Fall

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Some things I have always loved about fall.

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Anyone else have fall favorites? 

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We needed to get the doors for the bathrooms and utility room so they can finish the openings and avoid delays wth the plastering.

Some people in Toledo had ripped 14 of these doors out of their house and stored them in the garage.  Solid chestnut  (they weigh a ton).  A little ¨Castizo¨ for a Galician farmhouse, but we were under time pressure and they are kind of splendid.

And I saw the bathroom vanity online and figured it was worth a visit.  I think the marble alone is worth what we paid for it.  Now to find taps and an undermount sink.  Back to the internet. . .

I see a large rental van in our future.

Scotland Calling

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Happened across the photographer Ian Lawson.  He´s published several volumes featuring his absolutely stunning photography.  The latest is From the Land Comes the Cloth, about Harris tweed and the Hebrides islands where it comes from.




From Photographic Views Scotland:

Ian Lawson is a lifelong professional fine art photographer from Lancashire. Based on a commission from the Harris Tweed authority he has combined a pictorial story of the people of the western isles and their contribution to Harris Tweed: from shepherds to weavers. The stunning environment of the Hebrides is captured in the best light that a photographer like Ian Lawson knows when and where to find. There is fantastic use of blending images so that tweed provides a subtle backcloth to a landscape.

His blog is here, the Facebook page here and the portfolio here.

If I weren´t going to live in Galicia, Scotland would be next.

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Shepherdess also looks very intriguing.  The sheep, the dog, the Cumbrian countryside. . .



He has more galleries, including Tuscany and Provence on his website.  But I think his shots of Britain have a special magic.  Enjoy!

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Ecocelta

Ecocelta is an award-winning vermicomposting comany in Pontevedra.  They started up afew years ago and now seem to be quite successful, selling to vineyards in the area, who used to send off to France for compost material.

You can get organic compost, vermicompost, even a builder´s bag of manure mixed with seaweed. How much the shipping would be, I´m afraid I don´t know.

Seaweed Compost

I know initially I´ll be needing truckloads of compost/manure to get our abused garden back into shape, so I was glad to find them in existence, in case there´s no friendly neighbor farmer with a surplus to sell.

BIC for her

On Amazon.co.uk.

Take a moment and read the reviews.

What we did on our summer vacation

With the stone cleaned and exterior pointed it was time to work on the interior.  With the invaluable help of V´s family, we managed about 80 meters in 12 days, and we´re knackered.

Of course it wasn´t all work.  V´s brother cooked churrasco, with predictable results.

We´re particularly pleased with the windows.

Had two weeks of absolutely lovely weather, sunny and dry and cool nights perfect for sleeping.  Discovered a new place for a 9€ menu of traditional, filling, Galician grub.

And the outside of the house looks good too, except for the weeds.

We also finally  met and exchanged phone numbers with the neighbor, whose 78 year old father was up on a ladder doing roof work.  Good to have someone in the area keep an eye on the place.

Unfortunately, the builder is booked solid until October, so finishing the repointing and interior plaster work will have to wait.  We´re now looking for interior doors online to be able to finish the door openings in time for plaster.

Any one have thoughts on cement v.s. gypsum plaster?