6 blogs in 1 for the month of May

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! 

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 4^th 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. 

Time to run!