Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 12 – 8

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 12 – 8

Countdown to Christmas – Days 12 – 8 Sonia was right! Wanting to publish a blog every day was way too ambitious, particularly before Christmas. But in our review of 2018, July, August and September have become one overheated blurr in my mind anyway. Our...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 13

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 13

Countdown to Christmas – Day 13 Welcome to the second part of June! What you see above is a polyresin cat my friend Kasia gave me for my birthday last year – and it is a scarecrow. Not that it would scare our resident crows Odin and Freya but I had the...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 14

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 14

Countdown to Christmas – Day 14 We have reached the beginning of June. While I am still waiting for the perfect moment to catch Maxine, nature decides to interfere. On June 2nd the bump that turned out to be an abscess bursts open and Maxine seems relieved. She...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 15

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 15

Countdown to Christmas – Day 15 We are still in May. It is still warm and humid. And apart from preparing Joschi’s meals and force-feeding him several times a day, I have so much work to do that I have not even found the time to take photos – and...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 16

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 16

Countdown to Christmas – Day 16 Welcome to May 2018. As you know, all I managed to publish in May was the birthday blog for Marvi, Islay and Isfrid. Even though I had already collected the photos I was not able to congratulate Sander, Mrs. Peel and their...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 17

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 17

Countdown to Christmas – Day 17 Now to the things that happened last April that you don’t know yet: The medically trained eye of my sister thought that Maxine’s face looked swollen. Was there really a bump on her right cheek? I could not detect...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 18

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 18

Countdown to Christmas – Day 18 Welcome to April in our review of 2018! It was too warm for the time of year – again. The weeds were growing faster than the tulips and I broke my foot. Plus, we celebrated the birthdays of Mira and Marvi at the end of the...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 19

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 19

Countdown to Christmas – Day 19 When humans separate animals normally suffer. The shelters are full of dogs and cats that turned into „orphans of divorce“ because one partner left and the other is no longer willing or capable to take care of the...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 20

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 20

Countdown to Christmas – Day 20 Today we take a first look at March and when you look at the blog, you don’t see much. The weather was nice and unseasonably warm. The cranes were already flying north and the bumble bees all collapsed into the crocuses...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 21

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 21

Countdown to Christmas – Day 21 What else happened in February? Thankfully not much. We were all looking forward to spring and enjoying the garden but it began to transpire that my workload would increase this year. I was only able to publish 8 issues – an...