Dream analyzer wanted

Yesterday morning I woke up and wondered.

Where the heck does it come from - all the weird stuff I dream at night?

The alarm clock tore me out of a dream, where I was camping with the girls I sing with in X-tetten. I was skating my way around the campingsite on rollerskates - going downhill. In my hand I had my lunch in a plastic bag, and I was wearing a plastic bathing cap on my head (?!?).

A normal happening in my life - NOT!

Anyone good at analyzing dreams around?

Is it possible to have too much garden furniture?

One of lifes great, existentialist questions.

When we moved in together about 7½ years ago, we had an old door that we put up as a garden table, and then we dragged our kitchen chairs out on the porch.
Da vi flyttede sammen for snart 7½ år siden, havde vi en gammel dør på nogle bukke,
og så slæbte vi køkkenstolene ud på terrassen.

Some time along the way we got ourselves a bit of garden furniture. The white wooden Skagen-set, with an extra large table, a bench that sits 3 people and 4 chairs - we wanted to be able to sit down with all of our kids at once.



Later we got a small, cheap hardwood set, with 2 chairs and a 2-seat bench.

And then we have the red chairs, and I brought a deck chair into our relationship - one that I got for my 30th birthday.



So we have a lot of garden furniture. Specially now that our garden size has been seriously reduced. But today I think we managed to find a place for every chair.

We tidied, swept and weeded the terrace at the bottom of the garden, and then we switched the furniture around, so the white bench, table and 2 chairs is now on our wooden porch.



It is a bit of a puzzle to get it all placed, so it doesn't look like an attic for storing garden furniture :-) but I think we were succesfull!

It's a bright sunshiny day

...again!

I wish this warm spring weather would never come to an end. Sadly it looks like we will soon have to get used to gray clouds, raincoats and closed windows and doors - at least for a while.



Today, though, it is lovely. A little windy, but nice and warm.

In spite of that Bruno and I cleaned the house today. You drag in a lot of dirt on warm days, and the bathrooms don't get less dirty just because the weather is good.

But now we can face the working week calmly - and with clean toilets :-)

We have been spontaneous-social this weekend - saturday we dropped by a colleague and his wife, that recently moved into town. We came by to see their house, and got a chat and a glass of white wine on their rooftop terrace - very nice.

Today another pair of my colleagues came by. They live a bit longer outside town than us, and I pointed out to them, that they drive right by our house when they go home from town. We showed them the place, and they hung around for a cold beer on the porch at the end of the garden, where there is sun during the mid-day hours.

Its a nice and relaxed and stressless way to see people that way.

This afternoon Bruno is going out biking with our buddy Carsten, who also stays for dinner. We're going to bbq a chicken breast - always good.

Later on Kristian is coming home from spending the weekend at his dads. Bodil stays out there until tomorrow, and takes the bus to school from where he lives. It is great that they can just do it the way they prefer.

Life is good!

Amazing what a layer of paint can do!

On our new house there is a lovely wooden porch.



We've allready enjoyed it a lot! It's got sun in the morning until about 10 am, and the sun comes back around in the afternoon, and bathes it in sunlight all evening.

A while ago we agreed to paint it some time - and we got a bucket of black paint, thinking black would look great with the white paned windows we plan to put in the house.



It was in dire need of paint. And the weather was great again today - so we lunged at the task this morning, and painted like madmen (and women).

It really looks good!



We love our "new" porch ... and soon we will give all of the garage a layer of paint, too.



When we were done, it was five minutes after lunchtime (our stomachs RUMBLED) - and we really deserved lovely lunch with cold Leffe beer in the sun...

Bikes in town

We have a large Harley Davidson event in town this weekend.

And they are literally everywhere, and have been since wednesday, where the first started to show up. There are funny types, shady types, peculiar types, criminal types - everywhere. AND their shiny well-kept rides are parked whereever you look.



Its been rather peaceful. We do hear a little music now and then, from the festival area. And the sound of Harley engines, very regularly.



So all in all it's a fine arrangement. And good for town, the shops and the restaurants alike.

We went for a stroll in town this morning - had a few errands and enjoyed lounging about in the sun, looking at bikes and people. On the city hall square we didn't see much of the bikers - I think everyone else went there.



We went to pick up contact fluid and bought plants for the garden. And my sweet, patient husband waited patiently in the sun while I was nosing through various stores.



It was lunchtime all of a sudden, and I remembered what delicious sandwiches they make at Caffe Katia - my favourite spot in town.



So we just had to stop by there, and I had a chicken sandwich that had me hearing angels sing - I think it must have been the delicious pesto in there. After lunch we had a great cup of espresso, and then we went home.



It was difficult to go, coz I'd just started reading Paolo Coelhos "Veronika decides to die" - I am going to have to borrow it at the library and finish it.

Even though we were rather full, we still got a few things done this afternoon. Bruno fixed this and that around the house and the garden, and I painted our red garden chairs - boy they needed a layer of paint!

Before:



After:



wow ....

You know you are in Fredericia...

... when the traffic lights look like this:



...and like this when you can walk:



Haha ... funny! I don't know how long they've looked like this, but anyone knowing
Fredericia will know, that it's a tribute to out town-hero - the soldier - that looked like this in the passover sun:



What a grand idea! And I wonder how long I would have taken to notice it, if not for my bright daughter, who pointed them out to me last week.

Summer is here.

Seen in my garden:



One of the very summer-like sights to be seen in my garden this week :-)