AT MEINBREXEN

In the morning Piet Hein and I started the next phase in our dealing with the waste pipe and that means removing the roots of the big laurel bush that we had cut last week. These roots could have gone deep and entered the pipe. So our first tast is now to remove all roots, before we can dig deep down.
We worked hard on it, with great enthusiasm. Digging, finding the roots, sawing and removing stones too. We did not totally succeed, but we have arrived far enough for the first day. And it is obvious that this one is the biggest and toughest of all we have to do.
So after lunch, Piet Hein suggested we would drive to Meinbrexen to have a relaxing time out. It is not far from where we live, the atmosphere of the scenery totally different from ours.
There are two lakes (gravel pits I suppose) and we chose to walk around
the south situated one. There were all the waterbirds, floating in the sunlight, and we sat for a while on a bench, and sometimes on the big stone, and took now and then pictures.
We forgot about the hard work, but when we stood up after a rest, we both felt it in our bodies.

My haiku:

A place where one goes
To rest and get new energy
Heaven on earth

And the proverb:

A proud mind and a beggar's purse agree not well together.

c. 1430 in Lydgate, Minor Poems.