As the month of May draws to an end, I realize that we have
completely ignored the blog the past 30 days.
On one hand – we haven’t done anything particularly special worth
dedicating an entire blog post to. But
on the other hand - we have yet to skip an entire month of blog writing since
we moved here. On that note – this won’t
be the most interesting blog entry written so far, but at least we will have
some memory to look back on for this month.
One thing we (maybe a bit more me) did this month – take
lots of photos. One reason is I am
obsessed with a new app – Foap – where people can sell their own pictures as
stock images. So far Noah and I have
sold 15 photos at $5 each. Honestly the
thrill of getting the email saying a photo has sold is way disproportionate to
the fact that I only made $5. Whatever –
now Noah and I can each say we have ‘published’ our photos for money. We also like to joke that the whole family
(us and the pups) are now models since some of the sold photos includes us. The point of this is to explain why, exactly,
this post will be full of photos of the ‘mundane’ activities too.
Moving on – one thing Noah and I finally did was to go out
into the countryside a bit to photograph the beautiful fields of rapeseed. It is hard to believe that this is only 30
minutes from our house! Technically this
was the last weekend in April, but I will throw this in since I love some of
these pictures.
The first official weekend in May was spent updating our
cheap 100EUR Ikea ‘dog’ couch. We call
it the dog couch since technically we bought it for the dogs. Specifically so they have a way to jump up
into the bay window and stare out the windows like a couple of cats. I have decided I needed an update to the
living room if we will be here a few more years, and this includes changing the
color scheme. Instead of red/black, I
wanted to lighten the living room up to a blue/yellow combo. This included turning the white/cream dog
couch yellow with the wonderful help of Aunt Ellen and her trusty sewing
machine/staple gun. I think the three of
us did a pretty dang good job!
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| Before and After. I even made the pillowcases (with Ellen's help, of course)! |
The next two big projects that we (ok this time, more Noah)
have been tackling in May are working to replicate 2 important food items that
are a bit harder to create. Noah is a
great cook, but up until now we have been dependent on Texan visitors for our
flour tortilla source, and have utterly failed at replicating a good homemade
pizza. After a handful of batches, Noah
has perfected a delicious tortilla recipe (since there are no Texan visitors on
the horizon), and we are still working on our pizza recipe. Though we both learned that a pizza stone is
a KEY component in better homemade pizzas.
Our social outing of the month was to hit up Frühlingsfest
with some of our Penzberg pals. This year we had 2 tables reserved, which made
it all more comfortable than last year (when we had everyone crammed into just
the one). It was a fun night even though
it was incredibly hot inside the tent (which explains the sweaty photo of me on
the right).
The big event of our May (and has been since 2010) is our
wedding anniversary. This year we
celebrated our 4th by going to a delicious French restaurant, Rue des Halles. We followed this by driving
down to Lake Starnberg with the dogs late at night with hopes of catching some
of the potentially huge, first ever, Camelopardalid
meteor shower. That ended up being a
bust in that 1) the predicted high activity would have been 8am the next day
German time, and 2) nothing really happened anyways. Regardless, it was nice to lie out on a dock
and stargaze with my favorite person ever and our two favorite dogs.
Now I will end this random May blog with a bunch of some
super cute (in my opinion) photos of the girls on the yellow rug/couch. Plus you can see them post-haircut - they are both so much smaller without all their usual fur. And the main reason that there are more of
Sadie than Rita – Sadie sits and isn’t bothered by the camera. Rita runs away.
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| Time to run! |
