4.11.2009 von admin.

…it has been a miserable day…. at least when it comes to the weather… November rain..

We enjoyed a great lunch at our neighbours, typical Wiener Schnitzel and Palatschinken with chocolate. The food-intake was huge and there will be no more to eat before mid-day tomorrow and I even think that is too soon.

The crisp bread stash is running low again and a visit to IKEA needs to be performed within the next 24 hours and some more shopping for a girls weekend prepared. Like men do men’s things together, girls do girly things, and this can not really be mixed up with the men-bonding stuff. Girls weekend, at least as we know it includes, good food, good wine, going out, sleep in, do the beauty thingy and chat about things men don’t want to hear.  The only thing men and women bonding have in common is being among themselves and have a blast.

So long - stay safe

/S

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3.11.2009 von admin.

…at least when it comes to construction drawings, re-building and the law. The law is always the tricky part, as it’s not always common sense but a jungle of paragraphs not many of us can decode. Or shall I say, I have some issues with the purpose of some of the laws created, not that I am against following them, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that there is no real goal with them at all…

Thank God, there are people, whom I have the pleasure to know, giving me the guiding principle and helping hand, when I express an urgent cry for help.  Generally, everybody should have following occupations covered in their family if possible; a lawyer, a financial adviser, a handy-man (woman), an architect and a tax-adviser. I am dearly thankful though, that friends are willing to put up with my ever so intelligent questions(?) once in a while.

Still counting the days until the new fireplace arrives. I don’t really mind the cold, but as I am a person, getting cold quickly and during the winter months my body heat must be close to zero, I am not really appreciating the kitchen to lack a fire place. Full stop.

Rain did actually turn into snow during the night. Even though we didn’t need to get out the shovels in Techelsberg this morning, I guess our neighbours in Velden did. This afternoon, there was still snow some kilometres to the west from us,   when driving to Villach and the Karawanken where shining white in-front of me. The air smelled as winter does, cold air, mixed with wood burning in the stoves and leafs decomposing.

Will now enjoy a glass of red wine,

So long - thumbs up for outsourcing..

/S

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2.11.2009 von admin.

The temperatures have been just above 3C° degrees today and this afternoon the rain started coming down. It feels like snow is in the air and I am prepared to shovel snow this winter, as I accidentally mentioned, during a weak moment, that I do not really mind. Still enjoying the autumn colors and hoping the leafs won’t fall off too quickly.

Have been back and forward to Klagenfurt twice today and made a visit to the physio in Velden this morning. So that means, that I have spent most of the day in the car, with the heat on full blast and radio Ö3 in the background. Even though the volume has been on the highest level, you can’t hear much when the heating system is on. I don’t really get along with the car and think it’s useless most of the time actually. There is not even a seat-warmer, nor air-condition to make up to the low horse power and uncomfortable seats. Never-mind - it’s just a car and gets us from A to possibly B.

So long - seat-warmers are dearly missed…

/S

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1.11.2009 von admin.

…and are now in placed above the kitchen table, just the way they were set out to be. Still wonder if the result would have been different last week, but I will not argue on this one. You need to pick your fights well and not for the sake of it, a wise man told me once and believe it or not - I listened.

Rather cold this morning but cleared up this afternoon and all the autumn colors were shining stong in the afternoon sun.

1st November 1604, the tradgedy Othello (by William Shakespeare) , the Moor of Venice was presented for the first time, at  Whitehall Palace in London. This play is still very popular and still performed considering that racism, love, jealousy, and betrayal are valid even today, 400 years later.

In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition and in 1870, the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

On the 1st November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union and the creation of the Euro currency.  The Treaty is also know as the pillar structure of the European Union and divides it into the European Community (EC) pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) pillar, and the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) pillar. Since 2007 it is simplyfied into EU only.

Today in Ireland the Samhain - the traditional first day of the winter is celebrated. Samhain finalized the end of the harvest, the end of the “lighter half” of the year and beginning of the “darker half”. Many believe that it was the beginning of the Celtic year and has some elements of a festival of the dead.  The Gaelic custom of wearing costumes and masks, was an attempt to copy the evil spirits or placate them. The Gaelic festival became associated with the Christian All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, and has hugely influenced the secular customs now connected with Halloween.

So long all Saints…

/S

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