Third day March 29




Unplanned work appeared


This old pile collapsed...


 So I had to rebuild it


 Job done! This took me quite some time


 This, by the way is our outdoor-shower!
 


A new (unplanned) job!


During the winter, the mice have dug many burrows in the grass.
Since I cut in autumn the grass by hand with the scythe, I better flatten
all this soil using a rake. This was quite a job.
You probably ask yourselves, why I do not "get rid" of the mice.
Well, in the first year when we had the cabin I did buy some traps
that I installed in the mouse holes. I was successful!
But when I took the first (dead) mole out of the hole,
I felt so sorry for "him", that I stopped killing them.

With those two unplanned jobs I was not able to cut some more
fir-trees.
The last two and a half hour I cleaned the cabin and made it
ready to be left alone for some time. and then I walked down to
the village, where I took the last "Postauto" (public Coach) 
which brought me down to the Railway station.


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