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The hunt goes on
Apr. 22nd, 2026 06:49 pm In the beginning it was the usual boring day with more cleaning (first round done with cleaning the darn lamp, a second round is inevitable) and clearing out a box while freezing my b... off (it was very cool eighteen degrees in the living room) thanks to hubby, who had left a window in the conservatory tilted- at the moment we are down to one degree during night. Then I wandered into the kitchen, and what did I find? Ants wandering straight into the pull-out cupboard, where hubby keeps his assortment of honey. Oh dear, definitely not good! Hubby shrink-wrapped the jars and put them in the fridge, while I played counter-strike, eliminating as many ants as possible, hubby soon coming to the rescue. Especially as I had a mental breakdown when finding lots of ants inside the dishwasher, which had been unloaded in the morning only and was almost empty at that moment. As of yet I got sprayed on (hubby wielding the insecticide spray is a dangerous thing), "peed on" by ants and have pinched my fingers twice when slamming the washer´s door shut. Not a good day I´d say!
After lunch I had a phone call with a friend who wants to go to DiL´s exhibition at a gallery in Salzburg. We will do the trip by bus, because this town is intent on locking cars out and only let cyclers in- in a town where average age slowly but surely sways towards 50 and the shops wander towards the outskirts. Only the expensive boutiques remain in the inner centre of the town, and even if I had the money to buy there I´d have to order an appropriate physique first. I was not sure of the location of the atelier, but my friend is well-acquainted with the building- but only because two of the doctors she consults regularly have surgery hours there. Fervently praying that friend won´t feel the need to bang into their surgery to fix another appointment...
The building of the screen against rain on the terrace was proceeding nicely, until I got a first insight of what hubby had planned. I immediately notified hubby that strong winds would soon overturn the beautifully built protective screen (which tilted twice, even without Plexiglas). No wonder, it´s practically without counterpart on one side. "Don´t worry, I´ll do it!" said hubby. "We´ll see the outcome!" was my reply. Tilting is definitely bound to happen sooner or later, if that thing will stay this way!
The late afternoon turned out warmer than the last ones, at least we got 14 degrees and one hour of reading on the sofa on the terrace, before the sun was hiding behind the range of hills. Alas, from then on temperatures were quickly dropping. But today I did an inspection round, and promptly found one window open, which could have had dire consequences tomorrow morning...
The building of the screen against rain on the terrace was proceeding nicely, until I got a first insight of what hubby had planned. I immediately notified hubby that strong winds would soon overturn the beautifully built protective screen (which tilted twice, even without Plexiglas). No wonder, it´s practically without counterpart on one side. "Don´t worry, I´ll do it!" said hubby. "We´ll see the outcome!" was my reply. Tilting is definitely bound to happen sooner or later, if that thing will stay this way!
The late afternoon turned out warmer than the last ones, at least we got 14 degrees and one hour of reading on the sofa on the terrace, before the sun was hiding behind the range of hills. Alas, from then on temperatures were quickly dropping. But today I did an inspection round, and promptly found one window open, which could have had dire consequences tomorrow morning...
