Monday’s Austria Scoop ~ @oddlynn3 #LynnCrain #AWriterInVienna

Hi Everyone!

Sorry that I’m again late for this column. The trouble is all I’ve been doing is organizing, packing and disposing of things we’ve declared to be trash. That’s a full time job in itself. And it’s sad really as I haven’t done too much in Austria this past week at all.

The weather was wonderful and that has made me cringe at the fact that I’m tied up indoors packing. Which is both necessary and needs to be done before the movers get here for a variety of reasons. One is we’re going to have company next weekend and it’s good to finally getting a few more family members here to this wonderful city. Second, I just need more organization as this chaos is driving me crazy.

It’s the type of chaos that occurs when nothing is set. I mean, there are some things I can set like when the movers will arrive. At least I hope they’ll arrive since the contract hasn’t been awarded yet but that’s another story. Another item I can set is everything with Pup Harry, who is the subject of this week’s pictures. He got his haircut and the only other thing he needs is his vet visit, some papers signed then he’s good to go for his trips.

Wish I could say the same for us. My husband has to work right up until a day before we leave. He did get two moving days off and hopefully, next Monday and Tuesday off for the family visit. Otherwise, we are here in Vienna for the duration. No side trips, nothing to except to pack and get ready to go back to the States.

Never mind that I’ve hurt my back somehow packing things. And it’s the one thing that will keep me down, not exercising, not moving much and totally in pain. I was down today but will hopefully back tomorrow.

So I leave you with some great pictures of Pup Harry around the flat. His hair cut is wonderful and all can once again see the lightning bolt on his head. It’s the reason he was named Harry Potter and a bunch more things I can't remember. Yes, pedigreed dogs have names as long as royals. Frankly, I think it’s a trend that we need to do for all pups as well as getting them a pet passport. More on that one later!

Pup Harry's Downward Dog as he helps with the packing of the office

Pup Harry thinking about leaving the office saying 'I'm done packing'

Pup Harry begging me to give up writing and packing to play

Pup Harry on the bathroom rug looking cute!

Hope you enjoyed this little look into Austria and beyond. See you all next week!

Lynn 

Monday’s Austria Scoop ~ @oddlynn3 #LynnCrain #AWriterInVienna

Hi Everyone!

Sorry that I haven’t been keeping up with this column since basically Spain. There are a lot of things going on in my life and unfortunately, something had to give and it was the Monday/Tuesday columns of my blog. I did post one for January 25^th, so don’t forget to comment on that one as I will be giving away that $25 Amazon gift certificate tomorrow or Wednesday as I want to give people some time to comment.

As some of you may know, this column will soon be turning into a reflection on my time here in Austria as opposed to first-hand knowledge. I’ll be moving permanently back to the US on March 6. But we’ll be doing some vacation first in the east then travel across country to visit aging relatives and to see the country we’ve been away from.

But we still have a few weeks in Austria and I need to give you a few more columns regarding my time here…so here goes!

All I can say is, poor trees and other vegetation. This is not normal for here and since the trees didn’t shed their leaves until late October, I’m sure they are not happy at all. Last week, it was going between hot and cold. This week it has been nothing but warm. Like in the 40s-50s and 60s. Today was a scorcher at 65 degrees. No coat necessary here.

Frankly, from what I’ve been hearing, it’s been warmer here than at home. Matter of fact, it snowed there today. So much so that all the mountains around the Vegas area had snow on them. Imagine that. They’ve had lots of snow there during my time here in Austria.

I realize that I didn’t show you much from December this year and all the pictures today are from then. In front of the Rathuas this year, one of the trees was colored red-white-blue in honor of France once again. We are still feeling the terrible effects of horrible day now. Another bunch shows something very interesting that happened to us while we were at the Karlskirche Adventmarkt one day. It seems they were celebrating Carnival or something as a lot of the Buskers came out to show us their stuff. Last shows the Christkindlemarkt at Schonbrunn Palace. Sorry about the quality but I was taking them as fast as I could.

Salute to France

Looking toward Rathaus from the corner

The beginning of the Busker Parade

The Busker Parade

The Buskers move on

Christkindlemarkt at Schonbrunn

 Hope you enjoyed this little look into Austria and beyond. See you all next week!

Lynn 

Monday’s Austria Scoop ~ @oddlynn3 #LynnCrain #AWriterInVienna

Hi Everyone!

Sorry I’m so terribly late on everything. With deadlines and my moving home, my time is no longer my own as I try to just keep my head above water. But I did promise you all that I would put something up this week.

The weather here has been odd to say the least and I hear it’s that way worldwide. This last weekend, we went from a blizzard on a Saturday, to a melt with rain on Sunday, to full blown rain on Monday and by Tuesday it was nearing 60 degrees. This made for a very interesting time.

But Austria desperately needs snow as it’s what keeps the springs going and the ski tourism is great for the economy here. It’s only been recently that we’ve felt the recession even dig it’s claws in. However, that does not pull away from the overall beauty of the country.

This place is normally gorgeous in the winter and this one has been no different overall. At least for the times we’ve had snow. The pictures are from that wild weekend and I still can’t believe it only lasted for a day. I mean, the flakes were so big and pretty and I so wanted to have one more snow day while I was here.

It was too hard to get pictures during the day, so I decided to try and get some at night. They are all from the evening walk with Pup Harry.

Snowing in front of French Embassy

Pup Harry in his snow boots

Snowing behind Karlskirche

 

Pup Harry's shadow

Hope you enjoyed this little look into Austria and beyond. See you all next week!

Lynn