Wednesdays are office days and errand days, and regularly turn into yarn shopping days. I took a different way home from the yarn shop, walking across Söder to Slussen, which is all a giant construction site.

I got a better explosion photo today. That’s the only good thing I can say about them.

The explosions are pretty annoying. Or rather, the explosions themselves are kind of cool but everything around them is annoying. The loud alarms before and after – and then the horrible clatter of large rocks being thrown into a metal container. The latter goes on forever. One single explosion makes for a lot of rocks to be cleared away.

The neighbours clearing their yard for building a house are about to start blowing things up. Red things that I associate with explosions are sticking up from the rock in their yard.

An inspector of some sort came by earlier this week to inspect our house and install some kind of device to measure vibrations. Apparently we’re close enough to be in the danger zone for vibration damage, theoretically.

Asphalt is not a thing that normally makes me happy, but when it’s all newly cleaned after half a year of gravel everywhere, I do feel pretty glad about it. Look at all this smoothness.

As beautiful this year as they are every year.

Still no sign of Nysse, so I went out looking for him. Saw two other cats, a squirrel, plenty of spring flowers, but no Nysse.

PS: He did come back, late in the afternoon! Phew. Now I’ve bought a GPS tracker for him. Both in case he does this again, and because I want to find out where he normally ranges.

The whole area where the neighbours intend to build a house is a giant rock. It’s kind of hard to see from this angle (and I’m not going to go on the roof for a better photo) but the area that looks like a bunch of large white worms is all rock, and there’s more under the ground around it. I guess there will be noisy work coming up soon.

It feels like spring in all ways but nothing is green yet.