Baby, it's cold outside

Yes, I am still alive:) Lots of things have been going on over the last months.
We moved to Germany and I am still adjusting to my new "world".
I do have to admit that I miss NE as funny as that sounds. Well, maybe it is more the peeps there...
We moved in a beautiful apartment and for once we are not responsible for a big yard and snow and ice outside the house. Yes we do it the oldfashioned way in the "old world" and have temps around 18F today
I just took the dogs for a walk and it was a bit cold.
It's great to be so close to my parents (10min by car) and so close to my beloved Schoenbuch.
I grew up in this area and I have spent hours walking and biking in these woods.
We also have a lot of friends (mostly through the military) that are either still here or back.
The dogs mastered the move well. Especially Mr. Dodger was our concern. He is 14 years old but he is taking everything with a stride.
Martin likes his new job and I started tutoring German to American which is fun.
I found a Germana knitting group and they are lots of fun and have the knowledge to get to the yarn.
I will miss my garden dearly come spring, but he have a big balcony and I have already some plans to fill it with flowerboxes and containers.
In the meantime we are still shopping for the right funrniture. We didn't take much with us.
There are still a few pieces missing but it is also fun to go shopping for them:)

Off the Bike...

By doctor's order:( Having bronchitis. I guess the ski trip didn't help (but it was fun anyway).

Right now, I am laying low, so I get better soon, so I can get back on my bike.

Isn't it amazing that they even postponed the Heartland Race#1 for me...just kidding, they did it because of the weather but one can dream.

I also need to get better because I "have" to go skiing again. And if that wouldn't be bad enough, this time it is Winter Park, CO, what a "horrible" place....OK, OK, I love this town, even though, I only know it by bike. It is actually the place, where I got my Blur. Only fond memory, besides those few bruises and indentations that I got from those ROCKY mountains:)

Tonight Roxzy, her sister and two nieces, Martin and I went to the Christina Aguilera Concert at the Quest Center in Omaha. Pretty good show! Men, that girl can sing and dance. The Pussy Cat Dolls opened for her and they did a pretty darn good job themselves. I always like good live music and enjoy a well done show.

Amazing how these girls (ladies) can dance on these high-heels without breaking their feet. But that is why that get paid so much money for doing that.

Now we are back home and settling in for the weekend. Are we going to get all that snow??

Isn't it time for spring? I did my first garden walk yesterday to see, if my bulbs are coming up and a few of them are sticking their first green out.

Isn't that one of these beautiful miracles of nature? You put a bulb in the soil in the fall (in hope that no darn deer nor squirrel will feast on it) and then, wen spring comes those bulbs start coming to live and start growing and blooming. I planted about 150 more bulbs last fall. That should bring my bulbous flowers up to, oh almost 400....

Yes, I do like to garden, can't you tell:)

Anyway, I better go to sleep now, it is late.

What is that color in the picture?

What is that game called again that they are playing?!??!
Men, I just got done shoveling snow, good 4 cm or so (yes I do the metric thing) and as I am sitting here taking the white out there in:), I think of this other color that nature is famous for and I look through my pictures and there it is....ahhh and then the next shock. We haven't had a game of bike Polo for two weeks already because of the snow. Yes, I am playing, Polo, crazy, eh!
And those extra 4 cm mean.....scheiße!

I hear skiing is in my future:))

Looks like R&R, and Martin and I swapping out the nobby tires for some smooth skies towards the end of the months for some skiing in Nevada.

How COOL is that!!!

In order to get a feel the the wintery conditions, I went for another ride today. Yes, you can call me crazy. It was 7 Degrees when I left and oh yes there was some wind. I was actually fine until my toes got cold. I still haven't figured out how to keep them warm. That is so much easier in ski-boots:)

Winter-Gardening has its challenges as well. Well, I am trying to put some cuttings into soil that I got this week. Well the bag of soil was outside, behind the house, so I hauled that thing in and let it sit for a while until I could knock a bit out of it. It is still too frozen to be worked with. My cuttings will have to wait until tomorrow to get into the soil.

Doggy TV

Well, while I was doing some work on the computer Mr. Whiskers decided he needed to go onto the outlook and see what is going on out there. And who would have known, he got lucky, or better the squirrel did, since Mr. W could only watch and plan the killing in his head...

He likes to sit up on the computer desk to look outside. Guess it beats sitting on the floor looking at my hopefully not so smelly feet:)

After that I took him for a long walk. Today was my gym day and I am still hoping that those weights will get lighter...

I did buy some ski gloves and a balaclava and I do want to go out biking but driving home from the gym, watching the snow being blown sideways over the roads just didn't turn me on.

Well, tomorrow is another day and maybe the power of motivation will come over me and I will take out my bike for a spinn...

Who says Jack Russell Terriers are hyper?

OK, this picture wasn't taken today but it could have been, only that the photographer left to go to D.C.. How better can you spent an evening in this cold weather, with your hubby gone, than hanging out with Mr. Whiskers.
After my dentist appointment today (ouch!), I got all my will power together to go to the gym.
Hence the need to rest my head on something warm and fuzzy:)
Does anybody know if we are supposed to get more snow? I don't mind the snow, but I don't like this icy stuff.