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Song of the day: “Halo” by Beyonce, interspersed with the occasional “Crazy” by Patsy Cline. Weird combination, I know, but there you have it. Hah.

As expected not all that much happened since the day evening before yesterday, seeing as life is blissfully boring at the moment allowing for lots of outside work in the veggie garden. We've been doing quite a bit of that, of course. Working on turning more earth, planting seedlings and sowing. The yard is starting to look splendid and I have the pictures to prove it. Regretfully I'm too friggin lazy to actually post them today. Hah

What with having to protect all those little ones against the occasional dog, there was also reed hauling involved. Luckily we still had several bundles standing in the lower yard, they are now being put to good use. Even yesterday afternoon we put up a “constellations” around two cherry tomatoes...of which one Fortuyn wrecked. There we were, just done putting them in the ground, and snap! I kid you not. He pounced on it as if it was meat, and was gone before we realized what had happened, little bastard. Grrr. Luckily we had another (albeit smaller) one in the greenhouse, so we immediately replaced it...after threatening Fortuyn bodily harm if he dared to do that again. Hah.

There was a clay hauling trip...which is really necessary, seeing as we're going to have to fill up a lot of space once the new terrace is ready. Seriously. That wall will be nine feet high and about 45 feet long. Imagine filling the empty space behind it.

Deciding to do it slightly different yesterday, we started early digging out the foundation of another section of the wall. While big brother worked on getting an old tree root-system out of the way, I dug up nine, by two, by two feet of mud. Then, together with grandpa, hauled nine BIG rocks to the location and started putting them in.
The first section is no done, and big brother put up the first step of the new stairs. So definitely not bad for one morning's work.

Today, after the usual chores of...yeah, yeah, laundry and such, big brother and I headed for town. We had an option for cheaper car insurance, and as soon as we've made our payment around next week, it will be a done deal, saving us about 250 a year. Yay.
Now all we have to do is wait for summer and then we might be able to shave some off the Daewoo's insurance as well, which would be a big relief, to say the least.

While we were out we also had to go to a big chain-store to get a portable hard disk drive. It is just to be on the safe side, really, what with big brother's computer giving him some serious problems these days. We're afraid it's going to give the spirit one of these days, and what with all the stuff on it, that would be disastrous, rather than just incredibly unhandy.

Also went to several appliance stores to search for a new fridge for grandpa. That's going to be a bitch, really, seeing as even the smallest are over 170 wherever I look. We'll just have to be patient, I guess...added to that, the washing machine still hasn't been repaired. The repair dude has ordered the part, but it still hasn't arrived. He said he'd get back to me later today, but we'll have to wait and see.

The knee is still bummed, and climbing all over the mountain (rocky slopes and everything) yesterday evening, didn't do it much good. Ah well, time does heal everything, or so they say. *sigh*

Still working on the in-between project, by the way. Well past half, though, and the new scene is working out very well. Yay.

Right now, tenant is out with mom and little sister. She was kinda looking forward to going to the city and the promised visit to a nice little café. She does love that, and since she appears to be feeling out of sorts these days, the time OUT might do her some good.

Personally, I am not looking forward to tomorrow, which is silly, but there you have it, because tomorrow is, of course, grocery shopping day. Aaaaargh. Darn it. I couldn't help myself. I said it again.