This last short week has been very productive. It provided both of us with a chance to recuperate from our hiking. geocaching and cycling, but we still made great advances in the garden. The grass was quite high, but we couldn't do anything about it for about 2 or 3 days, we were that exhausted. Once recovered and the weather improved, we started on the back garden where the grass got quite high while we were away. Roy did the mowing with the self driving petrol mower, I got on the tractor to do the most of the back garden to about 3 cm high.
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Lovely pink daisies in the long grass
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The tractor, (and me), having a rest
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It looked lovely, but we both got so worn out very quickly, that we had to leave some of it, which was then finished a couple of days later, my tractoring was then down to 2 cm, while Roy had a go with the petrol strimmer, which is darn heavy, but very sturdy and got most of the cellar's top done. Unfortunately, the large black ants started eating my rose buds, which has never happened before, but since I found out that they were after the green fly and black fly, not the roses, but the big holes happened in the buds, because we were not here to get rid of the black fly and green fly by hand, as I normally do.
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Red rose on the climber
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The cherry trees look amazingly full, compared with the last few years, but I am not celebrating yet, as various other diseases and predators could still deprive us of them. The Morellos don't look too good, no apricots again, but some of the apple trees look good and so does the funny shaped little pear tree. Roy's plum trees are about average, so unless some great pestilence attacks them in the next couple of months, we should be able to fill a couple of barrels again, like last year.
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Yellow rose the first out this year
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Talking of barrels, last year's mash is still in the barrels, as the distillery is still fighting the excise blokes for an inspection and certification after the repairs, that it is legal for them to start distilling again. If they do not hurry up, we will have to buy another 4 bloody barrels to put this year's crop in. Needless to say, the one good outcome from this is Roy's more moderate drinking habits, that he had to adopt on account of running out of booze. I spotted him drinking from a litre bottle of 2020 vintage pálinka, which must taste gorgeous, but he will slowly lose his secret stash if this goes on a lot longer.
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New scarecrow hair style in the garden
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Roy's well earned rest with a beer
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Upcoming geocaching this month will be quite exciting. This week on Saturday I am going caching with Viktor, Edit and Erika to the NE. They are after a wedding and its moving cache which none of them have yet found. Prior to and following the wedding we'll do some other caches, hopefully, rather than hang around at the wedding, not properly dressed and quite knackered already. Let us see what it will be like being driven by Edit.
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Royal Enfield bike from India parked near the flat
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Also this month, Roy and I will go back to the area round Szekszárd, where this spring's Geocaching Festival and Competition will take place. Afterwards, we'll go back to Kaposvár, where we have a really lovely B&B, which is comfortable and cheap, and where I still have quite a few caches to find. I wanted to go away for four nights, but Roy insisted that three is the limit. Let us hope the weather is good and we'll all have a good time. You'll be pleased to read that there is no cycling involved this time, just a bit of hiking, as drive-in caches are now few and far between for me in most places.
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Gorgeous short grass in the garden
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The barn
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With a fair amount of physical work plus a lot of resting, we both have found the balance between doing nothing and doing too much. I feel I have achieved a great deal this week, not only in the garden, but on my computer too. I have organised prices for a few things Fáklya needs, like a proper banner, tables, chairs and flagpoles. I also found a solicitor lady, who is very nice, and who is willing to organise our submission to become an association, and once that is done we will be able to get a bank account and sell papers on the street.
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In February there was still no mention of cancellation
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Bye bye Hondo and the rest, I will miss you all
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One more way of resting, at least for me, was catching up with about 3 weeks' worth of US procedurals, as I got rather behind, due to far too many things to do, plus travelling and being away. I loved watching them, but it was also sad that CBS has suddenly decided to cancel NCIS Hawai'i, after the scheduled cancellation of our favourite, S.W.A.T. I have just come to terms with the latter when the lightning struck about the former. I hate this sort of insensitive, last minute, draconian decision, made on commercial, not artistic grounds, but such is life under capitalism, isn't it?
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As someone once said: " This is not a garden, it's a park."
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I also wrote my leadoff for tomorrow and did catch up with some so far neglected paperwork, like an Excel sheet of all current contacts, and a punishing schedule of meetings this week. We will have the branch meeting at our flat, beforehand I will have a personal discussion with Adriam, mostly about my position in the organisation, and then on Thursday we will have a leading group meeting, and on Friday a meeting between Adriam, me and the communication and social media group of Baltazár, Zsófi and Attila. That should be interesting, as the main topic of discussion will be the proposed strategy, which they expect us to write, and we expect them to propose stuff and then between us, after a discussion, we'll write it. I don't think it'll be a happy meeting, but I sincerely hope I am wrong.
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Another lovely red rose on the climber
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We had bad news from Renee on the cruise boat approaching Spain soon. Apparently both her friend Margaret and Renee herself have caught Covid and are in isolation on board. Her friend has very bad constipation, which couldn't be dealt with in the ship's hospital, so they have scrapped the remaining time of their trip and we will not see them. I do hope they get home quickly, as being ill in a foreign land is not very nice.
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Alex in his lovely new truck
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Callum and his mate in the truck
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After those bad news, we have had some good ones too. Alex and Meaghan have bought a new pickup truck and we have just got the photos. Thee truck looks great and they look so happy in it. Let us hope he'll manage to put the gear on for carrying kayaks in it and start using it. They are off to the trailer this coming weekend and Callum is bringing a mate. I am keeping all things crossable that this summer ends up a lot happier than the last one was. Next week we'll have another branch meeting at our flat, we also are planning to have lunch with Bozsa one day, all of which shall be reported back in my next post.
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