Blog Archive: November 2015
First Summer Solstice in Our New (Old) House
Last year we celebrated Summer Solstice on our apartments balcony in Tbilisi, this year we did it the right way. After I tried out how it's to move grass with a scythe, then with a trimmer and finally hiring a professional grass mover we started to repair our recent acquisition, after room and kitchen was cleaned out ouf junk and some paint job was applied both to walls and ceilings we did a test with a first garden party in order to prepare for this Summer Solstice night.
Now we were ready to great Sun. Since our property on that time was without electricity we decided to go creative and lightened a lot of candles and put them into jars, hang up them in trees and got a superb Summer…
Ēdole Castle and Emila Market with 17 Cheeses and Crayfish
Ēdole Castle is a Gothic Revival castle situated on the banks of Ēdole Lake, Ēdole parish, in the historical region of Courland, western Latvia.
I had an opportunity to visit Ēdole castle and taste some of the 17 cheeses few days before Summer Solstice Līgo was held (back n 2015). During my visit a fair called Emīla market (Emīla tirgus) took action.
Famous Latvian film Emīla nedarbi was filmed here in 1985. So that's the reason why this fair is named after Emīls.
If you enjoy medieval things and medieval architecture you will find a lot interesting at Ēdole castle.
Ēdole castle complex
It was pretty hard to photograph here that…
Removing Junk And Adding First Layer of Paint (Kitchen Works)
In my previous article on home remodeling series you already learned how with the help of just a white paint I decided drastically to improve a room which latter might become our bedroom in our rural house. Haven't red that article yet? Go ahead and see it: Room One - Wall and Ceiling Painting with Water Based PaintNow it was turn for another room (kitchen) to put some facelift on, but before that we had to clean up the mess, remove all the junk and... paint. Kitchen loaded with junkAs you can see from above picture both walls and ceiling are covered with soot, Soot is coming from the Kitchener.There is a stove actuallySo we spent about a day just to getting rid from all that…