Most of Europe is under a heat dome and our area is no exception. It’s in the mid/high 90s during the day and low 70s at night so activities are limited to early morning, which is about 25 degrees higher than normal. The birds start chirping at 5:30 anyways so we work 6-9 and then take turns in front of the portable air conditioner we bought. After taking off the acustic/styrofoam ceiling I attacked the wallpaper and that is all gone now but we are left with a mess of glue on the ceiling and a bunch of holes everywhere. It will be at least another week of scrubbing/patching before I can start painting. The goal is to have the room ready when the furniture arrives so that we don’t have to move it twice.
Today we applied for our residency permit. Thomas had done a great job of prepping all the forms and copying documents so we didn’t encounter any problems. Now we are waiting for the police to come by to verify that we really live here and then we will get our residency card. We got a form to fill out for our garbage but the person who can enter it in the computer is on vacation today so we will give it another try tomorrow. In the meanwhile we are filling the garage with cardboard since the garage door is not opening and we park outside. Another project for the future.
We hired a pool company which is coming today to empty and clean the pool and tomorrow it will be refilled. I never wanted a pool but now I am looking forward to it. In the meanwhile we are swimming in the lake which is very refreshing. We have to get different swimwear to blend in with the locals and get used to European modesty (or not modesty) standards again. Our thirty years in the US certainly definitely has left a mark.
The garden is coming along nicely. We harvested a few zucchini from the plant we discovered during weeding. I probably will regret planting 4 more zucchinis but hindsight is 20/20. I spend a day researching and ordering drip irrigation. “The supplier has limited the sale of this item to 1” is something I did not experience in the US, especially not for items that cost 3 Euro. I think I have everything now so tomorrow morning project will be to install at least some of it. All the vegetable gardens around here are covered, so at first I thought it was for shade but our realtor said it’s for hail. So I spend another day researching and then ordered hail netting and poles but that won’t arrive until July so I am hoping for the best.
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