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Somewhere in Yunnan, China

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Somewhere in Yunnan, China

The Giants Republic 2024

Windmills

Pig shed windmill shadow
The shadow of the windmills on the pig shed wall
Windmills
Windmills
View with windmills
The view from the upstairs bedroom

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

Spring 1
Xu Ying doing spring cleaning in the garden
Spring 2
Slowly we are becoming ivy league

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.

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The pergola is not an evergreen but turned green again. The grape now has grown all the way to the south/sunny side of the pizza hut and started much earlier than before now it gets some more sun. The ivy produced new leaves among the old ones.

Preferred kitchen

Pig leg
Carving up one more pig leg

Especially during the winter season the pig shed kitchen with the woodstove has become our preferred kitchen.

Gravy
Cooking gravy at the woodstove

Sausage

Sausage 1
The newly made sausages drying on the balcony

A new experiment is to make sausages. These sausages were made at home and dried overnight at the balcony.

Sausage 2
The sausages in the drum BBQ

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.

Burn out the old

The gas BBQ repair work
The gas BBQ with one old and two new flame spreaders

The flame spreaders of the old gas BBQ rusted through and disintegrated during the New Year’s BBQ thus replacements were needed.

Hammer in the new

the gas BBQ
With an angle cutter and a big clamp and a lot of hammering replacements were made

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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