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Regenbogen:
@Dina, your last post.
I think it's OK, because it is history you are telling us and you didn't tell us your own point of view.
I read the article, too.

@ Fcrate: the poor trees! And is it your trees they are destroying without recompensation? It takes a long time for a tree to grow and produce fruit. Do you think you have a chance of getting some money for your lost harvest? Or will it just be shrugs and shit happens?

@Dina
What? No apples yet? Weird. And no beer? At least they got the priorities straight with introducing coffee. LOL
It would be nice to befriend your hubby on Duolingo. I'll write you PM soon.
But I'm not sure about the chat function on Duolingo. I'm doing it on my cellphone with the app. There is no chat. Maybe on the computer or on the desktop website? I'll investigate.

Fun fact about the word cellphone: don't ask me why, but in Germany we call them "Handy" with English pronunciation.

@Fcrate:
About the redecoration.
LOL I remember my mother sometimes putting stuff elsewhere or putting down old curtains, replacing them with new ones. Moving the sofa to the other side or moving the dinner table. I never understood, but I thought, this seems to be something one needs to do once in a while. Now I understand, though I don't think I am too extreme.  ;)
Once my father even removed one window, but replaced it with a new one on the other side of the room to have evening sun.

Edit:@ Dina
I have to look up the Spanish story book. It's on my kindle and there should be a translation included. Just in case. Tell you once I found it.

Fcrate:
Not exactly my trees. These 4 trees were technically mine, but not part of my garden. I planted them in the street, 1.5m away from my wall, which is in our law the area called "Service area belonging to Fcrate's land". I don't know the English equivalent, or if there's any. We line the streets with trees here so that we can sit in shade in the evenings, but personally I prefer something productive to something purely aesthetic, so I planted these trees and everybody benefits from them. Mostly it's the neighbours who take the harvest, and I don't mind that. I have my own trees in m garden. But if someone is cooking and needs lemons, they can pick some up from my tree.
The contractors are digging quite deep, and they bulldoze any tree that blocks their way, or even makes their job a little more difficult. Legally, they aren't allowed to do that, but nobody cares, and if you complain, they just claim it was an accident while digging.
Edit @Regen: I've been recruited to move furniture around the house pointlessly every couple of years or so. Me and my 3 brothers. This year: move the sofa to the other wall, move the library where the sofa was, and we now we have much more space! Yay! Next year: Library back to the side, coffee table to the other, see how much better it looks? And how much more space we have now?
2 years later, everything back to the same place it was 4 years ago annnnd: look how much more space we have now! Isn't that better?! *eye roll*
We just went with it and said: "Yes mum, much better." like the little mules we were :D at least there was 4 of us. Made things easier. But it doesn't happen often anymore since my sister married and moved to America. My sisters in law started having some "Ideas" but I blackmailed them into shutting up :P

Dina:
LOL about the blackmailing! Well, moving furniture when you can is a need  :). I don't do it often because my place is very little so no many configurations are suitable, but when I was a young girl leaving with my parents in a large house, redecorations happened.

And I am so sorry about the trees and about mean people harming them.

We call handy the things like walkie talkie, not cellphones.

Regenbogen:
LOL if I had 4 sons, I would totally make them carry stuff, too.
I usually do it alone, except for some really big stuff or something you need more than two hands. Or something that can break, if you are not careful.

@Dina: that's funny too. I mean that you have handys too.  ;D

Dina:
Hubby says there was beer, but it not appeared in the first lesson. Also, according to duolingo, German favorite drink is sparkling water, no, it is not beer or coffee.

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