I've been busy. It's the beginning of gardening season, even if we have had three weeks of snow, sleet and frosts. It's April.
I put up my polytunnel two weeks ago, and I have sown first seeds there already, salads, radishes and swiss chard (if I remember right). I hope I can get some harvest before I can plant tomatoes and peppers (and chillies) there.
I bought plant light few weeks ago (it was just before this shut down started) and now my peppers, aubergines, chillies and some other seed have sprouted, so I rigged it with a plank and windowsills to hold it on place. 'Suma is no longer a menace, so I can keep my seedlings in a plastic box on floor.
Second lot of seeds are sown and put up on a tall freezer, I hope I remember to check on them occasionally!
Mental breakdowns are fewer and fewer. Ys has one every now and then, but so far I have managed to get him over them with ease. He thinks he has too much to do (at home school). I don't think so, but my kids always blame me for being too demanding. Last breakdown was because he had to make a totem pole (out of kitchen towel cardboard tube...), he wanted to draw and it was supposed to be made with different papers... Oh dear. Ice cream, tissue to blow one's nose and pep talk later all was well and he spent two hours crafting a pretty totem pole.
Oh, there was Easter. We had roasted lamb leg (it's rarity here, but kids love lamb/mutton so I try to get some for easter), chocolate eggs and other easter stuff to eat. We don't celebrate it as such, it's more like a spring time feast for us.
Work might not have been as busy as it could have been if I was working in office (and I have few days off anyway before easter). Meetings via skype and teams.
Ys's room has been under construction, I've plastered outer wall (with window) and that moster block of concrete that lies in that room (it's in extension which is a half floor below the old house, and because we have non-solid gorund here, we had to make some weird stuctural solutions in order to keep old house solidly in place). One wall is waiting for planks (I'm treating them atm, first treatment is strong black tea for tannines, and next treatment is mixture of vinegar and iron (rebar bars I had lying around). I will not produce even colour, and that's the point - it might end up with very dark brown, or just light greyish. I'm aiming for lighter greysish tones as ys has asked for that, but... You never know, when playing with natural material and not so accurate measurements. We cut the planks and now we only have to wait for that first tea treatment to dry so that I can put that vinegar concotion on, but it will probably have to wait until tomorrow.
(we have mostly spruce as buiding material here, and it has no tannin unlike oak, so in order to get some colour out of iron-vinegar mix I have to treat the planks first eith tannin, I could buy it, or use crushed acorns (didn't harvested then last autunm) or even use red wine, but I opted for strong tea).
I've managed with one weekly shopping, occasionally I've run out of milk or spread a day early, but then we have had just cope without for a day. I've been (my own opinion) successfull so far, even if I don't have a set meny for the week ahead. I have some ideas (like hot dog casserole hb asked for) and then I'm just playing along.
Freezers are not actually emptying, because every time I go shopping I buy stuff I put into freezer: bread, meat, chicken, fish, chips, veggies etc. But I have used some odd items now and then, I hope that in summer I have enough room for berries.
I've sewn four masks so far, I think the last one is very usable, it fits nicely (not too tight). I think I should be doing several now, I'm using them when I'm shopping. Yes, people look me weirdly, but I don't care, I don't want to be the one who spreads covid-19 around. Self-made mask will not protect me 100%, but it will protect others, if I happen to have infection!
I'm really missing number two, I so long for holding a baby. My sister sends daily messages, pictures and videos, but I can't hold her or smell the wonderfull smell of a baby.... My kids are so bid they are not good substitutes on that - teenager boys don't smell like babies...
People are telling in social media how they are spending their extra time now in isolation. I mean what extra time? I haven't had time to write to my blog in three weeks!
My alarm goes off at 6am, then after brushing my teeth I'm off to 'Suma walk, back at 7am, waking kids, eating own breakfast and it's 8am, then logging in to work, doing that until just before noon, making lunch for school kids, back to work, then by 3is pm getting out for another 'Suma walk (into the forest so only max 30mins) if kids haven't done that, laundy, dishes, another cooking time, more work (need to get not only my hours but also my work done), some building/gardening/crafting stuff and then I'm finally sitting in front of telly, and its half past eight in the evening!
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Saturday, 28 March 2020
Helping families in need
Whole society is kind of paralysed. Restaurants, small shops, hairdressers, physical therapies, spas, pools... if it's not neccessary, it's closed. And that means people are loosing their salaries.
Municipalities have trying to help people. First they told that schoolchildren will get their "food rations" (children get free lunch at schools) once a week: not ready made meals, but ingredients to make five meals per week. And this week they begun to hand out bags of food to families/people, who are suffering loss of income.
I was asked if we want food for our school children (we have three kids at school, all of them get free lunch every day when in school) but I declined. I think there are families in much more dire need at the moment - we on the other hand are lucky ones, hb is working in food industry, and even if their products are not considered most basic food products, production is still on.
And I - well on monday I'll start working on a new project in which we try to find ways to handle things when all this begin to return to normal.
I saw what one local munincipality is handing out to people. Depending on size of family, portions vary, but there was just essentials. What was striking to me was lack of ready meals, tins and highly processed products. There were:
-ground beef and ground pork
-chicken fillets
-eggs
-oats
-cheese
-sandwich ham
-spread
-rice
-potatoes (which were not pre washed, so they were still having dirt - they way most potatoes are sold here)
-bananas
-apples
-cucumbers
-tomatoes
-rye bread (essential here, made of full corn and only few% of wheat)
-crispy rye bread
-milk (non-fat lactose free)
-berry soup
-plain yoghurt
-coffee
-toilet paper
I think they was suprisingly well thought items - you have to remember they have had only few days to plan and act.
Food banks are in trouble, because most volunteers are over 70 or otherwise in high risk. Therefore they are not handing out food at their food banks, they are now delivering parcels directly to people. Food banks here don't need food now, they need volunteers from non risk groups and money. Many restaurants have donated their stock to food banks, otherwise it would have been wasted.
But if you are not in financial crisis, you can buy help: taxis are doing peoples food shopping and delivering medicines, animal shelters are helping people to take their pets to vet, garages are picking cars from home, fixing them and returning them and sanitizing them before handing them back.
Right now I think people have realized this is the real thing. Most people try to be in that part of society that helps stop this epidemic.
Municipalities have trying to help people. First they told that schoolchildren will get their "food rations" (children get free lunch at schools) once a week: not ready made meals, but ingredients to make five meals per week. And this week they begun to hand out bags of food to families/people, who are suffering loss of income.
I was asked if we want food for our school children (we have three kids at school, all of them get free lunch every day when in school) but I declined. I think there are families in much more dire need at the moment - we on the other hand are lucky ones, hb is working in food industry, and even if their products are not considered most basic food products, production is still on.
And I - well on monday I'll start working on a new project in which we try to find ways to handle things when all this begin to return to normal.
I saw what one local munincipality is handing out to people. Depending on size of family, portions vary, but there was just essentials. What was striking to me was lack of ready meals, tins and highly processed products. There were:
-ground beef and ground pork
-chicken fillets
-eggs
-oats
-cheese
-sandwich ham
-spread
-rice
-potatoes (which were not pre washed, so they were still having dirt - they way most potatoes are sold here)
-bananas
-apples
-cucumbers
-tomatoes
-rye bread (essential here, made of full corn and only few% of wheat)
-crispy rye bread
-milk (non-fat lactose free)
-berry soup
-plain yoghurt
-coffee
-toilet paper
I think they was suprisingly well thought items - you have to remember they have had only few days to plan and act.
Food banks are in trouble, because most volunteers are over 70 or otherwise in high risk. Therefore they are not handing out food at their food banks, they are now delivering parcels directly to people. Food banks here don't need food now, they need volunteers from non risk groups and money. Many restaurants have donated their stock to food banks, otherwise it would have been wasted.
But if you are not in financial crisis, you can buy help: taxis are doing peoples food shopping and delivering medicines, animal shelters are helping people to take their pets to vet, garages are picking cars from home, fixing them and returning them and sanitizing them before handing them back.
Right now I think people have realized this is the real thing. Most people try to be in that part of society that helps stop this epidemic.
Friday, 27 March 2020
Physical distance - week 2: This will get easier, right?
This is week 2. Now we are talking about physical distancing. You are not supposed to be a hermit, but to use social media to connect with others.
Soon people are not allowed to travel freely, borders between countries have been shut already and soon towns and districts will be isolated, too. My brother is on the other side of the border, so we might see each other in summer. But luckily post is still working, thye send me a parcel with goodies (cheese, sausages, olive oil, all kind of spreads...) I have eaten first jar of Salsa Tartufata.
Children are adjusting, slowly. D has problems in math, and I think she have to star again next term. But if schools are closed until summer break, I think there are few others, too.
Yesterday I went shopping again, I spent 5 hours going through stores and post office and pharmacy. I've never been so drained out after a shopping spree! You'd think it's easy to buy things if you have a list in your hand. Nope.
First of all, I hade three other lists and then mine. I decided to do my own shopping separately, so I had only three lists.
Secondly, other people eat different foods (different from my family's menu and different from others). I had to go through the mega store from one end to another several times, because I just didn't have any idea where would I find things. Yes, tiny plum tomatoes were easy to find, but where are protein drinks? Is protein drink the same as protein shake? How many pears I should take for two people? There isn't any 8roll pcks of toilet paper, do I take 6roll pcks or 12 roll pck? Where are mocktails? What are moctails? What does mean a sandwich ham without ham? (it was sandwich beef). There's no organig sausages, but there's organic hot dogs, will they do?
But I love to visit our local pharmacy, there's only one or two other customers and everything goes so smoothly: Old man's medication has to be ordered a day before picking it up, so he phones them. I had only his ID with me, and got the medicine and instructions in less than five minutes. And paid for it, too, 4,50€ for a medicine that's priced over 900€ per dose - thank you national health and social service system.
Tomorrow is d's 17th birthday. She wanted to have a nice evening with her friends, a movie night and hamburgers, perhaps. Now they are planning to use netflix's party app to watch a film together miles apart. But it's not the same. We had planned a shopping trip to capital next weekend (as her birthday gift), but we can't travel there at all. I'll bake her a cake and make pizza muffins, and she'll have her presents, but it's not the same.
but it's easier for a 17 year old to understand all this, my co-workers daughter has her bd on monday - there will be no friends to play with, no balloons to give them as gifts... She's been planning her party for a long time.
We are all lucky. We still have our jobs, and have been paid. We are healthy, we have homes and food and families. My wrecked nerves because of home school are absolutely nothing to think about. I'll have another piece of chocolate, maybe some salsa tartufata with french bread I have in freezer and then I'll start cooking kids supper. Salmon and potato fritters/rösti.
Soon people are not allowed to travel freely, borders between countries have been shut already and soon towns and districts will be isolated, too. My brother is on the other side of the border, so we might see each other in summer. But luckily post is still working, thye send me a parcel with goodies (cheese, sausages, olive oil, all kind of spreads...) I have eaten first jar of Salsa Tartufata.
Children are adjusting, slowly. D has problems in math, and I think she have to star again next term. But if schools are closed until summer break, I think there are few others, too.
Yesterday I went shopping again, I spent 5 hours going through stores and post office and pharmacy. I've never been so drained out after a shopping spree! You'd think it's easy to buy things if you have a list in your hand. Nope.
First of all, I hade three other lists and then mine. I decided to do my own shopping separately, so I had only three lists.
Secondly, other people eat different foods (different from my family's menu and different from others). I had to go through the mega store from one end to another several times, because I just didn't have any idea where would I find things. Yes, tiny plum tomatoes were easy to find, but where are protein drinks? Is protein drink the same as protein shake? How many pears I should take for two people? There isn't any 8roll pcks of toilet paper, do I take 6roll pcks or 12 roll pck? Where are mocktails? What are moctails? What does mean a sandwich ham without ham? (it was sandwich beef). There's no organig sausages, but there's organic hot dogs, will they do?
But I love to visit our local pharmacy, there's only one or two other customers and everything goes so smoothly: Old man's medication has to be ordered a day before picking it up, so he phones them. I had only his ID with me, and got the medicine and instructions in less than five minutes. And paid for it, too, 4,50€ for a medicine that's priced over 900€ per dose - thank you national health and social service system.
Tomorrow is d's 17th birthday. She wanted to have a nice evening with her friends, a movie night and hamburgers, perhaps. Now they are planning to use netflix's party app to watch a film together miles apart. But it's not the same. We had planned a shopping trip to capital next weekend (as her birthday gift), but we can't travel there at all. I'll bake her a cake and make pizza muffins, and she'll have her presents, but it's not the same.
but it's easier for a 17 year old to understand all this, my co-workers daughter has her bd on monday - there will be no friends to play with, no balloons to give them as gifts... She's been planning her party for a long time.
We are all lucky. We still have our jobs, and have been paid. We are healthy, we have homes and food and families. My wrecked nerves because of home school are absolutely nothing to think about. I'll have another piece of chocolate, maybe some salsa tartufata with french bread I have in freezer and then I'll start cooking kids supper. Salmon and potato fritters/rösti.
Sunday, 22 March 2020
Social distance - week 1: Working from home and homeschooling
Oh, it's here. Covid-19, coronavirus. Whole Europe is shut. Our children are at home, been since monday. I was at the office on mon and tue, I had to sort out my laptop which wasn't connecting to net. My office is told to work at home at least until April 13th - as are kids homeschooling, too.
So this has been the first week of isolation (I'm not talking about social isolation, which is mostly the norm to us).
On wed I woke up at 4:30, just because I couldn't sleep anymore (hb wakes up at 4.15). Ate breakfast, checked emails, read all new info and, finally, when there was enough light, took 'Suma to walk. Then I put linens to washer, fed cats and read some more news. I let kids to sleep until 7.30 (usually I wake them up at 6.30) and fed them cereals. Nice slow morning.
Ys's teatcher had some papers for his class, so we had to fetch them - at 8.20 we were only ones at school (excluding staff).
So, the very first day of home schooling (not really home schooling, if all children in the country are at home and teatchers are teaching them via Internet). I was suprised all systems worked. I had trouble to go on with schedule - three childres all in different schools and of course they all have lunch breaks at different times - had to make quick lunch which was quick to eat. Tuna and pasta (a school lunch I have never made before...), at least I got one tin out of my pantry ;-)
Thursday was a challenging day, because I had compulsory training via skype - my lunch break wasn't at same time than kids etc. But we made it, and will make from now on. This is really a minor inconvenience.
Friday was another first: I was doing groceries to my aunt and Onld man and my mom. It took ages to find all things on shopping lists - there were plenty of everything, but I just buy different things. I had difficulties to locate them! But yes, I got all items. Also got medication for Old man, no problems there either. You can buy only one package of basic pain medication (30 tablets). Not because there isn't any, but because this way all people who needs it, will get it.
Shops here are in normal state. Toilet paper was missing from the shelves few days because staff was too busy to replenish them. Now there is mountains of toilet papers. Only shortage is hand sanitiser, but that will be solved next week, when basically all local breweries have set up their production lines for it.
Oh, yeast was missing, too. It is fortunate that there is at least a one yeast factory in this country (they produce CO2 for greenhouses, too) so this shortage is shortlived. I have both dry yeast in my pantry and old fashioned block yeast in my freezer, it's that kind you can freeze (not all yeasts can be frozen).
Oh, cheap tomato tins were also missing, now that I think of it.
But mostly shops are like thay have always been. Salad bars are closed, staff have so much to do they don't have time to disinfect anything extra. Salad bar is nor necessity. There was actually a lot of reduced milk!
Prices have not gone up, at least I couldn't find anything with inflated prices.
Now they are talking about isolating certain areas, because people don't behave reasonably. I think there will not be curfew yet, but they might stop all travelling from capital area, and maybe other big cities.
I have only one more bigger issue: my car is due MOT very soon and it need some fixing before i can take it to MOT. but now I don't feel comfortable (or safe) to take it to garage. So - I might be buying a car in near future (not a new car, but one that has it's MOT done recently).
I have enough work to do for the next three weeks, so I will not worry that yet. Hb may have to stay at home some point, because he can't do his job from home and their products might not be considered essentials. I will worry that if it happens, and there's not much to worry, then. There's nothing I can do to prevent it.
Oh, I gave my name as a volunteer shopper/doing errands for those who are quarantined or isolated, our commune started to organize volunteers last friday; they also have staff at library if someone needs help and can't find anyone to help them. I can't work as a coordinator, because our poor phone signal, but I'll do what is needed.
Tomorrow is the first day of week 2. Ys will be baking cookies at home economics (or just at home), they all have video lessons or chats during the day. I have two skype meetings...
Keep safe, wash your hands and take care of those who can't do it themselves.
We will get through this, together.
So this has been the first week of isolation (I'm not talking about social isolation, which is mostly the norm to us).
On wed I woke up at 4:30, just because I couldn't sleep anymore (hb wakes up at 4.15). Ate breakfast, checked emails, read all new info and, finally, when there was enough light, took 'Suma to walk. Then I put linens to washer, fed cats and read some more news. I let kids to sleep until 7.30 (usually I wake them up at 6.30) and fed them cereals. Nice slow morning.
Ys's teatcher had some papers for his class, so we had to fetch them - at 8.20 we were only ones at school (excluding staff).
So, the very first day of home schooling (not really home schooling, if all children in the country are at home and teatchers are teaching them via Internet). I was suprised all systems worked. I had trouble to go on with schedule - three childres all in different schools and of course they all have lunch breaks at different times - had to make quick lunch which was quick to eat. Tuna and pasta (a school lunch I have never made before...), at least I got one tin out of my pantry ;-)
Thursday was a challenging day, because I had compulsory training via skype - my lunch break wasn't at same time than kids etc. But we made it, and will make from now on. This is really a minor inconvenience.
Friday was another first: I was doing groceries to my aunt and Onld man and my mom. It took ages to find all things on shopping lists - there were plenty of everything, but I just buy different things. I had difficulties to locate them! But yes, I got all items. Also got medication for Old man, no problems there either. You can buy only one package of basic pain medication (30 tablets). Not because there isn't any, but because this way all people who needs it, will get it.
Shops here are in normal state. Toilet paper was missing from the shelves few days because staff was too busy to replenish them. Now there is mountains of toilet papers. Only shortage is hand sanitiser, but that will be solved next week, when basically all local breweries have set up their production lines for it.
Oh, yeast was missing, too. It is fortunate that there is at least a one yeast factory in this country (they produce CO2 for greenhouses, too) so this shortage is shortlived. I have both dry yeast in my pantry and old fashioned block yeast in my freezer, it's that kind you can freeze (not all yeasts can be frozen).
Oh, cheap tomato tins were also missing, now that I think of it.
But mostly shops are like thay have always been. Salad bars are closed, staff have so much to do they don't have time to disinfect anything extra. Salad bar is nor necessity. There was actually a lot of reduced milk!
Prices have not gone up, at least I couldn't find anything with inflated prices.
Now they are talking about isolating certain areas, because people don't behave reasonably. I think there will not be curfew yet, but they might stop all travelling from capital area, and maybe other big cities.
I have only one more bigger issue: my car is due MOT very soon and it need some fixing before i can take it to MOT. but now I don't feel comfortable (or safe) to take it to garage. So - I might be buying a car in near future (not a new car, but one that has it's MOT done recently).
I have enough work to do for the next three weeks, so I will not worry that yet. Hb may have to stay at home some point, because he can't do his job from home and their products might not be considered essentials. I will worry that if it happens, and there's not much to worry, then. There's nothing I can do to prevent it.
Oh, I gave my name as a volunteer shopper/doing errands for those who are quarantined or isolated, our commune started to organize volunteers last friday; they also have staff at library if someone needs help and can't find anyone to help them. I can't work as a coordinator, because our poor phone signal, but I'll do what is needed.
Tomorrow is the first day of week 2. Ys will be baking cookies at home economics (or just at home), they all have video lessons or chats during the day. I have two skype meetings...
Keep safe, wash your hands and take care of those who can't do it themselves.
We will get through this, together.
Saturday, 21 March 2020
A new normal?
I'll write longer post later. I hope. Have trouble with connections, my laptop won't work without wire and whole house is planned to work wireless. So my ethernet cable is running through house and two floors and it has a very veird language settings. Three kids homeschool and I think English teatcher was having a mental breakdown. She sent a message at 8pm today....
We have enough food for a month or three. Yesterday I did shopping for three families, no missing items on shop - well, hand sanitiser was no show (but you can order it fron a local brewery) and you can buy only one pack of pain killers ( ibuprofein paracetamol etc).
And NOW we have snow!
We have enough food for a month or three. Yesterday I did shopping for three families, no missing items on shop - well, hand sanitiser was no show (but you can order it fron a local brewery) and you can buy only one pack of pain killers ( ibuprofein paracetamol etc).
And NOW we have snow!
Sunday, 23 February 2020
It's not COVID-19, but miserable anyway
We've been sick for three weeks, first ys and d, then sys and d, and then hb and d and ys and now me. Not very nice disease, but at least this is not that corona-virus. I haven't see number Two for two weeks (and now she's tree weeks). My sister has sent me a lot of pictures, but it's not the same thing. Her children might be the closest I get to grandchildren, and right now I feel it of course it might be also this flu which is making me feeling blue - I hade +40C temp during the day today, but I think I'm on the mend now.
Maybe my body got the shock it needed when I was taking 'Suma for a pee and she found a raccoon dog and chased it throught the woods and I had to run(crawl) after them. Raccoon dogs do possum when they are threatened, they play dead. It's very convincing, at least 'Suma is buying it.
But now she's very pleased to herself and sleeps happily on the chair next to me. I can't sleep, I slept 5 hrs in the afternoon.
Third storm in three weeks, no damages to our property. Old man's cousin's forest got some wind damage, one bigger spruce fell during the night. We even had a power cut last night, but it didn't last long. Kids were very dissapointed, they wanted to use torches and light candles!
No flooding, ditches have a lot of water but it runs freely. I know near lakes there is floods, and near rivers even more. Fields in many places are lakes, and there's fish where's usually hares!
Maybe my body got the shock it needed when I was taking 'Suma for a pee and she found a raccoon dog and chased it throught the woods and I had to run(crawl) after them. Raccoon dogs do possum when they are threatened, they play dead. It's very convincing, at least 'Suma is buying it.
But now she's very pleased to herself and sleeps happily on the chair next to me. I can't sleep, I slept 5 hrs in the afternoon.
Third storm in three weeks, no damages to our property. Old man's cousin's forest got some wind damage, one bigger spruce fell during the night. We even had a power cut last night, but it didn't last long. Kids were very dissapointed, they wanted to use torches and light candles!
No flooding, ditches have a lot of water but it runs freely. I know near lakes there is floods, and near rivers even more. Fields in many places are lakes, and there's fish where's usually hares!
Saturday, 15 February 2020
Endless November with flu and other stuff
There is a common understanding this is officially the longest ever November. It begun in the middle of October and so far there's no end in sight. It's easy to discuss these days with total strangers: oh, please be wary of at my car, it's so muddy - oh, so is mine, it is this November, can't bother to wash it anymore or: I'm sorry, I didn't notice you - oh it's all right I haven't properly woken up today as this November really gets me or: It's so dark, I do miss snow - yes! Who'd ever thought you could miss slush and plowing snow?!
We have our own version of COVID-19. Three kids sick so far, I thought I was going to get sick on Sunday end eded up drinking big pots of ginger-sage-mint-meadowsweet tea with honey. No signs of serious flu, yet. But D is really suffering, she was off school last week (exam week no less) and missed two exams, but then she has been out of school this week, too (managed to get to school only on two days); high fever, sore throat and nasty cough (somehow I always hear Michelle Gomez as Missy saying nasty...), and apparently sys is also having as hard time. Youngest got off more easily, but his cough is persisting. My friend just messaged her family is sufferting this, too.
Some days it feels like April when I'm walking with 'Suma. It's not a good thing, because, there will be frosts all the way to late May or early June, so no gardening can't be done in several weeks. Everything is muddy and grey and miserable. I guess nature is much more resilient than I am, most animals benefit of lack of snow (no need to dig for food) and freezing temperatures. Most plants will do allright, their rythm is scheduled by light (lenght of day) and not temperatures.
I put some corn, peas and sunflower seeds to sprout, I'd like to get some shoots to eat. But I think it's too dark for them! There's no snow to reflect light so it is really dark most of times. But I have seen sun this week!
I got my sewing machine back, 91€ with parts and proper cleaning, it should be working like a dream now! Owner (and mechanic) of the sewing machine repair shop said to me I shouldn't buy a new one, because my Pfaff is such a good workhorse. I have so many plans I don't know where to start! but at least I finished my winter jumper because I couldn't sew... (I usually cast on a new jumper on Christmas, and finish it in maybe two years, I have few still halfway done from years ago, shame on me! Wip's, I have some...) Numer Two needs a pretty dress, but I have not the right fabric (black polkadot!) but tiny dress doesn't take much fabric.
Ys's room is slowly progressing. It might be ready by summer... Which summer, I don't know. Now I have bought treatment for the plastered wall and found a piece of plywood for windowsill.
We have our own version of COVID-19. Three kids sick so far, I thought I was going to get sick on Sunday end eded up drinking big pots of ginger-sage-mint-meadowsweet tea with honey. No signs of serious flu, yet. But D is really suffering, she was off school last week (exam week no less) and missed two exams, but then she has been out of school this week, too (managed to get to school only on two days); high fever, sore throat and nasty cough (somehow I always hear Michelle Gomez as Missy saying nasty...), and apparently sys is also having as hard time. Youngest got off more easily, but his cough is persisting. My friend just messaged her family is sufferting this, too.
Some days it feels like April when I'm walking with 'Suma. It's not a good thing, because, there will be frosts all the way to late May or early June, so no gardening can't be done in several weeks. Everything is muddy and grey and miserable. I guess nature is much more resilient than I am, most animals benefit of lack of snow (no need to dig for food) and freezing temperatures. Most plants will do allright, their rythm is scheduled by light (lenght of day) and not temperatures.
I put some corn, peas and sunflower seeds to sprout, I'd like to get some shoots to eat. But I think it's too dark for them! There's no snow to reflect light so it is really dark most of times. But I have seen sun this week!
I got my sewing machine back, 91€ with parts and proper cleaning, it should be working like a dream now! Owner (and mechanic) of the sewing machine repair shop said to me I shouldn't buy a new one, because my Pfaff is such a good workhorse. I have so many plans I don't know where to start! but at least I finished my winter jumper because I couldn't sew... (I usually cast on a new jumper on Christmas, and finish it in maybe two years, I have few still halfway done from years ago, shame on me! Wip's, I have some...) Numer Two needs a pretty dress, but I have not the right fabric (black polkadot!) but tiny dress doesn't take much fabric.
Ys's room is slowly progressing. It might be ready by summer... Which summer, I don't know. Now I have bought treatment for the plastered wall and found a piece of plywood for windowsill.
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