Somewhere in Yunnan, China
Somewhere in Yunnan, China
It is spring and colour is returning to the landscape.
During winter the only colour was from the two strings of windmills crossing the courtyard.
These strings have now been up for one year and the colour is bleaching out of them. The wire is getting rusty and now already several times the strings broke and had to be repaired. Clearly this is something that cannot continue forever.
Spring has come and the plants in the garden show it.
We went to the Giants Republic on Chinese New year’s eve with the intention of going from there straight to the traditional family banquet that evening but it turned out to be so cold that we called it quits and went home at lunch time. It was 4 degrees.
A week late we went again and winter was over, it was ten degrees warmer and spring had stared and we could do some spring cleaning in reasonable comfort.
Especially during the winter season the pig shed kitchen with the woodstove has become our preferred kitchen.
A new experiment is to make sausages. These sausages were made at home and dried overnight at the balcony.
The next day they were cooked and smoked in the drum BBQ. First try nearly successful. The only thing was seriously over cooking the sausages.
The flame spreaders of the old gas BBQ rusted through and disintegrated during the New Year’s BBQ thus replacements were needed.
New flame spreaders were made of some recycled metal. In this case the metal cladding of the old door of the third pig shed.
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