tomaten&paprika im garten

Gemuese ist so teuer geworden dass wir unser eigenes im Garten anbauen muessen :-)

Heavy storms wreaked havoc on Central Texas

These are some pictures PJ, my office mate, took during the storm yesterday night (see his Flickr page).There was golf ball size hail in my backyard and apparently a tornado touched down somewhere in Burnet.


from KXAN: Streets in the French Place neighborhood just east of Interstate 35 look like someone just shook the trees, and all of the leaves have fallen down. Residents there saw just chunks of ice falling from the sky. Some residents woke up to find trees had fallen on their home.




Just after the stroke of midnight Thursday morning, a severe thunderstorm exploded in intensity right over Downtown Austin.

New York

We delayed our flight back to Austin for a few days to wander around Manhattan and Brooklyn, whci by the way is very nice especially the poppy seed bagel with vegetable cream cheese.

the new cleanroom...

We got a new cleanroom to protect our mirrors from dust and squeeze out a few terrawatt lightpower from the new lasersystem...I wonder how long it is goanna look like that...

Flying

A friend of one of my office mates has a pilots license so we joined him for a little sightseeing trip over Austin... in a little Cessna. It's just like driving...

The House Blog

check out the House Blog at http://1505broadmoor.blogspot.com/

The House is complete!

This week, finally, everybody has arrived and moved in. Sunday morning we decided to go shopping together, buy some patio furniture...and a BBQ smoker...


When we came back...the BBQ smoker was not even set up yet...we saw from two blocks away a fire truck in front of our house... After some arguments who forgot to turn off the oven...it turned out to be our neighbors kitchen that was on fire.

Anyway... Matthias proceeded to prepare dinner...8kg of bloody cow....



Let's see how long it takes before the Fire Department shows up again...