Yesterday Yelena and I visited our old neighbor. She moved out of our street when we were gone early 2020. Now we are back and miss her, because she was like a young grandma for Yelena.
She and her husband live about 1.5 hour away in what we call the country side. She likes nature and did not remove this big spider close to her front door.
Sorry for my absence I plan to be back here (almost) every day soon! In the mean time I have been busy....
These are a few things:
* 3 Ikea trips to set up Yelena's room. She needed a bed, bookshelf and desk. First we forgot the middle part of the bed (which they sell separately). Then we had old mattresses, but she measured wrong and the 3rd trip was to get her a mattress.
* For the first time in our lives my husband and I ordered a new sofa! It is from "lovesac". It comes in parts by FedEx and you put it together yourself. It looks great! But putting it together took a whole afternoon and evening.
* Genesis dbc - I'm now almost done with my photos, just about 300 phone-photos to go through... this took a lot longer than expected.
Oh and of course I'm watching them on FloMarching (tv). The thing is that I watch the other corps too and I'm in front of the tv for a long time...
* New school for Yelena - a talk with a counselor, a tour through the school for new families, a language placement exam, getting the uniform and thousands of emails...
* mowing the grass - we have a new sprinkler system and it works very well. The grass grows crazy. We have now halved the amount of water that gets sprinkled :)
@monikozi copied from the link above - "diet paragraph": . The web of the garden spider contains a highly visible zigzagging X-shaped pattern called a stabilimentum. The exact function of the stabilimentum is unknown, but its purpose may be to alert birds to the presence of the web so that they don’t fly through and destroy it by mistake.
Oh my! The middle of the bed is sold separately, whoever heard of such a thing?! The drum corps has been a huge part of Nadya’s life, I’m so glad you are stateside and can enjoy everything in person (and on television!).
A great macro of the spider and that amazing web! Fav! (What a crazy busy life you have been having! And all that furniture assembly! Phew! Glad it's done and you have everything set up for Yelena. Exciting!)
