Still in Bér, busy with the house and garden

This last week has been filled with housework and gardening. The main event was moving back upstairs to our bedroom after 3 years, and ever since then we have been sorting, cleaning, washing, pruning, mowing, weeding etc., etc., etc. If I never see another household machine, broom, dustpen, cloth, duster, secateur etc., etc. that will not be too soon.

Our new/old bedroom

 

Top front bedroom, ready for Alex

I must admit, the interior of the house is coming along nicely, and so is the garden. Other than finishing the mowing, using the tractor, the petrol mower, petrol strimmer, electric strimmer, we also did some pruning of roses and some overgrown lilac bushes, weeded the herb garden, pruned the gypsy plum tree. Indoors, we finished tidying and cleaning our bedroom, did a lot of washing, made up Alex's bed for next week, then we set about cleaning and tidying the library, now that my bed is gone from there. Same for the lounge, where Roy's bed was moved from. Finally, we scrubbed the kitchen floor and the last job is for tomorrow, cleaning the two bathrooms.

The 4 long chest of drawers in our bedroom

 

Roy's computer corner by the bedroom

The cave geocache trip in BP looks like it is going ahead. I still haven't got exact idea who's coming and who's not coming, but I am fairly sure that this time we will have enough people. Zoli decided on the date of 11th July, next Tuesday at 5:30 pm. Gyuri, my retired forester friend, is definitely coming to both the caving trip and to Bér for my tree planting and hiking birthday celebrations. Let us hope the weather holds and we can get on with it fine.

Selfie on top of the andesite outcrop

 

The andesite outcrop with panoramic background

On Sunday I went off to replace a cache that has disappeared. It was a lovely hike of about 4.5 km - 5 km, with 200 metres of climb. I found a good place for the new box, took some breathtaking photos from the ridge and altogether felt really good about myself. While talking to Alex on Messenger, he promised that he would come hiking with me, so I should be able to knock off 2 outstanding caches near the Slovakian border.

My current reading matter

In the meantime I have been trying to read Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed, which we will start reading together at Fáklya, starting next week. They have also asked me to do some translation from an article, and I did it the day they asked. It is a long time since I have done translation into Hungarian, but I was getting better with every paragraph, so it should not be too much bother in the future.

My friend Edit on our last caching hike

Tomorrow we are actually going into BP, as I am having a Fáklya branch meeting, then we have to get the flat ready for receiving Alex and later Edit, who might be moving in soon. She will be staying for three months, while she gets trained for her new job. We'll stay until after Alex's arrival next Monday and the cave trip the day after. En route home we hopefully will fetch my birthday cake.

Next post - if all goes well - next Wednesday.