Frosty datscha weekend

One of many reasons why I like my stove is that its lower air vent looks like a piggy snout. See this slightly enhanced photo:

(Mum, do not look at the lower right corner of the picture! I just noticed that the container with twigs for starting the fire is really dirty. Oops …)

Some early morning photos …

This weekend was a bit chilly. There is frost on the wall.

I set up the bathtub (that had been randomly standing around under he plum tree) to collect rain water. Previously the rain water went straight into the ground, but that seems a bit wasteful, since I’ll be needing water for the garden, and warm rain water is nicer for the plants than cold well water.

I set up the bathtub last time in the dark (!), so I suspected that I didn’t quite manage to seal the drain properly. There is a little ice tap from the drain into the ground, so I will have to seal it properly when it thaws (and in daylight this time).

I tried to protect the well pump a bit with a woolen blanket wrapped around it tightly. It broke last year when temperatures went down to -20° C. It hasn’t been that cold yet and I hope that won’t happen this year. :o/
For now I’m drinking bottled water when I’m out there.

The disturbing fake fish on the frozen pond … Somewhere below, the frogs must be sleeping …

The vegetable garden I built last time. I really need to cut the hedges before the spiders come back …

I saw my firewood on this bench.

Door knob and bamboo.
The door to the greenhouse doesn’t shut when it’s this cold. I seriously use metal wire for too many things. My grandpa would have been proud of me. If I had a penis.

Morning light.

The toilet is so cozy. V^(oo)^V
But I suppose a styrofoam seat would be nice when it’s this cold.

I fixed the fence in that corner. Some animals seemed to have torn it down a bit. I wonder with excitement if maybe it was wild piggies, but I didn’t find any conclusive evidence …

There is an inflatable pool in the corner, which I’ve been wanting to take away since forever. In the summer it was full of insects (who I didn’t want to disturb), and right now it’s frozen to the ground …

I put tiles on the wall behind the stove. It looks a bit messy now that I haven’t filled out the gaps between the tiles yet. In the area around the hole for the pipe it’s good for heat protection. Since I set up the stove, there has sometimes, when I haven’t been heating, been some kind of condensation trickling down along the wall there, so the tiles will be useful for protecting against that, too.