Saturday, February 23, 2008

Ahornboden - Maple Floor

our floor project is almost done.....


my sweet husband / Mann / marito ist fast fertig mit dem fussboden verlegen, was fuer eine arbeit; back braking job, but not for my Jon, every 20 cm of the board got a nail hammered in. i did not count how many these were but it took us 3 days or around 18 hours together, just to get the the maple floor down. all the preparation to make the floor sound and straight was much more. he was cutting the sub floor by minus degrees outside - oder bei -18 grad celsius. i just hope that the Gualdo house is not that hard to fix up.







when we were tearing the third layer off, i saved all this newspaper they laid underneath: the date is from 13. july 1952. the advertisement also shows how the thinking in people changes. i was sitting and reading all this wild stories about the socialism is taken over and that the taxes should only be use for defense, the government right now is for sure cutting a lot of social programs and spend a LOT on defense the freedom in irak.










Thursday, February 7, 2008

SPRING in GUALDO!

yes, we are spending 2 weeks around easter and my birthday in ITALIA. we have to, for the signing and getting my papers started, may be find an accountant with some german or english knowledge to get things cleared about our farmer status. it seems it will be not that easy to accomplish this. and i have a chance to take several thousand pictures of the house and the surroundings. i am so excited. we will come through munchen, nein, nein, keine zeit fuer den biergarten, and with alitalia down to ancona. renting a tiny car and stay somewhere for a night, signing next day the contract at the notario and than ---- camping in our own house. there is actually a bed in the attic.
i talked with my dear friend Mark and we figured he did something similar when he was in his twenties. restoring a house somewhere in the country and start a simple live with a garden and own grown vegetables.
Jon says that wishes come true, you just have to beleave in it and than let it happen. so here we go, we let the italian dream become reality.