I’m flying back to Seattle on March 1. I had been tossing around the idea of staying for another two weeks, but unfortunately I have to meet with my downstairs neighbor about a sewer problem we’ve been having. How boring is that? The last month or so I’ve been surprisingly busy. I made that terrific …
The weather has been pretty incredible lately. We still have a ton of snow on the ground and it’s a crime to squander the midday sunshine indoors. When the cloud cover burns off, around noon, we head off to play outdoors for a few hours. The days are getting a little longer, but there’s a …
You’ve been wondering, I know, if we have any snow left. I think this picture, taken today on the road to the Spechtensee, should answer that question.
If you want to read a little more about my recent trip to England, you should go here. That’s Mindy’s blog entry about what we got up to during my way too short stay. The pictures link back to my photos, so if you’ve already seen them, you needn’t bother. You might spend a little …
Every two weeks or so a farmer drives up in his truck. He rings the doorbell and shouts in the entry of the house: Apples! Pears! Dried fruit! Pumpkinseed oil! I stick my head out and tell him I’ll be right out to get some juice. It’s one euro for a liter of organic apple …
I missed my flight to Graz. See, the train from Milton Keynes to Euston got slowed down and arrived 20 minutes late. I needed that 20 minutes because it turns out that at RyanAir, where they take all the very worst things about air travel and sell it to you for super cheap, all while …