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noadvertising) wrote2025-06-06 05:04 pm
noadvertising) wrote2025-06-06 05:04 pm
Just waiting...
...for the axe to fall. Hubby may buy too many groceries, that's true. But never, ever will he order too much of things needed for homeworking, be it screws, wood or...tiles. Houston, we have a problem! Because after cutting to size (and accidentally smashing tiles after tripping up on things that do not belong in the lawn) there seems to be a shortage of tiles. Tiles that need a three week period to get delivered. And since I know this man since 49 years, 47 of them spent married, I am aware that reorder will only happen the day the last tile gets laid and the need for more is more than obvious. I fear that this summer will go down in family history as the one without terrace life. Bother!
Still no rain but sun instead, so hubby was out to continue the arduous work of tiling. If he had not stopped so soon yesterday we might have had a chance to cross the terrace from door to the steps leading down to the lawn without our feet touching that awful cement, which leaves imprints all over the living room. Imprints I have to mop off twice a day. Not happy about it, believe me!
In the morning son (the one from Lower Austria) called and asked me to buy Halleiner mountain salt as a present for Elsa's kindergarten teacher. Halleiner what, and where can I buy this? Turned out there's one tiny local company which sells it. It's closed today, but one lady was doing revision, arranged a gift box and placed it outside the front door so that we were able to pick it up and take it to St. Pölten tomorrow. So glad that this worked out!
Never before our weather forecast was so off the mark- instead of heat we got mediocre temperatures mostly, rain came when we should not get any, strong winds only when not announced. Thunderstorms? Yes, but not on those days we were said to get them. Absolutely unpredictable! The only thing that might happen is the dropping of temperatures down to 15 degrees on Sunday- cold has always found its way last spring, so why would it be different in summer! But because the rain front did not arrive in the afternoon hubby continued with tiling, and now almost half of the terrace is done, yet not the part I had hoped for. Hubby never had a strategic mind, so the next tiling day (Tuesday next week) might get a bit tricky. But contrary to me hubby is bodily flexible. Well, he has to be...
Hubby has advertised two small wall cupboards on Willhaben for free. Only that one of the two I intended to keep. Hubby is glad that he still has a head at the top of his shoulders, advertisement has been taken down immediately. Wall cupboard is in the conservatory now, waiting to be restored, but that's a project for August or later even. The other got picked up in the afternoon- no thanks, only a grunted ´looks okay´, and off the man was. Well, I hope so, that thing had not exactly been cheap, when we bought it for the kitchen. Made of solid wood, nicely carved, but no more in use...
There was one moment in the afternoon when I thought that maybe biting hubby´s head off in the morning might have been a good idea. That was when he started to load my car with the things we are to take to number three. In went the old fridge-freezer son wants for his barbecue parties. I had one look at it and started crying blue murder- inside the pedestal sat a spider, a really big one! Hubby shooed it out onto the tiles, I gave my best jump to smash it. Then hubby dropped one of the fridge´s glass inserts. Can one bite a head off twice? I think not. One insert less for son to cool bottles. But there´s surely a recycling centre not so far away, where he can ask for a fitting insert taken from an old fridge deposited there! One only has to be imaginative and utilise resources!
Still no rain but sun instead, so hubby was out to continue the arduous work of tiling. If he had not stopped so soon yesterday we might have had a chance to cross the terrace from door to the steps leading down to the lawn without our feet touching that awful cement, which leaves imprints all over the living room. Imprints I have to mop off twice a day. Not happy about it, believe me!
In the morning son (the one from Lower Austria) called and asked me to buy Halleiner mountain salt as a present for Elsa's kindergarten teacher. Halleiner what, and where can I buy this? Turned out there's one tiny local company which sells it. It's closed today, but one lady was doing revision, arranged a gift box and placed it outside the front door so that we were able to pick it up and take it to St. Pölten tomorrow. So glad that this worked out!
Never before our weather forecast was so off the mark- instead of heat we got mediocre temperatures mostly, rain came when we should not get any, strong winds only when not announced. Thunderstorms? Yes, but not on those days we were said to get them. Absolutely unpredictable! The only thing that might happen is the dropping of temperatures down to 15 degrees on Sunday- cold has always found its way last spring, so why would it be different in summer! But because the rain front did not arrive in the afternoon hubby continued with tiling, and now almost half of the terrace is done, yet not the part I had hoped for. Hubby never had a strategic mind, so the next tiling day (Tuesday next week) might get a bit tricky. But contrary to me hubby is bodily flexible. Well, he has to be...
Hubby has advertised two small wall cupboards on Willhaben for free. Only that one of the two I intended to keep. Hubby is glad that he still has a head at the top of his shoulders, advertisement has been taken down immediately. Wall cupboard is in the conservatory now, waiting to be restored, but that's a project for August or later even. The other got picked up in the afternoon- no thanks, only a grunted ´looks okay´, and off the man was. Well, I hope so, that thing had not exactly been cheap, when we bought it for the kitchen. Made of solid wood, nicely carved, but no more in use...
There was one moment in the afternoon when I thought that maybe biting hubby´s head off in the morning might have been a good idea. That was when he started to load my car with the things we are to take to number three. In went the old fridge-freezer son wants for his barbecue parties. I had one look at it and started crying blue murder- inside the pedestal sat a spider, a really big one! Hubby shooed it out onto the tiles, I gave my best jump to smash it. Then hubby dropped one of the fridge´s glass inserts. Can one bite a head off twice? I think not. One insert less for son to cool bottles. But there´s surely a recycling centre not so far away, where he can ask for a fitting insert taken from an old fridge deposited there! One only has to be imaginative and utilise resources!