Not today

I hope.
Today is memorial day in Holland.
Not a nice day to have your birthday.
Two minutes of silence before your party can start every year.
Tomorrow is liberation day. Much more festive. And appropriate I guess, it will be a liberation for me at least (-:

It is beautiful outside, sunny, and all the trees are flowering.
Something I DON'T miss about Atlanta: spring is awesome over there, but you still can't sit outside without having to spend an hour cleaning a huge layer of pollen from your deck or balcony...
We don't have a garden anymore in our new place, but the living room catches the sun most of the day and has a French balcony. So I am sitting comfortably in the living room with the doors wide open giving me an outdoor feeling. Excellent.
Yesterday we (i.e. Martijn) started cleaning the real balcony on the back of the apartment. A trip to the garden center will follow shortly, I hope. We need lots of flowers and a big pot of bamboo (one of my dreams for this balcony: I love the sound of the wind rushing through a big bush of bamboo...). But it was already nice yesterday evening to sit outside on our bench, realizing one of my favorite birds, the 'gierzwaluw' (Apus apus, or common swift), is back in town. I love these flight-acrobats, it is undeniably spring now!

Here is a pic of the sailor jacket/cardigan/whatever I have been working on. I need to go out and buy buttons and a zipper still, but there is no place near our house where I can get those things. I made it a little large, ~ for a 6 month old baby, since it is a warm jacket. Aiming for baby to wear it in October rather than mid-summer (-:
Started working on a matching hat this morning, hope I have enough yarn left...