The wild hunt is out and about

[trying to break the blog-silence with a tiny life sign]

I really like winter because it is a cozy time at home with candles, blankets and warm drinks, the cats like to snuggle a lot more and I also enjoy the icy cold morning walks. I wish we would have had more snow the last years! In my hometown -20°C was common in winter and we usually had lot's of snow. I like to say I'm "growing soft" with the kinda warm weather here in Dieburg and I really hope for snow this winter and a cold, at least for a few days, that manages to kill those nasty mosquitos! :P

But until now we haven't seen any snow this winter and it is not nameably cold~ we had just a few frosty mornings.

I have my problems with getting into festive spirits for the last few years for various reasons and so I don't look forward to the holidays as much as a few years ago~ but I look forward to a lot of good food though! Starting with our by now traditional Yule dinner with venison from a acquainted hunter and a solitary blot at the 21st. Sometimes we have friends and fellow heathens for guests, sometimes it's just Hannes and I.

On 24th of December the true madness begins~ traditionally on my mothers side of the family,

25th on my dad's side and 26th at my mother in laws place after which I am only able to move by rolling around XD

Solstice weekend feasting

My hun turned 30 this weekend and together with the summer solstice we spend two lovely days with friends and family and lot's of food!

I would have loved to have a fire outside for the solstice but we we're so exhausted and it was raining~ so I decided to light some candles instead and spend the night relaxing and pondering on the sofa. Small offerings were made in the morning though :)

A little journey to the north

Last weekend my grandma, my hun and myself drove all the way to Eckernförde (616km) to visit my mom over the easter holidays~  

We started off early on Friday morning and arrived a bit tired in the afternoon~ after a few tiny traffic jams and 2 short breaks. My mom cooked dinner for us and after long talks and much food my hun and I drove to our holiday flat just a few minutes from  my mom's. It was a really cozy room with a double bed, TV, tiny kitchen counter and a big enough bathroom.

I forced my hun to watch Disney Movies with me that evening XD

On Saturday my hun and I went to Haithabu (Hedeby) for the Spring market :)

Hedeby was a big and importand trading city in the viking era and now there's a lovely museum as well as rebuilt houses and scenery. There are lot's of events during the year and two lovely trading markets. One around easter and one in Summer.  If you ever are in the area around Kiel/Hamburg and you love vikings~ you definetly have to pay the Hedeby a visit! You won't regret it :D

We spent quite some time in the museum itself at first and then went to the houses. We sat on the docs there in the sun, had some lovely chat's with vendors and bought some loot :)

That pretty woolen braid was so cheap I didn't even dare to haggle! And it's soooo pretty!!! I think it will fit perfectly on my new woolen  dress for winter. I might show you a picture of the fabric and the braid together when I post about my new apron dress and the gaments I made for my hun :)

 We also bought this little viking ship cookie cutter at the museums shop :D 

On Sunday mom wanted to show us Eckernförde a bit~ and after a stroll through the harbor my hun and I went to the Ostsee Info-Center whilst grandma, my mom and her husband waited outside~ so we were a bit pressed for time inside. We got to pet fish! I mean real living fish and crabs and starfish :) The sea biologist there told us a ot about the animals and explained to us that the three kinds of flatfish provided in the tank have  different strukture of scale. For example: the Plaice had really soft scales and the Flounder were rough like sandpaper :D There also were Turbot in the tank, they looked and felt like sand but not as rough as the Flounder.

One Flounder definetly thought he/she was a dolphin! It swam huge circles at the surface all the time and came to us and put it's head out of the water and wanted to be pet!

I tried to pick up a crab more than once but they were all like "uuh~ don't touch me muchaho or I'll snap your friggin fingers off!!!" and I was like "umm ok nevermind" |D
We also participated at a little egghunt event in the center and each got a little bag of those precious handmade candy from town :3

On Monday we we're already driving home again... sadly our travel was loaded with traffic jams and we took nearly 10 f***ing hours home Q___Q

I'm on vacation~

 

I had riding lessons in a new stable on Wednesday wich I really enjoyed and wich is a bit nearer to my place than the one I'm currently at~ so I may change stables as soon as I took my remaining... already payd... lessons at the old one. I drove over to my grandma from there to celebrate her birthday and stayed over night. Used the opportunity to take a nice long bath (I only have a shower at my place) and went on a walk in my beloved forest the next day. Also found some tasty mushrooms wich my grandpa and me so loved to eat together. I cooked them as we used to and dedicated the dinner to him :)

That's something I really miss here in Ronneburg... we don't have any proper forest here. It's no forest if it only takes 30mins to go from one end to the other!!!

And in other news: I bought an early birthday present for myself!

Now the atumn and winter markets may come~ I'm prepared :D