New sweater

 Pic 1: Yours truly.

 

Pic 2: Me n me sister.

Hi there, an' happy new year.
Been busy. Went up to ice cold Norway over the X-mas holidays. There I got a new sweater! :-) Well It wasn't really new new, as norskis mother made it over 35 years ago. It's called an "Marius-genser"-sweater. This Marius guy was apparently a famous ski jumper and a fighter pilot in the fifties.
...hmm is anybody reading this?
G

Couture de le Cochonnet (piglet fashion)

Dear Bloggers

Yesterday I got a new jacket. It's yellow and made out of some extra cloth we had lying in a closet. I think norski used it for dressing up at a Halloween-party a couple of years ago.
Anyway; since I don't have a standard body shape, being a piglet an' all, the jacket had to be custom tailored expecially for yours truly!  First I thought it was finished, but now I'm thinking of making a hole at the back for my curly pig tail.   Redhead came up with the idea for a really big button.  So what do you think?  Like it? -or should I go for a more Versace-style?

gottasister

Breaking news!
I was enjoying me afternoon nap today when the folks came home way to early and woke me up. Then I was rudely confronted with the news, that I from now on had a new sister.  I still don't know her name, but she's a ginger (with a capital G)  More info will follow, so stay tuned.

pic: This picture is far from presenting reality, as I hardly know the lass.

Ja natürlich !

Servas

In case you havent seen the last commercial from "Ja natürlich!"   Here is the latest TV-spot:
CLICK HERE

Take some time off, and look at all the commercial TV-spots.
And YES!  I am being paid handsomely for each and everyone of you that watch the videos.

See yah!
Grunzl (gotta earn money)

pic 1: two of the original "Ja natürlich" piglets now enjoying their life in retirement on a small mountain-farm far-away up in the Alps somewhere.

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..