@rumtscho I think that was just from moving something from there above, and I wasn't actually going to say anymore there

can't believe I didn't see it when posting though

@Cascabel Happens frequently enough. That's why we have comments.

Hi @rumtscho! Enjoying the weekend?

@Stephie still at the "I have a bunch of things to get done" phase

and tomorrow we have Anpaddeln, on the Jagst.

@rumtscho nice!

We have a beautiful day today, outside

@rumtscho that sounds almost foreign... ;p

I realized that I have tulips in the garden! They are suddenly blooming.

@JourneymanGeek Anpaddeln = opening of the canoe or kayak season, Jagst = a river in the Black Forest

@rumtscho erm.... you might want to check your maps...

@Stephie OK, it is a river somewhere to the south of Heidelberg. What other mountains are there?

I get driven there, I have the luxury of not knowing where it is :)

Oops, it is in the east, so Odenwald!

(I hope)

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagst

But the pictures look promising!

Yay, I am now reading my personal mail, and there is the Appenzeller land kayaking next weekend!

I should go there too, it is more exciting

Jagst is more of a chilly "walk" in nature

Oooooohhhh! Veeeeeeryyyy nice!

what I miss in English is the concept of "Wanderpaddeln" - going onto the water, somewhere in nature, but not with exertion. The word suggests a stroll-like character.

Well, you can always explain the idea.

Yes I can, but it gets tedoius doing it every time I speak to people who are probably not aware of it.

While a German, even if non-kayaker, will probably recognize the meaning of a word like "Wanderpaddeln"

My first mental image was „load the boat with camping gear, go on a multiple-days trip”.

@Stephie Hmm. That happens too, and may also be covered by the word. In English, it would be called tour kayaking.

My weekend plans are mostly “do lots of laundry”.

hah

Plus a bit of Zumba later and a bit of baking.

@JourneymanGeek you know the pattern?

@Stephie I've actually ended up doing laundary on those days...

because I'd have no cleam clothes otherwise

@JourneymanGeek take that times four. And it’s dry and a bit windy outside, plus I’m mostly home, so I decided to bite the bullet.

and heh, I'd use the dryer cause I was lazy and I repair that old thing often enough ;p

(since we'd airdry on overhead poles otherwise)

@Stephie I want to bake too!

I recently discovered a fun TV show

a French cooking show where three couples compete

one gender is the "boss" - in the episode I saw, the wife, the other is the implementer

so, the wives are seated separately from the husbands and see them via camera, and have a voice link to them

and the wives have the recipe, the husbands don't

@rumtscho what’s keeping you?

the husbands have 1 hour to make whatever the recipe says

@rumtscho uh-oh. I sense sparks flying.

and then the wives are blindfolded and taste all three results and give points

a star chef also taste tests and givs points to each

the simple sum of all four points per dish (3 wives + hosting chef) makes the winner.

@Stephie Maybe I should experess it differently. I plan to bake today.

I am not baking right now, because I am making hot tomatey hummus.

Ah!

And when I am done with that, I have to tidy up and clean.

and go into the shed and try to not meet my demise under an avalanche of unpacked moving boxes, and find my drysuit.

after that, I can tackle baking.

They baked an almond pear tart in that show, and I wanted to make it too.

Oh, and maybe go into town before that if there is time, or to the neighbour, and get a small torx screwdriver

I bought a monitor halter for setting up my desk, but the Vesa mounts on my monitors need a smaller torx than I have.

I have a bit of chocolate shortcrust pastry in the fridge that needs to be baked. Just enough for a very small tart shell.

@rumtscho one is the sensible approach, the other the social one?

It is a PITA, because the halter has one of its joints tightened too much and I can't turn it - I will try again, but if I break the wrench, I will have to send it back, get a replacement, and start from zero :(

@Stephie I should be more social around the neighbours. Also, the Bauhaus is 35+ minutes by bike.

But if I decide to go shopping for food too, it is worth doing.

What a dilemma.

Do I sense some sarcasm :)

You could bake the tart now and then use it to bribe the neighbours?

@rumtscho the faintest whiff.

That neighbour got bribed with a piece of Easter bread recently, I don't want to train him to expect pastry masterpieces every time I show up at his door

Also, if it turns out that I can't do everything in one day, the tarts are the ones that get removed from the list.

When you train animals, they initially get a treat every time. Then only sometimes. The possibillity of a treat keeps them alert ;-)

BRB, laundry time.

And now: caffeine time. I was out last night with a bunch of women I meet about once a year. (Mothers from kindergarden) Came home late. Late-late.

I'll have to unpack a cupboard shelf because a supposedly sealed jar of jam leaked from the jar, and removing the shelf is the only way I can clean the sugary mess.

@b_jonas Blech :(

@b_jonas still scrubbing?

@Stephie I haven't started yet. I said "I'll have to". Luckily it's not the cupboard I use the most often.

@b_jonas Ah.

Bad news: You’ll have to. Eventually.