Gravel and Crushed Stone For Foundation
| Home Remodeling | 12 seen
This Summer I will need a lot of gravel and crushed stone for home remodeling tasks, mainly for foundation sealing works. Some time ago (while digging a pond), I negotiated a few cubic meters of gravel from neighbor, who was sealing surface…Sponge Cake With Wild Berries
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Here comes another post on food blogger series, and again I must admit I'm not the original creator of following sponge cake, my better part is.
Sponge cake with wild berries
Really cool cake, here is photos and cooking directions:…
Digging a trench around existing foundation - Building a bathroom from scratch - part 4
| Home Remodeling | 14 seen
Here comes another update on building a bathroom from scratch series in project home remodeling. The thing is - the house we got didn't pamper us a lot, and so for example I had to install new supporting beams, not to speak about changing a roof,…Concreting Foundation For a Garden Pizza Oven - Part 2
| Home Remodeling | 7 seen
This Summer I excelled in concreting works, the major concreting works involves concreting stone wall inside our rural country house and concreting house foundation (more on that in upcoming posts from home remodeling series) In spare time from…Forest Mushrooms - Penny Bun & Red-Capped Scaber Stalk
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A few days ago I reported a photo story with a harvest of mushrooms from our backyard, then we gathered fungus called Slippery Jack, in today's Piece of Life series - a harvest from deepest woods of Courland (Latvia), meet Penny Bun & Red-Capped…
Beam Strengthening on Stone Wall - Building Bathroom from Scratch - Part 3
| Home Remodeling | 40 seen
The never ending story with my adventures on home remodeling and building a bathroom continues. In todays part 3 I will tell you a brief photo story how I strengthened a beam on the stone wall.See part 1 and learn more how I actually concreted this…
Mushrooms in backyard
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The other day my aunt visited us at our country house, we spent some lovely time together, and while somewhere in the woods near Akmenrags lighthouse we hunted for chanterelle fungi, should I mention we found just enough to make a barely pan of…
Akmenrags Lighthouse
| Tourism objects | 13 seen
Akmenrags Lighthouse (Latvian: Akmeņraga bāka) - a lighthouse on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea, located to the south of the resort town of Pāvilosta.
I first visited Akmensrags Lighthouse in the mid…
Another morning, another beatiful mist
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It seems I have a new tradition - for the second year in the row I have captured beautiful morning mist in our country house backyard.
Alright, previous year my beloved did the shooting while I was dreaming about roof works. This time I couldn't…
Cats on The Rocks
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Recently I featured a post about how we built a rock garden in the front of our country house. I reported a lovely sunset just shortly. In today's Piece of Life series - little creatures who enjoys the most of our new rock garden. Meet our lovely…
Red Sunset in our Rock Garden - Cool Evening Mood
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This Summer spoiled us with a lovely sunsets, but one of the most empathic had been observed in front of our house at rock garden.
Red/Orange Sunset at Rock Garden
See how we built this rock garden a few days ago.
Country…
Drupal 7.50 introduces User warning messages for incorectly removed modules
| Drupal Development | 19 seen
The other day I did perform a minor upgrade from Drupal 7.43 to Drupal 7.50, and was a bit scarred when noticed a huge warning page, at first I thought there are some problems with my files and folders or I have done something terribly wrong. Thus…Beam Replacement for Old house - Building Bathroom from Scratch - Part 2
| Home Remodeling | 11 seen
Here comes another update on home remodeling works - building a bathroom from scratch. After I successfully concreted stone wall it was time to install new beams. For this side of house we did not had any beams installed (ok, they were, but…Our neighbor - Fox baby
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For the second year in the row we have one small and lovely neighbor - baby fox. Once we met him at the bus stop, looked amazing - fox going to the city, the other morning bad farmers had mowed crop fields and baby fox seemed very disappointed…
Making Rhubarb Wine
| DIY | 18 seen
In our garden we have a lot of rhubarbs, one thing you can make out of them is a rhubarb cake, but turns out there is at least one more thing you can do with rhubarbs - you can try to make a wine. In today's Do It yourself series - my (our )…