solar energy

With a new house and little time to make a mayor change in life, I switched to a zero emission strategy and some had solar panels installed on the rooftop :)
It's quite a financial investment but I got a feeling that I got to do something. The fact that I can do this gives me the responsibility to do it.

Four days ago a company installed the solar energycollectors. It's autumn now and we had some bad weather days. Yesterday we had even a tornado on a 20 Km distance. It's no good for my energyfarm.

Surgery

Within less than 2 months I'll have an operation.
I'm walking around with a brace in my mouth since July 2012. The next step is the operation In November 2013. Due to a minor accident in September I broke my thumb bone. It made me postpone the surgery.

But it's okay.

I have some difficulties going to work. I can't cycle. To dangerous with an arm in plaster. So I take the train.... a 12 minutes walk for a 9 minutes train ride and a 15 minutes walk to where I work. Luckily the weather was fine until now. A real Indian summer. 

I'm waiting for autumn, do you?

writing

Well, I am still here. In the meantime I removed to a new house 4 kilometers to where I once lived. I picked up cycling once again, fell again, broke my hand.

Now I have to pick up writing. I don´t know what to write about. Maybe it´s because I just have too much to think  about. But at least Ocean writes, which gives me a reason to keep on going. She is just a wonderful person.

heatwave

In the Netherlands we are on the brink of a heatwave. A few days with temperatures of 30+ Celsius are very rare for this country. The last wave was in 2006 (maybe I blogged about it) and there were to much people who died of dehydration and complications due to the heat. Luckily today was a day witrh a low humidity. The heath was much more bearable.

For my garden this is a test. I planted a few sunflowers and I don't know if they can face the sun much longer.

This part of the garden is 2 metres wide and 4 metres wide.

back

After 3 months I'm back. In the last months I moved to a new home. It will take some time to call it really my home I guess. It's a new house, finished in April 2013. Everything is so much bigger. The luxury is beyond believe if you know what it was.

Now the housing task has almost been completed. I can look forward to next the task.
A medical operation. I'm not happy with it. And I don't know whether it has to be done. I can live without surgery, though surgery is completion of the medical course I started in mid 2011.

Yeah, let's do it the easy way, step by step. Box by box.

time flies indeed

I read a post of Ocean,  a blogger I follow. She wrote a post titled time flies.

Time flies, time passes away quicker that say 10 years ago. But my experience is that if you use time as you are busy you find a kind of satisfaction and looking back it slows time. But if you don't take action, don't take the initiative time slows too but is wasted. So you better can do something.

In the 19 hundreds the castle on the picture below was rebuild. It took the owners 15 years. In their times much happened too but didn't their time fly less high?

Read more about this castle in a new window. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasteel_de_Haar