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Daughter and I shared for breakfast what was left of the smoked salmon. We had one slice of toast each. The boys had two and a half- both of them. I vacuumed the ground floor then joined daughter for jigsawing. I have to say that she did exceptionally well, sorting in what I had sorted by colour. In the afternoon almost half of the jigsaw was done- but now we are getting to those parts I was not able to sort. Blessedly daughter has ordered from Amazon and decided to wait until tomorrow for delivery, so more time for her to help me. We had gnocchi with onion sauce for lunch- don't like it, but quickly done, which is fine for me. I am not a big fan of cooking at the moment. It's not because of the process of cooking itself but the things husband mine wants to eat. Funny, but each time the days get shorter he drifts towards 'I want to eat the things my mother cooked when I was a boy'. Unfortunately for him that's a definite no for me. That's why husband mine has altered his tactics and brings home mostly things that need imminent processing and go with his own meal plans. Husband is clever, this I have to admit. Tomorrow I will accompany him to Aldi, or we will live on potato dumplings and wurstnudeln. And all sorts of cabbage, of course.
In the late afternoon daughter mine started to scour the basement for things she needs for next week's Comicon in Vienna. She came back up with one red sweat shirt, a black clothes bag, white felt I have been searching for last year, adjustable straps- all will get turned into a huge black handbag with lips and teeth. The good thing is that tomorrowm daughter will return to her flat with hubby, they will pick up her bike (there's some person living in the house who's taken her bike out of the bicycle storage room twice to park it outside on the parking place) and the broccoli dying in her fridge, then the two will return to our house for sewing and crafting and hopefully more jigsawing. Thing is that four big plants have to move into the conservatory soonest- we are supposed to get snow next week. Jigsawing might be less fun then because of the critters which come along with the plants..

I have been hunting for the missing buttons all morning. Went through the drawers in the bedroom. The studio is a mess. Alas, I was not successful. How is it possible that two boxes have fallen off the face of the earth? Granted, the boxes are not hugh ones, but neither are they tiny!
Three Amazon deliverers arrived during morning, bringing rusty stars, Elsa's Advent calendar and Christmas presents. Matthäus's things are still on their way, delivered by Austrian postal service. Means that delivery will take a bit longer. We had leftovers from yesterday for lunch, but now that daughter would come (hungry, as always) I decided to try Arabian yogurt soup. What can I say...fantastic? Rice, lentils, onions and meatballs cooked in a mix of yogurt and soup, seasoned with garlic, curcuma and berbere. Hubby ate three bowls!
The boys arrived at two thirty. First thing was having Cassian finish his homework. Apparently he does not do well in after school care. And his mum does not care if he neglects homework- she still thinks that such things have to be done in school only. So either his dad takes care of the problem (if he does not work late) or there's no finished homework at all. After homework the boys had a snack, then we started to furnish the lanterns. Afterwards we did paper stars for the conservatory- a tedious affair if one has to use real glue instead of glue stick. Lasted forever and a day until the glue dried up and we were able to cut shapes. Daughter came late, too late for jigsawing- it was dark already. She, too, loved the soup. Hubby prepared cold snacks for the boys' dinner- salmon and ham sandwiches. How can it be that those two rascals always come to our home when smoked salmon is in the house? And why does hubby always offer it to them? He already must know that they'll eat most of it? I hope there's enough salmon left for daughter and me for tomorrow's breakfast. Hubby left at six to put the boys to bed. Their mum is at the opening of her next exhibition. Their dad has to work late. Daughter and I turned the TV on and will watch a doku. But only if hubby does not come back early for the next prime time crime story...

Today I sewed together the cardigan's sleeves (after unravelling ten rows on each and producing a more appropriate top shaping). Darned in all threads- and the buttons I bought are still missing. It's hubby's fault- he was the one who unvoluntarily made me reorganize the content of the cupboards:)) Oh well, there's still time- tomorrow the boys will be here, so no time to search for buttons. We will do the wichtel laterns instead. Also daughter will come in the afternoon, alas, too late for jigsawing. She promised to stay the whole Thursday, but I know it's karaoke night for her, which she won't want to miss...
Otherwise it was a quiet day. Not much housework to do, only lunch-cooking turned out quite time-consuming- potato strudel with minced meat and a selfmade curry mayonnaise which I had to do twice. The first try ended up in a glass jar. I will use some of it for curried eggs tomorrow. Son did not want the train table for Matthäus for Christmas. He thought I'd better buy him a toniebox with four figurines. Costs? 152 euros. I am doomed. That's not what number three would want for his son, it's always DiL3 who does the choosing. This lady is a piece of work...
Anyway, the presents for Elsa and Matthäus are ordered and will arrive tomorrow. I'd better stay at home all morning, because Amazon deliverers always put the delivery in front of the entrance door instead of the terrace door, as specified on my Amazon account. I also ordered metal rings and rusty stars for handicrafting. Found some very interesting handicraft instructions on Facebook. Now comes the time when we have to lock either aunt Lil's or number four's room, to have a place where we can store Christmas presents. The basement isn't safe anymore- Cassian with Flavius in tow are very interested in getting down there. Hubby just caught them on Sunday, before they found grandchild number four's present...

It's back, oh my! On Friday I got up at four in the morning for a tour de loo. That's when that song hit my sleepy brain and did not leave all day long. Today, at the same time, it happened again. I was even humming the tune when waiting for sleep to come back. Hubby was not amused. Me, neither. I don't get it- haven't watched the movie, did not even hear the song on TV recently. Dvarves must have digged a tunnel to my brain and sit there singing and making merry. I hummed the tune until afternoon- when doing housework, while jigsawing, while being outside. When I started darning in Elsa's cardigan I started humming the theme tune of Pumuckl. I think my brain is dying. Instead of being not amused hubby was absolutely bewildered. Understandable...
Since it was sunny and quite warm hubby and I have begun to install garlands of lights under the glass roof of the terrace. Hubby had to bike to the DiY shop twice, because he needed more clamps. Doing the tour twice must be because hubby loves biking, while I dislike to waste away precious working time- sun is behind the mountain ridge at one thirty in the afternoon. From then on it will cool down quickly. Needless to say that I had to hang the washing up late- it had been time for a change of bedding. Now the cloth hanger is in the house, blocking the way to the TV nook. Husband mine always puts it next to the wood stove, the narrowest place in the living room.
Our new guest cat is funny- she does not like to stay inside long but will show up at least ten times a day, pawing at the terrace door or at the windows. Trying to ignore the young cat lady is hard, because she gets quite loud when not let in...

You will feel it in the air, but mostly in your purse. Today I bought four Advent calendars on Amazon. Cost me 100 euros. Good that family one does not do the thing with Advent calendars! Number three also sent me a suggestion for a Christmas present for Matthäus- a play table including two wooden trains, a village with trainstation and landscape. Another 100 euro gone. Well, the boy is my godson, so this is acceptable...
I did not do much in the morning- housework, jigsawing, a crossword puzzle and two sudokus. And I cooked lunch- roast pork and dumplings. After-lunch nap got cut short, because son number two with sons snowed in. The father had promised them ice with the apple strudel their mother had baked. Only that there was no ice in the freezer, so son decided he'd do a trip to our house. Apple strudel was so tiny that hubby had to add a cookie in addition to the ice. And we got more grandchildren- supervising time. Boys will be here on Wednesday. And December 5th to 8th. Daddy has to work. Mummy is off to Venice. I told husband that maybe I should have quit teaching to get out of the house without children tied to my apron strings more often, because apparently that's what only non-working mums can do. Hubby was not amused ( because of me, not DiL). Life is not fair...

...that my last shopping experience beyond the border had been bad! But I can tell you that this has been the last time I brought my lazy bum to a German shopping centre! I swear, never again on Saturday! My friend and I left at nine in the morning. Did a short detour to a flea market, where we watched one of our neighbours selling the things she gets bestowed by friends and neighbours. On the way to the shopping centre we found a new Tedi- in the building were once Kik had a shop, which got closed because the building was meant to house apartments. We found a lot of things we don't need but bought them nonetheless. One needs nice things in dark times! Then we arrived at the shopping centre. Fifteen minutes to find a parking space at the farthest end. Twenty to buy lunch for hubby. The grocery shop was swarming with people. I almost panicked- I hate crowds! My friend is short but has elbows made of steel. She fought her way to the things we needed. And since she looks like a grandma gone rabid no one complained. Yet it took us more than one hour to get all things. To the drugstore I had to navigate through a bulk of early Christmas shoppers who now waited to get their meal orders, their carts loaded with toys and decoration. Good luck, the waiting line was now twice as long as before. Finally fresh air! We skipped Lidl and went straight to Aldi, where I finally found those tiny Christmas lights I need for decorating. We bravely fought our way to our house through darkness and cold, for coffee and cake. And chatting, of course. Hubby was at home, fighting the cold inside. Heating was on, but the radiators refused to get warm. Hubby did a tour to all of them. Vented them. Vented them again. Finally he succeeded. Tomorrow he will refill water. Something is very odd with our heating. It has been tested only two? three? weeks ago and got declared fine. Hmm...absolutely not funny when it's only three degrees outside, with not a single sunbeam to be seen but a dark grey sky only. Tomorrow we might get a bit of rain, but rain is better than the fog we have at the moment...
When my friend had left I retreated to the bedroom with a cosy blanket and a Baumstamm- milk chocolate filled with marzipan. I watched the early darkness (pitch-dark at five thirty now) munching the sweet treat. Usually I won't eat chocolate, but there are days when I need sweets for comfort!

Not as cold as feared, but not as warm as I'd hoped. Thick fog was all around. It started yesterday evening- when I came down for watching TV I was barely able to see my car. At least temperatures did not go down to zero during night then thanks to the fog! But today it was cool, only five degrees, and so dark that I did only half an hour of jigsawing (after having done all necessary housework, of course) then gave up. Originally I had wanted to do a tour over the border, but then my friend was not able to join me. She had to supervise her grandchildren- bomb alarm at their school. We have so many brain-damaged idiots here leading police on a merry chase! And children who won't be able to attend school, because schools will get closed then. And lots of parents, who have problems to take care of their offspring because of working schedule. Unfortunately those brain-damaged idiots rarely get tracked down. So we will do our shopping tour tomorrow, when considerably more people will be on their way in shopping- and garden centres. And no, I cannot wait until Monday, because I need some drugs which are definitely less expensive over the border. Strictly speaking- practically everything is less expensive over the border. What a blessing that said border is not far away!
I did not do much in the afternoon. Watered some plants with pest killers and put them onto the new shelf in the conservatory. Ordered Schleich horses and a new slide-viewer from Amazon, because Gucki went back to sister mine, and I still have to do the next round of filtering less interesting slides out. I am definitely not willing to scan more than 300 pictures no one wants to see! Hubby left for a concert at six, so it was a free evening for me. Alas, no PCing, the room is too cold for such an endeavour. I don't get it- heating is now on, I did not forget to close the windows- my guess is that hubby has screwed with the supply temperature! Not nice, because we are down to one degree at the moment! I had to put on my Slytherine socks and the polar bear jumper...

For days all newspapers here have been writing about the upcoming supermoon. Impossible not to watch it, go, get your view and take a photo! So I went outside, took a look, oh, there's the moon, looks as always, darn it's so cold, let's go back inside. No photos taken, not sure then if I picked up a cold. I definitely don't remember such a Let's have a look campaign for a piece made of iron, rock and moondust. But watching the moon in the cold did have consequences, unwanted ones: My nose was running all day long. I won´t die of a sneeze, at least I hope so. Bad enough that I forgot about my ficus, which has died for real- we had minus two during night and I did not bring the plant into the cover of the carport- the leaves were quite mushy when I found it. Will go into the organic waste bin tomorrow. Hubby had a lot of ice scraping to do, when he left for the insurance office this morning. But only after the chimney sweepers had finished their job. One of them had been at our house a few days ago, and son, who had opened the door, first thought that his cousin had come for a visit, so lookalike those two are. BTW: Sis called to tell me that her husband is in hospital- he did a tumble, sustained a laceration and got a pacemaker as a result. Sis is very worried, because his blood results did not come out clean, doctors suspect he has been suffering from untreated borreliosis and is on antibiotics now.
I had to reorganize some furnishings in the conservatory to make jigsawing easier. Apparently not easy enough, because I found a few pieces only. Will have to call daughter to the rescue, before Advent is here and she will be working again. In the late afternoon I dressed for shopping- I needed tissues and some toiletry. Also bought Grippostad and nosedrops at the apothecary- why is it that each time family number three is here Grippostad, nosedrops and Gaviscon for gastric protection are suddenly gone?
In the early evening husband mine noticed that we were close to zero degrees and made a run for the tarp in the garage, to cover the plants on the terrace. I think he is right, three out of four are not made for such temperatures. I know it´s November already, but all the last years the plants came in only towards the end of the month, and mostly because I was fed up with waiting for the real cold to drop. This year is a strange one here, with too warm days (not enough of them) and more cold than usual. I dread the upcoming winter...

When daughter is here it's getting up early, doing housework then wait for her coming down from her room to have breakfast. From then on it's mostly doing crossword puzzles, watching silly TV programmes- we found more episodes of Ancient Aliens with the lady straight from the Muppet show! Huzzah! Made our day! Tought daughter how to do Salmon galette (who says that galettes have to be fruity!) then we started another jigsaw, a smaller one this time, in the hope we (or better, I) will be able to finish before Advent starts. Only when daughter packed the things for the birthday party she noticed that we had painted the wrong side
of the colon. More paint mixing, more painting, more cleaning of tools followed. We did blow-dry the colon, so that daughter did not have to pick it up tomorrow- she's getting a visit from her Hungarian friend in the morning. My guess is that daughter dearest has a lot of flat-cleaning to do this evening. Serves her well! Not the cleaning of the kitchen is her problem, that she does immediately after cooking, but her washing machine gets turned on twice a week, and her clothes won't walk into the wardrobe by themselves. But she has plenty of salmon galette to not have to cook dinner- hubby gifted her what was left of today's lunch. After daughter had left, I had a phone call with a friend, before I finally resumed my fight with granddaughter's cardigan. Button border got added, now all I have to knit is the collar. Well, not today- I have been at a neighbour for maybe half an hour, bringing back the baskets she lent the children for Halloween. Had a short chat and one more cup of coffee, went back home and noticed that I forgot to close the bedroom window. It's five degrees outside at the moment, hence we have very low temperatures in the bedroom now. Too low for knitting or using my PC...

I had spa time in the morning, trying out a new aromatic oil to lessen my respiratory problems. Things have worsened during the last weeks, after the latest infection. I mostly feel it during night, but yesterday it bothered me all day long. I will have to seek advice at my doctor, maybe I have to increase the cortisone inhalations. Daughter got picked up by hubby at the nearby village at ten, and with her came the acrylic paints she had borrowed for colouring. Only that she and her friend had been so busy with chatting that both forgot about colouring, which had to be done in the conservatory today. But first we had to cut things like liver, lungs and other internal organs out from cardboard. Colouring, especially mixing the colours needed, was so much fun- there were times the colour hues we had created dried up before discussion ended. But we did it, even though husband mine did an excellent job in putting those glass plates we carried to the kitchen for a quick washing up into the dish washer, before we were able to bring them back to the conservatory for more colour mixing. I think we went through a whole set of plates, before I got a bit loud. Those coloured organs are designed for a party game for daughter´s friend´s birthday on Friday- similar to the Put the tail onto the donkey when blindfolded-game we did, when we were children. If you miss spectacularly- have a drink. Oh dear, I hope daughter will survive this game!
Daughter and I did quick ramen for lunch, the one where you put all indegrients into the pan then turn the electric stove on. Almost burned ramen (not enough soup) because I was so occupied with chasing hubby off, but my good sense of smell saved me just in time. After lunch daughter and I watched Ancient Aliens on TV while resting- fits of laughter included. Hubby´s commenting from the sofa were the best! Daughter and I did a short walk in the afternoon. The weather was fine, but I dislike the smell of wet leaves. Seems that we are behind the Let-the-leaves-fall schedule, at least here. Number four reported of most leaves down already. I heard that´s because the east of our country did not have the regular rain we had in our part, so that leaf fall started early this year. Back from our mini walk I found another box with slides and immediately sorted it out. I am still looking for one box I must have hidden really well. Need this last one for a last intense weeding out then filing then scanning. My dear father did only label very few of the slides, so it´s hard to get them in chronological order...

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