Jeremi comes today!!!

I'm writing this from Frankfurt, and in a few mere HOURS I'll be heading to the airport to pick him up. Yesterday morning I picked up the rental car in Jena, and, as is often the case in Canada, they didn't have the exact car that I ordered, so I got one size bigger. So instead of a medium-sized Opel, I have a huge Mercedes, I think some sort of B class maybe? I should probably check the model name, but anyhow it's a huge 7-speed Mercedes and I was driving at something like 160 km/h on the Autobahn and getting passed like I was standing still. I'm certainly not in Canada any more. Despite the breakneck speeds, I did manage to snap a picture of the lovely fields of rapeseed/canola. I wish I hadn't gotten the sign in there, but this way you know that I was near Magdala at the time. The car also let me make a last-minute trip to IKEA to pick up a couple last things, and I even stopped at another furniture store to get a cheap table and chairs for the balcony. I didn't have time to assemble anything as I was stuck in traffic on the way back for over an hour, but we can do it together now.

And now just a couple more random notes as my last without-Jeremi posting. For one thing, today I'm wearing my first hand-spun hand-knit top, which I finally got around to finishing and blocking so I could wear it to pick him up. Here it is being blocked on my mattress. I'm really usually lazy with blocking, even though I know it makes a world of difference, but it was definitely the only way that I was getting those little lace corners to lie down. The fibre is beautiful, a merino and tencel blend. (Tencel is a rayon-like cellulose-based fibre, which has a nice sheen and drape a bit like silk, but much cheaper.) It's the same sort of fibre as the scarf I made for my mom, but with a darker colour.

And now I'm enjoying the day with Jenny and Janka. They're both sleeping on the couch while I write this, actually. Last night I arrived to a lovely asparagus-themed meal, with a cream of asparagus soup with vanilla, pork shish kebabs, asparagus with a sabayon sauce, and new potatoes. Very spring-like. And for dessert there was a lovely semolina mousse-like thing with strawberries. Delicious. (And Jenny and I had the leftover dessert as breakfast dessert today, which was also lovely.) They're waking up now, so I should be off, but here's a picture in closing.