Today was a weird … all over the place day.

I started out with pre-assembly of the shower stall while heavy fog was still covering everything. That went great. It was great fun to suddenly see this large lacquered & rounded wooden post which has a faucet and shower head installed into 🙂

We had plans to  go with our neighbor to “squeeze” some fresh sunflower oil from sunflower seeds she had. But it got too late in the day for that. Instead, we got a phone call from a more distant neighbor that invited us to come and pick up the winter-cabbages for pickling. On the way I said to Andreea that maybe we could also get a few roots for cooking. We came back with a fully loaded car containing: 25kg carrots, 10kg parsley roots, 15kg celery roots, 20kg beets, a few (both small and medium sized) pumpkins and of course 48kg cabbages.

The cabbages were picked fresh from the field with us … as we were doing so a courier arrived with our shipment of honey (18kg) … so I left the folks at the field and went to meet the courier … came back to the field, packed the car with food and headed home. The kitchen is filling up with food … the sense of abundance is magical. We are literally set for being months at home, resting and nourishing ourselves 🙂

After unloading at home I took our next-door neighbor to pick up some more animal feed from the village center (we couldn’t do it on the way back home because the car was totally full).

Finally, back home, I was able to get back to the shower stall. Worked the rest of the remaining work hours and the wooden structure of the shower stall is mostly completed – even the water is hooked up. There was one minor hiccup when despite my specific assembly strategy, there was barely enough room for one side of the shower stall (access to screws and what not). There was one major hiccup when I realized that the shower stall fits perfectly at floor level, but higher up there are some shelves set into the wall that stick out of the wall itself … so I had to struggle with the shelves … until I brought in the chainsaw and brutally hacked them out of the way.

Meanwhile Andreea did some cleaning up inside and prepared a delicious meal from us … all from the fresh vegetables some of which that has just left the ground. Spectacular 🙂

Tomorrow is plastics day … fitting the pond liner drainage plate, the polycarbonate panels as walls and assembling the wooden deck floor where we can actually stand and shower.

Its 7pm and we are hopping out to get some fresh milk (still warm from the cow) from another neighbor. Then back home and we can call it a day. I am dead-tired, more then I have been in recent days.