Two days ago I was hiking in the vicinity of Eberbach/Odenwald.

Größere Kartenansicht

On father’s day there were a lot of people underway. I met around 150 people in a 4 hours hike. And although it were that crowded I saw two modern scrats a.k.a. squirrels. Unfortunately those animals are very jumpy and run away pretty soon after they recognize you. I tried to walk as silent as possible to make some photos but nevertheless I had to shoot photos from about 20-30m distance and my zoom lens isn’t that good so the animals are pretty small on the images. But I hope you get the gist

squirrel no. 1 - pic 1

squirrel no. 1 - pic 2

squirrel no. 1 - pic 3

squirrel no. 1 - pic 4

squirrel no. 1 - pic 5

squirrel no. 2 - pic 1

squirrel no. 2 - pic 2

Like last year and that year before I try to reduce the gravitation my body appeals towards the earth. I managed to reduce my weight by 10% until now. That sounds very much but there is still 15% to go. And since patience is not a virtue of me I’d rather loose the superfluous fat today than tomorrow.
From most people I head that they prefer doing sport when it’s warm. Not me. I get faster the colder it gets. We had a temperature drop by 8°C in two days. The day before yesterday I ran 4.45km in 27min (thanks to Google Earth for the guide tool ). Today it was 4.7km in the same time. Scaling that to the 0K (=-273°C) I should run 72.7km in 27min. I’d like to see that

My life lies in shatters
I try to collect them to build a new life
But I feel like I’m missing a huge piece
My life looks so small and promiscuously
Without you

I just want to feel your skin
I just want to touch your hair
I just want to smell your scent
I just want to listen to your words
I just want to hear your voice

Where did it go wrong
What could I’ve done better
Why does it hurt so much
To loose an important person
You

You guided me a long time
You corrected my haply way
You made sense to my life
You are the one I was looking for
Gone

I cannot live without you
Yet I have to
My brain feels melted
The burning fire in my heart
Lets every thought decay

I just want to feel your skin
I just want to touch your hair
I just want to smell your scent
I just want to listen to your words
I just want to hear your voice

What can I do to change your mind
How can I reconquer you
Is there anything to avoid the disaster
The inevitable just happened
Now I am all alone

One addition to this poem: this was written in expectation of the “hit”. It states the feelings and thoughts of a splitting of a very lucky man who thought he just lost the best woman of the world. But after a long talk both agreed to have a friendship where they will meet without anger or rage. And hope springs eternal.

Today was different. An accumulation of fortunate and successful events.
In the forenoon I had a film shoot for a local furniture shops website which went pretty good. After that I got to the office to check our shops and proceed with my daily work. There I heard the good news that finally we got (almost) a big deal which keeps us pretty occupied but pays fair money. Well almost because we “only” got the oral commitment. But on Tuesday we will have the contract
Then one of our shops, the newest one, which went online two weeks ago, got it’s first sale.
And (this might sound silly) at the tour de france online game, my contender for the tour victory won a stage Although I didn’t order him to go for that he did it lol… He made up leeway by 37 seconds
So I’m in a pretty good mood today

It was awfully quiet over the past weeks. I simply wasn’t in the mood to write although there were quite some incidents.
I was at home over Whitsuntide and we had a nice trip to the Rhoen mountains, visiting a swamp and a little town called Tann.
My sister made her masters degree and I had the honor to watch the handing over of her deed.
But the most days it is just routine… waking up… driving to the office… working… driving home… relaxing… sleeping… and not to forget eating
I’ll redesign my blog… until then it will remain in the standard scheme

This weekend was really tough. My parents wanted to have their ancient kitchen furniture “renewed”. A friend of my mother had less old furniture for the kitchen to give away. My mother wanted to have the more than 30 years old furniture exchanged by the newer ones. Taking this chance we also painted the walls and ceiling and put in some new floor. We worked the whole weekend from Friday to Sunday and we made it. It is very interesting how many steps are necessary when renewing a room with new furniture, floor, ceiling and wall paint. The drive home at Sunday evening was very exhausting too and so I decided to stay below 110km/h. It is great to discover the joy of slowness again.

I just installed Google Earth (after a complete reinstall of Windows) and was pretty curious where it is pointing at the first time. So I zoomed in and zoomed in. The surprise was huge. The point my installation of Google Earth is showing is the stave church of Borgund in Norway.