I survived...
Aug. 25th, 2025 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noadvertising ...but barely! Too much family, too many neighbours, but all in all it was a nice weekend, even though the weather was awful, as always. We remembered the good old days, when I had a garden party for my birthday and we'd even take a swim in the mini pool we had then. Daughter worked hard this weekend- first as a baker, then as a waitress for the guests, and when all was quiet she sat in the conservatory to help with the jigsaw. Oh dear, that 'girl' is so good at finding pieces! Must be because she is rather tall and I am what we call a Sitzriese.
This morning I did a quick tidying of the living room, before I joined daughter in the conservatory. Almost half of the jigsaw of doom is done now, so maybe I will be able to finish, before Elsa will join our household at the end of October, and she and Cassian will want to decorate for Halloween all over the house. Yes, we decorate. No, we don't do so on the first day of September, the way our relatives have done. No. No, thanks! Besides, there's still so much other work to be done- eliminate more plants (especially those which tend to get mealybugs), dismantle the plant shelf, clean and paint the low section of it and and and...
Today's weather was sunny with only a few clouds in the afternoon- but 21 degrees only. We have been deflating pool toys and hubby's lounge seat- pool water is 20 degrees now thanks to this year's no-summer. Not even hubby will risk bladder infection! Since my right hand works fine again (and the left starts to act up, but only a bit) I continued with the throw. On Wednesday I will do a drive over the border with a friend and will go to the wool shop for a next new crochet hook. Either my eyes are failing or my fingers get clumsy (or both), but I am missing the target aka stitches way too often because of the extra round tip of that new hook I have recently bought! At the moment crocheting is no fun, so I decided to turn the runny coconut mousse-au-chocolat into a coconut cake with lemon glaze, pitted the cornelian cherries (bloodiest job ever) to turn them to chutney tomorrow. Also harvested a third of the (few) apples- for chutney, too, and apple sauce, which I will freeze for winter. Lots of scraping out to do because of codling moths, respectively what's going to be their offspring. While doing the scraping on the terrace I watched blackbirds feasting on the grapes. Next to no wasps this year here, contrary to where son lives- he says that they have a wasp invason. It's only the blackbirds killing the grapes, but since no one here wants to eat them anyway it does not matter.
It's depressing how quick evening sails in now. Where once was sunlight at seven there's need of electric light now to be able to do the daily sudoku. It's about time to order autumn plants at the local nursery. Holder is a former student of mine. Her daughter and our number four played in the school band a long time ago, so there's always a lot of gossipping, when the two of us meet twice a year!
This morning I did a quick tidying of the living room, before I joined daughter in the conservatory. Almost half of the jigsaw of doom is done now, so maybe I will be able to finish, before Elsa will join our household at the end of October, and she and Cassian will want to decorate for Halloween all over the house. Yes, we decorate. No, we don't do so on the first day of September, the way our relatives have done. No. No, thanks! Besides, there's still so much other work to be done- eliminate more plants (especially those which tend to get mealybugs), dismantle the plant shelf, clean and paint the low section of it and and and...
Today's weather was sunny with only a few clouds in the afternoon- but 21 degrees only. We have been deflating pool toys and hubby's lounge seat- pool water is 20 degrees now thanks to this year's no-summer. Not even hubby will risk bladder infection! Since my right hand works fine again (and the left starts to act up, but only a bit) I continued with the throw. On Wednesday I will do a drive over the border with a friend and will go to the wool shop for a next new crochet hook. Either my eyes are failing or my fingers get clumsy (or both), but I am missing the target aka stitches way too often because of the extra round tip of that new hook I have recently bought! At the moment crocheting is no fun, so I decided to turn the runny coconut mousse-au-chocolat into a coconut cake with lemon glaze, pitted the cornelian cherries (bloodiest job ever) to turn them to chutney tomorrow. Also harvested a third of the (few) apples- for chutney, too, and apple sauce, which I will freeze for winter. Lots of scraping out to do because of codling moths, respectively what's going to be their offspring. While doing the scraping on the terrace I watched blackbirds feasting on the grapes. Next to no wasps this year here, contrary to where son lives- he says that they have a wasp invason. It's only the blackbirds killing the grapes, but since no one here wants to eat them anyway it does not matter.
It's depressing how quick evening sails in now. Where once was sunlight at seven there's need of electric light now to be able to do the daily sudoku. It's about time to order autumn plants at the local nursery. Holder is a former student of mine. Her daughter and our number four played in the school band a long time ago, so there's always a lot of gossipping, when the two of us meet twice a year!
