Nobody does slides these days. It's all digital.

Lol!

Good one.

Yarn ordered. Crochet hooks ordered.

Needle order shipped but I can't track it because Royal Mail. Which is the same reason it'll probably take two weeks to get here. RM is notorious for being slow as all get out.

But whee! yarn order will be here within a week. Going to be a big box I think. 14 balls of yarn...

Must... resist... ball of yarn

Lol khajiit.

My cats mostly ignore my yarn thankfully.

A cat ignoring yarn? GAAAAAAH! What is the world coming to?

Really nice touch! Are those the new trees you planted along the fenceline? They look gorgeous here! (The last picture they looked a bit dead) Was this pic taken before or after that one? (because I know trees do undergo some shock when re-planted). We used to leave them in a burlap bag of their original soil to ease it; and baby them with watering a couple times per day and adding nutrients to the soil in each hole before the transplant and every now and then the first two weeks.

Something I noticed in this pic that I hadn't seen before was that nice wire mesh behind the trees, that really looks good!

Yup

I had to add the wire mesh to fend off deer so they don't eat them in the winter. I'll never be able to get rid of it but hey, as long as my trees are fine I don't care.


They never looked dead to me, are you sure you didn't focus on the dead material in the background? I put it there a few years back because our neighbour is so close. I need to distance myself, if you know what I mean, and this was the only way I could do it.

I think they've all adjusted well. All of them seem to have sprung up a bit. I'll add some fertilizer next spring to keep them motivated

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When I lived in Germany, it took 30 days minimum for stuff to reach us from the U.S.

I can get packages from the US pretty quick comparatively, if I'm ordering from a company. Usually takes 2 to 3 weeks, depending on shipping method. Priority mail takes about 5 to 6 business days. First class around 10. If it's being shipped media mail or that super budget crap it can take a month(Rio Grande uses this to ship me wire) almost.

This is coming from the UK. 2 weeks for mail from the UK to Sweden. I've heard a LOT of complaints about Royal Mail being slow as crap, mostly on Amazon, because there's only two sites for some of us to order from in Europe for Amazon, and most of the non German speakers use .co.uk. I use .de mostly, but this isn't an Amazon order. This is Wool Warehouse. Reputable shop, but I don't have much choice in shipping methods outside the UK.

Now the yarn order is coming from southern Sweden and I was quoted 3 to 7 days. I imagine I'll have it by Friday.

You are exactly right; I was focusing on those dead trees in the background on THIS pic:


This pic


(didn't see the pretty green ones in front of them, )

I think anything bulk sent to us went by cargo ship (rather than air mail); and all the APO mail was sent in bulk lots. (Army Post Offices for Americans stationed overseas) All the mail came into Bremerhaven by ship; (the northernmost point in Germany) where it would sit for a while in stacks and crates while the ship's contents were divided up into what was going where and who would be taking it there. Then it would be loaded on a truck and driven down to Trier (which is a long trip even in a car; so a truck stopping for deliveries along the way would take even longer).

And the ships and trucks are not refrigerated, ether. When my son was in Iraq, everything took a month too. I sent him some chocolate candy in the mail; and when it arrived there was nothing but brown liquid all over everything else in the package, lol. It melted everywhere!

It doesn't look good with that stuff there, but it was something I sort of had to do. It boggles my mind that nothing really grows there naturally other than the stuff that's been there for ages. Everywhere else bushes grow up 2 meters as soon as you turn your back, but not there!

Sounds like a chocolate mess!

Yeah anything coming by ship is a month minimum. That's what I was quoted for moving containers being shipped. I'd have had to pick them up in Gothenburg and drive a truck back. That's on the other side of the country.

I opted to replace rather than ship.

Plant Boxwood hedge there and give it "Miracle Gro" as directed (if you have it over there). The Boxwood will grow 12 feet high in no time; just keep them trimmed on the sides so they grow upward.






I don't blame you on that!

Needles came today, along with a few other things I ordered(mail was faster than I expected tbh) and now my yarn is in Jönköping so I still get to wait.

That's a long drive up to here. Really long drive. Plus all the sorting stops. Hoping it gets here tomorrow though because I have to go out and won't have to make a special trip to pick it up.

^^

(slightly OT alert) It's a pretty nice city though. I've been there twice on business, and this one time we had this hotel that's basically a ship now permanently "parked" in the harbor. And right next to that is a smaller ship which houses a pub Also the local beer (forgot what it's called) is pretty good.

I think that permanently docked ship you can live on (after dealing with the former residents) is the Marie Elena. And the nearby smaller pub ship is the Bloated Float. They're in the docks district of Cyrodiil, right?