Spring in Romania? Et-cetera and Et-cetera

Spring seems to be here. I am, however, very suspicious of spring-like weather because of cold snaps. I don't know if Romania does cold snaps. “Cold snap” doesn't seem to want to jump over the language barrier. The phrase is a bit like a three-legged sheep trying to clear a barbed-wire fence. Conversations in which it makes an appearance tend to get a bit messy and more than a bit off-track.

Regardless, it is nicely sunny today. That means it's partly cloudy and the sun goes away periodically. On top of all of that, the wind doesn't appear to be blowing particularly strongly.

I am mystified by what is growing outside my apartment building. At first I thought it might be another apartment building. But if that's the case, the thing won't be up for another decade or so. It's taken two, maybe three, weeks for a crew of about 10 men dressed in blue jumpers to lay concrete bricks around the periphery and put down a concrete pad. There was a lot of playing around with jackhammers in the process. At 8:00 in the morning.

But now they seem to be extending the bricks down the alley and around the corner, so maybe they're building a curb. (I very nearly typed “cerb.” My spelling has been a disaster worthy of federal relief since my high school British lit class.)

The doves are...well, they're not cooing, exactly. They seem to be moaning in time to some unseen clock. They do that all the time, even at night. That's probably because there are no birds of prey here.

Tonight we are going out. We missed our goth music event last week because of our travels, but tonight we'll be back at it. It will be nice to sit in a cozy place with a beer bigger than my head. Everyone drinks them. It's amazing. I think I am the only one amazed by them.

I'll let you know how it goes. Until then, la revedere.