junk food

Wake, and all is well, and that is unusual. It is early, and happily go about all the usual things and then start to sort and to separate the equipment, tidying all the loose wires with the same names but different connectors to their relative devices. There is pleasure in tidying things, and there is pleasure in finding things that had become mislaid over time and returning them to their place. Place the old digital back in its original case with all of its wiring and bits and pieces.

Continue working like this, then find the empty window frame for the front door. It is empty because it fell out of the door a year ago which led to the glass breaking. Measure the frame, then ring up the glazier and ask for sheet of glas in that size.

Wash the plastic cases that have become dusty with time. Wash out the grime in bath tub, and then wash the other window belonging to the front door. The glass has become filthy in storage. Use some window cleaner spray and clean it, and dry it with a rubber blade. For good measure, clean the glass verandah door too, it has become dirty of late.

Then there is a telephone call from the glazier, the glass sheet is ready for pickup. 

For the first time since returning from France take the car and drive to the glazier. Take a wrong turning on the way, this makes the drive a bit longer, but this does not matter. Pick up the sheet of glass and pay for it, and then drive to the hardware store to buy some putty and some small pieces of hardware to secure the windows properly this time. Return home, and discover that the person at the glazier's place had assumed that the given measure was the actual size of the frame, and had reduced the whole by five millimetres. But the problem was, that this amount had already been allowed for. So therefore the pane of glass was almost too small. With much care and fiddling about and the careful use of small nails, it was possible to glaze the window. It was not perfect, but functional.

By the time all of this was done the day was done too.

Make an evening meal of sauerkraut and wiener sausages, as they are called here.

The meal does good, even if it is very much the local equivalent of junk food.