Acheaeology

Acheaeology! Found the bottom of an old glass. Old, because it has this iridescent shine. With an inscription: "ELSA E300". Well, Google is your friend!

Want to buy one? For 3€: https://en.todocoleccion.net/antiques/dos-antiguos-vasos-decorados~x34692152#sobre_el_lote

Breva and pomegranate cuttings

Breva propagation. (You can never have enough.)

English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breba
Español: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breva

And don’t believe the nonsense of the first crop not being good. They’re delicious.

This tree is my favorite tree, a real bonus to the house.

Shade sails. Again.

Sunny. Verry sunny today. Installed the shade sails. One of the two is badly torn, which we made worse on purpose. These sails catch quite some wind, but hopefully with all these slits not any more. We’ll see. (23° today (23 Feb 2019)!)

But, nope. Doesn’t work. Switching to: polyester.

Settle the dirt

If you have a swimming pool you need a sand filter to filter dirt from the water, and so it becomes dirty instead of the water. But, then you need to wash the sand in the filter, with clean water from your pool. That water is normally disposed of. As we had a LOT of sand in the pool lately, the filter could not cope, so we resorted to a 500 liter settling tank, that we just pumped the dirty water in, directly, bypassing the filter. Let it settle a day or two, and siphon it back. That way we don’t lose water, and no salt. Just the last 30 liters plus sediment we washed away after about 10 settlings.

From now on we won’t dispose of water any more, and always wash the filter this way.

Yet another ingenieur Jansen triumph!

Zoomba tricked

Zoomba escaped twice in three days, despite the 2 meter high fence. But how? No gaps under the fence. Did she use the hibiscus to climb over the fence? The almond tree? The yucca? This one can climb trees you know, especially if there’s a cat up there.

We went outside the gate and made cat noises while calling her. It turned out to be the yucca. Poor Zoomba. Fell for our little trick.

The cut off yucca we planted, of course, as Burke explains.

"Virry hippy, think you virry much", sid thi hippy Yucca iwner.

The folding bear chair

Nearly 25 years old. In the past these red cedar chairs were sort of protected with Weizonol conserveergrond, but that comes off in 25 years. It has survived quite well. Only the horizontal plank at the front needed some aluminium support, because some of the wood was really soft. And, the ends of the lower beam of the backrest needed some aluminium, because they too had become very soft, and could simply be sanded off.

The whole chair was disassembled (dissembled) into parts, that were all coarsely sanded, finely sanded, and very finely sanded. After four coats with tung wood oil and about a week's work I'm almost satisfied.

I'm very happy inox screws were used for the backrest and the seat itself. No rust!

It's sister we had to leave behind in Amersfoort, as it was completely rotten. It had spent many years at the bottom of the patio in Amsterdam, in the shade, and never properly dried up. Sad.