Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Chillin' and dreamin'


Howdy fans!

Our TV broke down like a 18 year old mustang through the Arizona desert. So after to many days in front of an old 12 inch screen, my live-ins finally caved in and bought me an 37 inch (or something like that) LED-TV. So now its HD-movies and a heavily increased dosage of popcorn and TV-diners and generally being lazy. Indeed, its a tough job being a piglet.  Just yesterday, I managed 18 hrs straight ! How about that?
I wonder if they give out medals for telly watching?   Norski claims that TV-watching is bad for small piglets.
Keep dreamin' I said!

Pfiati !

Mit einem Mobiltelefon von Sony Ericsson gesendet

Monday, 31 May 2010

Wilderness Pt 2

As it turned out my "Bivouacking in the Mühlviertel Highlands" was cut short, as my rescuers found me after 10 minutes or so.


We followed a rather interesting path. I belive it was made for kids, but even for a piglet it was a nice experience. In the middle of the forrest we found a cave. Being a prudent piglet, I sent in the norski first. Apperently as he went in, lights turned on automatically and a display of foxes and badgers were shown. Indeed, you could also hear their voices crying out in agony (I think...) Cool!  The norski said if this solar-powered museum cave had been in Norway, som viking descendant would have pillaged the place long ago. and generally made a wreck out of it. "Why" I, the piglet asked!   " 'cause it's there!" the norski answered.
Here is a shot I took inside the cave:













Me and norski taking a break somewhere in the north-eastern Mühlviertel.

After a small incident with the car GPS, wich led us astray,  we went back to the capital (of Upper Austria)

Pfiati !

Mit einem Mobiltelefon von Sony Ericsson gesendet

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Wilderness pt 1

Dear Blog

It was Easter - hence time for a prolonged stay in my home region Mühlviertel.  I demanded to be transportet into this area - so the Redhead and the Norski vere happy to oblige.  As I had some unfinished business in the little hamlet of "St. Georgen am Walde", this village was our first objective.



















Pic.1:   Here we see parts of St Georgen am Walde in the eastern part of Mühlviertel.


After I had finished my business in downtown St Georgen my two chauffeurs wanted to "tour the area". So off we went.  We actually walked...   The first stop was a small lumberjack museum. It was really small and not very impressive, but they managed to shoot some nice pics of me:



















Pic 2: Here I am bravely inspecting part of the lumberjack museum. Observe the dangerous waterfall just beside me.















Pic 3: Chillin' on the museum porch.
















Pic 4:  Part of a large tree. Someone with too much time on his/her hands actually counted all the rings, and the tree was older than the Redhead and the Norski together, would you belive that!.

But of course we couldn't stay around that phony museum all day long som we forged into the lovely forest. Lots of trees, mud, irritating birds ..well all the thingies you normally expect to see in a forest. I am sure the Redhead and the Norski loved it.
I was looking at a whole lot of different things, and...suddenly I was alone !!  
"Helooooooo!!?"  I shouted into the forest which now appeared to be more hostile.  It was colder now, or was it the fear or the longing for my slippers, bathtube and hot chocolate?

Between two large trees I met a Badger (Dachs) whom I asked for sustinance and lodging, but he was sharing a small flat with a fox and had no room for a towny piglet.  
But having read the SAS surviving-manual on many a cozy evening at home, I had of course some idea what to do. I build a bivouac!
















Pic 5: Piglet taking on the elements. Bivouacking in the Mühlviertel Highlands.

A bit cold and hungry (not thirsty as I found a small "burn" (as they say in Scotland)) I fell asleep.
More to follow.

Monday, 5 April 2010

Happy Easter!

From all of me to all of you : Hope you all had a great Easter. I was travelling in Mühlviertel. Pics to come. This photo was accidentically taken of me while I was sleeping in the scanner - and woke up as the Norski started the machine...  say no more...

Your
Grunzl - the scanned one

Saturday, 13 March 2010

Hello blog-fans!!

Dear blog

One of these days I will sit model for a more serious artist, but some time ago The Redhead asked me to sit for her. She likes to sketch now and then you see! While I don't consider the result very flattering for me, I also understand there is something called artistic license...    Heck, I might even find me own pencils and a sheet of paper one of these days.
In the next month or so I will probably go on a couple of journeys, so stay tuned for "The Grunzl Files - A piglet goes Europe"!

Your Grunzl

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

At last; some professional reading !

Dear Blog

Sometimes you just want to relax and generally be lazy, but at the same time you might want to be entertained. So today I felt like being immersed in literature. But being to lazy to read, what should I do?
The answer was quickly found: get somebody to read for me.  A short phonecall, and a very nice woman showed up !  She was a fast reader, and I could not understand everythin' ,   but as it is not so easy to find slav... eh competent house help nowadays, what could I do?    
Thanks to Verli for reading to me.

Grunzl

Sunday, 14 February 2010

New indoor shoes

Hi again!

I've just got a pair of NEW indoor shoes (well it was Knut that got new shoes, but heck: I can use them as a sleeping bag or sleeping mat or somethin')     They were really big, but I arranged 'em to be washed on 40 degrees - and now they are much smaller, much nicer and probably much warmer.  Whattya think?
Thanks to Helene Harelabb (AKA Helene Kanin) for the shoes. One shoe got a Nemo look-a-like on it, the other a nice purple octopus and some seaweed.

Makes me long for the seaside...