As I came home from work today, the doormat outside was turned upside down and put to the side.  I doubt the neighbors would do that, so it is almost certainly the landlor or his family.  Leaving the mat like that may be a subtle way to say “we are watching you”.  Which is OK as long as they don’t go through my papers or my hard disk.

On a related note, I have continued throwing away something each workday. Actually, each morning another glass jar, and pretty much each afternoon something else, usually a couple more CDs.  (Although I also took a bag of paperbacks to the used-book store on Monday. )

There are a few CDs I don’t intend to thow away.  1: The first two CDs I bought.  (I don’t remember which of them was first, therefore two.) 2: Classical music, which supposedly actually sounds better off a CD than an MP3. Although I will consider ripping them to FLAC instead (lossless compression, much larger files). 3: Japanese CDs.  My Japanese reading is still not up to telling apart all of the CDs (although I recognize a couple) so I depend on the pretty covers to tell which is which.

I use the manual lawnmower pretty much every weekday unless it is raining.  It is nice exercise, not too hard but as hard as I want it too.  It will become less pleasant if I do it mid-summer, when the heat of the sun is brutal.  It is quite nice now.  And there is a lot of lawn.

While mowing, I stopped for a breath and saw that it is actually possible to see the spire of the village church from the farthest corner of the lawn.  I had not known that.  In a couple year it will likely be hidden by the growing forest. Like everywhere in Norway that I know of, the forest is growing eagerly.  Perhaps it likes the extra CO2 in the atmosphere? Well, I am not sure, but I suspect I contribute more CO2 by my breathing when I use the manual lawnmower than I would have done with the gas-driven one.  So drink it up, forest.  The churchyard can wait, as far as I am concerned.