15-III-2014.
Lena is not living with Zlija anymore. She found a new garsonjera [from garçon, bachelor] somewhere between SIV* and JUBC (where Prodise is), closer to work. It's actually quite close, five minutes with wait for elevator included. Isn't hard to reach from here, Novi Beograd is simple, and what of old one I have to drive through I know by heart - swing by her old place in Ruzveltova (Roosevelt's), Bulevar, then down the Kneza Miloša to Gazela or through Terazijski tunnel to Brankov bridge.
The flat is set up nicely, except it was remodeled and now the kitchen is all in industrial gray tones, may the gray fuck them. At least there's a little terrace in front of it, so we can take out our coffees and have a smoke, and there's a view over the park to Danube (which is hidden by trees) and beyond on Banat. It's sixth floor, so you can't quite see far across the river.
We sat with her, went to JUBC to have lunch in Cactus, strolled arround, scouted out the nearest shops, all as due.
Nina and Ender have a new car, a Subaru. On the other shot there's Eleese, sitting in... now can't quite see whether it's a trailer or a wohnwagen aka RV. Couch done in leather (like), tablet in hand, crapper in the cabin in the corner.
At dad's I finally got fed up with replacing the lightbulb in the corner light. Nowadays the bulbs aren't as they used to be (we still have one from Pančevo glass plant, made in 1991, above our front door), they don't make them capable of enduring 250V, this is chinese junk now which burns out in a few months. He's also not listening when I tell him that you can't put more than 60W into a glass jar, it heats up and its life is shortened so, so he invariably puts a 100W in there and of course it doesn't last. I surcunted, finally, bought a 15W LED floodlight, called Mića, he mounted it in half an hour. Problem solved.
The next day, in Čankovo, I rolled out the cable and chainsawed the rotten branches of the two apples on the street, and one whole rotten apple tree in the yard. I just threw the branches in over the gate, and cleaned that right away a few years later. We had lunch - fried eggs, bacon, homemade bread and huge green onion fresh from the garden in the back.
On 17th a better lunch, it's dad's 84th birthday, I drove him. she then brought out the cake... Though it's our 35th anniversary too, she only wrote 84 on the cake, not to overcrowd it with digits. Erdinger beer, Staropramen.
On 20th Najka from detelina called, the chicken arrived. So I went and picked them. So the crate is now populated and now in some twenty weeks, when they start laying, we should have eggs.
Mentions: Čankovo, detelina, Eleese Aquila (Eleese), Ender Aquila (Ender), Ilija Ćirilov (Zlija), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Mića the electrician, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Prodise, in serbian