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2023-04-11
Yesterday was the first day in a really long time where I had the energy and the mental headspace to get stuff done.
We've returned from our vacation in Spain last Friday and had spent the weekend more or less doing nothing, reacclimatizing to our home. I had some IT maintenance to do with our selfhosting services but other than that I'm not quite sure what we did this weekend.
But yesterday was a really good day. I take from it that the vacation really helped and I was able to recharge my batteries and gain some mental distance to every day life.
First thing in the morning I did bake a bread. Since I'm the main bread eater in the house I might as well start to learn how to make my own. Bread from the stores here isn't bad but baking it from dough and yeast is a skill I wanted to learn anyways and it frankly tastes better. I let it cool, then cut the whole loaf and put the slices into bags of four and put those in the freezer. Without preservatives the bread lasts for about a week outside of the freezer but with freezing it comfortably lasts longer so I can eat it all.
Next, I planted some seeds and started the gardening season. Should have done that before the vacation but they would have wilted anyway so I didn't. Now I'm a bit late but in a way I'm glad because the nights here are still very cold, spring is late.
I planted four Tomato seeds, about ten Gherkins for pickling (something I want to try this year) and a few Chilli plants. Oh and Dill as the only herb. We've rediscovered Dill as a herb in Spain.
Last year my herb-growing adventures didn't go too well, I'll stick with only Dill this year and give it more attention.
All seeds except for the Dill are in small sprouting pots inside the apartment near the south-facing window. The Gherkins take around a week to sprout, the others longer. This gives us enough time to buy more soil before we move the sprouts onto the balcony. Hopefully by then it is warmer.
We discovered that we have a Mason Bee that dug a hole into the building facade, right into the insulation. I've tried to convince the bee that this is not a good place for its offspring by means of gipsum but to no avail. Ok fine, I'll seal the hole when the next bee generation has left.
We used the remaining gypsum on some drill holes inside the apartment and sealed them off nicely. Although this is a simple thing to do I'm quite proud that we got this done. Some of these holes are older than I want to admit…
Once that was done the bread had sufficiently cooled and we made brunch from it with some of the Chorizo we brought from Spain, and local Cheese / Paprika / Gherkins. Yummy.
After dinner I went for a 9km walk to stretch my legs. I'm quite out of shape after winter so that felt good. The day before I had started to do some back and shoulder exercises again since my back was giving me trouble — I need to consistently do the exercises.
In the evening we tried to get rid off a facebook account of my wife's dad who died last year but Facebook is refusing to log us in even though we have the password. It demands uploading an official ID. Which is kind of stupid for only shutting it down — I won't go into why I think this is excessive to begin with — so we left it.
I'm guessing the ID requirement might be since no one has logged in for such a long time and now we're trying to do it from a country different than what usually used for the account. Oh well. Maybe my wife can get in when she goes to visit her mom next month. And if not, so be it.
So yeah, just a simple update about a simple but very positive day… have a good one, too!
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