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After such a warm and sunny weekend, we were greeted the next Friday with snow. This meant that our gardening was put on hold again for a week.
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Such a nice warm weekend, a huge contrast to the previous minus temperature + no heating weekend! We took advantage of the warmth and sunshine by spending most of the time working in the garden. We built a bed for vegetables, a mini greenhouse and planted our first vegetable seeds, as well as replanted some flowers.
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Since we go to our house almost every weekend, the cold weekend of -12 degree weather wasn’t any different. Except that this weekend, as we discovered as we arrived there on Friday afternoon, our oil heating had frozen due to the extreme temperatures.
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The last two weekends of February, we didn’t do all that much, but we did manage to make the rooms a bit nicer, by adding lamps, some paintings, a palette bed and painting some walls and doors.
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The first week back, we managed to make the large bedroom actually resemble a bedroom, as well as paint the corridor, which made me extremely happy.
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We had a large group of five this weekend and managed to get quite a bit of painting done. The walls of the dining room and small bedroom were both painted (grey and yellow, respectively) and we painted five doors. A couch was also made from pallets, a single mattress and some bricks.
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