Chrisus zlog

Today we had a realtor here who will sell our house in a few months. Well, a new part of my life!

Imagine, what sound occures, if you have an animal, called Tettigonia viridissima, male, IN your room. In the nature, you can hear the chirpy-chirpy sound about 50 m, but wow, that's great. Even harder was to find the Great Green Bush Cricket. It hears very good, jumps some meters and can fly good too. But I catched it and set it free. Now the silence is very fine.

Yesterday I heard the first crickets this year. When they stopped chirping the rain started.

It is almost the 17th April and it is still snowing. Hight 3 cm. Never ending winter?

16th of April and it is still snowing... what a spring!

During 2007 the library of Obsteig startet a photography-contest titled "Was ich mit Obsteig verbinde - was mich mit Obsteig verbindet". My picture didn't enter the calendar, but is shown in the Internet.

I changed my desktop light from energy saving light bulb to LED bulb. The first bulb took 11 Watt in use, the LED bulb only 1,8 Watt. In addition to that I installed a radio transmitting energy plugin. It causes all standby facilitys to not take any energy while not in use. Let's see whow much energy I will be saving in one year.

The landscape is covered with snow, hight 1 cm. Well, I have still summer-tires mounted...

Nowadays it sounds strange listening to the night. You don't know whether there are Orcs outside singing round a campfire or the deer has mating season. Roaring all the night sounds like from a different world. But thats only deer!

Today we got 1 ton of wood bricks. I carried 500 kg by hand into my cellar and 500 kg by hand to my neighbour. I got long arms now!

Looked out the window ... went out for smoking ... indeed, thats snow. Allright, I will pack my snowchains and snow shovel in my car.

On sunday, September 02 it was the last time, I was swimming in my lake. If there will be a later date, I will remove this posting so that you can see the last day of swimming in my lake.

First I thought the Invasion from the Sahara startet, but this is only a singular criquet in our Garden, but 10 times greater than the other grasshoppers we have. Different to our neighbours we do not have an english lawn or a golf lawn, we have many many different plants, because we don't cut the grass very often. So we also have a lot of insects. This one is a big one:

Today is the first day I heard crickets chirping like in summer. And I also saw the first swallow. But stille she makes no summer at all. Unfortunately.

While there was very few snow in Hall we had apr. 20 cm high (or deep) snow in Obsteig. As much as we had never in this winter before. Thanks, but now it's enough.