Cotton candy...
Aug. 22nd, 2025 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noadvertising ...grapes- I don't get it. Look like grapes but are cotton candy sweet. At least, no kernels. Elsa brought them but did not eat them. The family left them at our house, but I tasted them only when they were off. I fear we will have to buy more. Hubby loves them- he's an expert for sweets: the sweeter the better. Always wanted to buy grapes for twice the price of ordinary ones...It was a nice evening. A belated dinner consisting of peanuts and mountain cheese, accompanied by Deathly Hallows on TV. German version, but still. I had a phone call with a friend, whom I will meet next week. Another one with number four, who needs a new fan, because the old one died on him. Like Snape, the only interesting character in the HP movies. Kill Potter would be okay. Acting skills of all three main characters need improvement.
When hubby left for concert, our street was under water. Rain got less for a while but switched to hard again, when I was in bed. Fortunately hubby had pumped off pool water, or the lawn would have been flooded, too. That's exactly the same weather situation which led to number four's house getting flooded. Only that tomorrow rain is supposed to end- phew! Son and family, who had been off to a Heurigen, quickly went back home to check the situation. All was in order, but they decided to activate the first phase of the flood protection as a test run. Until yesterday they had never tried out the protective system. Son promptly found a fault with the glass front of the living room- they need an electric winder to put the protecting elements in place! At least, now they know!
When I woke in the morning my right hand hurt like hell. Get that maybe twice a year, and it's annoying. Especially when one has to cook goulash using two and a half kilos of beef. Which means cutting one and a half kilo of onions. I tried to make use of the electric vegetable cutter, alas, pieces were either too small or too big. Ordered hubby to cut onions and meat. I was not even able to fill out the numbers in the sudoku, because I am unable to hold a pencil at the moment. Hate it when this happens! And even more so, when the only ointment which will help is nowhere to be found. So no crocheting for me today. Anyway, I have big problems with the newly bought crochet hook. The old one worked, but was made of plastic and squeaked with every stitch I made. The next one was super, but I must have lost it. The new one has a big, comfortable handle, so big that there's not much place for the hook. No fun when one has to do quadruple trebles or crochet bobbles!
When hubby was off to do more grocery shopping we had another downpour of epic proportions. First thing hubby did when back home was more pumping out. Only that he forgot to tell Alexa to set an alarm. Now it would have been nice if it had rained a bit more- it´s just enough water left to keep the filtering system running! Needless to say that not a single raindrop made it down from then on. Tomorrow hubby will have to climb down, activate the ground water pump and refill water. Not my business, I was upstairs while the deed was done- since I had gotten up at two in the morning and went to bed way later than usual the day before I felt tired all day long and mostly rearranged things in the bedroom and the studio, while hubby was watching Youtube reels- definitely not recommendable in such a situation!
Hubby was nice and did lunch, I had a nap, continued successfully with the jigsaw of doom (one quarter done now), and in the afternoon I finally found the incense ointment exactly where it belongs. I really should get an appointment with my eye doctor! But my hand feels already better, I can move it a bit, and it hurts less! Would be extremely nice if I´d be able to do tomorrow´s sandwiches myself: daughter´s always look a bit bland, and hubby´s are soaked with tomato juice, because surely no one can have salmon or shrimps sandwiches without the (mostly) red menace!
When hubby left for concert, our street was under water. Rain got less for a while but switched to hard again, when I was in bed. Fortunately hubby had pumped off pool water, or the lawn would have been flooded, too. That's exactly the same weather situation which led to number four's house getting flooded. Only that tomorrow rain is supposed to end- phew! Son and family, who had been off to a Heurigen, quickly went back home to check the situation. All was in order, but they decided to activate the first phase of the flood protection as a test run. Until yesterday they had never tried out the protective system. Son promptly found a fault with the glass front of the living room- they need an electric winder to put the protecting elements in place! At least, now they know!
When I woke in the morning my right hand hurt like hell. Get that maybe twice a year, and it's annoying. Especially when one has to cook goulash using two and a half kilos of beef. Which means cutting one and a half kilo of onions. I tried to make use of the electric vegetable cutter, alas, pieces were either too small or too big. Ordered hubby to cut onions and meat. I was not even able to fill out the numbers in the sudoku, because I am unable to hold a pencil at the moment. Hate it when this happens! And even more so, when the only ointment which will help is nowhere to be found. So no crocheting for me today. Anyway, I have big problems with the newly bought crochet hook. The old one worked, but was made of plastic and squeaked with every stitch I made. The next one was super, but I must have lost it. The new one has a big, comfortable handle, so big that there's not much place for the hook. No fun when one has to do quadruple trebles or crochet bobbles!
When hubby was off to do more grocery shopping we had another downpour of epic proportions. First thing hubby did when back home was more pumping out. Only that he forgot to tell Alexa to set an alarm. Now it would have been nice if it had rained a bit more- it´s just enough water left to keep the filtering system running! Needless to say that not a single raindrop made it down from then on. Tomorrow hubby will have to climb down, activate the ground water pump and refill water. Not my business, I was upstairs while the deed was done- since I had gotten up at two in the morning and went to bed way later than usual the day before I felt tired all day long and mostly rearranged things in the bedroom and the studio, while hubby was watching Youtube reels- definitely not recommendable in such a situation!
Hubby was nice and did lunch, I had a nap, continued successfully with the jigsaw of doom (one quarter done now), and in the afternoon I finally found the incense ointment exactly where it belongs. I really should get an appointment with my eye doctor! But my hand feels already better, I can move it a bit, and it hurts less! Would be extremely nice if I´d be able to do tomorrow´s sandwiches myself: daughter´s always look a bit bland, and hubby´s are soaked with tomato juice, because surely no one can have salmon or shrimps sandwiches without the (mostly) red menace!
