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20 August 2022

Rough times of drought

Terrible drought times in these months, as somebody decided to divert the water flow of our canal the Roggia Cividina. It's been dry weather for weeks now but the choice has been done on a local political level causing a tremendous damage to all the wildlife and the trees growing along the sides.

24 April 2022

Marble and lime floor

Some unpredictable friend's connections bring the opportunity to experiment with an antique building technique to make a floor: the "terrazzo alla Veneziana" involving a layer of marble pebbles strongly compacted into a lime based gravel mix.



Here some of the many many phases of the work... 

21 January 2022

Another log in the wall

After many weeks of preparation, a tight crew of brothers and sisters came over for a quick and smooth operation and a 7 meters long log got into the old house in no time!



Big huges thanks for all those who helped... it happened last December.
This log is going to support from underneath the all the other logs that make the second floor which are quite "dodgy"  at the moment.