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Happy Easter!

March 31, 2013 by Susanne 2 Comments

We’re right in the middle of Easter break here, and March has gone by without me really noticing. So I thought I’d at least tell you that I’m still alive and well, and show you some of today’s pictures. I do have a new camera. I really love it, I have wanted a digital SLR for ages but we’re still getting acquainted. So, Easter pictures:

easterbunny

This is an Easter basket my son put together. A friend of his and her family made the eggs and the bunny (not a fox, a bunny) from salt dough, and he helped painting them.

Hefezopf

The traditional hefezopf that I make every year. And like every year ever since we got the new oven it was just a little too dark. But this year I’ll put a note in the cook book so that I’ll remember next time I make it.

backyard

View into our backyard. Interestingly there was no snow at Christmas. Egg hunt this year was indoors again.

maple

Closeup of the big maple in our yard.

I have to say I really hope the weather will be more spring-like soon. We have already run out of wood for the wood stove, and it’s about time.

Regardless of the weather I am really looking forward to another week of no work. I plan to go to Augsburg one day to see the textile museum, and I also plan to write and write and write, and tell you all about that soon.

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A bit of quiet in December

December 7, 2012 by Susanne 2 Comments

This is what I saw out of my kitchen window at breakfast:

sunrise 2

 

sun rise

I’ll tell you all about how NaNoWriMo went (I won), and NaKniSweMo (the sweater is done) soon but for now I wish us all a rather quiet and happy advent.

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Summer break so far

August 13, 2012 by Susanne 3 Comments

It’s been two weeks already, and I’m still waiting for this feeling of summer break. You know, those days that just go by without appointments, or things to do, or places to be. But so far there has been a string of things, and people, and tasks.

It all started with my husband’s last house concert in mid-July. We were still teaching until the end of the month but this year things got a little extra busy. My husband invited a pianist friend who came all the way from Bamberg to play:

piano

guitar

Meanwhile I was spinning yarn like mad. This is what I spun during the ‘Tour de Fleece’ (which takes place during the Tour de France):

TdF 220712

The weekend after that we played at another friend’s birthday party. I don’t have a single picture of that but it was sort of fun, and sort of way too much. Especially since we learned two new songs, and rearranged everything else, and only had the week before to rehearse everything.

The weekend after that (still teaching) we went to the pianist friend’s summer fest where my husband played bass. They did a few sixties rock numbers including a fair bit of Santana songs:

bass

Then there were a few more days of teaching, and finally – summer break. I have to say we were too busy even to celebrate my birthday properly. Imagine that. But there was cake.

First my husband had a colonoscopy which certainly was fun. Not. Then we rode our bikes to the nearby beergarden:

 

mehbeergarden

In between I had stopped spinning yarn like crazy, and started knitting a cardigan from it. This is the progress after four days:

shades of brown day 4

Then a theme emerged. It was beergarden every day. First we rode our bikes all the way to the Andechs monastery. That’s 2 1/2 hours of bike riding one way. And of course we rode all the way back as well. In the rain.

Here’s my family taking a break from biking:

pause

The day after that we met my husband’s aunt and uncle – beergarden again, and the day after that a friend of mine and her family whom I hadn’t seen in a year or more.

And then I knit, and knit, and knit, and knit, until I was totally sick of the thing, and until it was so big that I could only knit on it in the easy chair in the TV room, and yesterday evening I finally finished the knitting:

shades of brown finished

Now I hope that I’ll manage to both relax, and get tons of stuff done. And we all know how that will end.

And on Thursday my son and I will ride a train all the way to Northern Germany, and meet about two dozen relatives of my father. I’m really looking forward to it but to be frank we’ll spend almost as much time on the train as at the meeting. But I get to see a part of Germany where I’ve never been, and get to meet relatives I’ve never met before, and my father’s sister whom I really like but don’t really know.

I really hope to keep you all posted. I’d wish you all a nice summer break as well but I know that for most of you it’s time to go back to school already. I hope you have a great time anyhow.

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My photographs for the Saturday show

February 9, 2012 by Susanne 2 Comments

You can all thank Lab Cat for this post. I was telling people over on ravelry about the who this Saturday (look at the post before this if you don’t know what I’m talking about), and I gave links to Lia’s and N’s pictures. Then Cat asked, “Did I miss you showing your pictures?” No, she didn’t I didn’t show them. Part of the problem is that some of the pictures I’m showing are on film, not digital, and getting them into the computer would be quite the project. But then I thought about it (as I tend to do), and, well, I can at least show you the ones that are digital. No problem. By the way, for once these aren’t under my Creative Commons license but copyright by me, all rights reserved.

First two pictures of flowers:

and more flowers:

Both taken at the botanical garden in Munich in 2006. From the same day I give you some turtles:

 

And some not quite as pretty turtles from three years later, same place:

Now for something completely different, a gargoyle, seen on vacation in 2010:

And now for something totally, and completely different, a still life from when I attempted to take 365 photos in 365 days:

There are some more landscapes but I can’t show them to you. They’re pretty on my walls, though.

At the pop-up gallery there I’ll also read three of my stories, probably Simplify (which I haven’t posted yet, oops), Kissing Edith, and Fear of Falling. If everything goes right there will be a little booklet for sale. For each story I chose a photo to go with them:

The story “Simplify” is about a woman trying to do just that.

This is the pictures for “Kissing Edith”. As you probably recall after all these months, Edith was a saxophone player.

And this is for “Fear of Falling” for obvious reasons.

So I hope you like the pictures, I know, it’s a bit much for one post but I had a hard time choosing. I still have huge prints of some more pictures that didn’t make the cut in the end.

Don’t forget to pop by on Saturday, if possible.

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I spun a rainbow

December 1, 2011 by Susanne 2 Comments

It’s only an intermediate stage but just yesterday I finished spinning the singles for this fiber:

 

farbverlauf

I love it. Then I spent the whole afternoon winding it all into a ball for plying.

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I think I went on a shopping spree

April 6, 2011 by Susanne 2 Comments

without even realizing it. Here’s what I got in the past two days minus a pair of jeans that I’m currently wearing:

treats

I think it might be spring fever.

Yes, I realized it’s mostly spinning stuff, and books, books on spinning even. So there is one book I need for research for the knitting class I want to teach next semester (“How to knit perfect fitting sweaters”), then one on color in spinning because I might have to take the dive and start dyeing fiber as well, there’s the next installment of the Foreigner series which I love very much, there is a new flyer and bobbins for my spinning wheels which will help me make very fine yarn (I hope), and then there is all that cotton and a new spindle which will help in spinning it because my equipment is more suited to spinning wool.

And all this stuff is making me really happy right now.

But I might better stop buying things for the moment.

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