Recap 2025
June 2025 part 1
In June we still had no electricity no hot water and no kitchen in the house, cooked on our camping stove, like during the last couple of years. When we got the wood fire cooking stove, the kitchen-witch, we first had to wait for the chimney sweaper to clean th chimneys and to explain the chimney system to us. He told us where we can try to make a new hole for the stove smoke-tube. What sounded very easy and quickly done took us in the end loooots of time and even more nerves. But (in today's post we are not there yet...)
Befor all of this we removed the old cracked and moldy looking plaster from the chimney. The idea was to remove the old and put up new plaster, but when we saw the nice red brickwall underneath, we changed plan to fully remove the plaster and reveil the bricks. This was a hell lot of insane dusty work. But it was worth the hours stuck in the white suits, under the fat masks and behind the plastic 'dustwall'.
The month of June was also full with garden work. We prepared the weedgrass covered patches in front of the house to grow some veggies. Also we built a little greenhouse with old windows we found in the barn and a neighbour came with the tractor to plow the big batch for our potatoes, karrots and onions.
Picture 6 shows our power suply by then 🤩 a small solar panel to charge all the tools.
By then we went to our neighbours home or to the public washing saloon in town to make laundry.
To have a propper shower sometimes we went to the public sauna in the swimming hall in town, until (by mid june) we had the sauna fixed and ready to use. We used the so called 'summer sauna', a woodfire heated sauna in the barn-building. Next to the sauna stove we have a ~80liter metal pot over another fire place to heat water. and thats how we showered (sauna with bucketshower).
11 pictures in this post 🤩
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Jim Carey
Expat Focus
Janne Piipponen
fiona and marc
Marya The BeauTraveler
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