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That was last week. All week long.Now we have early snow in the alps. Both kinds of weather is normal for this time of year. Both kinds have its charm. The sunny for a bike ride, for instance, and the bad for a loooooong  breakfast. Also suitable for a F1 afternoon in front of the TV, as Julia just remarked.
Last week there were lots of going on;  on Monday Niki and I went to the drivingrange and hit one ball better than the other. Very good for the golfego :-))), then the cattle came down from the summerpastures in the mountain. That was tuesday. Traditionally there was a big tent to celebrate this important day in, with music, beer, Bratwurst and so on. During the day there were busloads of tourists, in the evening mainly locals. The tent was crowded with I don't now how many hundred people drinking, dancing on the tables (some) and having a good time in general. And all this in the middle of the week. Elsewhere they bring the cattle down on a saturday, but not so in Tannheim! Here it's on the 21st of September! Like Christmas on the 24th of December. I think it's good so. "Man soll die Feste feiern wie sie kommen!" as they use to say here (go get your german dictionaries, everybody!) Wednesday after it was hard to get up in the morning, but we managed at last. Emil went to work, JuNi and I to Innsbruck with another load of furniture and the bikes. It's really nice to have understanding children with driverlicences :-) I had a good sleep on the way in.
Thursday was biking day. Friday another Innsbruck day. We were succesful with installing the TVset and Ju/Ni were relieved.
Today, Saturday, we ran out of sunny weather and I managed the clean the whole house. Also a good thing with bad weather. Today the sheep came down from the mountainpastures, but as they are not so big and so many as the cows, the tent is smaller, but equally crowded, and they serve delicate sheepsausages. It's a little bit like surströmming (except for not smelling strongly) - either you LOVE them, or NOT. And the thing is, you only get them on this day in this tent. That's the thing! The Lechleitner family decided to leave early, this time!
Tomorrow it's time to install Niki in the Höttingergasse 28. He starts a week earlier than Julia, because of a voluntary "maths refresher week. It's probably a good thing, after a year at the Red Cross in front of the television........

T.