Homework
Before I start writing about our "homework":
Tea is not just tea, and beer is not just beer - 4 different kinds of beer and 4 different kinds of tea (at Willow Teahouse in Glasgow)
Life is back to normal and we have started with things that have to be done in and around the house, now and then; we chop wood, clean hidden corners (with my brandnew little steamcleaner), paint, improve hidden and unhidden corners of house and barns and if we may believe the weatherforecast we will be able to start part two of the haymaking season tomorrow.
This summer, I have also, once more, tried my skills as gardener. Unsuccessfully, as usual. After picking out everything that didn't look edible there was a big potato plant left (some leftover from last year I guess - or the year before last year....) , along with the rhubarb and some leaves growing in a row, that I would like to believe is spinach, which I did put in and one very small saladplant. Together with some tiny things that didn't look tike the common weed - maybe parsley..... Todays crop, anyhow, was a bucket full of weed. But I won't give up! I promise :-)
T.
Tea is not just tea, and beer is not just beer - 4 different kinds of beer and 4 different kinds of tea (at Willow Teahouse in Glasgow)
Life is back to normal and we have started with things that have to be done in and around the house, now and then; we chop wood, clean hidden corners (with my brandnew little steamcleaner), paint, improve hidden and unhidden corners of house and barns and if we may believe the weatherforecast we will be able to start part two of the haymaking season tomorrow.
This summer, I have also, once more, tried my skills as gardener. Unsuccessfully, as usual. After picking out everything that didn't look edible there was a big potato plant left (some leftover from last year I guess - or the year before last year....) , along with the rhubarb and some leaves growing in a row, that I would like to believe is spinach, which I did put in and one very small saladplant. Together with some tiny things that didn't look tike the common weed - maybe parsley..... Todays crop, anyhow, was a bucket full of weed. But I won't give up! I promise :-)
T.
Back home!
Monday afternoon we got back home after our Scotland odysée, lots of rough hill, ales, lagers and stouts, castles, sheep, cooked breakfasts, more sheep. And bagpipes, of course :-)
We had a really good time!
T.
Scotland ahoy!
Tomorrow we leave for Scotland! At last! Everything is packed, everything is clean, everything is arranged for, dog and white horse "utackorderade", what ever that could be in english.....???
Last weekend Linda popped over, from Munich. That was very nice, indeed :-)
Niki made Tequila Sunrise for everybody.
Well, July 25 we will be back from the Highlands, hopefully with some good whisky in the luggage. Such operations have to be planned carefully, travelling with Ryan Air........ :-)
T.
Last weekend Linda popped over, from Munich. That was very nice, indeed :-)
Niki made Tequila Sunrise for everybody.Well, July 25 we will be back from the Highlands, hopefully with some good whisky in the luggage. Such operations have to be planned carefully, travelling with Ryan Air........ :-)
T.
Tannheim - Innsbruck
At last, after 121 km and 7h 15 min of effective biking, we reached the yard in Hötting. Julia was already there waiting for us, as she had an exam that day. That day was yesterday, thursday - a wonderful day! And I can still sit :-) And walk :-) After a shower (cold!) we went down the lane and had a pizza and a beer (it was the vision of that meal, that kept me going for the last 30 km along the river Inn, at a pace of constantly 25-30 km/h, in Nikis windshadow) in the eveningsun in the Old Town, with the Nordkette as panorama. Niki and Julia went for an ice-cream, as dessert, while I went to the famous Innbruck Beach Club and had that Caipirinha, the second vision; me in a deckchair, feet in the sand, eyes closed, listening to reggaemusic, the evening sun shining on me in a light breeze. It was just PERFECT!Then we all went home to the Höttingergasse, together, where I fell asleep, very satisfied with my day. And myself :-)
T.
Yippeeeee!
Look! Clearcut fields on the slopes behind our house! The result of our doings for the last two weeks or so is 18 waggonloads of first class hay, 4 huge round bales, suntanned bodies, 2 sold mopeds ( at least the guy promised to come and get them next week....), a sheep lady with treated toothache, a vaccinated dog, a flight booked to Edinburgh, hotel booked, a castle booked and some other things done; some work, some small MTB tours, two midsummerparties and one Schmiedener Street Party, lots of eaten icecream etc, etc.
The plan for tomorrow is, for Julias part, to go to her university and have her last (hopefully) two exams for the summerterm. Niki and I plan to ride our bikes to Innsbruck via the old Via Claudia over Fernpass. Unless it doesn't rain tomorrow morning, wich it shouldn,t. But you never know, as you know! I'm not sure if my hind part will be very Yippeee after 130 km but sometimes you have to suffer a little and test the limits. I think it's going to be fun! If I reach Innsbruck succesfully I'll buy myself a caipirinha at the Beach Club :-)
T.
