Guten Morgan Xangaland!
They are razing the building across the street… the one that they used to do practice fires in for the fire department at the end of the summer…

Right now they are stripping off the outer coating of the building, stripping off the roof, and taking out all of the window frames, cabinets, toilets and such… (Germany has very strict recycling laws so they have to take it apart piece by piece.)

I’ll make sure to get pictures and maybe even video when they start taking it down!
On a completely different note… There really isn’t anything all that interesting going on in The Land of Fairy Tales of late…

Winter has settled like a blanket over the land, the fields have all been tucked in for the winter and there aren’t any more birds except for your ever present ravens…
Speaking of ravens…
I was coming into the gate the other day and as I handed the gate guard my ID I politely asked him how he was doing… He nervously shifted from one foot to the other, cleared his throat, and said,
“Good, but really freaked out…”
“Why?” I asked, starting to feel a little bit of a prickle myself…
He pointed to the field across the road with his flashlight and quietly whispered…
“Them!”
I glanced across the road to see a perfectly straight line of ravens… just staring at the guard shack… Startled I looked back and him and asked in quiet tones…
“Have they been there all night?”
“Yes since dusk.” He whispered.
To be honest, I felt a little like I was in the middle of a scary movie… And I couldn’t’t blame the poor man for becoming paranoid! So I smiled politely at him, wished him a nice night and high tailed it home… Creepy!!!
So back to the thought I was on… Winter has settled like a blanket over the land, the fields have all been tucked in for the winter and there aren’t any more birds except for your ever present ravens…

All the leaves are gone now and the mists swirl and dance through the bare branches… It’s quiet and beautiful… Like nothing I have ever experienced.
Summer, Autumn, and Winter… I can’t wait to see spring!!!
What an amazing first six months in Germany!

Auf Wiedersehen!
Courtney
~L ~
Song of the day? Morning Prayer by Peter Tchaikovsky