in that sweet and peaceful rest

This will surprise exactly nobody ;-)



The question marks have been stitched on afterwards.

After taking the photo I searched for my embroidery needle that seemed to have disappeared into the same black hole as my missing sock ... It turned out it was sticking to the magnetic ring on the back of my phone case ... :-D

Someone ran over a hedgehog right in front of my building overnight. :-( I saw it when I went swimming, mercifully a caravan is parked next to it so it was covered when looking out from the balcony. Now the police just arrived and the two policemen with the unenviable task of having to scratch it off the road were very weirded out because someone had called them about a dead hare which it was obviously not. (I am on the balcony, that's why I heard.) Poor hedgehog. Also, poor policemen, I could hardly look at it and am very glad to not have to clear that up.

If anyone sees a lonely blue sock with little yellow ducks on it, I have been searching for it for two weeks now. I went to bed with them, took them off to put lotion on my feet and as usual left them off and placed them in front of my bed, in the morning grabbed what was lying there and put it in the bathroom for later, and when I returned there was only one sock. I have been searching for the other one since. I've exchanged the bed linens now and even turned the mattress, fully expecting it must turn up then - but no. No trace of the sock that managed to disappear in the short distance between bed and bathroom. I'm certain I haven't vacuumed it up either. Black hole in my bedroom.

The assembly was indeed mercifully short, despite one neighbour apparently being convinced that the buildings will collapse within the next 15 years if we don't get the balcony ballustrades repainted ASAP - the paint is indeed starting to flake off a bit, but I am fairly certain this does not influence the structural integrity of the building and I cannot see any sign that it rusts without - and one wanting to discuss every cent things cost, even when we are talking about 5 Euros per YEAR. Guess who I accidentally ended up walking home next to and having to small talk with. One neighbour wanted agreement on possibly drilling two holes to the outside for installing an AC in their appartment if they decide they want to make the investment, and we turned it into a blanket permission to all. Right now I don't yet feel spending that much money is justified for me, despite moaning I can still do with roller shutters down and airing out overnight and the fans (the neighbour in question has health issues), but with climate change it is good to know that I can go ahead when I have to change my mind in the future (and to know whom to quiz about the best solution ;-) ).

I wonder if I should give The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series another try (read: I discovered Andreas Fröhlich is reading volumes four to six ;-) ). I tried reading the first volume about a decade ago, but noped out after a few pages. However, then someone had pressed the book in my hands, saying I absolutely must read this and here have my copy for loan, and I felt obligated to postpone all other reading for something I hadn't even planned to read so she could have her copy back and to have the expected reaction about her most favourite book, which is never helpful (I think I managed to return it without her really noticing I was only thanking her for the loan). On the other hand, there is a type of humour that alas isn't funny to me even though I really would like to be able to laugh about all the funny things, I just get stuck on the absurdity, and that might well be the case here.

Now my washing machine is beeping at me, so I'd better get out of the comfy balcony chair to hang up the bed linen and towels (it has cooled down a tiny bit and even rained while I was swimming, which was lovely, but still no way I'm turning on the tumble dryer and artificially heat up the kitchen). And then I'll return to impatiently waiting for the alternative blue yarn. ;-)

It seems like everyone who found the sports club pool yesterday morning too crowded had the same idea and turned up 20 minutes earlier today. Almost entirely the same people, only now at 6 am instead of at 6:20 am. :-D
It is again extremely hot. I am not a fan. Of course, this is the day I decide I need sock yarn in shades of colours I don't have at home for a fannish knitting idea I'm brooding over, and feel I need it right now, not delivered on Friday. So, I waited until the craft store in my district opened, taking the trolley with me as I wanted some groceries. Of course what with it being the start of summer their selection of sock yarns wasn't that big and they had none in the colours I needed. So, I spontaneously decided to take the S-Bahn to town, it's just a bit over 10 minutes and a bigger craft store is right near the main station.
The first S-Bahn train spontaneously was rerouted to the long distance tracks of the main station. Due to the eternal Stuttgart 21 construction site which you have to be lead around in a huge half circle when getting from long distance platforms to the exit, this means an additional 20 minutes walk. It has been dubbed "long-distance hiking trail" here, a local musician even made a short video clip (just when I had found a way to get the embed link again by switching to the desktop version YouTube changed something and it won't work anymore. Thus, back to hyperlinks) So, out of the train a station earlier, to take the next one. That then was cancelled. Then I took the underground. And didn't really find the shade of blue I wanted in the store in town either and due to the heat didn't want to go any further. I bought two not completely wrong kinds (after all, I can always use blue socks ;-) ), and ended up mail-ordering yarn online on the way back after all.
This was a very harmless and short hold-up on the way to town. But it happens constantly, and usually costs way more time, and I am very certain that for this town, it is a big part of the reason why stores in town are losing business to online stores, not only people's laziness. The likelyhood I'll do this again next time and don't just order online to begin with - at least when the weather is like that - is smaller each time.
Of course, once I finally also had my groceries and was home I fell asleep on the couch and so nothing got done about my idea anyway.
In half an hour I should leave again, the building complex has the yearly home owner's assembly scheduled for tonight. I very much do not feel like putting on a bra and going out again. But I also would like to be more up to date about what is going on in the neighbourhood, and not only hear when once in a blue moon I meet a neighbour on the stairs and have a chat, so it really would be sensible to go. At least the agenda seems to have nothing on it that should lead to longer discussions. (I hope I haven't jinxed in now. ;-) )
Twice within a very short time now I ran into a WIP on AO3 which the author didn't choose to mark as such, turning the part x/ of? into number/same number, both edited when updating. One has left me puzzled now for the second time whether this is it and they are trying to tell their readers that that pairing just won't work (it is the first in that combination they are posting on AO3), or whether there'll be more. This time they replied to someone's comment in a way that might indicate a coming happy ending, and I commented then in approval of both story and further parts, only to now wonder if they were actually sarcastic and that was the end and I end up looking like an idiot for eternity.
Oh well. Off I go to face the hell outside. ;-)