Corona isolation (5/7)

Corona. Home Office. Week 5 (out of 7) done.

We are healthy!

Spring. Spring. Spring! Wow & yeah! And that means turning our garden into our little paradise (so thankful to be able to live here)!

We missed the seasons while living abroad for the past few years. Now we got them back and loving it. Spring is fantastic after winter! Nature awakens again.

Everything is in full bloom. Flowers. Apple trees. And allergies… BBQ smells everywhere. Sleeping with open windows (cannot get enough of the fresh air). Waking up to birdsongs (sometimes a little too early at 4am). The smell of fresh cut grass. Blue sky. A smiling sun. Summing bees. Every day. It’s a feast for the eyes. And the soul. Is nature treating us for staying at home, isolated?

Time for t-shirts, skirts, shorts & dresses & Flipflops (or Birkenstock). Colors! (And sometimes again quite chilly and time to light a fire since heating is already turned off… It’s April!).

Just sitting in the garden and staring for a while is keeping us busy these days. And happy. It’s actually wonderful!

And we did & do a lot of cooking (our favorite part of lockdown).

Pulled pork: BBQed for 10hours. Hard work for hubby (chilling next to the grill with a beer (or two)).

Cooking traditional Easter meals.

White asparagus time just started & will continue for the next weeks. Yeah!

And a carrot cake, soooo good!

We exchanged with our neighbors who also made carrot cake:

Sometimes it has to be a Döner (local support of the week).

Easter is over. And all is left from the bunny (good! I started jogging again):

I’d like to use the chance to say thank you to all the supporters going with us through the Easter isolation: many thanks goes to Professor Dr. Gin, Baron von Merlot and Dr. Riesling. Grazie to Italy, especially to Signora Prosecco and Giovanni Aperol. Merci to our French friends Mr Pastis & Mrs Rose. Thanks to all of you for your excellent support to be with us in the times of lockdown. Looking forward to your continues support in the next few weeks!

Short work weeks continue… Easter bank holidays followed by unpaid holidays… how can we ever go back to a normal 5-day week in the office? I’m wondering… (2 weeks to go and who knows how May will look like…).

Besides more wonderful things are happening:

A local shopping mall donated 8000 chocolate Easter rabbits to local hospital workers.

Stuttgart teachers are donating money (money saved from canceled Easter vacations) to support the local owners from small shops to pay their rent (wow, that’s very generous).

And finally Germany accepted to rescue 58 refugee kids from the Greek islands…

Isolation makes creative. At least most women should be able to make a (2) face mask(s) (but then no bra anymore? Your decision, ladies…):

And parents in home office. Hilarious.

And the much expected news of the week: lockdown continuous for another 2 weeks (no!!!!!) but smaller shops and book stores will reopen again next week (yeah!). Small steps towards freedom…

Off, into another long weekend in isolation with best weather in the forecast…