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MERRY CHRISTMAS time :-) (if Grand(o)pa) at the far right is halfed or quartered it isn't my fault!) (as far as I know......) Wish you all continued happy, relaxing, funny, cosy etc,etc Christmas holidays, as far as you have any. T. ..... - by the way; I managed to prepare a most delicious wild boar filet on christmasday and a just perfect sauce, flavoured with, among others, gingerbread and port. Served with homemade "spätzle" and red cabbage. I very proud of me! Most people manage to cook delicious meals 7 days a week, I know. But I don't!

I.e. Christmasprepaparation the cosy (swedish)(schmiedisch) way. But first you have to be "driving home for christmas......." And here the making of the ägglikör/eggtoddy that I m sipping waiting for the pictures to download - yumm yumm..... T.

I just have to make an insert with a date like this ; 12/12/12. Did anybody get married? Did I miss something? It was a long day, so the insert will be short. A picture of SchneEmil in action is suitable, I think, because it's gonna be a coooooold night with lots of snowmachines to attend to T.

Now, in the evening, the sky is clear, the sky is filled with (visible!) stars. Julia and I finished gingerbreadbakery part one. After that we got hungry and had some of our new Serranoham and a beer. Earlier today I went for a small ride with Norka (the old little brown one). Julia went for a real ride with Hombre ( the wooly "white" spanish one ), For lunch I cooked a Gulasch ( in Emmas old huge yellow ironpan), the I checked all the little lightbulbs of the electric candles for the windows. Now I feel very content, will grab my book and read a chapter or two - or three or four......... SchneEmil is already asleep - he came home around 9 pm, had some of the good ham. He put the alarm on 2 am, to get out in the cold night and check on the snowmachines, to nock off ice. And I may stay in my warm bed :-) T.

Since my last insert our valley turned white. About half a meter. And it's still snowing. This afternoon we went for a ride, or rather a walk on horseback, through the forest It was me and Julia, Pontiac, three horses and the mule. It was so calm, no noisy tourist, no traffic - like in a winter fairy, the trees covered in snow, some branches bent to the ground. Now it's evening, it's warm and cosy in the house, Julia and I just made a gingerbreaddow. The cook-book says it should rest in a cold place over night, and if the cook-book say so......... :-) SchneEmil, the snowman, is out there in the night making some extra snow, 'cause they need a lot of that white stuff for the skiers, next weekend. Julia and I have cosy reading evening, waiting for schneEmil. This is what I call advent! T. This is Sidney, "our" mule. Snowfotos will follow tomorrow. This is only that it doesn't look so empty.....