Loba and Magi decided to live together, so they bought half a house downtown, more or less in the area where the club once was, so close to the center and yet an old peasant's house. I went twice to join a moba there. First time we were dismantling a shed, particularly the chimney, slowly, brick by brick, so not to destroy them and specially not the roof tiles, will need them. That went well, despite of all four of us (his, later, kum, and another guy whom I don't remember) being clue upon clue on masonry - a painter, a poet, a mathematician.
The second moba was when he bought the big window. He tore down the sheds to make an atelier upstairs, so he needed the bricks. A painter's first need is light, so this was some huge window, something like meter and a half by two and a half, from some old house in the area of Pinova vila. He needed the moba for transport - it wasn't too far, three-four corners. It made no sense to hire a truck for it, the loading and unloading would be equally difficult as this thing that we did: we loaded it on three bicycles, two at front corners, me in the back, and pushed it slowly. The panes were already moved, probably his dad came with a car and did a few rounds, this was just the frame. We did this by night, so we'd have the full width of the sidewalks, not being an obstacle to others and having none ourselves. And, amazingly, it worked - we never veered in wrong direction, didn't have to reverse, no bike slanted away from the vertical, everything went as imagined. And I think we had a drink or two, the downstairs already had places to sit.
8-I-2026 - 8-I-2026