Congratulations and felicitations!

[wiseheart]

To all my American friends: Happy Birthday to your country. May you all have a better upcoming year. Actually, we could all use that, can't we?

In the meantime, it's still quite hot over here. We had a short cooler spell in the early afternoon, then temperatures climbed again. *sigh* I stood up at stupid o'clock to do the pharmacy run and the grocery shopping (on 4.5 hours of sleep - I kid you not!). But at least I had a few hours in the morning for myself, which I used to do some successful writing, so I'm not complaining.

We had leftovers for lunch but I still had a bit of kitchen action: made cherry compote, so that Mum could have some cherries, too. She loves them but can't eat them raw; one needs more (and better) teeth for that.

On the crafting front, I made some labels for my ginger syrup bottles, so I wouldn't have to bother with that in November or so when I'm going to make the actual ginger syrup. And in the rest of the day we were both lazing around a bit. As tomorrow is laundry day and Mum wants to change the beds, and on Sunday I'll have to do the third part of the cleaning, a somewhat lazier day was very pleasant.

Comments

[meathiel]

Ugh, 4,5 hours of sleep is too little.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Definitely too little! But sometimes you have no choice.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Let's hope we do better this year.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Amen. 🙏

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine having to get up at that hour. Then, again, I get that it's about surviving at those temperatures. We are only on the very fringes of the European heat and that's bad enough. Do what you have to, to survive.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We are trying our best. 🥵

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Isn´t it a good thing that pharmacies here will only open at nine in the morning?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Most of them do the same over here, too. But this particular pharmacy — only one tram stop from our building — is a 00-24 one; plus I have a Kundenkarte that secures me a 5% lower price for all meds without state support, and that definitely counts.