When I discovered the first of the “oops” items not even an hour after the truck left, I thought it might be fun to start a list and see how it goes:
- a basket containing parts of two spinning wheels which are in one of the containers
- one & 1/2 boxes of books (surprise? not.) including a couple of historical books and a travel book from Israel
- a sealed envelope marked “LLadro” which I know contains the arm which was broken off one of the statues about 2-3 moves ago.
- one of the legs for my large embroidery stand.
- the bag of cardboard spools for the warping rack
- the zebra wood plate (over 30 cn across, it is not exactly small) that is mostly for display but is really nice to look at and feel
- (and this is a place holder since I haven’t looked in the laundry room yet, the kitchen or double checked our bedroom….)
Siebenschlafer
Apparently the critters have scored another victory in their attempt to invade every wall in our house. One of the more adventurous apparently managed to get a new access to the wall between the back hall and the living room. Haven’t heard them in that area before. Idiot apparently couldn’t find its way back out. When I went to bed last night, it was still wheezing and scrabbling. This has been an ongoing battle over the last several years. I think emptying the attic has emboldened them.
Coffee
Which leads me to the high point of the day. I got this lovely toy to replace yet another non-functioning coffee maker. I don’t know what it is about this house, but coffee makers have an average life expectancy of six months. I was sick of continually running out of my coffee because someone else has no clue as to how much coffee to put in the filter, or balancing the cone on top of the thermos since the small broken piece that lets the coffee go into the pot rather than all over the counter has gone AWOL.
I saved up my little stickers from REWE and got my coffee maker at 40% of the normal price. Color me happy. Then I ran into a slight issue. They didn’t have the capsules. And, as it turns out, each fancy little machine has a slightly different shape and size designed to prevent you from buying anything other than theirs. Really, it is the same issues as printers – money is not made on the machine – it is made on the supplies.
Anyway – neither REWE nor Aldi had them. The Tschibo shop on the Hauptstrasse did. So off I went to buy coffee for my machine. Since I walked into town (and back) I figured to stock up. In the future, I will just order enough on line to get free shipping….
And the coffee? It was wonderful. I had two cups!
Coffee – 9 choices – no broken pot
What I did find at REWE (no I didn’t buy any) was beer with carriers in anticipation of Oktoberfest.
For 10E you can buy a six pack complete with a Trachten Wool Carrier
Knitting
New project on the needles. This one is easy and portable. What more could I want besides a Hanne Falkenberg design (not her yarn) and garter stitch for travel?
right front – Ypsilon
Books
Only dropped off 72 books this morning. I hadn’t planned on making the run, but since I was awake I went. Put out all the garbage/trash containers while I was at it. Wonder of wonders – the rubbish was picked up today (say good-bye to three blue bags full of horrible, moldy stuff) as well as the recycle container emptied.
For reasons that you already know – I took a hike downtown around lunch time. Had five books which I was going to drop off at the local to the Cemetery Coffee Shop (they have a swap shelf) but they are closed. Both school holidays and looking for a new manager. So those five books were added to the Neuegasse shelves. It wasn’t fast – about 1/3 of what I had dropped off this morning was already gone – because there were about 10 people rooting through the shelves when I got there.
