Posted on February 17, 2021 Leave a Comment
After getting colder than usual here (down to -15C), the weather unexpectedly chucked a bunch of snow down on Monday late afternoon, just as Spouse and his first employee (who had come for his first day of work despite later confessing that around here starting a new job on a Monday was Just Not Done […]
Posted on February 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
**SPOILER ALERT** We didn’t get hit by the blizzard, which also didn’t turn out to be the blizzard of the century. I, for one, mostly because I don’t know what I’m talking about, am disappointed. But most people here are relieved. All last week the entire northern half of the country was glued to the […]
Posted on January 31, 2021 Leave a Comment
It snowed here for the first time worth mentioning in a couple of years. Although it was thin on the ground and it’s pretty darned flat here, I was inspired to excavate the little wooden sled with the Made in the GDR stamped on it that came with the house and take it on a […]
Posted on January 29, 2021 Leave a Comment
I read a great story this morning. Thanks, internet! Check it out: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-the-fringes-of-the-fractal/
Posted on December 15, 2020 Leave a Comment
It was bound to happen at some point and of course it was most likely to happen during a spike in coronavirus cases. <spoiler alert> We aren’t sick (yet?) and, in fact, we don’t even know that we’ve been exposed to people who were infected, much less were infectious, but there’s enough of a possibility […]
Posted on December 11, 2020 Leave a Comment
I may be the last one to arrive at the party, but I must shout from the rooftops that 2020 has been saved… by Chefclub! The sweet potato turkey alone made my year. But their take on stereotypical German (well, Bavarian) cuisine also just killed me. Today’s NYTimes article that introduced me to this gem […]
Posted on December 8, 2020 Leave a Comment
Although I must have watched every episode when I was a kid, I don’t remember much about the Little House on the Prairie tv series. Except that I think I remember one time Pa warning Ma that pride cometh before a fall. Which is to say, I used to feel so (smugly) sorry for people […]
Posted on November 27, 2020 Leave a Comment
This just popped up on the evening news (I kid you not): people in Germany are upset because at a time when, in most places, at most 5 people from at maximum 2 different households are allowed to get together because of the surging pandemic, the Nazis-in-everything-but-name political party is holding a 600 person party […]
Posted on November 22, 2020 Leave a Comment
Starting at the age of about fourteen, I stopped being a tv watcher. Not that I’ve never watched it since then, but I literally could go years in between viewings. Spouse, on the other hand, in the handful of years that we’ve lived, not just in the same country, for a change, but actually at […]
Posted on November 12, 2020 Leave a Comment
Every time I have taken the tenacious little terrier out for a walk since last week Saturday, every German that I know who has seen me has stopped me and asked me if I voted. Then they have expressed their effusive relief that “democracy prevailed” (although, I have to admit, I don’t quite share their […]
