Sister´s constant calls for help must have triggered something in hubby! This morning he was off to a DIY market to get varnish for the new wheeled tray table. Sanded it, painted it, sanded it again... you know the procedure. After lunch and a short nap he was off again to buy a new hinge for one of the cabinet doors in the kitchen, which had ( Read more... )

... a mousie! Since we knew that cold nights lay ahead and the birds here were swarming all day long to get fodder enough to survive hubby had rehoused the bird feeders to the apple tree, where they love to sit and feed on bird fat balls- which were unfortunately finished, all of them! The third feeder needed a refill, and I took the bag with ( Read more... )

...in the house once more! I had overslept again- no clue why I am this tired at the moment. Next to no chores had to be done save for cooking son´s favourite dish, which is goulash Vienna-style. Hubby did cut the onions with that darn vegetable slicer which is prone to slice my fingers instead of veggies, the rest was done by me. The hardest part ( Read more... )

At six in the morning I was wide awake and found that the studio was well illuminated- hubby thought it might be nice to have the Christmas lights on in the morning. Would have been equally nice if he had closed the shutters on the balcony door! Then again I´d have to find my way out of the sleeping room in complete darkness- or with the help of a ( Read more... )

Can you imagine- there was nothing noteworthy to do for me today. No big cleaning, no grocery shopping, no cooking, nothing at all. I remember that in the early afternoon I helped husband hang up the washing. And I replaced the batteries in some of the Christmas lights for New Year´s Eve- it´s a family tradition to see the old year off and welcome ( Read more... )

...and it's a really beautiful card! Thank you so much, dear wiseheart, and even more for your Christmas greetings ( Read more... )

Elsa-show reached another pinnacle, when her mother showed up at nine in the evening, dragging a coughing Elsa behind her, and demanded cough sirup for her ailing daughter- which I do not possess. Why should I, there aren´t young children in the household, and those parents who bring us theirs know very well that with a sick child the corresponding ( Read more... )

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...will I set my foot into a shop on the 23rd of December. I slept until eight today. When I got up at three in the morning, I found that it had started snowing during night. Not that much snow, but this was the first day hubby had not put a cover on the windscreen of my car, and temperatures had dropped, so that the snow was frozen. I had a cup of ( Read more... )

...that Christmas is near is the constant firing of bangers done by some idiot youths. It has started two days ago and lasts well into the night and will only stop after New Year's Day. To put it another way: We made it back, and I am trying to have a late nap, accentuated by loud bangs from outside. Hubby did the drive to Graz, we picked son and ( Read more... )