We did a bit of a road trip this weekend, because I finally found the kitchen chairs we've been looking for, for well over a year. While the style had been in production for about 75 years, these were manufactured in the 80s and have a nice patina onthem, which fits our kitchen and home better than the clean, new ones. They are also cheaper than new ones, by about 50 percent.
There is a strong used market for these products and they are pretty much always in demand. If we want, we can sell what we have bought for the same price or more, ten years from now, as long as in good condition still. I will take some pictures when they are in the kitchen.
But that will be later, because we had to drive a few hundred kilometers to pick them up. And this timed well with a trip we recently cancelled to a pool center, so we are spending the night together in a hotel and have swam for several hours already.
Smallsteps is pretty tired.
But we haven't eaten dinner yet.
....
Oh, we have now.
It is weird writing in slices of time like this.
Waiting for dessert.
So many desserts.
Holidays don't count, right?
Hips don't lie.
With the weather so warm and being out of the city, it does feel like a proper holiday. And it has reminded me that I need one at some point. Last year we were renovating. The year before I had a stroke. The year before we were renovating. The years before it was so intense looking after Smallsteps, we couldn't do anything.
I think we need to get out more.
These mini holidays are good though, because they can be relatively unplanned and quite cheap.
Unless buying chairs.
We are in a sports bar for dinner and Finland is playing Germany in the Hockey. It is a surprisingly tight game between the defending world champions and well, Germany. Though to be fair, Germany have been improving a lot over the last decade or so.
Globalisation.
People move, start families - and take their sports with them, teaching their kids. In time, a country's sporting pool can change significantly.
It is a pretty good illustration of how skills can transfer through migration and change the economic structure. Of course, it takes support too and sport seems to get a fair amount of it. No one seems to mind when foreigners are "stealing local jobs", if they are improving the sporting results.
Smallsteps isn't going to inherit any sporting prowess from me.
She is as stubborn as me.
And a smartass.
I guess that is something.
BTW... Writing on the phone sucks!
It takes me forever and there are so many typos to correct. This post has taken hours!
I will need another short holiday to recover.
Right. A few minutes left in the third period of the hockey, so I will tune in there for a bit and see if I will come back later. Not looking good for Finland at the moment...
A nice weekend continues.
Taraz
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