Daffodils and snow

It’s Easter Monday morning and I have just come in after clearing snow. I can’t remember such turbulence weather situation at Easter like it is this year.

Yesterday it was lovely and sunny but cold. In the afternoon my wife and I went with our dog for a long walk. We were out for two hours and we both enjoyed the walk. On arriving home we had coffee with honey on home made bread.

On Saturday my wife had a shock, we received the news that a close cousin of my wife had passed away. We weren’t aware that she was seriously ill (cancer of the lungs). Her husband told us on the phone `that only the close family knew how ill she was and she didn’t want any one else to know.

There home is 200 km away from were we live, so we have decided not to attend the funeral because of the bad weather condition.

This bad news of course reflected our thoughts once again to our next-door neighbour who also has cancer of the lungs and is at the moment on chemo and suffering tremendously through it.

Now to something not so morbid. Over the weekend I set a Blog up for my wife http://bara-gellendorfblog.blogspot.com/ the posts will be naturally written in the Germany language.

The aim of this Blog is to find German emigrants living abroad and in New Zealand and would like to read about daily living in their Heimat.

If any one out there knows a Blog address of such persons we would be very grateful if you would add this in a comment.

I naturally didn’t get the Blog right in my first attempt (we are both in our middle 60) but try and try again was our motto and in the end we were successful.

I hope for my wife’s sake that this will work out because she is very enthusiastic about it and I’m sure she will enjoy writing a Blog as I do.

I was on the phone to my brother http://no1broadstreet.blogspot.com/ over the weekend asking his advise about setting the Blog up for my wife, always get the right answers from him which of course helps me a lot. It was nice talking to him if only for a few minutes

From Saturday of Sunday some Morons (and we have enough of them) on their way home from probably a heavy drinking section smashed in the side windows of seven cars parked on our road just for the fun of it. Nothing was stolen, it was pure vandalism, one guy who was passing by on Sunday morning said, “It’s how some people interpret democratic freedom” and I must agree with him One of the main problems is, they never catch them and the investigating police officer said the same.

The photo was taken this morning in our garden.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.