Happy Weekending

Raspberries & tomatos

Today has been an amazingly busy day. Last night I was at one of my neighbour's to trade flowers and she asked if I am interested in taking a couple more raspberries from her, since otherwise they will be trown away. She is in her early 80s and reducing her garden as can't do that much anymore. I alredy got some plants in fall last year and I am of the opinion one can never have enough raspberries so I said of course I take them.

Early this morning I started to work on the soil where I wanted to plant the raspberries and then went to her garden to dig them out. I spend the better part of the day digging around and planting about 20-25 raspberry bushes.

Once that was finished I decided to plant my tomato seedlings outside as well. They have come along nicely and I now have 9 plants that are sitting outside, waiting to grown.

 Needless to say that I was tired in the evening but sill enjoyed a nice sunset

1st of may BBQ

1st of May is a Bank Holiday in Germany, also known as Labour Day. I had planned a BBQ with family and a friend, for the help I had with the fence. I spend the morning, setting stones in front of the fence to make it sturdier and then we started with some food at around 1pm.

It wasn't to hot and the food and drinks were delicious, we had a strawberry-rhubarb fruit wine to go with the food, meat, potato salad, salsa, fresh baked ciabbata bread and regular salad. All in all a great day, with great company

my brother and his friend tending the BBQ

Jessie looking after the table

the girls

yummy food

Finishing the fence

Well since I quit my job, I decided I might as well finish the fence today. So with some help we went right on it and a few hour later the fence stood. Jill, the little tiger came out to inspect, help and most importantly get cuddles. Later on I let the dogs out so they could inspect the fence and we had a nice play in the grass. Now I can start growing the beans and cabbage this week.

Jill

Playing ball

Lily

Cherry Tree

Jill the little helper

Change or I quit

I am usually quite stubborn and never give up but today I have reached my limit and quit my job with immediate effect. I only started the job 2 month ago but it didn't turn out the way I thought it would. It was a sales job, switching energy providers to help people save money. I loved that I was outside so much but I hated the commute and the long hours. I had no time for myself or the garden and it was eating me alive. Add to that, I am not a sales person, so I was really struggling with the main aspect of the job.

So this morning I quit and will be looking for something else. Was it a sensible idea to quit without having a back up job to go to? Probably not but it was the one that felt right and made me happy and that is the most important thing.

At church

Usually on a Sunday morning you can find me at our church. I am proud to be lutheran-protestant and believe in Jesus and his teachings. I am one of the very few younger once that can be seen in church but I don't mind. My church is a mox between old traditions (most of the time) and adding something new every once in a while.

Today we celebrated the confirmation of my neighbour Georg. It was very different to my own confirmation 18 years ago but I thouroughly enjoyed it. We had a child choir attending the mass, who sang heavenly and the mix of old and new was just right.
Things have changed since my own confirmation, as mine was held in Bad Gandersheim where as this was in our local church, even though Georg was just on his own (like me at that time).

Georg I am wishing you all the best to your confirmation and on your way with Jesus.

A hard days work

Weekend has arrived and I have lot's to do. The main thing for today was to get the fence on the way. After I quickly went into town for some shopping, I have been out and about in the garden since 9am. I had to put the wood protection stuff on the fance poles and let them dry.

After that it was creating the holes for poles and putting them in. As I need some more help to actually set the fance, this will be done tomorrow.

In the afternoon I cleared the woodpile away that has been on the same spot for years, as no one bothered to get rid of it. I have plans for some potatos in that patch so needed to get rid of it and it looked really bad anyway, so now it looks much cleaner :)

I set up part of the smaller fence already, since the wall there anyway, I didn't need a very high fence. And as long as the dogs can't jump over it, I am happy.

I then went to cut down some old trees and found this guy still in the pile of wood where I saw him last fall. He then got up and walked away. Rather cute fella

At around 7pm I went to sit down with a beer on my little bench under the cherry tree. A hard days work was over and it's time to chill a little before I continue tomorrow