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..... I had the intention to write under the title Today, but today Yesterday is more suitable for my insert. I was just tooooo lazy yesterday night. Yesterday we were on skiholiday again, see, Emil and I. All yesterday :-) In Lech- Warth this time. The two areas are now connected by an aerial tram. Just perfect. The skiarea is not as big as Ischgl, but big enough. It's connected to Zürs too. And Stuben - and from there isn't it very far by bus to StAnton. Camilla, Anders, Hilda and Maja came to ski/eat/drink/sunbathe in Lech with us, that very day. That was great. My friend Lillemor, also came to Lech with the bus that day, with the intention to have a fika and a chat, which I intended too, but unfortunately she had hurt her hand, couldn't ski and I didn't make it into the village. I was too timeoptimistic, as so often. Next time, Lillemor:-))))))) Such a skiday is júst toooooo short! As we were finished with skiing we were veeeery hungry, Emil and I, so we stopped for a pizza in Elbigenalp/Lechltal and a beer. Delicious! Morning coffebreak is veeeery important. We had a great day. Today we were back to work and it'a snowing again. Good. We need that snow. T.

Yesterday (wednesday 12/2) Emil, Julia and I spent in Ischgl. We even spent the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in Ischgl, as Uffe had a spare room in his huge KiWi appartement. We gladly accepted the offer to use it. Thanx! So, we were able to have a glass of wine together, we even got pizza and Lillyfee Muffins. Yummmie! We, the not allweeklongskiholidayers, went up early in the morning, breakfasted some pizzaleftovers and then left for the freshly prepared pists (without disturbing the real swedes) and took the fist cabin up at 08h30. It was a bit cold ( -13° + strong wind and snow some places) but it was worth it. Empty virgin pists for 2-3 hours :-) The visibility was perfect at all times, but as I said (wrote) it was empty and fresh prepared: no problems. Around 11.00 we had hot chocolate, then we continued skiing wiht those swedish skiholidayers, the Sandberg clan. At this time the sun had found the way through the snowclouds and plenty of skiers the way up to the top. But it was warmer, and thanx to the good weather you could now see the bumps, that were not there in the morning..... My new skies are great, by the way. Before we went home (a 2hours drive) we had a beer (non-alcoholic for the driver) at "Nikis Stadl". Same procedure as every year!!!!! From left to right: Me (so hungry and thirsty I cannot stand straight up, it seems....), Uffe, Julia, Marleen, Maja, Hilda. Linda and Florian joined us later. 75% of the Lechleitners (poor Niki couldn't join us this time - had to stay in Glasgow and "work") ...... and some more of Julia:-) It was a great day! Thanx everybody! T.

No, no - they are not in our garden yet, I bought them at Lidl, they are pink and they give me a feeling of spring. Like the birds singing in the trees and like the warm winds. Though - we got some mm:s of snow last night, sometime after we got up (in moonlight) to Hubertushütte and down again. With the randonneeskis. Julia too :-) It was the first saturday night this winter, we went there. At Christmastime we were busy with other nice thing, then there was very little snow, the we got the flu! Yes, Emil and I had a real (bad) flu together and stayed home from work a whole week. When we got a little bit better, towards the end of that week, it was quite cosy beeing "legally" lazy together. Now we are fit for fight again, Julia is home on winterholidays (came aaaallllll the way from Innsbruck) and on Wednesday we go for a skiholidy (aaaaaall day long!) to Ischgl. Uffe & Co. are there:tradition. Poor Niki has no winterholidays. Probably due to the lack of winter in Glasgow..... This morning, 8 o'clock we watched men's downhill from Sotchi, Julia (as students have to earn money in their holidays) and I didn't start working until 10.00. Good timing. Austria got a gold medail, poor Body Miller was too slow again. Poor, poor him...... Yesterday austria got a silver medail in Biathlon - so now the state of Austria is content and felix. You often get the feeling, the worst thing that can ever happen to this country is that they don't get Olympic medails - especially in winter. Well, I have the afternoon off and will grab a horse and the dog and take them for a walk. Or do they take me for a walk??? This is what our winter has been looking like so far. - with lots of sunny days :-) T.