We are renting a car to get around. As we are 1 hour from anything we have to. Our free time goes into searching a second hand car. What so far has not resulted into finding a good one that gets us at least through the winter with -30 and 3 meter snow. It is frustrating what they try to sell here and in what state those cars are. Every time we have to drive far to see one… we even went 3 hours one way. On the way there the garage send us a text. Car just sold. They didn’t even hold it for us. Just crazy.
Yep, I have to wait until june again when the snow is gone to plant the new veggies out.
Maybe I should build a heated greenhouse to extend the season. As less then 3 month is just too short for most.
Sadly, hubby has not found another job yet. It is getting tough after 1,5 year now… too many people searching for jobs. The HR people not doing a good job doesn't help either. It looks like they can pick a person that ticks all boxes now. If something doesn’t add up, as simple as having a telephone number from a different country… they don’t look further at a cv.
One day… something will happen.
Thank you Zac much appreciated 😊
Have a beautiful weekend!
Hope every day you are feeling a little better!
!PIZZA
!LUV
@papilloncharity, @littlebee4(1/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily
A bad situation about the used cars, and I just hope that you guys will eventually find a good one with low mileage. We recently bought our VW Polo from a car rental agency, and it only had 30,000 on the clock. Light on fuel, so maybe you can also search around for car rental agencies.
A greenhouse will be perfect, as you are right, and it can certainly extend the season. If it's done correctly, then you can even extend for 3 months or more.
We will pray about your hubby finding a job, and one never knows, as miracles still happens, so maybe you can start to expect something happening on the job front for hubby.
Thank you, and I am up and about again, and almost 100% again.
Hope that you guys will have a good new week.
Blessings!
!PIZZA and !LUV
@littlebee4, @papilloncharity(1/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily
Still no success on the car front. We decided to rent the next car for 4 weeks. We were getting toooo stressed and my health isn’t good lately either. So we took some pressure off, so I can recover.
I will ask the rental company if that’s an option here. Thanks for the idea.
Yes, if one builds a greenhouse for this climate it needs to be done well. Heated with insulation and proper airflow. Maybe even a water line below the frost level. We will see…
Aawww thank you so much Zac, much appreciated. Yes, we stay positive and miracles do happen.
A job will probably also change again where we live. We give it till end of the year. Hubby is applying for many jobs each day. If still no job we are going to take action and move where we can create a job ourselves. We are thinking of any options right now.
Thats good to hear, hope it did improve even more in the last days.
Thank you so much! Have both a fantastic weekend 👋🏻
Take care and stay safe.
!PIZZA
!LUV
@papilloncharity, @littlebee4(6/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily
Sad to see about your health condition, and you will have to find a way to handle the stress, as it can only worsen matters. I really hope that the car rental place also has sales, as they all do over here.
Yep, I can see that you know all about the installation of a greenhouse, and maybe you can grow organic crops to supply the local shops and businesses. Some people grow niche market mushrooms over here, and it's a small business idea that does very well.
I only hope that that you guys will find a way to survive, and a small business might be ideal to improve your situation. We have one of the world's highest un-employment figures, and so many people are opening their own little "Spaza" shops.
We take things much slower now, and it helps a bit, so let's see if things will improve.
May you guys also have a restful weekend, and all blessings from us.
Get some rest milady.
!PIZZA and !LUV
@littlebee4, @papilloncharity(1/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily
Thank you so much Zac. I try to rest as much as I can. I know stress can make things worse… so I am not going in that direction anymore.
Local to us is nothing… we are 1 hour drive from anything. Even people. Wrong spot for many things.
We are winterising the house now. The things I didn’t manage to do in the summer as we were away twice for 3 weeks. So today is doing the windows. Putting in draft rubbers, wadding between the 2 single pane windows and taping the inside set of windows. Think two windows 🪟 with 15 cm between them. I did manage to paint them. Now putting all back together before it gets tooooo cold.
Snow is already 1 hour away from us.
Hubby has also an interview this morning 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 so let’s see how that goes.
We did set ourselves a timeframe. If nothing happens by end of November we start our next journey and will go self employed. Meaning… moving countries. (A job will mean that too btw.)
Thats good to hear. Slower is sometimes needed.
Thank you, have a wonderful day.
Take care the both of you.
!PIZZA
!LUV
@papilloncharity, @littlebee4(2/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily
Amazing how you guys have learnt to "winterise:" a house. We have never done that over here, but this is Africa and there is no need of that. Snow is rare here and only dresses the mountain peaks lightly.
Great news that hubby has an interview, and I really hope and pray that he will be employed. You guys have waited long enough now. But even if not, then destiny might want you to start doing your own thing. Moving is no problem for you, as long as you guys can still handle it. We are also searching for another house, in an area where there is no crop spraying of pesticides, as we both are starting to struggle with cloggy chests.
I enjoy the slowing down, strangely, as I have always had a demented drive in all that I do.
You guys also take care, and we are holding thumbs for hubby to get the job.
!PIZZZA and all our !LUV
@littlebee4, @papilloncharity(2/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily
@littlebee4, @papilloncharity(3/10) sent you LUV. | tools | discord | community | HiveWiki | <>< daily