Week 31
One of Tjeerd's "vlindertuins" or "butterfly gardens". He's made several of these and is quite happy to do the maintenance. The butterfly flowers are so easy, just cut some off and stick it in the ground! My sort of gardening!
They really do attract the butterflies...
...and other insects.
On Tuesday, I went to the boat in order to shift it to another spot - but the chap said he had changed his mind and would now be staying.
Wednesday was a write-off - I broke a belt on the ride on mower - the grass was too long and wet - I really do have to do it twice a week in order to keep it under control.
And a bracket on the tractor shovel was broken...but easily fixed...
By Friday morning, Janny's mooring spot had become free, so we moved into it and turned the boat around so we could make a bit more room in the wheelhouse - the chairs store better away from the steering wheel.
Sisters' Night on Board
Expecting rain...always!
Another Lemster aak... The White Swan
...and some more street names
The Meat Market
I learn something every time...
The essence of this one is that around 1865 more than 4600 people lived behind or on the bulwarks (which had been ordered to be built at a time when Dokkum was more strategically important). There are now about 1200 residents inside the bulwarks. It was only in 1915 that the city was given permission to build outside the city canals and defences.
There was also a gas making facility and storage tanks - but in 1968 they were removed after many gas leaks, including in one of the Church buildings - this was the last straw!
There is also an old lock still visible - this was part of the water system feeding the Friese Boezem.
This one says that around 1572 there was a large fire which destroyed more than 200 houses.
This one was spared and in 1975 it was sold into private hands for the sum of 1 guilder (about one dollar), on the proviso that it was restored to it's original state - it doesn't look finished yet.
Lucky you, out and about On the boat.
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