Permanent fencing Sunday, 13-Apr-25 21:08:39 CEST

Wednesday, 23-Apr-25 21:13:39 CEST

Preparing for upcoming garden season

I worked on fencing and preparations for the upcoming garden season this week.

Monday 14 April

It rained last night! Not that much, but the grass seeds have been fed with valuable moisture. DW went to the office, and I worked from home. It was sunny today.

After work, I created a new grazing area in the northeast field. They have eaten there before, but those earlier parts must rest now. I filmed the ladies when they started munching on the dandelions.

In today's Ukraine, the latest podcast, I heard that Germany might be sending the Taurus missile to Ukraine. It is a longer-range missile and a heavier payload missile than the missiles provided by the UK and France. The final details will be finished when the new chancellor enters the office. Taurus can do more damage to the Kursk bridge. It has a double warhead.

Last week, I reached 14 million checked words since 7 October 2017. That is not bad at all. It does not mean I published 14 million words; that is not what this is. It just means I have been busy.

Tuesday 15 April

DW, the neighbor, and I went to the train station today. I then continued to work. I noticed messages from my rain app that we would get rain in the evening.

It started raining when we came home. It rained a little more than four millimeters of rain. That is twelve cubic meters of rain on our property. I like that.

Tonight, I nearly finished a reasonably good version of the lyrics editor.

You instantly understand how much easier it is to write lyrics when the syllables are lined up with each other. The syllables algorithm is still not flawless, but even with a bug here and there, this is so much better than working with Excel. The copy function now needs to understand that when there is a chorus similar to another section, the copy function needs to go to that section and get the lines from there. I suppose that is for tomorrow.

From here on, I got sucked into the lyrics editor. I had breaks for working in the garden, but exactly every spare second went into programming the lyrics editor. This is why the rest of this blog will be sparse.

Wednesday 16 April

It rained today. That was a blessing because I could sit and program the lyrics editor without guilt. Besides, it was really good for the grass field. The electrician came this afternoon, and we talked about the barn project. He will start laying out the rainwater pipes around the barn. That is so that I can fill up the trenches.

I worked on the fencing in the afternoon.

Thursday 17 April

Today, we both went to our offices. It was a long day of work.

Friday 18 April

This morning, I took out the tiller machine and processed the first part of the new vegetable field. It was the second time I worked on this part.

In the afternoon, we went to the PILs. MIL celebrated her 96th birthday. We brought with us the large trailer because we were taking a cupboard back home. It is a cupboard that MIL's father had commissioned a carpenter to make. We will have space for it in due time.

MIL was happy in the new apartment. FIL is a little more grumpy about the new situation. He does not need to see other people and do activities. MIL loves it all. He is doing puzzles and letting others be.

DD and DS came with us to visit the PILs.

When we came home, we had pizza delivered.

Saturday 19 April

This morning, we brought DW to the dying course. It was the last time. She showed us what the group had been making. This is all dyed with the madder plant. The roots are used to produce this color.

The course is held at a farm a bit outside the city. It is called the citizen farm in Dutch. One could misinterpret it to mean the hamburger farm. That is what I thought it meant for the longest time. Haha.

There is a farm shop at the farm as well. It is more alternative in character than the regular farmshop we have in our area, which I am usually talking about. The prices are (even) higher here.

DS and I took a walk around the farm. We found the pigs. There is a self-serve vegetable picking area. It needs to start growing vegetables first.

Then DD and I left DW at the course. We went to a cafe. From there, I took DD to the train station. After a while, the DW course ended, and I picked her up.

On the way home, we enjoyed the view of the tulips.

Sunday 20 April

Today I worked in the garden. It is primarily the new patch that I concentrated on. I brought compost to the new beds. I also brought compost to three other older beds.

I also mounted another gate. This is so that the sheep can get another grazing area next week.

Here ends this week's blog. I have been so busy with the lyrics editor that I neglected to write the blog. I finished writing this on Wednesday, 23 April. This is a little late.

I do have a version of the lyrics editor available. You can find it under this link: Jens Lyrics Editor.

This week, I wrote 918 words. Amazing.