Let's try this now

 I've got some serious problems signing in my blog. Funny thing is, that in some blogs I can comment as myself?

Some tweaks later I managed yesterday get bolgpst through, so I hope I can do this. Annoying thing, this technology.

But it's October. It means days have less than 12 hours daylight - sunrise is at 8:20 and sunset is at 17:53, lenght of the day is less than 10 hours and twilight is less than an hour in the morning and in the evening (in theory, in the morning it was ok'ish around 7 o'clock, but in the evening it was completely dark around seven o'clock). In the summer we can work in the garden late, like ten pm or later. Active part of the day is much much longer. Now I've noticed I find myself sitting in front ot telly or with my laptop right after I've made/eaten dinner, around half past six!

I've tried to include more potatoes to our diet. With young adults it is easy to give up and make pasta and rice day after day. Because that's easy, that's what they like. But potatoes are ... better. I like potaoes.

And they are either free (from my sister's root cellar) or very cheap (from the store; 5kg bag of all purpose potatoes - yes, they are called that, there's several varieties of them - is 2,79€. That's 0,56€/kg. Potatoes we grow are also all purpose potatoes. They are not same varieties that in the UK, because of the long days in the summer. UK potatoes do not grow here.

Ok, but potatoes: in the last seven days I've made potato wedges in the oven, scalloped garlic potatoes, mashed potatoes, and cabbage stew/soup with a lot of potatoes. So every other day potatoes, every other day something else.

If this works, I'll try to write more often. This is early mornings (like eight o'clock) now:

Blog troubles

 Or is it google troubles? No idea. Third try.

Oh, they survived!

It's been a loooooong looooong week. Spent some quality time in various aircrafts in different airports. If it rains, planes do not fly on time. If there's strike, planes do not fly.

At home, boys ate pot noodles, bag noodles and enormous amounts of bread. With nutella.

I ate Brazilian food (delicious), Chinese with sushi (why? why they are always combined?) and some vegetarian sandwiches. Hotel breakfasts. And Burger King.

Very sophisticated.

Today I sent the day at composting facility. My hair smells like death, and my boots smell like death's puke.

I love my work.

Out of office

 I'm going for a working trip. Few days away in a different country.

That means that 'Suma will be devastated, she has some SERIOUS separation anxiety (from me) and only one who can do anything with her is ys. Hb can't get her out or our gate, she flatly refuses to take a step outside our yard with hb. Ys can take her for a long walk. We DO have a HUGE yard for her to go pee and poop, that is not luckily the problem. But she will not eat, she will not sleep, she will not rest until I'm back.

She usually sleeps in our livingroom on the couch (it is bought for the dog so it is her place). But when I'm gone she will sleep on ys's room on his couch. She NEVER goes to ys's room when I'm home, never.

I'm not sneaking out of the house without her seeing me leaving -that would drive her to complete panic! I have a backpack I take with me when I'm having just an ordinary working day (even for a long one). It's ok. When I'm away overnight I have to take another backpack, so she will know I'm away longer. We tried to fool her with me taking the normal backpack, and she was competely panicked by the midnight. When she sees the "long trip bag" she gets sad, but doesn't panic.

Ok. Of course I can quit my job?

Anyway. also the children will need some prepping before I leave. I have to check there's enough tp, some noodles in the pantry and new clean and dry towels in the toilet. Hb is responsible for feeding them, but lately boys have refused to eat his foods... so they cook their own.

Few days away also means I have to check the fridge there's nothing going off during I'm away. Boys will find food,  but hb can stand in front of full fridge and die of hunger if things are not visible for him (he knows what he has put in there, so those things he can find).

But. It is what it is.

On the other hand: I will meet my new collagues for the very first time, I know we will be working hard and I know this face-to-face meeting is very much needed not only building this new team but also getting things done. Only one of us is speaking English as their first language, so working over Teams is always a bit challenging.

And it's going to rain for the next few days, so 'Sumawalks would be minimal anyway. My sweet sugarbaby will melt in rain!

it's the season of..... MUSHROOMING!

 And a lovely weather, too!

If not maybe even a little too warm? +23 and sunny.

A bagfull of black chanterelles. I didn't have much time, so this is only 3,5 to 4 litres of mushrooms (all picked so close to our home, that I was able to see our house the whole time I was picking them). I'm going to dehydrate them, and then grind, so I'll have a small jar of black dust 😂

We've been eating fresh mushrooms every day the last month, and if everythign goes as planned, we will eat them until the beginning of December. After that I have to rely on dried or frozen mushrooms. Which we will have...to much?