Åkarp's bible

The "holy" book about Åkarp is finally in our hands! "Gamla Åkarp och hur det var förr" (Old Åkarp and how it was in the past) by Emmi Bergkvist.
Oh, how much I have been looking forward to be able to read it without having to be in Tårtrummet!!

My copy of THE book

Today, they came

And today, it started the process for renovating the roof.
We blocked Kullavägen for a couple of hours. For our neighbour joy, I bet ;-)

Down there there are two big trucks. 

Did it really go through our gate?

Parked in our garden

In the garage attic

Completing the garage cleaning is taking extra time. This is also because there are extra spiders to take care of (...).
One nice detail found is this ventilation shaft:

Ankarsrum?

And then, we took a ladder and we finally put the head in the attic.

Is that a human brain or an humongous wasp nest?

We put the hands randomly and we found tons of cars carpets (used. BLEARGH!), 5-6 double baskets specimen (for vases or for what!?) and finally some piece of history:

An Opel wheel cup possibly from 1960

But instead of finding human bodies, as we feared, we found...a fairly good amoung of extra tiles!!!

An extra amount of tiles can be always handy to have

The tractor got stuck

To keep high the expectations on what we have found on the garage attic, we should go back in time and tell the story of when the garden tractor got stuck.

Once upon the time, Mattias (who had by the way stated he would be the one writing this post) was finally moving the lawn. He used the tractor for doing this for being fast (and furious).
However, at a certain point we heard "scrunch" and after that the tractor didn't move, nor started anymore.

We had no idea how to identify the issue - we did a basic issues hunting but that didn't solve any problem and we thought that we had to bring it for reparation.
But how? The tractor weights quite much and the wheels didn't move of a single centimeter.

That's how we did it...

A guy with a problem and a solution. He is an engineer!

We put extra soap on the improvised ramp

Mattias pulled the tractor, while me and Isabella pushed. 

The tractor is finally up - but at the end we needed the extra hands of one of our neighbours

Luckily, the problem was not a serious one, although we wouldn't have anyway managed to fix it ourselves: the brakes were stuck!

Hidden surprises

As part of our therapy to clean out stuff that has not been removed by our predecessor and clean out buildings that we haven't had time to take care, we have now switched focus to the garage.

We are digging our way through the garage

 Everything looks normal: there are a lot of strange objects, old things possibly that has belonged to another epoch or galaxy, many spiders, some other kind of animal and also components of other items that we have been looking for allover the place. Note: we have not yet investigated what there is in the attic...

Piece of decorative eave !??!?!

 We have never been doing a proper inspection. Not even during the official one it was possible to examine the state of this building since there were too many items and the inspector just resigned.
In these two years, we have never had the opportunity to "reset" the state of the garage and actually look at its conditions.
Sadly, today we found a surprise...

What's there!?

Brilliant! An hole in the wall!

We suspect that the intention was to build a door on the back of the garage, but the project (luckily) never proceed more than by removing some bricks in the first layer of the wall...
At this point we are afraid to look into the attic of this place!

Cleaning the tools shed

Finally, after two years, we have cleaned out the tools shed.
We could possibly open a garden shop: we almost have a piece of each existing tool on the planet...

Do we miss something, maybe?

Fonts

As we are approaching the possibility to get the house name back on the facades, we have also to think about a font to choose.
Unfortunately, from the postcards we have, it is impossible to understand which is the exact font that was used, but when looking carefully it seems as it is all written in capital letters.

Following the suggestion of some expert on old buildings, we have kept our eyes opened looking at our neighbouroud, but so far, we had no luck in finding anything that could fit.
The other day, though, I was walking in a part of Åkarp I had not yet explored and I saw this...

It could work fine, couldn't it?