Bad weather...
Aug. 20th, 2025 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noadvertising ...is back again, which does not bode well for my birthday. I am lucky that family number three is safely back home and number one is preparing for holidays in the Schwarzwald. But number four and five will be here, and family number two, too. Plus some friends, and no conservatory for use- daughter and I did not get any farther with the jigsaw of doom, yet I won´t give up. If it´s not finished at Advent time it will go straight into the oven. Until then I'll try...
Tomorrow I will have to do grocery shopping to be able to feed my guests, but today is for housekeeping and resting afterwards. Weather was fine in the morning, so I had breakfast on the terrace. That was a unique experience, me huddled in a blanket yet enjoying the crisp morning air. If only it would stay this way- let´s say until September- but no such luck. I took the standard early-morning picture and a nice one of the waning moon. Still no success at getting sharp night images, like the ones I did not so long before. It´s annoying, and even more so since I cannot find those helpful reels on Facebook I forgot to save, when they showed up without me asking for them. How should I have known that soon a lot of those problems shown would arise with my phone! Hubby picked daughter up at the airport while I cooked gnocchi with salmon and prawns for lunch- one of daughter's favourites and mine, too. The first ball of wool is used up slready, and I haven't even finished the bottom edging. I will have to stock up on grey wool next time I will make it over the German border to my favourite wool shop. After lunch, between crocheting and dozing, I made it into the pool once, before strong winds brought rain and cold. From twenty seven down to nineteen in the space of one hour, and those cool temperatures will stay for some days. Well, it cannot be helped, that's the typical weather for late August here. My eyes are sore again anyway because of too much sun and salty water thanks to grandchildren gone wild. Turned out that the two weeks the family was supposed to spend at the sea got downsized to five days, the rest was spent with DiL's relatives. Cassian and Flavius weren't happy about the change, while I have to 'feast' on figs, grapes, tomatoes and other vegetables for quite a while now- those relatives live on a country estate, and DiL packed the family's car with produce...
Tomorrow I will have to do grocery shopping to be able to feed my guests, but today is for housekeeping and resting afterwards. Weather was fine in the morning, so I had breakfast on the terrace. That was a unique experience, me huddled in a blanket yet enjoying the crisp morning air. If only it would stay this way- let´s say until September- but no such luck. I took the standard early-morning picture and a nice one of the waning moon. Still no success at getting sharp night images, like the ones I did not so long before. It´s annoying, and even more so since I cannot find those helpful reels on Facebook I forgot to save, when they showed up without me asking for them. How should I have known that soon a lot of those problems shown would arise with my phone! Hubby picked daughter up at the airport while I cooked gnocchi with salmon and prawns for lunch- one of daughter's favourites and mine, too. The first ball of wool is used up slready, and I haven't even finished the bottom edging. I will have to stock up on grey wool next time I will make it over the German border to my favourite wool shop. After lunch, between crocheting and dozing, I made it into the pool once, before strong winds brought rain and cold. From twenty seven down to nineteen in the space of one hour, and those cool temperatures will stay for some days. Well, it cannot be helped, that's the typical weather for late August here. My eyes are sore again anyway because of too much sun and salty water thanks to grandchildren gone wild. Turned out that the two weeks the family was supposed to spend at the sea got downsized to five days, the rest was spent with DiL's relatives. Cassian and Flavius weren't happy about the change, while I have to 'feast' on figs, grapes, tomatoes and other vegetables for quite a while now- those relatives live on a country estate, and DiL packed the family's car with produce...
