Guest post from our housesitter

My sister in law is staying at our place while we're here in America and she was kind enough to write a guest blog for me.

As you can imagine, I feel really bad but there is simply nothing I can do to help. It has snowed almost every day since we left Germany, and she has had to shovel her way to the barn/out of our driveway/to the manure pile almost every day. I feel really bad - is there anything special you'd like us to bring you from America Sonja?

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weather:
totally lousy.
it makes my residence on finally farm to a stay in a work-camp. when i arrived here it started snowing the next day (after the ice-rain that covered the car in an ice-shell which was so thick that only water helped...) and in the first few days i had to shovel the driveway every day from 15cm new snow. i even had to excavate the manure pile (damaged the plastic tarp incidentally) and the greenhouse. feeding the trouts is an act of mortal danger and very exhausting because the white plague is going over my knees. i always take my cellphone with me in case that i breake my leg or sth. else someone will rescue me. i'm supposed to feed the goldfish too. well, i'm sorry but i can't find the pond (and somehow there is this non-attendance of working morale to search and excavate it..). But i fear the fish is frozen anyway and they won't survive this winter though. :-(
yesterday and today it was so foggy that partly you can only see the next 5 meters and nothing else and that was not because of fireworks. as i drove home this morning i've almost killed two people who were walking on the street - drunken! i had to break hard so that the ice, which still was on the roof of the car because i couldn't reach it, slammed down on the windshield. so i had to stop and clean the wipers (which are totaly ok. after all!). when i was done, the same people asked me to drive them home. i asked: "how far is it to königsstraße?" and they said: "about a hundred meters and then left!" "you came so far and survived your drunken walk on the streets - i think you can walk this few meters also... and actually: what am i? a taxi-cab?!?" what kind of people live there in your town?!?


baasha:
i celebrated new years eve in my community in remscheid.
baasha seemed to be a little nervous when i left. as i came back i saw that he even went to the tree in the garden (usually he just walks on my wheelbarrow-track to the manure pile - he ruins it with that by the way...). but at least he was fine.
i still didn't made it to go for a walk with him. the streets are icy now and there is still snow everywhere. today i saw a wrecker with a car its windshield was smashed. i had to thought about my own branch-accident i had in fall and decided not to go in the woods if i don't have to. i'm so sorry for baasha that i can't do anything for him... he is sooo bored. his daily highlights are food, grooming and practicing his tricks - although i don't know the commands for them...but that makes it still more interesting :-))



mercer:
because i don't know how to pronounce "mercer" correct, i decided to call her "Mörser" which means "mortar". she is a little bit annoying sometimes because she freaks out when i put food in her food-ball (!meow-meow!) and honestly: i don't like her voice. so she only gets food when she is quiet.




***UPDATE 21:58 1/7/11***
I like that idea, bringing her fudge. I'm almost positive she's never heard of it, but almost as positive I could not find it, agh.

Are there any other ideas for what we can bring her? We have one morning left.