Day 321

A family day today, although not quite what the boys had in mind! First thing after getting up and having breakfast was a trip to a furniture store. One of the stores in Fulda has moved into an old train shed thingy, you know one of those round buildings, where they used to let the steam engines sleep. It was really impressive there, the boys loved the look of it, and the thought that there might be train tracks under the carpet! The furniture store had a nice play area for the kids, so we were able to wander the store without the boys whining, plus we were looking at the crockery, not a good idea with our two!
From there we went to a DIY store where Florian got a hoover type thingy to attach to the table saw, to help when we saw all that wood we got last weekend! And then I wanted to take everyone to the new shopping centre. The boys got to spend the money they got last weekend from Nanna and Pop. Richard knew exactly what he wanted, he wanted something crafty and he got some jewels, some lollypop sticks, some pompoms and some feathers, and he took all of 5 minutes to decide. Unfortunately life isn't that easy for Robert, he struggled with only having €2.50 to spend. We walked around and around and around the toy area of Woolworths, most things he thought looked good were much more expensive. In the end he decided on a couple of matchbox cars, but it seemed to take forever for him to do so!
We then had lunch at the centre, they have a pasta bar there, where you can choose your pasta and your sauce. It was very nice, much too much but nice!

Back home we went in put the shopping away and then it was back outside again. Today it was 12°C - unbelievable for November! It was even too warm for our winter coats, so we were back in the in-between coats! The boys started out by sorting all the bark from the wood out from the leaves that were also delivered with the wood and I stood in the sun cutting up all the branches I cut off the bushes at the beginning of the week, Florian was busy with a neighbour trying to get the new light above the front door to work. Apparently we need a new sensor for it, the old one is no longer working, so it looks like another trip to the DIY store soon!

Then Florian started sawing the wood, when I saw him start, I thought it might be a good ídea if I started stacking the wood he had finished, and we got quite a rhythm going, I stacked and handed him a new log to cut, he cut, I stacked and handed him a new log to cut, etc...
In the end we had cut and stacked this much wood!

And here it is indoors waiting to go on the fire

and here it is hard at work! Lovely and cozy

CU tomorrow