still waiting...

... for that spring that seemed so near in previous blogs...
very cold winds are making us miserable, we even had some frost.
Luckily Alan did not plant anything new outside then - seedlings are waiting patiently in the living room as per the picture.

My dad seems to be stable, maybe a bit better, though there are some problems the GP thinks would need another hospital stay, but at present not only the patient but everyone else is against the idea;
so far hospital stays meant rapid weakening inspite of first rate care. After this nearly two weeks at home I am back to Budapest for 5 or so days on the 25th.

We have hostelguests for ten days now - 3 people, who bought a house in the village but can't move in yet due to the house being yet inhabitable. We are getting a bit overrun doing interpreting (mostly Alan!) for them, organising the repair of the heeating system, electrics, than the total re-decor of the place... we have just resolved to get less involved... it was bad enough to do it over a year more for for ourselves - these people want it done in 10 days! We got the ball rolling - now it's just standing back and see who will trip on it...

Alan will be busy going on with the planting, he's got help in the person of our first wwoofer, Liza from Montana, who is probably a bit shaken, as soon as she settled in was taken to a wild-hog dinner and a rough-ride accross the Palkonya countryside, which is I have to say, a lot more wooded and, well, wild than around Kiskassa. We had gone round the fishing lakes, the little chapel on the hill visible from Kiskassa, and the miriads of grape-wines. It was my student who invited us, he is a qualified hunter and he shot the dinner himself, and cooked it, and showed us the gun that's done the deed and half a dozen others... and the trophies and skulls of vaious not-so-wild-anymore life... such as a badger, fox and roe-deer...

The food was great, and it was an interesting afternoon - see pictures... hm next time more of the winecellars now only could
put in these lot with host's dad holding the wine dispenser.