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The never ending story – renovation of the outbuilding

Couple of pictures from this month. On the 10’th Roy helped me out leveling the floor.

Then I had to remove the root from the birch tree.

Then a day off, helping my inlaws, throwing down the old tiles from the roof.

Then a long period with heavy rain causing a complete halt, but finally on the 20’th we could start again.

And then today I finally had time to mount the plastic sheets on to the concrete and start laying the drainage

Raggmunk in Töckfors

Had to try it out when in Töckfors yesterday – good one!!

The Swedish version of unbound potato pancakes is called rårakor.[4] When prepared with a batter of wheat flour, milk, egg, and shredded potatoes and fried like thin pancakes, they are called raggmunk, the word “ragg” means crispy and “munk” derives from the Swedish “munkpanna”, which is literally translated as donutpan.[5] Both kinds are enjoyed with fried pork and lingonberry jam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_pancake

Renovation progress

The drainage is not up to date, so my father in-law is doing what he knows best – digging using the backhoe. Actually, the foundation has no protection against the groundwater and soil, so we need to add that along with new drainage pipes.

And the old birch tree had to go. As we know it was planted back in 1892 when the local sheriff (? – lensmann) moved to the house we know live in. The tree was actually rotten inside, along with the leaves, branches and birch juice tearing on the roof, so we had to remove it. Securing using the winch it was pretty easy to

The boys having fun, climbing in the “jungle”