Spring Forward

So what is going on in my life?

entertainment stand

(2-3 weeks ago) The Entertainment/TV center finally came after weeks of waiting for Ikea to deliver it...
Problem is I had a problem... The 2 who worked on it treated me like a stupid female that didn't know anything...
First they wanted me to sign a waiver that if they hit a power line or water pipe they were not responsible... Signing this gives them permission to be sloppy...
but I had to sign or they wouldn't assembled the damn thing..

I gave them Fire's tool (Black and Decker) that shows where water or power lines are (since they didnt have one) and they refused to use it...



I knew they weren't doing it right, Hey Dad was a carpenter and build some nice things...
I kept calling Fire and saying I wish you were here...

The lead guy (the only one who spoke) wasn't rude just a smart @...

I noticed gaps when this was suppose to be one solid piece (no gaps) he kept laying heavy drills and tools on it even used it as a stepping stool :O

as a result he scratched it up...

He didn't measure so he put the whole in the wall in the wrong place and had to drill another
Why because it was why their were gaps..

See the manual calls for one drilled whole in the center with a bracket to keep it from toppling down that is it but he thinks it is best to have 2 one on each side

So not only now do I have 2 wholes behind this more than I should have but by putting 2 brackets it pulled it flush against the wall so tight that you can't put the wires through as was designed (it is designed to hold a big screen flat TV that goes on the wall),

So you can't mount the TV or put the wires in the back to the DVD player VCR and such
the drawers are falling apart from where they didnt assemble them right

and if I hadnt pitched a fit that it had glass sliding doors they wouldnt have even put them up
As it was they put the shelves in backwards and force screw wholes because they didnt fell like taking it all apart and starting over

They didnt assemble the safety bars for the doors and when a piece of the door rollers were broken they used super glue to fix it instead of calling Ikea.

Did I complain? Yes but he had a smart remark for everything (the walls are uneven the floor is bowed etc..)

When I asked to leave the booklet (assembly booklet) they didn't

Fire came home and used his level thing tool I seen Dad always use and guess what our floors and walls are not uneven

They just did what dad would call a half @ss job...

So we called Ikea complained and sent pictures of this...

Now this thing cost us (with the cost of assembling) 3K$ (equivalent).

It is now almost 3 weeks and they havent contacted us... I think they are ignoring us...



Finally heard from Interdean about our DVD player. We had insured our DVD player for 500 € and the DVD's for 13€ a piece (and Fire's work payed for the insurance - 600€)

They said we had to take it in to a shop and they (interdean) would pay that bill...
It was 90 CHF (56.76€) and to repair it was close to 300 CHF... (189.20€)

So they won't give us the 500€ (792.80CHF) which is reasonable... What they should give us is the cost to fix it and the cost of the looking at the DVD... but they refused and here is why...

They said the company will take 90 CHF off the purchase price if we buy a new DVD player..

Now granted we are going to buy a new one because ours is 9 years old and out dated (no HD and stuff) but for them to refuse us that 90 is wrong...

however we decided not to argue with them about it...

I did it... That old stool cushion I took off the torn cover
I had bought a set... Table covers (2 long pieces for the coffee Table ) and matching Pillow cases... I bough 2 of the coffee table covers and used it to redo the wicker stool...

It now matches my frontroom ensemble...

All I need is a coffee table...

Spring Festival, April 5th 2008- Now this is something I have been looking forward to for months... A small gathering of my neighborhood to join in on the event. A Flower Market so we could get our flowers, grill would be cooking us some food, drinks cakes and music...

I was looking forward to buying flowers and planets for the house and balcony, meeting my neighbors and having a good day... I had bought online a solar light bird feeder and bath and couldnt wiat to ass color to my balacony..

We got up early and went to the center... It was smaller than I thought... I bought cut tulips for my vase...

I have said for some time I wanted some tulips for the house ...

A center piece for the house... I saw the bee and couldnt resist...


You can see them here with my matching table covers. I cut one of the coffee table covers down and made smaller doilies...


I was tickled when looking through the flowers...


My neighbor who speaks French mostly asked me if I wanted anything for the kitchen
and I said no...


I saw they had small potted roses (well they arent true roses but they were beautiful)
So I got them.. One is a lighter pink then the other...

Fire saw a Orchid plant (tiger one) and said this will be beautiful when it blooms but I didn't get it..

I saw they had German Primroses of all kinds of colors and just started picking out pots of color..
I got 5 pots... and one yellow potted Pansy...


and some potting soil.. I saw something called Nelke and said those look like carnations on the name tag but they were called nelke so....

We went home to drop what I had got off and went back later after I looked up online and found out they were carnations (Nelke in german)

So we went back and I got 4 pots and
I got some Italian Basil and Rosemary.. and a Lavender plant

and the Orchid plant that Denis liked.

The food was great and then the "Old Stompers came"
It was New Orleans style music .. I began wishing I had brought my camera so we took my plants/flowers home and left Wulfgar who was being a monster

We went back with Fire's new camera he got for his birthday and he took tons of pictures...

We socialized and had a great time

this morning we got up to find it had snowed my new flowers were covered in snow and ice and some looked half dead
I brought hem all in clean the ice on them and trying to warm them up..
The Lavendar orchid, and promroses looked ok but the carnations were a bit brown
the roses leaves wilted a bit and the snow broke one of the roses off and the pansy looked like there was no saving




I went to take pictures and found most of them look better.. so cross my fingers

I also finally made a sign for our closet (the one that Fire kept saying didnt have one)

I also finish one of my dolls

this is for Beltane...

Bury me here When I die, for I am truely home!

I was going to post the title one mans trash is another mans treasure as I explain how my neighbor threw out a wicker stool cushion and I grabbed it.. The wicker part is great like new but the cushion needs to be reupholstered... so it is time for me to buy some fabric that matches my couch and break out ma sewing machine and craft items... but something else happened which is why I am muddy and wet with stains of green moss..

Here it is:
In my small community of Benglen we are surround by forest (a tree farm in some part) There is an entrance as you come into Benglen and toward the end of the apartment buildings...

If you enter at the end and follow a pebble road around you eventually come to a fork... Go right and you go to the town Fällanden which is our main town
go left and it snakes around to the beginning entrance.

Last week (Thurs) it was such a warm and nice day Woofy and I went for a walk on this pebble road in the center through the woods entering at the end and coming at at the beginning of Benglen's entrance.. Now shortly after the fork this pebble road runs along a Gully.

As we walked I heard the babbling of a brook I peeked over.. It didn't look that far down and looked interesting but I told woofy next time... I heard peep climbing out at the end so I thought okay next time we go down in the beginning come up in the end rather than taking the pebble road

Well today was next time and I try to keep my promises even if to a dog. (now remember when we went on vacation to france and I saw those waterfalls? it was about 2 years ago in april, just before Denis bought me some hiking boots. He did it because when in England my ankles swelled so we got me something that would help support them.. His words when he seen the price, "You are going to have to use them, I mean do some walking okay." Well today I got my money worth and btw they are the only thing I wear Johnnie Walker's best and most comfy I know)

So back to our walk.. As we entered in the distant one could here the machines of the tree farmers tending the forest

Woofy was scared but I promised him again we would try to go down to that stream..

So we come to the tight trail leading down and I have him on a short leash because I don't want him falling down the side it is a way down there...
we come to a pave work road (possibly for the tree farmers) and we head OFF road into the woods and trees... Down we go until I reach the brook (which is rapidly moving over rocks and is about ankle to calve high in places and floor high in others...

Woofy went crazy, chasing the running water running in an out and I knelt down to wash the mud from hands where I had to climb down to the stream and the water was Freezer freezing cold my hands turned blue

"Woofy get out of the water its too cold and its still cold out ..." I yell but he isnt listening.. he is having fun
Okay so I remember his breed is bred for cold weather and swimmers
I remember the Newfies that were at the oyster farms in france freezing weather and water

so maybe it isnt cold to him...

So I follow him climbing over rocks on a really good hike through a green moss and huge face size mushroom gully

We come to a place where a steam of water rushes down from rocky steps making a very baby small waterfall next to a huge sofa size rock covered in moss
filling a wash tub size basin of water which woofy drinks from and I think man why didn't I bring the camera
Woofy finds me a walking stick my size with green moss on it which I use

it was breathtaking so we explore more

I find stones moved in a circle for a campfire but we continue down the rushing gushing stream moving against the current

Halfway across there is no more land for me to walk just rocks in the small stream and brook and huge walls on both sides but my feet are dry and I am doing good (oh I love hiking- I am thinking)

Just then Woofy starts to whimper and wants out of the water I look at him and he is shaking from the cold...

I have no choice but to carry him...

"Oh baby, Don't worry we are almost to the end and we will go up get home and towel you off.." I say as I carry him

I am wearing the sweater (cranberry one) that was once Daddy's that I wear all the time (my favorite) and it is getting dirty but I cant let my baby freeze

Up a head the water sounds gets louder and I look and.....


Up a head the water sounds gets louder and I look and.....

Its a dead end! I stand with giant stone walls facing me and around me with the only way out the way I came but OMG the site because rushing down from the towering 20 feet walls was a small water fall I could have stood under it and had a shower

It was like Paradise.... I put woofy on a rock and I sat admiring this gully with green moss and ferns and huge mushrooms and so upset that I forgot my camera because I knew I wouldnt be able to come back until woofy was older and it was warmer

I pulled woofy inside my sweater getting muddy and wet trying to warm him as I rested...

I couldn't carry him and my walking stick...

So I laid it down at the foot of the falls and carried woofy back...

When I got past the towering straight up and down walls of rock I tried to go up the sides ... They were steep and I was climbing on all fours in mud and wet moss carrying a 25 pound puppy

Getting further wet and muddy

then it happened I slide back down on my butt as if I wasn't muddy enough.. Daddys sweater was covered and I cried...

"Stupid ... just Stupid." I cried as woofy licked my tears...

Soon he got excited as the land we could walk on beside the brook returned...
We were back at where we came down and started for home

When we got home it was 15:30 we left at 12:30




I told Fire and he said Saturday we are going back so I will take pictures
but I am in love I want to stay here forever and ever
bury me at the bottom of that gully at the falls