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Lauantai 🇫🇮 Laugardagur 🇮🇸

The electrician came back today to install two new plugs. He came by at 7:30 a.m. and left at 10 a.m. After his "visit", we went to IKEA to buy a few cases for the new kitchen shelf and have lunch at the Swedish restaurant. Both of us had meatballs and a caramel apple pie. And since we need more things, we'll go back to IKEA to buy them tomorrow. Repacking kitchen utensils takes more time and effort than we thought. I anticipated a light two-hour-long single-man process, but I couldn't have been more wrong. It'll never end. Tomorrow, I'll have a lot to do:

  1. I must paint the lower side of the house and bury the trench I dug the other day to prevent water leakage.
  2. I must apply spackling paste to the walls and then paint them.
  3. I must select the waist we want to get rid of, so the hole next week seems to be busy again.


The weather is beautiful, though. Mornings and evenings are chilly, but the days are still warm, with the highest temperature of +30°C. According to the weather forecast, we'll have the same weather until next Wednesday, when autumn will replace the summer mood. The foliage shows the imminent seasonal change already, as the hues and the saturation have become dimmer. On the one hand, I love it. On the other hand, because it reminds me of the passing by representing the slow dying of nature, I'm not too fond of it. 



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