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Kahviakin kuumottaa..

Aamu alkoi eilen leivotuilla herkkuleivillä. Jouduin harrastamaan jonkin verran itsekuria, että onnistuin jättämään sen viimeisen leivän miehelle (joka vielä veteli sikeitä).

Kahvin sekaan sulattelin lusikallisen kookosrasvaa, ja tulos oli tuon ensimmäisen kuvan näköistä. Meni aika liukkaasti alas.

Edellä mainittujen päälle vedin vielä satsin soijajugurttia luomuluumuilla. Silppusin kolme kuivattua vaikka kaksikin olisi riittänyt (sekä maun että hiilareiden puolesta).

Päivä alkoi lupaavasti auringon säteiden siivittämänä. Lähdinkin aamiaisen jälkeen saman tien metsään lenkille. Ilma oli aivan trooppisen hiostava jo siinä vaiheessa, ennen puolta päivää. Mieletön kosteus ilmassa! Kävimme lounasaikaan ostoksilla rajan takana iki-ihanassa albert heijnissä. Siellä päin maailmaa oli vain lämmintä, mutta takaisin palatessa (auton ikkunat auki) tunsimme miten kosteus vain lisääntyi ja mitä lähemmäksi kotia (metsää) saavuimme.

Koska säätiedotus lupaili epävakaata, sadetta ja ukkostakin, S päätti ettei ala seinien kalkitsemiseen vaan viritteli sen sijaan paraatipuolelle saderännit. Jouduin appariksi koska alin rivi kattotiiliä piti ensin poistaa. Oli niin hiostavaa ettei tullut edes nälkä mutta söin väkisin etten tulisi kärttyisäksi. Merisutta tai kissakalaa tai merikissaa lautasella rehujen kanssa:

Parsakaalit ovat aika hentoisia ja ehtivät usein kukkimaan ennen keräämistä. Hyvältä maistuvat nuo kukatkin. Prinsessapavut olivat niinikään ylikypsiä, joten kaivoin vain sisukset salaattiin. Näyttivät vähän edamameilta.

Istuimme alkuiltaa ulkona viileän kuohuviinipullon kanssa. Mieletön ukkosen jylinä kuului jostain läheltä ja välillä salamoi sokaisevan kirkkaasti. Kun katsoi kohti pohjoista horisonttia niin siellä oli synkkääkin synkempää, taivas raskaana. Mutta meillä nautittiin sinitaivaasta ja auringon laskusta. Pienet kultaiset lehdet satelivat rauhallisesti maahan vienoisen tuulenvireen osuessa oksiin.

Ja pähkinöitäkin on alkanut jo satelemaan. Tänä vuonna tulossa taas huippusato!

Venäläisellä lohikäärmepähkinänsärkijällä on taas töitä.

Jos näistä tuoreista nylkee tuon pähkinän päällä olevan kalvon pois (lähtee aika helposti) niin kitkeryys häviää mausta.

Nettiradiosta tanssittavaa: Ben Dean Game Tight
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I love the mornings in the weekend – or any other day when there’s no hurry to anywhere. Walk through the forest to the mailbox and bring home the newspaper. Take your time making breakfast and eat it. Read any interesting article in the weekend paper instead of just turning the pages to view the titles and images. Let your eyes wander to the window and just look at the world while your coffee turns cold..

I bought this cup in Paris 21 years ago..

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Olen aina ollut aamuvirkku eikä karppaus ole ainakaan lisännyt aamu-unisuutta. Huolimatta siitä että sammutin yövalon viime yönä vasta kahden aikaan olin jo aamuseitsemältä hereillä enkä saanut enää unta. Räpelöin siinä sitten iPadia tunnin pari ennen kuin luovutin.

Paistoin karppilätyn aamiaiseksi ja aamiaisen jälkeen tein tutun tunnin kävelylenkin metsäpoluilla. Helppoa lähteä tarpomaan kun asuu metsän laidalla. Silloin kun muutimme tänne ajattelin että voisin kävellä lähes joka päivä tai ainakin joka viikko mutta käytännössä se on jäänyt vähemmälle. Joskus ilmojen takia mutta usein laiskuuttaan.. No talvisin on arkipäivinä hieman vaikeaa, kun on aamuisin niin pimeää ennen töihin lähtöä ja illalla on jo pimeää kun tulee kotiin.

Tässä sen jättimunan sisukset:

Ullakon lattia on toistamiseen lakattu.

Storm is blowing over Belgium today. It started to wind real hard in the afternoon and immediately all the windows became steamy on the inside. One of the roof tiles blew off from the top, next to the chimney.

Last weekend we moved the chicken to the other side of the house and they’re doing fine work there. Most of the moss is already loose and they pick all kinds of larvae and insects from the ground that might be bad for vegetables.

As usual we made nice plans to go somewhere in the weekend but didn’t go anywhere further than to visit our neighbors (about 300 meters away) around the noon to check their signal (which was ok so the problem was in the box) and brought them two pulla‘s and three twigs of witch hazel as gift.

Yesterday we did some shopping in lidl but were not so pleased with the stuff they got so we probably won’t do it again. I guess we’re spoiled then..

Fatal slip on tuesday morning when turning to left from the river. Face forward to the ground. Smashed my teeth together and lost a white piece. Red woolen glove appeared and lifted me on my feet again. State of shock – it all happened so fast. Left knee swollen and purple climbed on brompton and drove on. Blood on my lip.

The dentist showed a picture of thin fractures on my tooth. White cat sneaked in the operation room but was soon put out. While paying the phone rang and the dentist handed it to me. Got a green paper with wrong name on it (but i didn’t know it yet) and went back to work to get my phone. White cat saw me leaving. Filled in some papers with carla then went back to the dentist to get a new green paper with my own name on it. White cat was playing sphinx in the lobby.

When driving home with S i started to feel pain on my left side. A black cat run over the main street of sint-kruis-winkel. My Valentine’s gift in black lace had also arrived that morning. Again on the top of the mailbox and the wrapping was wrinkled. Hate Belgian post as much as ever. Lacks quality in their services.

Wednesday evening a delicious pizzas (perla di salvatore & quattro stagioni) in casa nostra. S is full of good ideas. :)

Today i’m staying home with geike.

Lately our house has been invaded by ladybirds. They’re quite harmless but spin around like tiny helicopters in the silence of the night before going to sleep.

Yesterday there were two green woodpeckers flying around the garden. They were very interested in the gap between new rooftop and walls. One of them landed few times on the wooden frame of the bedroom window with a soft thump but was not harmed. It observed the space above the window for a while and flew away. Gorgeous bird!

Golden autumn day. I’ll take a bus to G this afternoon because i have another session at kine. Tonight is the handing over of the Utopie in wrought iron at the dog’s dream. We still don’t have a name for our house.

mijn lief said i could blog. thought about old vinegar tips and decided to try it on the fireplace glass. i poured some froggy on kitchen paper and wiped – instant clean! so there i got the picture.

yesterday i went to a kinesitherapist for the first time in my life. got the doctors order to show my arm there nine times in the coming few weeks. plus stay home this week and try not to use my right hand in heavy or repetitive tasks. i can’t remember when i was one week ill and home from work last time.. probably when i was hospitalized for my kidneys? drove home with mijn lief after the kine. he’s got a lot of stress and too many things piling on his back lately. all at the same time. i think he needs some time off but at the same time i know he won’t do it. why?

i went walking in the forest before lunch: colors of autumn, dry leaves, mushrooms, silence. this morning the cows were on both sides of our road when i went to get the newspaper. some of them dared to sniff my hand.

[vocem-meam-audit-qvi-me-tangit]

Our new doorbell hanging at the gate. It took a while for S to drill a hole in the old cement gatepost so that he could attach the pole where the bell hangs. When the bell was finally hanging and he tested it few times one small dragon head fell off. It was so badly oxidized. Anyway, the bell works fine without the missing part and we can hear it perfectly indoors as well.

Quiconque me touche entendra ma voix.

Today we’re planning to take a trip on the river. I hope they still got free canoes for this afternoon as we didn’t reserve any yet. The weather is fine, sunny but not burning hot. Later on we’ll have a barbeque in the garden.

Oh, i wish we were on holiday already! Still one week to go..

Last night i programmed Tacones Lejanos in eyetv. For once my laptop didn’t snap unexpectedly and it got fully recorded.

S came back from the sea and got a very nice surprise with him. Two sunloungers! They’re just plain common iron tube + thin mattress and yet perfect. What a new sensation to lay comfortably outside reading or with your laptop, head in the shadow and legs in the sunshine. Warm summer breeze and a refreshing drink on your side..

Eventually we want to buy the nice wooden things – the same as in aqua-azul – but they’re so hard to find. It should have a flexible wooden construction, sort of rope bridge, that follows the curves of your back.

Violets are growing on the grass.

(in our garden)

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Yesterday i polished my silver rings and started to wear them again after six months.