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I have been looking so forward to spring, but it has left us, it seems. It has been raining for over a week and even before that, the merry month of May wasn’t the best, in regard to weather.
It got even better yesterday when we had temperatures of 41F, it rained, hailed, sleeted and the [...]

(or at least one)
With amusement and much excitement, I followed the news this weekend about a brown bear in northern Austria which was making his way north into Bavaria. There hasn’t been a brown bear in Bavaria since the last one was shot in 1835.
Seems the bear made his way into the Garmisch region yesterday, [...]

All day yesterday, May 20th, I kept thinking “there is something on the 20th”, “what is it that is today” and similar thoughts.
All Day.
Someone please give me a dunce cap.
Yesterday was the lovely Ms. Mac’s 23rd Birthday (or the 10th or so anniversary thereof and my nephew’s 10th birthday.
So, forgive me for [...]

I wrote about the merles (Amseln) breeding in the small cypress in front of my porch on May 5. I have been observing them regularly as they take turns sitting in the hot afternoon sun or in the cold morning rain, diligently breeding those eggs.
It just about broke my heart this morning when there wasn’t [...]

I went to a rather large Fleamarket yesterday (kinda funny that it’s called the equivalent in German – Flohmarkt) which was being held under the theme of “Recycling/Reusing instead of Throwing Away”.
Which is a nice concept, though the trinkets and assorted drinking glasses and old cherry keyboards and outdated mice and all – that is [...]

I got a speeding ticket. I got “blitzed” (they take pictures of you from the side of the road and that is what it is called – translates to “flashed” due to the flash of light, I guess) back in April while I was returning home from work at lunchtime. I was hungry. That’s my [...]

Tobi decided to dig a hole in the garden this week and promptly managed to tear one of his claws. The only thing the vet could do is to remove the entire “nail”, and so he is, once again, hopping around on three feet while holding up the front left one, bandaged and adorned with [...]

My Ogo (a.k.a. PocketWeb) finally arrived at noon yesterday, and I must say, it is the coolest thing I have ever owned. O.k., maybe not THE coolest but it is absolutely awesome. Small, compact, solid-construction, easy to use – I love it.
There is something really cool about having e-mail and web browser in a gadget [...]

Being the procrastinator that I am, I did not do my taxes last weekend. The weather just got too nice and I just had to get on that Kiwi and have a ride through the Allgäu.
Meaning that yesterday, when the weather was very perfect and my father and Hilde headed into the Karwendel Mountains, I [...]

has been completed and he has now arrived safely and sound, just a wee bit tired, in the arms of little Kaitlyn:

Aren’t they cute? And look at all of that hair – wow!