Time for a walkabout'

Verli and dr Anja gave me a transport bag, so now I am travelling around in style. And I got this chap to carry me around. I'm feeling like one of those british Rajs now :-)
For those who are uninformed; this is a special bangladeshi bag for carrying around small piglets from Mühlviertel.
Mush mush! (as they say to the sledge dogs)
Your Grunzl

Goin' alpine !

Dear Blog

Just a short update. Spent the very last week of the year in a small village in Eastern Tyrolia, I belive the hamlet was named "Kals" - or somethin'.

Pic. 1 : Downtown Kals, Osttirol.


Picture one shows the view from my penthouse (or penthaus as they say here in Austria) early in the morning. I didn't even take the photo myself as I was sleeping at that time, naturally. I guess norski took it whilst filling up the bathtube for me morning bath. 

Pic. 2


Photo nr 2 shows a small valley some 8 km from Kals.  Redhead almost broke her knee, so we had to take a day off from serious alpine skiing. So instead we went snowshoe-walking.  That was cool.  Even more cool was that , due to the weather conditions, we saw 3 minor snow-avalanches. There was not so much snow, but the hills were steep, and the sound of thunder going on and on was really something.  Unfortunately I did not take any photos at that time.  I was to much ingulfed in the experience.

Pic.3


The last photo is the montains marking the watershed between Kals and Matrei in Osttirol.  I liked the light.  Hmmm.. I might start to take photography more serious...

BTW: there was no winner for my X-mas-present-competition. No contribution was found worthy enough by the present-committee.  But as my very own birthday is in only 6 months; you can participate in the next round ;-)

See ya!

Adventzeit

As most of you, me fans, by no doubt have noticed already: It's that time in the year again! That's right! So please start sending in your parcels! I use the same address as last year.
Hard parcels give you bonus points. The donators of the three best presents will get a handmade and handwritten christmas card made by no other than yours truly!
In additon, the person presenting the very best christmas present will - yes I know I'm way to generous now!! - win a guided tour in me home village Hinterwald!!!!
So if you want to sing christmas carols with Toni the farmer, clean out the barn with me and meet me uncle Gerald and me business partner mr I. - then start sending in your parcels. Yeah, merry X-mas yada yada, yada..

Monopoly

Today I played Monopoly against redhead and norski. First it was boring, but then I went into me 'money is money'-overdrive!
I invested in real estate, houses and a hotel (the bank cheated me at the deal, but I managed to turn the situation into a moneyfall - mostly by tricking me opponents into paying a rather stiff rent )
Needless to say, but I'm of course saying it anyway: I WON !  hihi!

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Should I adopt the wee one?

Yesterday I visited the 'Landesausstellung Oberösterreich'. A major subject of the exhibition was the Reformation and Martin Luther. Basically it was all about how bad the Austrian protestants were treated by some not very nice guys from their catholic environment.
In order to get away from it all I went for a walk in the forest around the castle in which the exhibition was situated. Suddenly I saw a dead mother-mouse struck - nay, rather squeezed - down on the path, apparently a biker had driven over her. Poor mouse! A classical hit and run.
Not two meters away from the sad spot I found this baby mouse (see picture above!). An Austrian 'spitz maus' I believe. He (I called him Fredi) was a bit dehydrated, but otherwise he didn't suffer of anything a bit of water couldn't cure. Fredi was sleeping soundly in my pullover using part of my sleeve as a blanket, but for the photo I had to wake him up.
Should I adopt him, poor little Fredi, what do you think?

Update: Actually, we did not keep Fredi after all but left him in the deep, deep forest nearby a medieval castle. Rumours tell, he now makes his living by acting as castle-mouse there....

rainy Sunday

Today I've been staying in bed all day long. The only sensible thing to do regarding the wheather; just a nuisance that Norski and Readhead are cycling around aimlessly in the city, hence there is no one that would prepare hot chocolate for me.

nighty, G.

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 !

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