Bokrijk I

Last week we went to Bokrijk, it's an open air museum in Genk.

We saw this chicken stairs.....

A nice water pump with frogs......

A water mill.

Some beehives......

A well......

And again some (rubbing) donkeys :-)

To be continued............

Frame-house

Although we realise we are incredible lucky with our house and garden, we keep dreaming :-)

We dream about a small frame-house, loam walls, fire place, self sufficiency (vegetables, collecting rainwater, solar panels), lots of land for the donkeys, chickens, meadows, hedge laying etc.

Everybody needs a dream!

Barn

A couple of years ago we built a new barn.

Originally there was this concrete shed with an asbestos roof.

Our new wooden barn is so much better!!!

It's no longer in the middle of the backgarden and it fits right in with the surroundings.

Especially now the colour of the wood (still only on the outside) is changing from brown into grey.

We have a loam wall.........

a fireplace (built with bricks from the Antwerp Zoo :-)

and recycled handmade tiles on the roof.

You could easily be mistaken and think our (new) barn has already been here for a long time :-) 

Bricks

One of the reasons we bought this house is the brickwork.

The house itself is only 12 years old but because of these bricks it looks much older.

The reclaimed bricks and also the colour and the width of the grouting, works for us.

You can still see some pieces of straw left in the loam.......

Some layers of lime plaster.......

Some stones have traces of a fire.......

Sometimes you can even see some fingersprints left in the brick  :-)