Week 24 ...and more rain

Week 24 

For age is opportunity no less 

Than youth itself, though in another dress, 

And as the evening twilight fades away 

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

I just watched the footy - hard to be buoyed after that...but OK...

oops, in Delzijl (tidal)

On Monday we had 42mm...and it feels like it hasn't stopped since. I couldn't do any mowing! Now, there's a seldom mentioned side-effect of Global Warming...

The ongoing wet weather in the Netherlands has created a shortage of spinach on the supermarket shelves, RTL news reported this week.
Spinach takes four to five weeks to reach maturity, so farmers sow their fields continually to be sure of enough stock.
But the continual rain means “we are still starting up,” spinach grower Edwin van Uijen said. “The spinach still in the fields has had it. The soil is too wet so the roots die and then the crop fails.”
The potato and other crops are also being affected, Judith van de Mortel from HAS Green Academy told the broadcaster.

The Building works...

The house building works have stalled a little - basically waiting for the concrete floor to really harden - so Tjeerd and I spent a couple of days fixing up the electrics in the upstairs bedroom - to become Ben's when he is home...or for visitors...

I got the original flat (ish) screen TV from 20 years ago, working...watching the footy replay via my phone...

A new LED lamp

We had a shortened week because it is Dorpsfeest (Village Fair) week again... So, bingo with the clients and a snackbar lunch...(the years just keep rolling by)

...and the Playback Show for Janny and other family members (they didn't win this year, for a change)...

I made a vensterbank (window sill) or literally window seat - but more used as a ledge for ornaments - they are wide because the walls are so thick. This one in the new bedroom...

End result, although I still have to figure out how to glue it in place...

A dry moment...