- Oops, Ken! I wasn’t expecting you back this early…
- So I noticed. This kitchen is a mess. How’s the bathroom renovation going?
- Weeelllll… Kaarna mumbles and starts to clear the sink.
After the contarctor had received the payment for the first part of the work he just vanished. Kaarna tells:
- He actually ghosted us. He doesn’t answer our emails and his phone say ”the number you have reached is no longer in service”.
- Why didn’t you tell me?
- And ruined your freetime?! There’s nothing you could’ve done. But look, at least there’s a drain now. Filia can’t cause any damage!
Ken and Elisabet need to sit down and figure out this new problem. Ken suggests:
- What if we just leave it that way for now. The heating season has started and the boiler is still not working like it should. Let’s use the bathroom money for a brand new boiler and for the heating bills that most likely will be phenomenal next winter.
- And some day if our financial situation is better, we’ll continue the bathroom with someone more reliable? Elisabet adds.
- Exactly. We managed with the sauna and dry toilet before, and we will manage with them now.
The neighbours across the road kindly let everybody pick apples from their trees, since they have way too many.
Kaarna wants to bake a pie to cheer up this gray day.
She hates cooking but for some reason baking is easy for her.
The delicious pie makes Ken especially happy.
On his way to his special lingonberry place Ken is shocked! The forest is completely gone.
The gigantic hell machines are demolishing everything.
Us humans are incredible in our will and talent to destroy the planet.
Ken wants to rake the leaves, but he finds the rake left on the ground broken.
Then he notices that Filia is escaping from the crime scene and shouts to her:
- Filia, can I have a word with you?!
- I have nothing to do with the rake!!!!
- That wasn’t the thing I wanted to speak to you about. I only want to remind you that making noise in the night time is prohibited.
- I don’t make noise.
- You jump around and bang your feet on the floor and play Elvis and I can’t sleep. It makes me insane.
- I have to dance. Doctor’s order.
Ken’s words might not have any effect on Filia’s behavior, but at least he’s able to easily fix the rake.
Every autumn Ken and Elisabet remember that they still haven’t got a wheelbarrow.
They tend to put off buying the small things when all the big problems suck out all their energy and money.
Kaarna is happy as a tennant, not having to think about the responsibilities of a home owner.
- Ken! Am I imagining things or is that fucking witch next door being even louder than usually?
- She is. I already asked her to stop but it just made her go insane.
Ken decides to sleep outside in Herbert.
Kaarna tries to survive by keeping her noise cancelling headphones on.
All through the summer the nights were unusually cold, and now they are unusually warm.
Ken has slept really well in the van and heads for the morning porridge with happy thoughts.
In the kitchen Kaarna has already set the breakfast table and Ken suggests:
- So, it was still somewhat comfy in Herbert. Why don’t we drive to the @ihmeellinen_pieni_maailma miniature fair?
- And waste 60 litres of diesel that costs 2.6 euros per litre?!
- Well yes. I have learned that I could loose a leg or arm or even a head any time and my life would be over in a second. What’s the point in saving money?
- Hmmmm, Kaarna hesitates and Ken adds:
- But we must only buy things we really need. I hope we’ll meet some friends there! We'll leave today and spend the night somewhere near Espoo.