Short update

 Husband has just put the tractor for Matthäus together. That thing is huge! Even if family number three will be here for a visit at the end of May, they won´t be able to put that thing into their car. Which means that hubby and I will have to do the obligatory birthday tour to St. Pölten. And I thought that we´d be able to skip it this year! Then again, number four´s mother-in-law is a hit, contrary to her rather morose daughter which is one of my DiLs. She surely will show up at her grandson´s second birthday to avoid disaster, or her daughter will not talk to her for the next weeks...

I spent most of the day reading and cooking. I so love cooking with a blocked nose and next to no sense of smell, but daughter decided to come for an exchange of germs and asparagus with grilled chicken, bacon and rösti. Hubby was definitely not interested in cooking but went on a biking tour, which left me for kitchen duty. They said that lunch was very good, but who knows...without fail, it´s me who does not know! 

Daughter decided to stay overnight but will leave before lunch, not without having an overabundant breakfast with bacon and smoked salmon. She and her friends will meet up at the Dult, that´s a funfair held each year at Pentecost. Husband mine will go there with Cassian and Flavius. I will only join them, if my cold gets better. At the moment I am sneezing practically all around the clock (no, I did not stop during night, even though I tried hard, believe me!). Last night I went to bed at eleven but could not sleep because of all the sneezing, so, bereft of my Amazon kindle, I immersed myself in the wonderful world of fanfiction again. Oh boy, that was so very funny! There has to be a sadistic streak inside me to bother with the literary trials and tribulation and orthographic turbulences. At the moment there´s a lot of gender bending and same-sex love going on- yay, female Legolas, female Gimli, that´s a hoot! But when I came to the point where Elrond was ringing his hands there was more than sneezing to be heard in the bedroom! I can tell you that hubby was not amused- it was almost one in the morning when I cracked up with laughter, and there was more to come, because not for love nor money was I able to fall asleep!