Ok, in German “putz” is what you call the plaster or stucco you put on walls. So yeah, I’m just making a bit of word play. Call it your German lesson for the day.
We asked one of our neighbors who happens to be a general contractor and painter if he would come by when he had some free time and cover up where we bricked in the bathroom window of the guest house and also around the corner where we’ve formed a wall by the wine cellar for the guest house closet. These two places have gone without plaster and paint long enough and it’s not something we find all that fun so we’re gladly going to pay the guy 180 bucks to take care of this.
After he didn’t contact us for a week or so, we started to think the job was just too small for him or he wasn’t interested. Then by chance we were in the restaurant across the street on Friday night and he walked in. Naturally he had to say something so he offered to come over last Saturday. That was the night of Stefan’s birthday party which unfortunately wouldn’t work out. So he asked if the following Friday would be ok instead (which would have been tomorrow.) No problem for us and we could be excited that it would finally get done.
But today at about 4pm he rang the doorbell and asked if I had time for him to get started. So he carried some long boards over which you saw in the last post about the compost pile (thankfully lives in the house next door so it wasn’t far too go) and put on the edges for the wall here.
He’ll be coming back at 8am on Saturday to plaster the rest of the wall and this one. Then we’ll need a bit more paint to take care of this corner to. We’ve been playing with the idea of having a mural painted in here. Maybe something as if you were looking out into a vineyard or something. Of course then we’d need someone who knows what they’re doing to come take care of that for us.
Maybe we’ll just paint it the colors of the house for the time being and figure something else out along the way. Either way, these two spots are going to look massively better when this is finished…and we’ll be one step closer to finally finishing things out over on the guest house and the farm in general.
