Meppel

We are since Thursday afternoon just south of the Paradise lock near Meppel.  For the name alone you want to stay here, it is also a lovely, idyllic spot with just enough shade and sun and a lake for Panache to swim, very quiet and green, each day we decide to stay another day.

 Michel has finished the works on the console around the steering wheel, a very difficult and complicated corner where many wires had to be stored. I can now get to paint it, I start tomorrow morning so we'll stay here another day.

The garden is wonderful, it is  good growing weather, alternating rain and sun. At the very worst storms we covered it for security to prevent crop damage. All 16 boxes now display multiple green dots in different heights. I wonder when I can start harvesting.

We have been trying for some time to think of a good solution for mosquito prevention in the portholes. The mosquitoes are not so bad but there are a lot of leaves etc coming through the open windows. We designed and tried multiple complex structures and made prototypes but nothing was really as desired.
Suddenly we knew what it was last night and, as so often with these things, in the end this is the very simplest way, we had all we needed in the house and in one afternoon it was finished.

Adhesive Velcro exactly on the edge and gauze sticked loosely over it so the porthole can still close.