First signs of spring 2006

My tip for next spring: Don't change the time on the cell phone that you use as an alarm clock and turn up an hour late at work complaining that the phone didn't change automatically.

well my friend has the day off today and he was saying that the Isar is really beautiful today, the water flows so strongly and powerfully, the sun shines so crisply.

It must be spring - the garden-company is in the backyard now cutting down the trees that were damaged when all the snow fell

We're now less 4 trees

It is now officially spring (I just saw the old folk intersection counting brigade at work).
So, you can start to sing "April Showers Will Bring May Flowers".
Be warned, ever since I have been in Munich (8 years) it has snowed ~2 weeks before or after Easter. Yep, every single year it has done this..

made sure to be the first person in the parkcafe beergarden yesterday (freisinger beergarden and cafe) got them to set up a table for us. we only got rained on once and they waved our offer of self service and we had a waiter of our own. I love the spring.

Two blackbirds eying a nesting spot in the conifer in the back garden.
Both carting bits of twig and stuff back and forth.
"Ausländer" maybe?

Yeah, its spring, the crocuses are blooming in my garden!

yup, it's spring, it's pissing with rain!

Have to say after a thread that i did a little while ago relating that people in my office were definitely very crabby and short with each other due to the long and bitter winter, the mood has brightened noticeably with the time change and dissapearance of all the white shite from our everyday lives

Yes it's spring. The belly buttons are out! hubba hubba!

how can the current weather be classed as better than when 'that white shite' was around

It's a nice clear day in Ottobrunn, ok a bit soggy but at least it feels like we have moved forward from the winter and hopefully headed towards beer garden weather

Its spring when you can go worm smucking... squashed every worm last night on the way home from work. Then today, looking in the garden out back of the office (Rosenkavalierpl) the Daffodils and Tulips are starting to bloom, and there was a rabbit hopping around too!

it is hailing here, glad I resisted the temptation to plant my flowers already!

That's so sad, I love worms.

next time I won't wear my good shoes, when I go worm smucking!

That is not very nice at all. Worms are an essential part of your garden's eco-system

dog shit's everywhere. oo and cyclists

I used to "rescue" the worms from drowning by fishing them out of the gutters and putting them in our gardens. To my mothers dismay I often came home from school with handfulls of slimey worms on rainy days.

Not much has changed since then.

Even if you wore bad shoes.. they wouldnt stand much chance of survival if you stood on them..

actually I just noticed the gardner out back, yelling at a lady, he is in the process of turning the soil for planting of the flowers, and some women (BogenhausenBitch) just let her dog in the mud to crap! Right infront of the worker!

Surely that's gotta be good for the flowers? She should charge him.

The guys in orange suits with their willow brooms are out sweeping the grit on the sidewalks to nice piles for the sweeping carts to pick it up. Surly Turks this time, I prefer the Africans who take time to flirt and pretend to sweep you off your feet. BTW, the grit gets collected, separated from the garbage that is swept up along with it, cleaned and recycled. Like spring, you can rely on winter coming around again ...

So long Spring...



Hello Summer...

It's T-Shirt and beergarden time!

great isn't it MajorB. You see, now all the little flowers have had a good drink and they can get on with growing in the sunshine (and in the same respect, we can also get on with drinking in the sunshine )