Since our door is on the north side of the house, the layer of snow on the walkway has melted only enough to get slippery, but not enough to vanish, even though it has been warm enough to melt away pretty much all of the snow/ice from the road. We have been meaning to get some sand or gravel to improve traction all week, but haven’t remembered. So this morning as we chatted on the phone I did the logical thing and swept up some of the gravel on the road, which is no longer helping as its ice is gone, and spread that on my walkway instead. Now I can walk normally instead of the cautious movements one uses for ice.
After that the morning phone call was just long enough to get about half of the Nordmark banner channel and the top for banner poles sewn. This project will be done for the event this weekend.
Usch! I just went in to make breakfast, cracked an egg into a bowl, and something looked weird. In the egg were long white strings, looking closer, it appears to be worms. Ick! Not anything I have ever seen before. This is the second to the last egg in the carton. The last few times I have used eggs from that carton I have mixed them into food I was cooking, without looking closely, so I have no idea if they also had a problem, which thought makes me feel a little sick. I didn’t know if these worms were dead or alive, so I poured the egg into the compost bag, took it directly out, and washed the bowl. I haven’t looked inside the last egg, yet. (edited to add: when I opened the last egg, hours later, it was fine)
The rest of the day went much better than that lunch time icknies.
In the early evening Charlotte arrived, and since we drove his work car to the bus stop to pick her up, we also drove past Angelika’s house to pick up the key to the site, and learned that when she had said yesterday that there was confusion in the church office about our booking, and that they’d double booked the site for Friday during the day, that the extra booking was a funeral for our next door neighbour, whom we hadn’t heard had died. She was only in her 50’s. Too young.
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