Happy Easter.

Yesterday I cut grass. Not THE grass, but a little bit of grass. There are so many beautiful flowers growing in the yard that it seemed a shame to behead them. Especially given my past polemics in defense of dandelions. But it was fun getting the electric lawnmower to work.

I also bought a new toy: a schpritzer which moves back and forth. I may have schprizted the neighbours, inadvertently.

And oh. I saw a neighbour reading on his terrace. A rugby-looking fellow. Twenty-something. Cute.

There are under 5000 residents in this town, and about 10000 of them seem to be hot guys.

The lilacs are still alive.

Yesterday I bought two lilac bushes and planted them. They should be dead within the week.

The electrician came to put in the hall wall lights and the big kitchen light. I'd decided to have the electrician do it because I wanted it to be right. / He'd been supposed to come on Thursday, but there was some sort of electrical crisis and the whole company was unavailable. He was supposed to come Friday at 3 pm, but he showed up at 2 pm. Making up for Thursday, I guess.

1. He broke a clip on one of the lights, so the glass cover is hanging on by a thread, so to speak.

2. He drilled through the wall from the hall into the library. Fortunately, the new hole is about a foot away from the book shelves.

He told me about the clip. We put it down to a packaging error on the part of whichever Chinese guy made the lamp. (I didn't tell him about the hole, since I didn't want to upset him. He was young and cute and nice.)

Today I'm going to cut the grass. A HUGE moment in my new life.

ttfn

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 (Where the heck is the thing to make a box around this!  How irritating.  And I can't find the font-colour thingie.  Zut alors.)

Mr. Bigglesworth's blog has inspired me to buy a hose, a schpritzer, and a claw-thing, plant my Alpine grasses and flowers, and "work the earth".  Very exciting.  Around here the garden shops are always crammed with shoppers.

Now I'm going to vote.  

 

ps - Later in the day, I saw magpies eating the seeds.  Expensive bird feed.

 

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Very exciting.  I need this.  I've moved in at the right time.

Well, that's something at least.

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