Cabin, No Cabin!!

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No!! The Cabin!!

The cabin

Welcome- Today or should I say yesterday, we realised that the foundation of the cabin has sunk, or should I say the ground under it has sunk, around 6cm leaving it in a very dangerous condition somehow still ok, just sunk the back wall inside the cabin a bit. I could repair it, but it would cost way to much money, time and energy as it needs a truck with concrete and a pump and the old uncemented stone fountain supported either side with lots on concrete. Underpinning its called in English.

On Friday I was in the city working and decided to stop and go to relax. I went into the shop to buy papers and when I came out , Oolo my brown dog was gone. So I stood shouting load for him to come, then took a walk around the block but no luck. Bastard. I waited for an hour loosing my voice from shouting, and pissed of that i must wait for him or call the police and then it would cost money when the dog catchers found him etc. Then I get a message from Cronus saying that iI must get to the cabin straight away because its going to fall out the cliff. Fuck really right now?! I messaged him back asking to explain more then he wrote something that didnt quite make sense 100% and i thought maybe he could write properly because the cabin was falling and he was busy panicing.
I decided there was nothing I could do so i got the next bus back. I get of at our stop and I hear shouting, Dan, Dan and I see Cronus with 2 guys across the road at the other bus-stop. So I go over and I see its 2 bus drivers with Cronus.
One of them shows me his phone and says look! I see its a picture of my dog on a bus.

He had lost me outside the shop at the trainstation and then had run to the busstation and actually got on the bus to go home. I didnt know he was so clever. I still dont know what way he went beacause we rarely walk to the busstation, and we dont really get the bus from there any more. He took the express bus though so it went straight to the next city and then the driver found him back at the bus yard. So kindly the bus driver had said to keep the dog there and then one drove me in his car. they had all done alot to not let Oolo go to the dog pound to save me the fortune.
So dog sorted, now I still hadnt seen the cabin but didnt have time because I had to go get Oolo. Cronus was adamant that the thing was falling soon and so he went up to take everything out. I had the reunion with Oolo and got back to the cabin to take a look. I saw down in the basement that the walls were cracked, and then went outside and found the clusterfuck problem.

We got stones and I wedged them in in critical places to stop it sinking further, but the ground sank and its all still frozen This creates alarm bells because when everything starts melting then its causing movement.
The evening rocked up and we decided to use the last of our money to go buy sand and cement the next day.

I decided to take pictures of the mission of yesterday to show ya the price of living like this, we obviously dont pay rent and taxes but we pay in time and energy!

First we went to ask if we could borrow a van from the hardware store and celebrated seeing the carpark and our feet on dry tarmac. The van wasnt there after a chat with the worker there. They like us and have been letting us charge there when we first moved in and it was sure shot to ask to use the van. We left ready to go get the trolley and go get the bus, and then we see their van coming! Hope still! We asked the boss as he got out the van, but it was his weekend off and he was on his way to dinner with the family.

Look how deep the snow is there, the neighbour tried with a small tractor thing but gave up trying to clear a path for his car! We had only the option to go with the bus and to take this trolley thing I found a while back with us which would fit 2 sacks in. We were prepared to be doing many trips back and forth and so we started to walk to the bus stop. Just as we arrived across the road from the busstop we needed , my phone rang and a mate said if we needed he had a big car and will come find us so we waited were we were, enjoyed the sun and had a spliff.

After 10 minutes we heard alot of car horn action coming down the hill to the crossroads..

He certainly had got hold of a big "car". He asked if I had a driving license and then said that he must take his car to his wife and that i can use it to go get concrete and let him know when we were finished with it. Legend.
We chucked the trolley in the back and we drove up to where his car was parked. It was great to drive a van again and we headed to the builder yard.

We scrapped the last of our money together and could afford 17 bags of ready mix super strong concrete, loaded them up and went to pay. We had the use of a huge truck and there was still alot of unused space and we found it rude not to go check out the trash of the 5 huge shops there. Sure enough we found some cool things to take back with us..

First this chipboard stuff that has some kind of waterproofing lack on it, covered in snow!

There is a trash container outside nearly every shop, gardening shops, builders yards etc like here, and always unless the trash has just been emptied, you will find useful things. We took 4 sheets of this out of this container.

Next Container..

Dosnt look like theres much but there was a cool wooden collaspable unit for a nice summers day BBQ grill that came with, theres nothing even wrong with it!

Would be perfect if you were a travelling magician, as it folds out and stands up automatically :) perfect for a pancake stand!

Load it all in! and lets go, I had to go find a tool i wanted but they didnt have so we went to the other shop.

No luck there either, I was looking for a pistol that can inject cement, they dont have them in Norway apparently!
We started driving back and had planned to do the work the next day (sunday) and just get prepared today.

We parked up back at the cabin and we started unloading the bags, all was ok..

Then came the start to take them all up! and so we started.

Heres part of the way up, before then going onto a slope which is just ice, and then 50 stairs up a steep slope. We were tired just from bringing the 25kg bags onto the driveway. They were ready to go up to the bottom of the stairs where we would first put them, we pulled them up on the snow.

Its been so exhausting to live here in the winter, the stairs are solid ice and to walk in the snow takes all your energy after a long day standing in the cold.

We decided that were not going to do anymore work to it and we have surrendered! which is an awesome thing to do when things start taking to much energy!

We can still use the land to grow and make small partys etc in the future :)

A good practice of Non Attachment To Things!

Time to move on! I dont think it will completely fall until next winters snow, but its definatly not safe to stay in that half of it. We prepared all our things today and packed them and we dont own much which is great.

Time to look for a houseboat thats cheap or free and needs some love! or even buy a pontoon that I can build on.

The thing is though that I want to just buy Bitcoin this year and not get caught up with more "things" I very nearly got attached to the cabin but realised this morning that yeh, its time for a change. We lived here since august, and what weve paid worked out that we rented it for cheap and we had a place very comfortable for the long hard winter.