For now, I consider that we are in transition times.
We are lookind at the land and the house and see what comes, somehow!
Decisions are hard to make, because, like I said before, the experience is one of instability. But, life goes on and life is moving on, and so are we!
David is almost arriving from the UK. Yes, good things are coming!
I want to leave as a surprise and I am only going to show you and tell you about the next steps, when "they" arrive!
Until then, I would like to show you more pictures of what has been happening with the house and the land.
- We upcycled a burned sink from Mizarela, and created a wood structure so we can use it. For now, it's our exterior sink.
- David made the structure for the outside compost loo. Something simple, but it's going to be dry and protected from both the wind and the rain.
We have been clearing the burned BUS, so we can finally say goodbye.
And in one of the times that I went up to clear some more, I just saw this. An amazing butterfly standing in the ramainings of the BUS. So beautiful that it broke my heart. Nothing else is important. The beauty of life is the only thing that matters - and the beauty lies in everything and everyone. In every situation: the ones that we experience as good and the ones that don't seem so good. It's a transformation that is occuring. It's a letting go of the old, so the new can materialize itself. Thank you butterfly.
This is the place that I always took a picture from when we were building the house in Mizarela. Looking at this place, I am full of gratitude, because we moved the house before the fire. If we hadn't done that in August, right now, there would not be a house to continue to build. That's why we are really grateful for life and for the right timings, for miracles and for listening to our intuition.
The green starts to come after the fire and we rescued our tiles - not so bad! Maybe some creative form will come from them. A very good looking morrocan bathroom on the way!
Enjoying the sun right after meditation every morning in our room in Mizarela
Visiting the bees every other day
Missanga's ear and Lara with not a so nice look! She loves to hide in the box.
A very long and precise work of leveling the house! Very important, because we were always feeling deasy everytime that we were in the house and for the structure itself it's very important. David can tell you more in detail later about this job.
Leveled Tiny House! Iupi!
All the people like us that lost houses and things could come to this places to get similar things that got burned. The Portuguese are very giving in these situations, so these places were and are still full of very good things that we can use, including food.
I learned that instead of being angry because the 42m2 that we bought of wood for the floor got burned, I accepted it. What else is there to do in these kind of situations? It's a waste of time to imagine how things could have been if we had moved the wood to the land in September or so. We didn't, so this is what is! (in the picture you can see the only thing left from the floor!)
For now, we decided not to change the windows that got broken, since we are not living there yet.
Preparing some fire wood for winter
We put some fairy lights in one of the trees next to the house. They are solar, so every night, if it was sunny during the day, we have an amazing view of the fairies on the tree!
I finished cleaning the wood burner - it took a lot of work since the plastic was completly melted on the surface. We had to use heat, a metal spatula and at the end David had to use the electrical sand to sand everything out. So now, we just have to paint it with a special paint for wood burners.
And that's it for now!
Monday we will show you the pink and blue surprise that will mark the new phase of the Tiny House building.
Until then, a big hug with love
Raquel
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