sumer works

these are the last portion taken from Lois's photos; Shawn, the sheep, close - up. (presently she has even less wool, and Alan is getting better at the shearing business, the main thing is the tool sharpening technique). A Zsolnay (Gyugyi) exhibition picture, the solar shower, the community centre, where the pensioners' club, the doctor's surgery and other services of Kiskassa village dwell - it used to be the school.

News - Kálmán bácsi - he who frightened us no end by falling off our loft 6 years ago - died (of unrelated causes I hasten to add). he was outstandingly healthy until this last year, when he became fragile and lost his lust for life. He'll be missed, just like Ilonka néni, who also left this world a few months ago, there was a very large funeral, she was a very popular, lovely person. She was ill for a long time.

The mayor is on a well-earned holiday, besides a few formal meetings about electing a head-master (only one candidate and she didn't make a great impression on me so far, but who am I to rock the boat...) there isn't a lot going on in local public life.

The wall that shed it's render has been expertly fixed, and now there is a place for a door, which makes that large area next to the garage more usable. Also Master Obermayor's able workforce levelled (re-concreted) the car-port, looks more tidy, for sure. There is only a small roof job to do next week, and we can breathe with relief - all done for now.

We actually had a few guests - just in the midst of the building work, of course, a Japanese girl, who was catching up on her sleeping while here, and a Czech couple on the way to Bosnia - they'll come again on their way back home.

we had an odd hm - not young - couple here for 2 days, Kata was addicted to picking and shelling peas,Dave insisted on helping Alan move the clay/dirt mountain produced by the builders, - and - we were paid for letting them work!!! Though I did feed them with a well-turned-out goat curry amongst other things... Thank you again, Kata and Dave, nice people.
That's it! We should just choose the wwoofers who are prepared to pay us for the pleasure of working here! As we have very few hostel guests but 2,3 or more wwoofer applications per day, maybe this is something to consider...

My mum is stable at home, when not in pain, she manages to enjoy herself albeit on a different level than before, she is not the same person now, which is hard to get used to, though she does have the character traits -
child becomes an adult and again a child... she is lovely, recognising loved ones with such a pleasure, full of kisses and humour, and all that energy to re-arrange things to her liking.

The garden is beautiful, with new kohlrabi, peas and stoned cherries in the long-suffering freezers, also a good lot of the cherries being dried in the solar drier. But we were eating
probably as much as we processed (well, mostly me). There is also decent strawberry this year and the raspberries are just getting ready.
There are immense amounts of gigantic lettuces - of course they do their thing in the same time, no matter how carefully and periodically were that planted.

There were a few storms, but we could do with more rain, the soil is getting very dry.
Today is absolutely perfect, not as hot as has been, but 25C with a pleasant breeze.
Alan used the stones/etc from the building work to make a path to the repaired steps up the hill, it looks good, I will make a picture, promise...