I always mean to do these things but usually miss them. So yesterday morning when I looked at twitter and saw Bev post a photo around 10am, I went, “hey, why not today?”
True to form though, I started a few minutes later and pretty much continued that way all day. It was a very cold and foggy day here in Franconia, and neither a walk nor a trip to the supermarket sounded terribly appealing, so it was a pretty quiet day at home.
Just after 10 and I was drinking tea in bed. Tea or coffee in bed and the New York Times crossword is my standard weekend start mode these days. At 11, I was up (briefly) for a tea refill and to check in on Marry while she supervised bird activity out the front window.
12pm and time for some yoga. My arm looks incredibly weird here, but slightly less awkward than trying to take a picture while actually doing the yoga? Finished with yoga, I was forced to take a breakfast break and catch up on my habit chart in the ol’ bullet journal because BV snaked my shower slot around 1pm.
Finally showered at 2, and got “ready” for the day. Though if you’re not really going anywhere, what are you really ready for? Anyway. I recently got this new facial cream with some points I’d saved up. It’s a bit thicker than what I’m used to, so I don’t think I’ll be using it every day but I think it’ll be great this winter when it gets so dry in here. 3pm and it was off to the kitchen to do some dishes (what else?) and refresh my sourdough starter.
Dishes finished, I was off to the living room at 4pm to figure out how to mess up the kitchen again. We had a few late zucchini from the garden that were starting to get weird, which meant I had the chance to test out a new recipe from Flavour. Marry was unimpressed as usual. My 5pm photo was even later than the others because I spent a good 30 minutes struggling to get the fire lit. I suspect the kid who delivers our adverts on the weekends (aka a giant pile of fire-starting paper) has been skipping our house. So lately it’s been a lot of struggling to get it going with strictly the pressed wood and cardboard. And ca. 52 matches per attempt.
Dinner prep/kitchen destruction underway at 6pm. Though all things considered, this recipe was pretty easy on the dish front. One cutting board, one knife, a wooden spoon, one pan, a bowl and spoon for the sauce. Plus, the simple sautéed zucchini with a harissa sauce was very tasty.
Possibly too tasty as I was too busy eating and watching a movie to catch the 7 or 8pm photos. We watched ‘Die Kleine Hexe,’ which is a classic children’s book, and had been one of BV’s favorites. I didn’t know the story, but thought it was a cute movie.
After the movie, BV retreated back to the office to continue cleaning and sorting. He’s still in the process of changing his name on everything/trying to figure out what he’s missed so far. I was still in the living room at 9, watching more nonsense on Netflix and continuing to work on this ridiculous cat coloring book that my sister brought me from Korea a few years ago.
10pm was time for an evening cup of after-dinner tea while Marry enjoyed her fire which had finally gotten the room heated up. At 11 I was contemplating going to bed, but got distracted flipping through the latest issue of Panorama, the German Alpine Club magazine. This article about a hiking trail that goes all the way across Slovenia especially caught my eye. We were there in September and I already can’t wait to get back!
I finally headed for bed around 12, but got slightly distracted for a few minutes trying to figure out if I remembered what was happening when I left off reading this book on our vacation. Nope, no clue, so I will be starting this one over. And that was it for a very quiet and cold November Saturday. The kitchen is already a mess again though, go figure.
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Heather Goes to Deutschland 
What’s the doodad in front of your computer? It looks like a Wiimote!
It is! My old laptop got so hot underneath that we got in the habit of propping it up on the Wiimote whenever we used it, and especially when we had it on the floor and connected to the TV to stream things.
The new one doesn’t get too hot, but I’m still hesitant to run it on the carpet without anything underneath, so the habit remains. Don’t ask me when the last time we played with the Wii was though…
Get one of these! It’s useful for just that sort of thing…
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/braeda-laptop-support-black-60150176/
(and yeah, not putting it right on carpet is smart, since laptops usually vent from the bottom.)
Guess I’ve got another reason to go to IKEA. And it’s true, especially with the hellfire of my old laptop.
It is a sad fact of adulthood that the kitchen is ALWAYS a mess!
Next house has a second bathroom and a dishwasher or I ain’t moving in. đŸ˜‚
I’d have a hard time doing these photo-an-hour posts because I spend most of my life as Marry does. Every now and then I get up to appear useful, but my favorite thing is curling up on the sofa (with a book until I can’t stay awake any longer). My husband liked die kleine Hexe as a child also!
That’s a pretty good day as far as I’m concerned! And books are always a good choice. đŸ™‚ I like the Netflix/coloring book option as it gives me something to keep my hands away from my phone and still be entertained.