21-II-2016.
I'm now wearing thin snug sweaters that she's knitting on the vilhelmina. Mostly blue, or blue and white with hi rez patterns on the shoulders.
To Klincaid to check on the kittens. She picked a sack of mouseweed for the hens. The kittens are alive, healthy and merry, no problems. The gable in the rear of the house lost a few more planks, and now any stronger wind can just raise the tiles on the front side. Rear is done with biber tiles, which go in two layers, unliftable. The front, however, is the new, grooved, single layer type.
On the way back we swung by Arpi, as he told us the hams and the rest were ready. We bought that in Idea*, because we got a tip from him that they have them - two hams, two slabs of ribs, two slabs of bacon. We never stepped into that Ideah again, because they arranged the shelves in such a way that you had to walk the whole shop, see all the shelves, in order to get out. Well fuck yourselves, find some other mice for your maze experiments, you won't do them on me.
He salted and smoked them properly, as per his new recipe. It's much faster this way, and the taste is divine. We packed one ham deeper into the freezer, the rest on top, and now we can take it slowly from there.
Later we asked him how did he cut the ribs so smoothly, there's not a shard of a bone anywhere, it's all flat and straight, what did he do there? Well, said, „I learned that from you. When you once told me how you cut the bathtub with the reciprocating saw (v. 30-IX-2007.), I said why not cut the bones with that. Tried and it worked swimmingly.“
Nina & co are in California, should be in LA tomorrow. Ender promised to fix aunt's car, so the aunt pays for the trip and is still not in the red on the whole operation... American mechanics, when they scent a sheep, are very adept at both shearing and skinning.
Lena managed to buy dollars yesterday, in some exchange office which had them. Luckily there's the web, and all of them publish teir phone numbers, so she was able to make a round and check out ten of them until she found this one, in some newbelgrader cunt creek, no idea where exactly, but as long as it's so easy to find a slot to park the car, it's a cunt creek. That's where I first saw the new Fiat's car, which looks like a fića on the outside... except it's not really one, with the engine in the front. After Folksvagen's beetle of 1994 (which really looked cool at the time) and few other relatively successful attempts (e.g. Beemdubya's Mini, twice the size of the original), this does have the silhouette. But it wasn't any nostalgic soul that bought it, rather some shop in the same building.
Everyone has euros, swiss franks, but nobody wants to mess with dollars, because the Fed wants full trace, serial numbers of each banknote, or else the country gets blacklisted as terrorists' laundromat. And she and Milan will now go to a trip over Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Eva is closing her nursing home for health reasons, i.e. her husband's parents have died, and she saw one uncle die too, and she just can't take it. We'll have to move Oma soon. Already found one, in a backstreet behind Springfield. Not the same standard of comfort, but one of the staff remembers Oma from the first home, and the staff generally looks good.
In retrospect, this was the best home - the rooms may be low ceilinged, some poor couple built this for themselves, with what they had, this is the ordinary banatian house, which was vacated when they went to be gastarbajters. The staff isn't numerous but their attitude is good, the atmosphere is good, they even take them for walks. Over time they also learned to lock the gate, because it inevitably occurs that one of the guests would go for a walk, at an age when there's absolutely no guarantee that they'd be able to find the way back.
Well it lasted just three-four months, and then some inspection came and ordered them to either legalize or close. The legalization requires serious investment (including two circuit sprinkler system against fire hazard and a bunch of other things), the cost of which would be probably more than the house was worth, so they had to close. Too bad.
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* this is engrbian, it's not called Ideja, it's Idea, and we assume the spelling is intentional and should be respected. I guess it would be read with a different accent, like Nivea.
Mentions: 30-IX-2007., 17-X-2022., Arpad Gunaroši (Arpi), Ender Aquila (Ender), engrbian, Eva, fića, gastarbajter, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Klincaid, Milan Nastić, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Oma, Springfield, vilhelmina, in serbian
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