Saturday, August 31, 2013
22:42
By Michael
I just
wanted to update our blog with some pictures from the summer kitchen. Today we
got the place ready for our friend Rick, who will be visiting us soon. Yulia
and I are going to the city tomorrow, and we will be picking Rick up at the
train station. We will bring him back here. He will be our first guest to spend
the night. I sure hope we did a good job renovating the space. Since the last
post about the summer kitchen, we covered the metal plates on the pichka with bricks
and clay. When we fired the oven we noticed that smoke was coming through the
slits in the plates. It’s an old pichka, so they don’t fit like they used to I
guess. We also did not like the floor. It was too beat up and dirty to make for
a comfortable living space, so we covered it with some carpet that we (luckily)
had lying around. It softened up the space quite a bit. It sure feels cozy in
there now!
Yulia hung some herbs off the unused gas pipe and put some nasturtiums
she grew from seed on the table. She added firewood to the pichka, as well.
The evening light makes for a cool atmosphere in this picture. Pan Oleh
was a sculptor. He sculpted that head on the table. It’s a copy of a Roman
sculpture. We don’t know who he is, but we call him Nestor.
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