The Brittish Chicks Came :)

Hannah and Alice :) Two 19 years old girls from center of London! :) They have already some volunteering experience at two other farms and are eager to help so I hope they will survive at my farm the two weeks without pain :)

The lazy Sunday

It was lazy Sunday. Hot, humid. I was slow with everything. At evening a refreshing wind came and then heavy, intensive rain. I am glad I don't have to water the garden :) But weeding is needed here.
I still have to take care of some farm papers. Maybe on this Monday.
Today during evening I fell asleep and slept like a stone until my Mother's phone call has awaken me.
My father again spoiled the internet connection and they cannot communicate with me by the Skype.

Hot

It’s so hot, that I have decided to measure how hot is it :)
Soon girls with pump to my canoe arrive so we will be able to try some swimming by the canoe along Szwałk lake. The lake has connections to other lakes, so later we could have much longer trip by the boat. But first we need to check it at shorter distance. At the other lakes we could get lost easily as the area is vast. I am not the best swimmer and I don’t know if they are good ones. It could be good to have with us some rescue wheels in a case if we start to sink. Water should be very warm after such hot days. I love to swim and are able to swim across the lake, but I need company to feel safe as I am always afraid that a  skurcz will caught me.




I had not expected guest. It was an old man whom I met long time ago while I was walking to Kowale Oleckie.
I met him when he was working with his horse over a garden. I talked to him then curious if he could bring his horse to my farm and plough my garden as well and maybe teach me how to work on a soil with horse.


Now he came to chat for a while and talk me into marrying his brother’s son who is also lonely farming around 150km from me. He needs a housewife. Or rather a slave who would work for him for all her life for free... ;)


I washed most windows in the house. I milked the goat, made chocolate pudding and dinner. At evening I gave to my mares medicine against worms. It wasn’t easy. They didn’t want to let me catch them and then didn’t want to let me give them the medicine, but somehow I managed to catch them all and to give them the specific. The hardest job I had with the youngest, who got injured while trying to jump out though the window. This is why I was late to performance in my village at my neighbour Wojtek – the painter. 


The performance was great, the atmosphere was great. I enjoyed it. The best I liked the fire performance after the theatre. And then I found some instruments like jabba and percussion. Suddenly I found out playing talents.
Considering that I was  playing the first time in my life – I was brilliant. Quickly I catch up the jazz melody which was in the air and played with it. Soon a boy joined me and we played together. A moment later a group of young people with their jabbas came and we all played together. It was great fun :) I enjoyed it :)

Washing windows

I am finishing today washing windows. Some of them I washed a few days ago, now I continue with the remaining windows. The weather is great. Big Sun outside. Very hot. I still keep horses in the yard as the fence is not finished yet and the yard is full of grass. I have watered them with fresh water from the house.


I need to take a bath and cook the dinner, milk the goat and finish the fence. 


***


I have finished the novel. It was nearly 500 pages. Now I will take a stroll and spread more electric lines before I go to sleep.

Electric fencing

Today I am finishing what we have started yesterday. Yesterday I and Kourosh spread one electric fence in my forest and I spread the other to divide two orchards while Kourosh was still fighting with the nettles in the forest. Today I am spreading more lines and are adding more plastic sticks.


In meantime, while I was working with the fence in the meadow, a postman arrived. The new postman. He delivered a letter for me with some forms to fill in, so I am going to take care of them in this weekend. 


I brought the goat to the house wall and installed her here for a while to let her drink water and lick the salt.
It’s hot. But the sky is grey and may rain soon, so I will better hurry up to milk her. I will make delicious pudding. I love pudding.


Still I need to cook lunch and dinner and finish the fence. Horses are kept today in the yard before the new pasture will be fenced and ready to accept them. They have enough grass here. A part of yard is very rich with grass, a part is nicely eaten. The grass is cut short, even too short. My horses are very precise grass eaters.


For dinner I decided to cook today typical Polish dish – chicken stomachs.. Kourosh wouldn’t like it I think, but since he was encouraged to buy his own food in the village while he is there to do his things – I don’t need to worry if he likes to eat the stomachs or not. I like the dish. My Grandmother used to cook it often.


***


I have baked fresh bread, made chocolate pudding and a pancake. Still some fencing in front of me. I should go before starts raining, but I feel a kind of tired and sleepy so maybe I will have a nap or read a book and then continue the work.


***


In the evening I was working along the electric fence checking if wire is complete and correcting it when I suddenly heard from distance raged roar: “FFUCK!! FFFFUCK!!! FFFFUCK IT!!!” 


“Hmm” – I thought. It seems like Kourosh is coming back from the village. But why he was so furious? It seemed as he was attacked by some villagers or maybe dogs? I listened carefully to the noise, but it stopped for a while. I thought, that if he needed some help from me he would call for help or something like that. 


After some break the scream resumed - much closer this time: “FFUCK!! FFUCK OFF!!! FUCK OFF MOTHER FUCKERS!!! FFFUCK!!! FFFUCK OFF MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!” – Kourosh shouted with the highest rage.


There was no other sound, no sound of fight or anything, no dog’s bark or anything this kind, so I guessed that he was fighting with the flies. But the degree of his anger was so huge, that I have decided to hide away before him not wanting to meet him while he was so furious. I lied down on the soil hiding in the grass and waiting until he passed.


Then I stood up and was continuing my job with the fence. I have finished spreading some extra wire and then returned to the yard. There, in front of the house I met Kourosh. He seemed to be calm this time. He greeted me with smile and was asking innocently how I was. And I asked him HOW WAS HE? He said that okay, just all the way to the village and then back he was attacked by malicious flies including blue bugs as he called them. I tried not to burst into laughter. 
Well, insects are very common species in the world and very numerous in the Nature. Is not possible to avoid them completely. The best way to tackle with them is to get used to them and try to ignore them. While I was in the forest I was also attacked by some mosquitoes, but tried not to pay attention to them, just kill them when they were trying to sting me.


While I was lonely spreading wire along the electric fence earlier in the morning I was not glad with Kourosh refusal of help and determined not to feed Kourosh that day. But when he returned and he offered to share with me his music as a farewell souvenir  – I decided to share with him my pudding and dinner. After all he was helping here for 9 days. It was very hard to him, as he is allergic to any insects which make him so stressed and angry. He did what he could to help me here. Obviously he is not designed for country life, but he was trying to do his best. I also gave him a half of my bread and full big bottle of meant tea for his journey.

The last day of Kourosh

In the early morning Kourosh annonced that he will not be helping today and is going for all day to the local village to read there his papers and to use the broadband internet connection in the local library there.

Well, if so, I don’t cook today :) I said. 

Farming life is definitely not for Kourosh, I could see it from the start. He managed to survive here 11 days.

Tomorrow he leaves my farm. He goes to Białystok first, then to Warszawa (Warsaw) and finally to Kraków (Cracow). I wonder if he is going to wash the clothes I have lent to him while he is here. I think he should wash them.

Chicks are coming!

Two from The United Kingdom and two from Kraków in Poland. But they all will be coming just from Kraków. Kourosh – the Canadian - came here also from Kraków. Interesting. 5 people from Kraków :)
Kourosh came here hitchhiking, the two Polish girls also will be hitchhiking and the English girls will arrive by train.


Women power! :)

The Broadband internet

I am really pissed off today. 3 men came. They are technicians from Netbud and from Telekomunikacja S.A. They were checking old phone cable if it works and if it would be possible use it to deliver fast internet to my house.

I told them I want them to put new internet cable along shortcut to my farm. They will not do it! They want to put new cable around the village which means, that signal at my house will be very weak - the weakest in the village – approximately up to maximum 1 MBite only. If I would like to share it with some my guests' computers at my house – it will be even worse. 

So now I still need to write letters with complain. This time probably to anti monopoly institution, because Telekomunikacja S.A. is a monopoly in Poland and they don’t care about their clients and their needs. They ignore my letters since a half of year.

Feng shui and pigeon

After lunch a pegon entered my house. It went around the kitchen then continued to Kourosh bedroom and bathroom. 


"Pigeon! What are you doing here? What are you doing in my house? Where are you from?" - I asked with suprise. I was delighted. A pigeon entered my home! It has to mean something! Curious...


I gave him hastily some bread, then groats. He was interested only in groats. 

The language project

Kourosh wants to get a job in an English teaching school. I advice him with it. I have made pics of him for his CV and adviced him to record his lovely American accent. For the voice sample he used the Magna Carta http://www.constitution.org/eng/magnacar.htm

Magna Carta Reading: audio recording by Kourosh

http://soundcloud.com/ktaherig/kourosh-taheri-golvarzi-speech

Searching a job this is also a job :) He spent a few days working on my computer and putting every needed piece of information onto one place – online. Now he will be able to send his application form from any place in the world. In the evening I adviced him how to make English language lessons, what is important during summer language courses. 


I also had him to record one chapter of the Colonists novel for my language learning project. It took over 33 minutes and over 170 MB memory at my computer. I am going to use this sample to work on my American pronunciation, since I used to learn British English pronunciation which is different. Kourosh has Southern Californian accent which I like.

Chapter 1 of the Colonists novel - audio recording by Kourosh
http://soundcloud.com/isabelle-de-red/chapter-01-of-26/s-1akte

Sunny, warm Sunday

After a couple of days of rain – at last Sun again. The “at last” I mean taking in consideration Kourosh, because I don’t mind rain. I am not made from sugar, so rain cannot do any harm to me, but Kourosh doesn’t like water in any form. Even when we were crossing stream with only slightly cool water in it which was rather refreshing than cold – he was scared to put his foot into it. 


He was trying to build a plank from two slippery logs, but since the logs were slippery – he fell into the water anyway. I know it is not polite to make fun of your guest, but I couldn’t help of wide smile and with difficulties tried not to burst out load laughter when I saw him slipped into the water :D 


Today all poles and logs are under the roof, so the important task is over. After that first I showed to Kourosh how to do weeding in the garden and then we went to clear orchard from some bushes. The little branches are crunchy and break easily, so the axe was not necessary to use, but I used it a several times to cut down some thicker branches. 


For breakfast we had milk soup and sandwiches, for lunch I am making spaghetti.

Alizee

Today I am listening to Alizee songs. Kourosh also likes her music a lot. At my place it is the first time when he could hear her music.


Today Kourosh helped only 3 hours and after lunch decided to go to the local internet cafe to spend there all day long. There is internet much faster than at my home and he doesn't disturb me to rest in my study (while he is my guest I moved from my bedroom to the study where I have a short couch, but good enough for me, so I sleep here). For lunch I cooked Polish dish - żurek [goorreq]. Kourosh likes it very much, so I am glad. He has eaten two plates of żurek. I have used for the żurek losts of goat milk, so it was really tasty. I like it too.

Robbie Williams music

I do love to listen to Robbie Williams music... It is so full of romanticism... So when I wake up in the morning first thing I do is turning on his music... 


My present guest also likes the music so we listen to it aloud. The music flows across all rooms and fills them to the top... :)


Today the last day of carrying logs and poles. Today they all should be under roof and left to dry there. When they are dry, I intend to polish them and then paint with special anti fungus paint. Then, they will be ready to use them as the poles for new fence around the vegetables garden and also around orchards and the yard.


The weather is perfect for replanting some plants which are still in the pots and containers. I would like to plant at least part of them today.


***


I didn’t replant any plants – instead of that I had to go to correct neighbours fence as it got broken and my horses went to his side. It took me some time to repair it. Then I needed to collect some herbs for the lunch and dinner. Kourosh took most poles and logs into the stable. For the lunch I made a kind of spaghetti for Kourosh because he is not fond of fried turkish liver which I cooked for us. At evening we milked forgotten goat and I made pudding for desert from it and gave one cup of goat milk to Kourosh, because he is fond of it.


The weather is “fucking beautiful” :) (I have learned that expression from Kourosh, who is American English speaking despite of being Canadian, since he grew up in Southern California). All day long rain for a couple of days. If not rains heavily, a slight rain sprays delicately. If there is no heavy or light rain – the sky is gloomy with rare splash of sunshine. But it is to finish in two days. However Kourosh decided to go to Romania, since he discovered the weather there is 30 C everyday which suits him a lot. He got used to the Californian climate and longs for the Sun. He asked me to take formal pics of him, needed to his CV which he is going to send to some English teaching schools in Poland, Russia and Romania and now he is writing his resume and intentional letters.


For me, the woman of north – the weather is okay. In fact I like the weather more than recent hot days when I couldn’t go out to do anything outside, because it was so incredibly hot. For plants it is great, because they have a lot of water so grow faster. It’s also perfect weather for planting plants. I want to do it tomorrow. 




http://youtu.be/KZECO5_gbq8


One of my favourite songs:


Robbie Williams - Supreme


Oh it seemed forever stopped today
All the lonely hearts in London
Caught a plane and flew away
And all the best women are married
All the handsome men are gay
You feel deprived


Yeah are you questioning your size?
Is there a tumour in your humour,
Are there bags under your eyes?
Do you leave dents where you sit,
Are you getting on a bit?
Will you survive
You must survive


When there's no love in town
This new century keeps bringing you down
All the places you have been
Trying to find a love supreme
A love supreme


Oh what are you really looking for?
Another partner in your life to
abuse and to adore?
Is it lovey dovey stuff,
Do you need a bit of rough?
Get on your knees


Yeah turn down the love songs that you hear
'Cause you can't avoid the sentiment
That echoes in your ear
Saying love will stop the pain
Saying love will kill the fear
Do you believe
You must believe


When there's no love in town
This new century keeps bringing you down
All the places you have been
Trying to find a love supreme
A love supreme


I spy with my little eye
Something beginning with (ah)
Got my back up
And now she's screaming
So I've got to turn the track up
Sit back and watch the royalties stack up
I know this girl she likes to switch teams
And I'm a fiend but I'm living for a love supreme


When there's no love in town
This new century keeps bringing you down
All the places you have been
Trying to find a love supreme
A love supreme


Come and live a love supreme
Don't let it get you down
Everybody lives for love

Kourosh

Definitely farm life is not for Kourosh. He doesn’t complain, at least to me, he does his bit of help, but I can see how unhappy he is and how much he strives for being in Cracow. He treats my place as a stop or refuge  before finding a teaching job somewhere in Poland or in Russia. He helps at the farm for 5 hours in the noon, then after a meal he uses my computer to search wildly for a job. He declares he wants to stay here at least one month or longer, but I think he will leave my place as soon as he finds other place to go, preferably teaching job.
I don’t mind much, as this bit of help which I have from him is needed here. He and I last in a symbiotic deal for the moment. Of course, I would love to host here someone who really shares my passion for the Nature and farming life. I believe, that soon or later someone like me arrives here and then we will have much fun from sharing our time together.

The Sun

I opened eyes this morning to see window full of the Sun. I hope the day won't be too hot. Soon I go to make a breakfast and wake up the Canadian. I wonder if he slept well.
Yesterday we had nice walk around the vast village of mine. I took some scenic pics. Soon I will paste them in here.

Today for dinner szaszłyk [shashlyk], boiled young potatoes in skins, salad, goat milk. I am glad Kourosh likes goat milk :) He cannot drink cows milk - he's allergic to it. Goat milk is okay to him.

A Canadian arrived

Today to my farm a peculiar Canadian was delivered from Kraków. He is a kind of travelling musician. More like a sound technician, but he also can play some instruments. He was very lucky to have travelled all the way for free. It took him just one day to get here. So he is. He was brought here by 3 Polish electrician travelling from Białystok to Ełk. He was given 4 beers to drink, so when he came here his talk was a bit slow and hard, but after some hours and a long walk to the nearby village he recovered. He learns Russian at evening. I help him with it.

Kourosh is a very sociable person and I am a hermit. I try my best to entertain him. I do most talking. Kourosh stays silent.Maybe he needs to rest from social life of big cities.

quietly busy in a garden

In the morning I milked the goats and then was quietly busy in the garden. I am glad I have done what I had planned. I have sown 6 new vegetables. Then helpful rain started to water them which is great – I don’t have to do it and the seeds will start grow already now. 

I have found time to read a few pages of the novel I read since a several days and make lecho and put it into jars. I also cooked the dinner and made salad and desert. 

Now I want to take a bath and go to bed to continue the reading. But rural papers are laying not touched... hmmmmm... I had no time for them. Maybe tomorrow I will have a look at them... Today the weather was too nice to waste it in the house. I preferred to be outdoors and to do something effective. From each seed which I sew today I should have nice vegetables. Little seed but big nice juicy vegetable. The Nature is amazing :)

The misterious number

I am trying to send an sms to someone who is waiting for it, but I cannot. I don't have credit at my mobile phone (just today morning it finished) and I don't know in what mobile network is his number. I tried many websites and - no result.  Why people don't say in what network they have their number when they give it to me?? I have found all possible combinations, and no one fit to the number. The misterious number. 

Prefiksy sieci komórkowych:

50x PTK Centertel / Orange
51x PTK Centertel / Orange
530 P4 / Play
531 P4 / Play
532 PTC / T-Mobile
534 P4 / Play
535 P4 / Play
5360 P4 / Play
5361 P4 / Play
5362 P4 / Play
5363 P4 / Play
5364 P4 / Play
5365 P4 / Play
5366 Polkomtel / Plus
5367 P4 / Play
5368 P4 / Play
5369 P4 / Play
5370 P4 / Play
5371 P4 / Play
5372 P4 / Play
5373 P4 / Play
5374 P4 / Play
600 PTC / T-Mobile
601 Polkomtel / Plus
602 PTC / T-Mobile
603 Polkomtel / Plus
604 PTC / T-Mobile
605 Polkomtel / Plus
606 PTC / T-Mobile
607 Polkomtel / Plus
608 PTC / T-Mobile
609 Polkomtel / Plus
660 PTC / T-Mobile
661 Polkomtel / Plus
662 PTC / T-Mobile
663 Polkomtel / Plus
664 PTC / T-Mobile
665 Polkomtel / Plus
6660 PTC / T-Mobile
6661 PTC / T-Mobile
6662 PTC / T-Mobile
6663 PTC / T-Mobile
6664 PTC / T-Mobile
6665 PTC / T-Mobile
6666 P4 / Play
6667 PTC / T-Mobile
6668 PTC / T-Mobile
6669 PTC / T-Mobile
667 Polkomtel / Plus
668 PTC / T-Mobile
669 Polkomtel / Plus
6900 P4 / Play
6901 PTK Centertel / NMT
6902 PTK Centertel / NMT
6903 PTK Centertel / NMT
6904 PTK Centertel / NMT
6905 PTK Centertel / NMT
6906 PTK Centertel / NMT
6907 CenterNet
6908 P4 / Play
6909 P4 / Play
691 Polkomtel / Plus
692 PTC / T-Mobile
693 Polkomtel / Plus
694 PTC / T-Mobile
695 Polkomtel / Plus
696 PTC / T-Mobile
697 Polkomtel / Plus
698 PTC / T-Mobile
69900 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69902 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69903 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69904 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69905 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69906 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69907 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69908 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69909 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
6991 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69920 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69921 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69922 E-Telko / prefiks nieużywany
69923 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69924 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69925 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69926 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69927 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69928 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69929 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
6993 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
6994 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
6995 Telefonia Dialog S.A. / Diallo
69960 GTS Energis / prefiks nieużywany
69961 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69962 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69963 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69964 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69965 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69966 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69967 mPay / prefiks nieużywany
69968 Cyfrowy Polsat / Cyfrowy Polsat
69969 mPay / prefiks nieużywany
6997 Telefonia Dialog S.A. / Diallo
6998 Telefonia Dialog S.A. / Diallo
6999 Telefonia Dialog S.A. / Diallo
720 CenterNet / wRodzinie
721 Polkomtel / Plus
7220 Polkomtel / Plus
7221 Polkomtel / Plus
7222 Polkomtel / Plus
7223 Polkomtel / Plus
7224 FreeM
7225 Polkomtel / Carrefour Mova
7226 Polkomtel / Plus
7227 Polkomtel / Plus
7228 Polkomtel / Carrefour Mova
7229 Polkomtel / Carrefour Mova
723 Polkomtel / Plus
724 Polkomtel / Plus
725 Polkomtel / Plus
726 Polkomtel / Plus
7271 Nordisk Polska / Nordisk
7272 PTC / tuBiedronka

7273 PTC / tuBiedronka
7274 Polkomtel / prefiks nieużywany
7275 Polkomtel / Plus
7276 Polkomtel / prefiks nieużywany
7277 Polkomtel / prefiks nieużywany
7278 Polkomtel / prefiks nieużywany
7279 FM Group Mobile
7280 Mobyland / prefiks nieużywany
7281 PTC / T-Mobile
7282 PTC / T-Mobile
7283 PTC / T-Mobile
7284 PTC / T-Mobile
7285 PTC / T-Mobile
7286 PTC / T-Mobile
7287 PTC / T-Mobile
7288 PTC / T-Mobile
7289 PTC / T-Mobile
7290 Gadu Gadu / GaduAIR
7291 Gadu Gadu / GaduAIR
7321 PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A.
7802 Inea / Inea
7805 Aster/ Aster
7806 Aster/ Aster
781 Polkomtel / Plus
782 Polkomtel / Plus
7830 Polkomtel / Plus
7831 Polkomtel / Plus
7832 Polkomtel / Plus
7833 Polkomtel / mBank mobile
7834 Polkomtel / Plus
7835 Polkomtel / Plus
7836 Polkomtel / Plus
7837 Polkomtel / Plus
7838 Polkomtel / Plus
7839 Polkomtel / Plus
784 PTC / T-Mobile
785 Polkomtel / Plus
7860 MINI / Crowley TeleMobile
7861 PTK Centertel / Orange
7862 MINI / Ezo Mobile
7863 MINI / Snickers Mobile
7864 MINI / prefiks nieużywany
7865 PTK Centertel / prefiks nieużywany
7866 PTK Centertel / prefiks nieużywany
7867 PTK Centertel / prefiks nieużywany
7868 PTK Centertel / prefiks nieużywany
7869 PTK Centertel / prefiks nieużywany
7870 PTC / Heyah
7871 PTC / Heyah
7872 PTC / Heyah
7873 PTC / Heyah
7874 PTC / Heyah
7875 PTC / Heyah
7876 PTC / T-Mobile
7877 PTC / T-Mobile
7878 PTC / Heyah
7879 PTC / Heyah
788 PTC / Heyah
7890 PTK Centertel / Orange
7891 PTK Centertel / Orange
7892 PTK Centertel / Orange
7893 PTK Centertel / Orange
7894 PTK Centertel / Orange
790 P4 / Play
791 P4 / Play
792 P4 / Play
793 P4 / Play
794 P4 / Play
7950 P4 / Play
7951 PTC / T-Mobile
7952 PTC / T-Mobile
7953 PTC / T-Mobile
7954 PTC / T-Mobile
7955 PTC / T-Mobile
7956 P4 / Play
7957 P4 / Play
7958 P4 / Play
7959 P4 / Play
796 P4 / Play
797 PTK Centertel / Orange
798 PTK Centertel / Orange
7991 P4 / Play
7992 P4 / Play
7993 P4 / Play
7994 P4 / Play
7995 P4 / Play
880 PTC / Heyah
8810 PTC / T-Mobile
8811 PTC / CenterNet
8812 P4 / Play
8813 P4 / Play
8814 P4 / Play
8815 P4 / Play
8816 P4 / Play
8818 PTC / CenterNet
8819 PTC / T-Mobile
882 Mobilking / Mobilking
8822 TuBiedronka / TuBiedronka
8830 P4 / Play
8831 P4 / Play
8832 P4 / Play
8833 PTC / T-Mobile
8834 P4 / Play
8835 P4 / Play
8836 P4 / Play
8837 P4 / Play
8838 PTC / prefiks nieużywany
8839 P4 / Play
8840 P4 / Play
8841 PTC / Heyah
8842 PTC / Heyah
8843 P4 / Play
8844 AERO 2 / prefiks nieużywany
8845 SFERIA S.A.
8846 P4 / Play
8847 P4 / Play
8848 P4 / Play
8849 P4 / Play
885 Polkomtel / Sami Swoi
886 PTC / Heyah
887 Polkomtel / Sami Swoi
888 PTC / Heyah
889 PTC / Heyah

Dane z dnia 7 lutego 2012 r.

Wow... what a date!

In Poland we believe, that 13th day of a month, particularly the Friday – this is very bad day.

The best is to stay home if you don’t want to be unlucky this day :)
Well, I have decided to stay at my rancho, but of course I am going to do something outdoors. My garden waits!
There is still much work there which should be done. I need to plant more pumpkins, cucumbers and sow other veggies. Also these which are already growing need my attention – weeding.


Another task which waits for me – is catching one goat. It won’t be easy, since the goat is wild and fast. But I will try. And horses need some fresh straw in their stable. And I need to take care of various rural papers in my study.


I also think about starting writing the novel or at least some short stories. I don’t have that much time to write in the same time – time consuming novel and my everyday blog, but I will try.


The morning is sunny, positive. Let’s eat some nutritious breakfast and start doing something outdoors.


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The day passed quickly. What I have plan for today – I have done. Even more – I corrected electric fence. So I have done more than I have planned. With exception of working on rural papers.
I intend to work on them during the weekend. But in the morning I will be busy with milking goats and in the garden.

I was to write a novel

I was to write a novel. I have got lots of material for several novels now.

Although I think I should start with writing just short stories. I have been collecting the material for all my life. Part of it is in my memory, other part at my computers. I can take them when I want and can write. Now, in what language? If I write them in Polish, they will be well written. If I write them in English – they will not be that perfect, but while writing them I will learn more English vocabulary and expressions, I will improve my language skills, besides more people will be able to read them. 

First I need some writing workshops. I think the best workshop is reading other people’s novels and learning how they are build. Then, I may use them as a kind of pattern. I also may use their extended vocabulary and new to me phrases. 

What do I do?

"What do I do?" - asked familiar voice. It was my voice :))) Yeah.... I don't know! I don't know yet, but surely soon I will find out the right path :)

Tomato sauces

I have made 3 vegetarian tomato sauces and put them into jars, milked 2 goats, so I have milk for pudding and pancakes. Now I am just about to make lecho and maybe cucumber salad. Maybe I also put the cucumbers into jars? I have enough cucumbers to make some winter supplies. 

In the morning I had muesli with goat milk and a sliced banana. It was delicious.

I studied the package description so now I know how to make delicious muesli from my own ingredients. I need only buy oats somewhere and collect fruits and dry them or freeze them. I haven’t seen oats in Biedronka for a long time, but maybe in Lewiatan? I need to check. I love the oat flavour. 

It was raining all day, but now is sunny again. I think about going to the garden for a while.

I got to the half of the novel “The colonists”. This American family has real problems. They have to tackle with serial serious threats and evil. Me too. So I understand them very well and feel a kind of empathy. I am in the same situation like they are. Reading their story encourages me. There are others who have to fight for survival. Like me.


I spent some time in the veggetable garden. I replanted some pumpking seedlings from pots into soil. They are big. But those which I planted 3 weeks ago, are much bigger now. I hope they all will have enough time to produce big pumpkins before autumn.


At supper I prepared just muesli with fresh peaches and goat milk. It was good. I think I became muesli fun :)

Resting

Due to my present condition I decided to rest for a few days. Yesterday I had to go by bike to nearby town, where I have ordered some nice pancake plates ideal for my pancakes. After 10km journey I felt better and even much better. I managed to bike 40km yesterday. I returned with heavy shopping carrying the plates, muesly, vegetables. But today morning I felt again bad, so i did just basic everyday farming duties and now try to rest. Soon I would like to make lecho, but first I need to have a break.


I am cooking dinner: turkey, lecho, potatoes. It would be good to make a fresh cucumber salad with dill.

The herbal tea

Today I still don't feel well. I need to rest and take some painkillers. As I don't take artificial painkillers - I have collected some herbs and made myself a tea. It should help.

The Bloody Monday

This Monday I didn’t feel well. I spent most time in front of the house reading a book. The weather was perfect for sowing, but I couldn’t do anything in the garden. But I have cooked a good dinner and made a dessert. Before it I milked a goat and gave fresh water to poultry and dogs.

The Sunny sunday

It's so hot from the early morning since a few days... A friend of mine says the water in the lakes around is already very warm. She was swimming two days ago. I think it's the highest time to go swimming! I am afraid to go swimming on my own. I am not a good swimmer. I wish Mick would be here. He is a great surfer brave enough to surf high waves and for sure very good swimmer...

spent most Sunday reading a book and getting tanned by the way. In no time I was red :)))

The potatoe trip

I went by bike to Olecko to buy beautiful plates ideal for pancakes, but instead returned with 3 heavy bags of potatoes :)

How to get here

Połączenia na trasie Warszawa, dworzec Zachodni, dworzec autobusowy - Warsaw, Western railway station, bus station Olecko, dworzec autobusowy i dworzec kolejowy Olecko, bus station and railway station

Stanowisko  bus position	Odjazd departure	Przyjazd  arrival	Czas podróży travel time	Odległość distance
1	06:00	11:15	5 godz. 15 min. 5 hours 15 minutes	271  km	P N		więcej »
1	10:15	16:10	5 godz. 55 min.	271  km	P U		więcej »
1	13:50	19:15	5 godz. 25 min.	271  km	P N n		więcej »
1	22:45	03:55	5 godz. 10 min.	271  km	P n		więcej »

Oznaczenia:

n	nie kursuje 24. i 31.XII i w Wielką Sobotę
N	nie kursuje w I dzień B. Narodzenia i Wielkanocy
P	autobus linii pośpiesznej
U	nie kursuje w I dzień B. Narodzenia i Wielkanocy oraz w Nowy Rok

http://www.pkssuwalki.pl/pks_search,4.html?locale=pl_PL

Local activities in July

http://przystanek.pl/wydarzenia/19_przystanek_olecko.html

After The trip

I am exhausted after yesterday trip to Olecko. I need rest at least 3 days I think :)
And take better care of my animals. Today I found out, that 5 goats got scrambled together. I had to help them to release. Now they are okay. The stallion got his new spot as well. He is fine after the grovermina, so now I can give it to mares aa well without fear.

The strawberry ride

We went to Olecko by bikes. Our aim was to make some essential shopping and hang up around Olecko. It was peculiar trip ;) When we were passing by a field with strawberries, we sensed the sweet, intense, nice strawberry scent and I decided to buy some strawberries for us.
I went to the owner of the strawberry field and asked to sell me 1kg strawberries. Instead, he gave me 3kg. He said it was 3kg. But he didn't have with him the scales, so he just poured the strawberries from a box. It felt like 5kg while I was carrying them in my rucksack.

We went to visit 7 shops while I was trying to find the things we needed.
Mick was grumbling that he would take a book with him if he knew how much time the shopping would last :) It was he, who was usually left with our bikes and the shopping outside, while I was penetrating shops in search of needed things :)

When we got hungry and were after basic shopping which needed to be done before 4 or 5 p.m. since most shops are closed at that time - we went to eat our dinner.

After eating we continued the shopping. We went to petrol station to buy some petrol for my chainsaw. By the way Mick pumped the bikes's wheels using the equipment located at the petrol station.

Then, on our way home, I have decided to do the final shopping. I meant to buy some food mainly, but in the  supermarket they had some nice goods in the friendly prices to which I really coudn't resist, so I bought them. It was a toaster, a ventilator, some colourful plates perfect for pancakes and beautiful and healthy snake plant about which I dreamed before. Apart from that I also bought some food as well. When Mick saw the the amount of shopping I have done he was really shocked, because we really didn't have much place on our bikes and in our rucksacks.

When he saw the snake plant - he burst out of hysterical laughter. But I am a perfectionist in packing, so we managed to locate everything in safe and comfortable way, including the snake plant :)))

The way home was okay, but the backpacks were bloody heavy. We had to do some stops on the way home to rest from the weight and to drink some water or eat some strawberries.


to be continued... ;)

Mick

Mick is the best helper which I have ever hosted here. I wish he could stay here longer! He is very helpful person, eager to tackle with any task which comes to be done. He has both technical skills and doesn’t strive away from any hard physical labour. And he is a total gentleman! Nice, cultural person to deal with. And what’s more he cares for me! He doesn’t want to leave me without fixed kitchen tap :) I am very lucky to have him here around! Thank you from bottom of my heart! :) You are awesome person :)

Gone with the wind

The canopy is gone - the strong wind have taken it away while we were having breakfast under it in front of the house :) We had to evacute ourselves inside the house, because suddenly a rain arrived. So we took our plates in our hands and ran away as fast as we could. It was yesterday.

I sow some new vegetables and moved electric fence a bit. We milked 3 goats this time to have more milk for pancakes.

I am planning to do some more gardening, but as the heater started to work again, first I took hot bath and relaxed for some time in the bathtube.

Yesterday horses tried to get into the garden. It would be disaster if they would succeed. So expanding new territory for them is a must, although they have there enough grass to eat, just they like the meadow next to the vegetable garden.

Today for breakfast we had pancakes, at dinner we will have curry chicken with brocoli and young potatoes.

At supper? I don't know yet. Maybe I will try to bake a cake or sweet bread and serve it with home made apple jam.

The air is very warm and humid. I am so sweat right now. It’s so hot and walk across high nettles is challenging a lot. I think I will need another bath this day. I am spreading electric fence over new area and Mick is securing chicken coup, this time around the metal net which has too big holes, so it needs to be covered with more dense plastic net.