Month: July 2021

Finally M could see his friends again and play their boardgames together. They haven’t seen each other in person since before the pandemic so I guess he won’t be home until late tonight. 

We’ve been busy today. I’ve been tending to my roses and cut off all the dead flower buds to allow new buds to bloom. Also I’ve cleaned the laundry room and got rid of a lot of old stuff that we don’t need anymore. 

We bbq nice steaks tonight and had a lovely dinner outside where it is somewhat cooler than indoor. Now we’re just enjoying a quiet evening and wait for M to call and ask us to come and pick him up again. 

The promised rain and thunder today seems to have chosen another way but it’s been very humid all day.

We had a list of chores today and started to tick them off straight after breakfast. A visit to the waste disposal site, a visit to my parents house, then IKEA, groceries, wine store and finally burgers & nuggets to bring back home for lunch.

After lunch we have cleaned the house – vacuumed, dusted, done laundry, installed the extra storage we bought for our broom closet, updated our portable storage disc with photos. Puh. Now some corner time before it is time to start dinner. A very productive day! 

Friday and my pink roses are in bloom! The rain this week did the trick! A friend of mine gave me two pink rosebushes for my birthday the other year and they seem to like it here in our garden. 

My half day turned in to a full day but very productive so it was ok. After work me and M went for a 40 min walk but we got attacked by mosquitoes and now we are both itching and scratching the bites. 

I’m feeling ok after the covid-shot yesterday – my shoulder hurts and I felt a bit feverish earlier but now I feel fine. My hubby has felt a bit off all day but nothing major. Good thing that we have a weekend ahead to enjoy! 

Finally my family is vaccinated with both doses – all four of us. No symptoms yet – just a bit sore in my shoulder. Hopefully that will be it. Read in the paper today that we most likely will need one or two more doses during the fall. Oh well. But so far so good – and  in a couple of weeks we might dare to hug our loved ones again. 

The electrician was here this morning and connected our new solar panels. Now the supplier of electricity just need to change the electricity meter and then we are ready to start using this new eco-friendly system. Yeah. 

A rainy day. It’s been raining almost all day. And it is so very humid. But, I guess our garden is happy and the flowers love it. 

Made myself a shrimp salad for lunch. Trying to eat healthy. Found a new product a while back – peeled frozen shrimps packed in portion sizes. Sold in packs of four portions. And they are delicious! I can really recommend them! 

Gave M a ride over the fam K for a board gaming afternoon and he is still over there so I guess they are having a good time. Fun! I’m glad. 

Another very warm night. I’m missing the ocean. To be able to just walk down and enjoy a dip whenever I feel like it. It was raining for a few hours last night which made it slightly more bearable. Let’s hope tonight will be cooler. 

A long day today. A lot to consider and a lot of things to keep track of. And with the upcoming summer holidays and everyone wanting to get as much done as possible before the break, it is quite busy. 

Managed to upgrade the software and re-connect my Vivosmart tonight which has been acting weird lately. It starts activities all of a sudden for no reason and also the battery runs out within a day or two instead of a week like it’s supposed to. Fingers crossed I managed to fix it. 

A very busy start of the week and I stayed over a few hours too.

After work I took a walk over to my parents house and back. It was so warm and humid today – feels like thunder is on the way. There is nowhere to cool off when it is equally hot both indoors and outside. 

Minute steak for dinner today and now we have crashed in front of a movie. Hopefully it will cool down a bit by the time we are going to bed otherwise this will be a long night. 

My roses are so pretty – four of the five rosebushes infront of our house are in bloom. This pale pink one is so pretty but also the yellow, the white with pink edges and the purple ones are beautiful. My yellow/red colored one hasn’t started to bloom yet. Also my pink ones on the back of our house hasn’t started to bloom yet. Today I went to buy a higher support to the white rose and it was a challenge to wiggle out the rose from the old support and then wiggle the rose into the new support. I look like I’ve been fighting a cat.. LOL. But I think it turned out pretty good and I hope we didn’t damage the rose too much.

A very warm day today. My hubby has been painting some more on our house. I went to buy the rose support and put gas in our car. Also tried to buy some new clothes but the store was way too crowded so I ended up going back home and ordered everything online instead. Fingers crossed I picked the right sizes.

Last night we took an evening walk and my oldest niece took this photo of me on our way back. It has been amazing evenings in our paradise. 

After our morning dip in the ocean and then some breakfast it was time to pack up and drive back to the city. Me, my oldest son and my sister. Five of us still remain in our paradise a while longer. Good for them. Me and my hubby will get our second shot of the covid-vaccine next week so that is good. And we need to be here where we are registered to do so. 

Now I have taken a shower and then enjoyed a nice dinner with my hubby and son whom we haven’t seen since last weekend. Nice to be all of us together again for a bit. 

Friday already. It’s been no problem at all working from our paradise – good to know! I’ve been quite busy too so that’s good too. But, tomorrow it is time for us to drive back to the city again – me, my sis and oldest son. The rest of the family stays here. 

It was around 19C in the ocean today and it has been a sunny day for most of the time. I did some laundry and it dried pretty quickly. Nice to not have a lot of dirty laundry to bring back home. My kind mother has offered to clean our sheets and towels while we are home working. *thank-you* ❤  

Last night in paradise this time – let’s hope it will treat us a nice sunset. But, we’ll be back in a couple of weeks for our longer vacation.