Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories

Old houses require repairs from time to time. Ours is no exception.. I am still glad they are minor repairs.
A water pipe burst in one of the toilets. I borrowed equipment from a friend of mine who explained everything to me and I did it myself. A piece of cake. When I retire from teaching, I can go for plumbing. :):):)

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I wonder when the walnut tree growing next to the house will be struck by a lightning or broken by strong winds and will fall onto the roof, smashing it completely.

Shyt, why am I such a pessimist??? I hate it. :(:(:(

How are your plastering skills?


It's called overthinking. Usually more of a female trait. I do it all the time :(

Maybe this tree should be cut down?

They are fine. :):) However, I noticed an unusual phenomenon. When I do plastering for a client, like in the US decades ago, I do my best and achieve excellent results. When for myself, then I don`t care so much. Strange. :):)


Yes, that is my problem. The race of thoughts, most pessimistic.


I will never do it to a living tree. Forget it.

Okay, but if it break into your house, you can shoot it... at least that's what Novi thinks.

Then I will have it massacred with Texas chainsaws. But as long as it is standing, it will. :):):)

Pics from our countryside.

Riddle: why are rapeseed fields arranged as such seperate strips of land?

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A modern version of strip farming is quite common in Poland.

I am afraid it isn`t the proper answer.

Rapeseed is usually grown in the largest fields possible. That just looks like smallholders planting some on their strips.

Yes. Why is it so?
In other regions of Poland fields with homogeneous crop are far vaster than in the pics above.

@pawian
The strips?

Inheritance law.

Yes, but why other regions feature vaster fields while southern Poland narrow strips ???

maybe something some kind of holdover from German farming?

Maf, you are close though it wasn`t really a holdover or relic if I get you correctly. Sth else.

Result of 18th Century Partitions? Farms and land shapes different in e.g Austrian and Russian partition areas?

There's plenty of strip farming to the west of Warsaw.

When brothers inherited they divided the bits with good soil and bad soil between them.

yes, it was the poorest of all and hugely overpopulated so the land was divided further and further by


until large chunks of arable land became minute strips. Today some small farmers own a few of such pieces of land scattered all over the area.


More exactly, it is a result of taking over ex German territory after WW2. The communist state became the owner which established state farms there. They covered immense areas.

Nearly two years ago I spotted the first hedgehog in our place.
https://polishforums.com/life/poland-owning-house-true-countryside-84664/11/#msg1867133

Two days ago I saw it again, in the same place as before. Amasing it hides so well in that bush that the average frequency of seeing it is two years.

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This sand lizard, in Polish called agile, also seems to be the one we regularly see in the fields.:):):)

hey, I just noticed an opportunity for a riddle! What is special about the animal??? Look closely.

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Do you mean Tusk?

Yaawn and sigh at your "joke." Veritably lame. :):):) Stop obsessing about Mr Honourable Prime Holy Minister Donald Reverend Tusk so much. Get a treatment. hahahaha

I know you are trying to cover your ignorance about the lizard`s unusual feature with this lame joke.
I will give you one more chance. Think harder! Why is the lizard special???

Hint - look the the second photo! Ha!!!

LOL!!!!


Who is the one obsessing about Tusk? You would kiss the prat's boots........

Or even lick them...... urghhhhh!

The one who brings it out of the blue in a completely unrelated thread?

Stop asking stupid questions? What is your IQ????

Instead, answer my riddle. Are you able to? What is your knowledge of animals apart that you eat some of them as food???

Look at the zoomed lizard.

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Could it be that his tail grew back?

Yes! Those lizards discard their tail when in a perilous situation of a predator attack. Amasing nobody knows about it except me and you. I already came across such tailless lizards as a boy. :):):)

@pawian
I thought all types of such lizards do that, that's why you don't catch them by the tail.

It was a horrible crime done by one of my former dogs on my Polish grandmas vacation spot in the farmlands outside Warsaw. She wanted the Lizards to be alive and plenty to combat the bugs that was there. The dog had other plans and hunted the lizards for sport.

It was a tragicomedy to behold