State of the Household

The fruit of the day:

- Grocery shopping is done, with 4 meals planned and ingredients now in the kitchen

- Fridge has been culled of obsolete items

- Clothes are clean, dry, folded and put away

- Towels are clean, dry, folded and restored to position

- Sheets are changed, old linens are in the process of getting clean

- Trash has been collected and consolidated and placed in one big, special, paid-for trash bag for tomorrow's collection

- Yard waste bin has been retrieved from the street and put back behind the house

- Some windows are cleaner than before

- Pink birthday roses have been trimmed and refreshed (still looking beautiful after 12 days!)

- Basil plant has been revived (was dehydrated)

- Carport is swept clean of leaves, dust, pollen, and seed pods

- Children have been safely ferried back and forth

A Particularly Fruitful Domestic Monday.

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In other news:

* the peonies are burgeoning
* the irises are hinting
* I posted a 59-second video on Facebook of our latest Dance Evening (our first in Switzerland)
* the house smells like heating oil, as the tanks were serviced - and it'll be the same tomorrow, when they refill them (not the nicest smell)
* I need to learn more simple, basic German verbs like "abstellen" - which I now know means "turn off" (but which I was completely blank on when the guy asked me whether he should do it to the heater today, presumably for the summer, while he was down there)