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After days of lounging then working then partying then lounging around again daughter at least managed to pack her first suitcase. There will be another one to do tomorrow then there will be her last evening of employment, hopefully without too much of celebrating, before I will pick her up and bring her home for a last revision of the things that have to leave with her. I will bring her to Munich airport at five in the morning, I only hope the result of her PCR test will arrive in time- and be negative. That´s one of many things that go wrong in this country- from the taking of the test to getting a hopefully negative result there´s often more than a whole day to wait for. Not good in case you need it more quickly (only happens in Vienna, where all tests get sent to) or someone gets tested positive (too much time to accidentally spread the virus). Family number three is back home. The house is quiet again, and I am glad for this. Having to cope with a toddler either throwing tantrums or running you down with a tricycle while you are trying to prepare nourishment for six adults has stretched my patience and the one of my poor old cats. It will be even more quiet from Monday on, and at the end of September it will be only hubby and me for some time, hopefully with cats, but you never know...
Brownie gone to the bad has pounced again, now the cat goodies I bought a few days ago are missing- three bags of it! I had stored them on the kitchen shelf, daughter and hubby testified. I wonder what will come next!
Hubby has started to pump the pool out and make it ready for hibernation. It makes no sense to hope for better days with temperatures down to nine during night and up to meagre 14 during day and the sun vanishing behind the hill range in the afternoon! One thing less to cope with as soon the metal plates are in place!
Embroydery does not go as it should. I had decided to do an edging, and after 20 centimetres I was about half a centimetre lower than at the beginning of the row of cross stitches. I did not notice it when I started my first try, because I had worked in the middle of the case and did not become aware how badly this one got sewn together! The pillow case will stay naked or get thrown away, I have not yet decided upon what to do...