I finally got round to putting together the garden bench that was delivered to us the other day.
Those are the parts.
The screws. Those tools were no good. Fortunately, I had better ones in my toolbox.
I found a micro SD card on the garage floor. I wonder if it's still readable.
Done. My wife held it upright while the parts on one side were being fastened.
Well well, leave the garage door open for a minute and look who appears.
This place clearly needs to be vetted carefully!
Cats are paranoid by nature. They startle easily. If our cat could read and write and were on Hive, she'd probably be active in the Deep Dives community coming up with conspiracy theories all day every day.
We noticed a weird plant growing in the middle of our hedge. We started cutting the stalks that looked like this.
It turns out there was a tree stump in the middle of the hedge out of which these stalks were growing. We cut them all off.
I've started to dig out the roots of the rose bushes we slashed earlier. I'll take them to the waste center in bags.
Plastic goes into this thing.
Cardboard belongs here. If there's no space, you need to press the red button to compact the waste.
I decided to check out a nice little residential area called Anttilanmäki just south of the railway which was close to the shopping center parking area where the the waste collection points were. It's got an old part that was built between the 1920's and the 1940's for the most part and a newer part that was built mostly in the 1970's.
This is the area built in the 1970's. When we were looking for a house to buy, this area was on my radar. But there was nothing suitable for sale. Houses built in the 1970's may have all sorts of issues and because the area is small, there weren't many on the market in the first place. But living in an area with a school of its own that is so close to the city center was very appealing. That's why the area isn't very cheap.
This is the school. As part of a cost cutting program, the city moved all the Finnish-speaking pupils to another school just north of the railway not far away. Fortunately, that school is easily accessible by foot and by bicycle via an underpass from here. This is where all the Swedish-speaking children of primary school age in Lahti as well as all the neigbouring municipalities now go to school. That's still a bit of a pity because a peaceful area like with a primary school of its own was a complete paradise for families.
This is already the old part. It's literally a hill as the name of the district suggests.
This was built in the first half of the 20th century but has been extensively renovated.
Ditto.
Really nice but seems to need a bit of work.
The roof looks very new.
I have just exited the area. The railway can be seen from here.
This is also very close to the railway but about 1 km to the west of Anttilanmäki. Not terribly crowded here, either.
Going home
