Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Bella before folk-dancing performance
Bella was dancing at a charity event with her folk-dancing group
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
This ol' house some more
Well, long since done, here's another view of progress on the attic insulation. It works too, the living room is much warmer now.
Take what you get
With snow and Central Europe these days, you pretty much gotta take what you get and get out and use when it's there. This was the first snow of the season back in November sometime, and we seized the opportunity to go sledding (more like offroad sledding) with Richard's son, Max.
More problems with being Sam
Sam is having a rough time these days, with a few trips to the cat doc for more than just usual servicing. Seems he got a cut on his leg that has become infected, so he's been not feeling so well this last week. We got him on medicine yesterday and all involved are looking forward to him getting back on his feet again soon. Or paws, as the case may be.
Of course, once he gets done getting back, it will be back to the sheer hard work of being Sam again.
In this picture, we have a fine example of how difficult it is to stay clean when you're Sam.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
This old house (revisited)
Today I started the job of insulating the ceiling above the the living room. The tops of the arches are up there, and I hope that we will be to enjoy more heat in the house if we insulate.
Patrick in the hospital
Unfortunately, Patrick is in the hospital right now, but he's a trooper so, he's handling it really well.
Friday, October 17, 2008
This Old House
Yesterday while I was waiting for a truck to come and dump a bunch of firewood in front of the house, the water guys showed up, came in, inspected the water pipes at the meter and declared that they would in the near future be replacing said water pipes. In the interests of doing so, they then sliced a nice cut in the asphalt in front of the house, portending things to come.
The things to come done came today, as there is a digger out there massacaring the street, to dig a trench, to put in a new storm drain and to replace the water mains, meaning that we will be in the same shoes as most of the rest of our part of town, which is feeling more and more like a village, replete with dust, mud and DIRT roads.
MoSAM
Continuing on the topic of how specifically and generally hard it is to be Sam (aside from the ongoing challenge of bi-lingualism and telecommuniCATions), here is another piece of clear evidence that it is indeed HARD TO BE Sam.
On the other hand, you get to sport quite a set of whiskers being Sam, which does make up for some of the difficulty.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Don't bother me: I am on the phone
It is extremely difficult to be a cat. To be denied in the day and age of modern technology the basic conveniences that many take for granted. Fantastically difficult to have to lay on radiators all day long to keep them from flying off their mounts and into the ceiling. In a nutshell, it is HARD TO BE SAM.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Harvest time
I got most of the apples picked at the lot today. 14 crates of varying sizes. And a bag of walnuts. There's plenty more too!
St. Mihaly bucsu
St. Michael is the patron saint of the town and they have started having a street festival to celebrate, on the street where the St. Mihaly church is. It's right up the street from our house, so we were there last Sunday after returning from Budapest.
pictures from the train
Some portraits on the train from last weekend's trip to Budapest, including a fantastic "if your face was frozen like this forever" picture of Patrick while angry.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
New washer
We took delivery of the new washer yesterday after. Marina's grandparents bought the old washer in 1988, from compensation vouchers given to her grandfather for the time he was imprisoned as a POW in Russia after WWII. The old washer held up and was still running strong after 20 years, but the centrifuge weakness, power consumption and the heavier work load were taking a toll. It has been retired to a more restful lifestyle at Marina's Mom's apartment in town here...
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Townviews and an organ
Yesterday they had something called "Heritage Day" here, which is probably really just an attempt by the National Office for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Hungary to polish its tarnished image. In any case, two of the many programs we went to were a visit to the church tower at the St. George church downtown and a showing of the organ at the same church. The organ was built in 1633 and is one of the oldest in Central and Eastern Europe.
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