After a well deserved sleep in I spent the morning writing a few blogs and organising my next week, which would be a bit of a trip. Before we headed off to the regular Sunday garden get-together once more, Manja also painted my little finger nails with Silas’ favourite colour. Why? Because it was in a magazine she bought for the flight and because we thought Silas might like it…. Yeah, I’m crazy that way 😀
Posing.
Time for new strings!
At the garden Manja went to battle in her “War against hops” (Manja: “It’s strangling EVERYTHING!!”) and I spent a while re-stringing and re-tuning, playing and again re-tuning, Ilkas guitars. Besides a slightly damaged “A” peg on the accoustic (the cog is worn and slips off the track) it worked flawlessly.
Tuning Tuning Tuning…
We also had a spade to fix – the old one had snapped. Trying as I may, I could not get the old stump out of the spade head, until Ilka had a brilliant idea. “Why don’t we just burn it?”. A small fire and an hour later, the glowing spade was re-seated onto new wood. Once it’s cooled I’ll have to drill a screw into it, but it should be functional already.
Lunch!
We were joined by two other friends of the group, and Ilka had kindly provided food again – “Pellkartoffeln” – which were delicious as always! The whole group chatted away happily as we ate.
After food I helped to move a wardrobe, which suffered a bit for its move, so the two guys there (me being one) played handyman to try and fix it a bit. Suffice to say we had limited success, but the door closes again. Sort of.
Eventually we sat back outside and I started playing the acoustic guitar a bit. Turns out my guitar playing hasn’t improved with a neglect of practice, and neither have my calluses. I know, I was surprised too… I would have thought that by not doing anything I would get better….
None the less we ended up staying quite late playing around with the guitars and chatting.
Listening to…
(one of the few songs I still managed to play from memory)
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