Here are some pictures from the second summer of living in my house. I was working together with my friend who has more experience in repairing a log house.

Inspecting the damage on the lower part of the norther wall. This is the smaller room, floor completely removed:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1213466542699&set=a.121346578268...

The north wall, all the bad parts removed:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1238869737763&set=a.121346578268...

We couldn't find a long enough log to replace the lowest log. So we had to join two pieces together:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1238871417805&set=a.121346578268...

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Oh, and I'm far from being da Vinci =) He was extremely talented in many areas, but I'm just about average in everything I do. Well, then, I knew I was not that bad at studying Philosophy, and the University staff kind of a encouraged me to continue my studies further. But spending most of the time reading books and writing articles about books? Oh no - sometimes I like to read and to write, but I don't want it to eat a lot of time away from other activities.

Also, living in the countryside I see that many people here are multitalented. Just the ordinary dairy farmer has to know a wide range of skills. At the nearby farm they fix, weld and repair the machines they use, they take care of the animals, they maintain the local roads, whenever they need a new building they build it, and then the whole farm is so big that running it requires skills of a business manager. Or the family running the nearby mill - they do everything from driving a tractor to managing the sales of the company. Somehow I feel at home living in countryside neighbourhood =)