (although we lost our diy awning in a storm, was to be expected...)
Many close neighbors, and villages are experiencing severe flooding. Roads are closed, because of flooding and mud, and there is continuous weather warning.
The locals are quite desperate, they tell to not remember ever such a spring...
I find it quite unsettling...especially when in addition, I see news-titles like "record temperatures" in Scandinavia!!
Here a picture of our muddy terrain. You cannot see it, but it was raining when it was taken. Maybe you notice also that we can park on our driveway now...Which we feel a bit ambiguous about to be honest...but also a bit excited ;)
A little acquisition we made today to help us keep our caravan mud free ;)
