Swimming weather at last

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So after a couple of very rainy days it is warm and sunny here today (26C/78F) and we are going wild strawberry and blackberry picking on our way to the lake. I do feel like a nice run through the forest and a nice long swim afterwards.

The mayors of our village and three neighbouring villages are coming over for dinner tonight. We have completed the cleanup of all illegal rubbish dumps at the edge of the forest and are going to celebrate. I hope we can roll out our pilot rubbish disposal and recycling system for the smallest of the villages next week and for the rest of the villages later this month. We have been working pretty hard to make this happen.

Comments

[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful text. Is English your native language?

[topum.livejournal.com]

Is it really, ha ha?
I am half Danish half Norwegian, English is my third language but I pretty much worked and lived in English my whole adult life. It is not my native language though.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

wow, that sounds amazing! What an awesome thing to be working on.

[topum.livejournal.com]

It is very rewarding. I am really enjoying it.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fun day. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

I could not pick the berries though. I just don't have the patience for it.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

It does take patience to pick berries.  Especially in the heat with the black flies buzzing around taking sips of blood.  We get horrible black flies in the summer and mosquitos.  I remember when I was younger going berry picking and coming home covered in bug bites. 

Athena

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Doesn't sound like fun. There were not that many flies here but I just got bored doing it after 15 secs. I am definitely a hunter not a gatherer.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

You got bored after 15 secs?!  Wow you really are impatient. 

Ah yes men hunt women gather..Seinfeld has a whole joke routine on that involving a TV remote. 

Yes I watch Seinfeld reruns on TV Ha! 

Athena

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds like a great achievement. Now we know why you were in Moldova, I was wondering!

I am imagining bears sad to lose the delicious illegal rubbish (better for them really though!)

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They don't have bears here, not enough continuing forest for them anymore so there were no reasons at all not to clean up all that mess ). The bears are across the border in Romania, they have more than a third of Europe's population there.