Bonus Posted October 11, 2017 Author Posted October 11, 2017 Yesterday was my birthday . . . Wow! Christmas & Birthday all rolled into one! 2 tons of sand - which I had to fetch and then unload myself with a shovel . . . #feeling blessed . . . LOL
Bonus Posted October 11, 2017 Author Posted October 11, 2017 I thought there might be a surprise in the cement mixer. There was just sand! Wannabe 1
Bonus Posted October 11, 2017 Author Posted October 11, 2017 Working hard as our first wall progresses . . . . BigDL, CobusV, barrykm and 2 others 5
Dicky DQ Posted October 11, 2017 Posted October 11, 2017 One more . . .Donder, you are going to get fit filling water by bottle. ;-) CobusV, Skylark, BSG and 1 other 4
Bonus Posted October 13, 2017 Author Posted October 13, 2017 Last night we went to bed shattered! The retaining wall is coming on nicely but it's hard work. Buying a property on a hill means you can have great views and (eventually) beautiful terraced gardens with water features etc, but actually working on a garden that slopes this much is hard work. Every wheelbarrow of rock or cement has to be dragged up a hill, or equally has to be rolled down a hill. A runaway wheelbarrow is no fun at all! Happy days. It will look good when its done :-) Gen 1
DIPSLICK Posted October 13, 2017 Posted October 13, 2017 awesome,,,,work work work I offered my services, looking back now maybe you could be sitting under the tree watching me build the wall Wannabe, Bonus and BigDL 3
SwissVan Posted October 13, 2017 Posted October 13, 2017 Working hard as our first wall progresses . . . .Smaak the shoes ????Keep up the hard work, one day you will sit back drinking sundowners and enjoy looking at all your achievements. Bonus and coppi 2
lechatnoir Posted October 13, 2017 Posted October 13, 2017 A runaway wheelbarrow is no fun at all! Youtube or it didn't happen!! Seriously though, keep at it. The fruits of your labour will be so much sweeter Bonus and BSG 2
Pah Bear Posted October 13, 2017 Posted October 13, 2017 Yesterday was my birthday . . . Wow! Christmas & Birthday all rolled into one! 2 tons of sand - which I had to fetch and then unload myself with a shovel . . . #feeling blessed . . . LOLBelated happy birthday. Looks like a hellava lotta hard work as a birthday present. Remember when we moved in after building a new house, we decided to plant a tree so we can have some shade in our old age. As time went by we doubted the day will arrive when we ever enjoy that shade, but today, 25 years later, them shade is glorious. So ... it pays off in the long run. Stick to it Wish you well. Bonus 1
Bonus Posted October 13, 2017 Author Posted October 13, 2017 Belated happy birthday. Looks like a hellava lotta hard work as a birthday present. Remember when we moved in after building a new house, we decided to plant a tree so we can have some shade in our old age. As time went by we doubted the day will arrive when we ever enjoy that shade, but today, 25 years later, them shade is glorious. So ... it pays off in the long run. Stick to it Wish you well.Thanks PB!
Bonus Posted October 15, 2017 Author Posted October 15, 2017 Wendy and I are both looking for jobs at the moment. . . . It would be good to find something locally, but the two main fields of employment around here are Tourism and Agriculture - both of which are seasonal and both of which are covered either "within the family" or by employing . Of course once we're up and running with our B&B we will fall into the tourism bracket ourselves. In the meantime we're hoping to find something, pretty much anything really, that will help us cover our living expences. We're looking at On-Line work, which we could do from home, but we're also looking for "proper jobs" further afield. We may end up renting and staying local to our work during the week and coming home to Guaso at the weekends, but we're ok with that. So, as well as all our building work last week, Wendy and I had to find time to make a trip to the nearby town of Sabiñánigo so that we could visit the Department of Employment and register ourselves there. We found the employment office easily enough, on the outskirts of town. Nice modern offices with plenty of parking. Went inside and waited for someone to become available, which took no more than two minutes. So far so good. . . . We sat in front of a middle aged Spanish woman who, we soon realised, was clearly not happy with her lot in life! We spoke to her in our best Spanish but apparently she struggled to understand us. Strange because let's face it, we didn't go into the "Employment" office to discuss the Philosophies of Medieval Kings & Queens or Particle Acceleration using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN . . . Anyway, she turned to her colleague (a middle aged Spanish man), and told him he would have to help her because this was going to be VERY COMPLICATED. I moved over to his desk and, after 20 minutes, I was registered on their system as being available for work, he'd filled in my Personal Profile, issued me with a temporary password to access my account of their system, registered my driving license and told me encouragingly that although unemployment was a problem in Spain, maintenance engineering and knowledge of Variable Speed Drives was in demand. He also told me that his brother-in-law was from the UK and that he hoped we were happy, having moved to Spain. During the same 20 minutes Wendy got almost none of the above done for her. When the lady was "finished" with her she ended up coming to join me and my helpful man and he did all the bits the lady didn't do properly. Thankfully the office wasn't staffed but two unhelpful people. If it had been then instead of coming away feeling quite motivated, I would have come away feeling pretty despondent - like Wendy did. I'll let her tell you more . . . . Stretch, Wannabe and RossW 3
barrykm Posted October 16, 2017 Posted October 16, 2017 Good luck to you both in finding what you need. Bonus 1
Bonus Posted October 24, 2017 Author Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) (This is a really big deal for us so I'm putting it here AND on my "The Pyrenees . . . " thread.) This is fantastic news for us - partly because we are Roadies as well as MTB'ers and partly from a business point of view. Opening up the area to allow Roadies to enjoy it as much as the Dirty Riders already do is a great move! ********************************************************************************************* There are only a few weeks left until the new Zona Zero initiative comes into being! ZONA ZERO ROAD - A project dedicated to the road bicycle . . . After many months of work and thanks to the selfless help of a few local volunteers, without whom it would have been impossible to make any progress with this project, on the weekend of November 17-19 we will welcome "Zona Zero Road" - a project that is dedicated to the road bicycle and reaffirms the position of the region of Sobrarbe as a world center for cycling tourism. A total of 13 routes (with many variants) will allow the lovers of the "skinny wheels" to explore Sobrarbe and its surrounding areas, but this time by road. Taking in many towns within the Sobrabe and neighbouring regions, the valleys of Añisclo & Ordesa, or those of Chistau & Pineta are just some of the routes proposed in the Pyrenean region. The route to Alquézar passes through Biello Sobrarbe and the villages and canyons of the of the Sierra de Guara.Natural Park. There is also a Spanish/French "cross-border collaboration" with plans for routes that cross the Pyrenees to join the Aure and Louron valleys, where you will find some of the most mythical climbs of le Tour de France, including the Col de Peyresourde, Col d'Aspin, Tourmalet and Col d'Aze. The routes will be presented on the Zona Zero website www.bttpirineo.com with illustrative photos, maps, profiles as well as a route summary and the average gradients of the climbs. The Route Profiles have a design that is very similar to those used for the stages of le Tour de France and have been made, just like the maps, using the free Route Editor on the "www.cronoescalada.com" website - to whom we are especially grateful for their help! Next year will see the installation of route signs, the publication of leaflets and brochures and an upload to the web of the exhaustive profiles of each mountain climb. . . . . Edited October 24, 2017 by Bonus shaper, Gen and RossW 3
Bonus Posted October 28, 2017 Author Posted October 28, 2017 We have some friends and their daughter from the UK staying with us for a few days. On Thursday the five of us climbed the Peña Montañesa - the mountain to the north of Ainsa that overlooks this whole area. It's a good 8hr walk up and back and we had a picnic two thirds of the way :-) Summit height is at 2295m and we started in the car park at around 1000m. Gen, RossW, CogitoErgoSum and 1 other 4
Bonus Posted October 28, 2017 Author Posted October 28, 2017 Picnic . . . and then more climbing. Gen, Spokey, CogitoErgoSum and 2 others 5
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