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Painting the pool

Posted in February 17th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in life as a volunteer

The only thing that remains to see is if the pool paint will keep the water from leaking out of our precious little pool! If it does, I’ll almost be looking forward to the warm season, lol!

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Busy busy Saturday

Posted in February 16th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in life as a volunteer, things you'd never do in Sweden

Today was probably the busiest weekend day we’ve had so far!

First of all, an entrepreneur had come with a team to move the horse fence, so that Arwen will finally have a place of her own and be able to fight the dog over his rice or tear down my plants whenever she suffers from […]

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Things Fall Apart

Posted in February 14th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in life as a volunteer, things you'd never do in Sweden

Our house as almost as old as I am, and as with all things, they eventually fall apart. What a shame though that both our sinks (and that would be our only sinks, except for the one in the kitchen) decided to break down at the same time! No big surprise though, when we took […]

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