Akmenrags Lighthouse
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Akmenrags Lighthouse (Latvian: Akmeņraga bāka) - a lighthouse on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea, located to the south of the resort town of Pāvilosta.
I first visited Akmensrags Lighthouse in the mid…
Another morning, another beatiful mist
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It seems I have a new tradition - for the second year in the row I have captured beautiful morning mist in our country house backyard.
Alright, previous year my beloved did the shooting while I was dreaming about roof works. This time I couldn't…
Cats on The Rocks
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Recently I featured a post about how we built a rock garden in the front of our country house. I reported a lovely sunset just shortly. In today's Piece of Life series - little creatures who enjoys the most of our new rock garden. Meet our lovely…
Red Sunset in our Rock Garden - Cool Evening Mood
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This Summer spoiled us with a lovely sunsets, but one of the most empathic had been observed in front of our house at rock garden.
Red/Orange Sunset at Rock Garden
See how we built this rock garden a few days ago.
Country…
Drupal 7.50 introduces User warning messages for incorectly removed modules
| Drupal Development | 20 seen
The other day I did perform a minor upgrade from Drupal 7.43 to Drupal 7.50, and was a bit scarred when noticed a huge warning page, at first I thought there are some problems with my files and folders or I have done something terribly wrong. Thus…Beam Replacement for Old house - Building Bathroom from Scratch - Part 2
| Home Remodeling | 11 seen
Here comes another update on home remodeling works - building a bathroom from scratch. After I successfully concreted stone wall it was time to install new beams. For this side of house we did not had any beams installed (ok, they were, but…Our neighbor - Fox baby
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For the second year in the row we have one small and lovely neighbor - baby fox. Once we met him at the bus stop, looked amazing - fox going to the city, the other morning bad farmers had mowed crop fields and baby fox seemed very disappointed…
Making Rhubarb Wine
| DIY | 18 seen
In our garden we have a lot of rhubarbs, one thing you can make out of them is a rhubarb cake, but turns out there is at least one more thing you can do with rhubarbs - you can try to make a wine. In today's Do It yourself series - my (our )…Gravel for road surface and rock garden
| Home Remodeling | 7 seen
The other day I first met with one of our closet neighbors, he approached me and told me, that in couple of days he will cover road (we are sharing together) with a gravel. I already mentioned it in my previous post about pond works. I asked…Building a Rock Garden
| Home Remodeling | 4 seen
Today we made a rock garden from scratch, well almost. The thing is - idea to have a rock garden have always been in our minds, but we hadn't yet figured out how to solve the biggest question - rocks.
We had already idea of place were rock garden…
Building a foundation for a garden oven - Part 1
| Home Remodeling | 5 seen
Idea to have a nice garden pizza oven were sit first already last year, together with the works we started shaping a form of our rural house, we recently inherited. Thus we had to wait for more than a year, before actually proceeding.
The…
Pond Digging - Part 3 - The Result
| Home Remodeling | 26 seen
This morning started with a surprise, I was still sleeping, when my partner awakened me and told - pond guys are digging. I was surprised, because I didn't heard a sound. Maybe I was too tired from yesterday's pond draining or as it turned latter -…How to drain a pond with a pump and hose - Digging Pond - Part 2
| Home Remodeling | 16 seen
Today I had a chance to excel in pond works - I was left with no choice but to drain the pond. Luckily the pond guys brought an electric pump to make my life much easier. If you are new to home remodeling series, make sure you check out an…Chasing Sunset Photography with a Strong Foreground (Pāvilosta / Jūrkalne)
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Chasing sunset photography with a strong foreground is a brief story, which happened on the next day after Summer Solstice. We took our moms and a little doggie and decided to visit coastal Latvian beaches.
At start we headed to Pāvilosta…
Jurkalne Seashore Bluffs
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The Jurkalne Seashore bluffs (Jūrkalnes stāvkrasti) are one of the most picturesque parts of Latvia's Western part seashore, located some 20 km from Pāvilosta.Jūrkanle bluffs are great for photography or quiet walk near the beach. The bluffs in…