Chopin watching the sunrise

Chopin loves sitting on the balcony overlooking the garden and swimming pool.

Garden and parking area

This week we asked one of the builders if he would help us with cleaning up the parking area with the digger.

 Levelling out the soil where parking will be.

 Now we´ll order the material to harden the soil.

This weekend we will do some more cleaning up around the fruit trees we planted last week.

Sowing grass, planting more trees and flowers and this piece of the garden is almost finished.

Update on the swimming pool

Border stone around the swimming pool has been placed. One of the next steps is filling up the empty  space around the pool and landscape it into the garden, and early next week the liner will be placed! Can´t wait till it´s time to fill it up with water!!

Spring Blossom

Spring is here and it can be seen all around us. The trees are blossoming, flowers blooming and the birds are singing. With the sun up earlier and earlier it´s a pleasure to get up and start the day early.

Last week was filled with painting doors, painting bathroom ceilings, painting the walls in guestroom 3 and of course work in the garden; putting up the last of the fencing, planting lemon and orange trees, planting our palm tree and sowing our seeds for the vegetable garden.

With all that done and much more, we took the afternoon off yesterday and spent it at the beach in Figuera da Foz. With an amazing seafood lunch and some time in the sun, we came back refreshed and ready for a new week.

This week on the list of things to do: 
- Hang lighting in all rooms and bathrooms
- Paint the last guestroom
- Continue garden works
- Go in search of garden furniture
- Write the text for the website
- and the list goes on....

So it´s off to work for me!

Wishing everyone a great start to a new week!

Bathroom almost finished

With only the shower screen and mirror left to buy and install, our bathrooms are almost finished.

Carnaval in Mealhada

On Tuesday we spent the afternoon in Mealhada to see the carnaval celebrations. 

E Carnaval....

Os brasilieros...

and of course, a picture with ´os piratas´...

Breakfast is served

The dining room is taking shape. 

Tables and chairs have been delivered and put together. 

Now we start playing with colors, of table clothes and other decoration.

Update of the swimming pool works

Picture of the swimming pool on Friday afternoon.

Carnival weekend this weekend, so works will resume on Wednesday.

Past couple of days

The weather has been beautiful the past couple of days, which is a great motivation to keep working.

What has happened the past week:

- Fence has been placed around most of the garden, little more still to be done, but we´ll get there
- Swimming pool has progressed well, yesterday and today they started building the walls
- Furniture has been unpacked
- Tiles in the kitchenette have been placed
- Carpenter came to finish all the work on the doors
- Lighting has been placed in several rooms
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The list of things that have been done is endless, so I won´t keep going, but instead will post pictures in the coming days so that you can see for yourself what is going on here!

For now, good night, and remember to come back tomorrow for pictures of the swimming pool!

Furniture

After our furniture delivery yesterday we have been able to unpack and start some of the decorating. 

Take a look at some of the pictures of the reception.