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Dina:
I am sorry to hear about that. Hopefully next week will be better.
We had a big storm today, with some streets flooded, a few trees broken by the wind (one of them totalled a parked car), things like that. Hopefully I had wisely decided to stay at home. Hubby had no real problems either as the storm was very bad in the wee hours of the morning and also in the afternoon, when he was safely at his workplace. By the time he had to come home, the rain has stopped. It was still windy but not too cold.
Tomorrow after work I plan to go to a sort of march against some of the things the presidential candidate has said. Luckily they are not forcasting rain.

Ohh, this weekend (Sunday) is Children's Day here, and I just saw that our cable service is going to offer the last Spider-man movie for free (the animated movie with Miles Morales). We are planning to watch it.

Regenbogen:
Hey weird people! I am back home.
The trip to Austria was good. We did not do a lot of sightseeing, it was mostly relaxing, but we managed to go to a museum of art, which was mostly boring for Micro, but interesting for Mini and amusing for us grown-ups. One room made us laugh a lot, though it was somehow disgusting: it looked like a room full of waste, but the artist sometimes did something with it. There were sections with old bottles standing around, an almost full body plastic with two heads which looked like something a mentally ill serial killer would leave for people to find and be shocked. But what amused me the most, were patches of wiry dark hair nailed to the wall. I hope the hair was from the artist's beard, lol.

There were several themes, so there was art for every taste, not just the weird stuff.

We managed to go swimming in a lake twice and we rented a small boat in my husband's town of birth. And we tested two ice cream vendors, one before the boat trip and one after, lol. Just to be able to compare, of course.


Sad news:
Did I tell you that our cat died in the last week of July? We were with her all the time. This was the first cat who had a good death in my opinion. We noticed on Sunday that she would go now, because she even refused to drink and she had trouble standing up. She died during the night from Sunday to Monday.

But there is good news, too:
One of my husband's colleagues told him that his cat is pregnant. We said we would take 2-3 babies. The kittens are very cute and we will have them at the end of October. They are mostly dark, one I think is almost completely black, as far as can be seen in the pictures.

So there are kittens to look forward to.

Dina:
(((((((Regen)))))))) Hi!
Glad to hear you had a good time in Austria!  :)
The museum sounds super weird but I read you said this is not all what there is there. You made me laugh about the hairs...hope is from the beard too. That reminded me I had a classmate (from high school) who is now a photographer who made a super-weird (for me) exposition with pictures related with the female condition...including the period. I actually think she exposed it in Austria too.
Great about swimming in the lake. Here Winter finally is normal, which means it is cold (not freezing cold, Buenos Aires is never that cold, but still).
You had told us about your cat dying, but I am super happy about the kitten news. Are your children excited? It is good that you will have more than one baby cat, so they can play with each other and not only with humans.
Well, I have to leave now. I have to collaborate in a few classes this semester, even when it is not my teaching semester See you around!

Regenbogen:
So, I drove my bike along the river on both sides today, to see how it looked like after all the storms and the almost flood. It's OK now, though there was a tree across my way, but I managed to climb over it with the bike.
There is still a lot of water in the river, but no more danger that it will spill over. We were lucky, the rain stopped in time.
The last two weeks the temperature dropped from 36 to 16°C. Now it is 27°C. That's perfect for me. And everything is green again.

We visited the kittens yesterday. So cute! We will get all three of them. They are already bigger than my hand, toddle around a bit, but their eyes are still blue.
It's one male and two females. The male is very dark, but not completely black. I call it dark grey with light black stripes, lol. One can see the stripes only in sunlight.
The females are both dark grey with black stripes. One has tiger stripes and one has more rounded lines. I don't know the English name for that kind of colour scheme. In German it is called "gerädert". Our old cat was coloured like that, too. But she was brown, black and red-brown.

The kids are very excited. Now we can think about names.
Do you have any ideas?

I would like to call the male Loki, but then I would need fitting names for the girls.
Or maybe all names starting with the same letter.
Nero would be a cool name, but then I would have to worry if he will burn down the village.  ;D

For the girls I have maybe Mara, Dora, Mia, Cleo, Nora...
Short names. I am open to everything, except names like Fluffy Puffcake, Sugar Candy Cotton or something cringy like that, lol.


Edit: lol
We had a discussion about names and I threw in Leonardo. Micro and my husband immediately said Mona and Lisa.
Leonardo, Mona and Lisa. The more I think about it the better it sounds.

Dina:
((((Regen))))
Beginning by the end...I love Leonardo, Mona and Lisa!
The kitten sounds so cute. I bet the whole family is all excited, with good reason. Kittens are just the best.
It is good that all is right with the weather and river around you. Here we finally had a few days of normal cold Winter days but since yesterday we are having cold nights and early morning and warm afternoons. It is supposed to rain today.

A paper I've sent has been accepted for publication. I am super happy  :)

Next week I will have several meetings and administrative things, quite boring.

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