At the moment the weather is blah - and I feel a bit blah - though yesterday son&DiL&triplets&I visited a wild boar enclosure. The boars looked at us and thought us blah - to rise their spirits I told the triplets that in Bavaria there are many men who wear strange felt hats with a little tuft of hair on one side - made of hog's bristle.
In their very young life they neither had seen that nor heard of it, and they giggled, while the boars in front of us were not interested at all and turned their back to us and snuggled into the mud, munching uncooked spaghetti - at least they have a crush on something!
Back later on my way to the postbox I saw the first snowdrops, and my cheerfulness rose. The very first hint of spring!
Is that men who wear strange felt hats, or strange men who wear felt hats?
ReplyDeleteHahaha, Tasker - I think the hats are not very becoming. Late in life I discover that Lederhosen changed from the ugly things some boys in my class had to wear day in, day out to very fashionable ones out of buckskin which go a bit over the knee - that can look very sexy if the man has good legs. But the word "sexy" never springs to my mind when I see those hats. :-)
ReplyDeleteOwn words to the middle section of the tune Mockin Bird Hill:
DeleteOh I love Leiderhosen and slapping my thighs
I slap them 'til they're red and there's water in my eyes
Those little harbingers of spring are such a wonderful tonic and really lift the spirits.
ReplyDeleteTrue, Rosemary - I love their oh so sweet clear cold white, and their modest triumph over cold.
DeleteSomeday one T will say to the rest, "Remember when G'ma told us about strange men in felt hats with boar's tufts...?"
ReplyDeleteAnd then they will giggle, Joanne - look at my following post... even a Grandma doesn't know everything (though I was not completely at fault, ha)
DeleteThe boars sound rather a complacent bunch. If they were unlucky to live in Italy or France they'd be strung up as sausages in the blink of an eye! I had to look closer at the fetching Bavarian hat of which you speak. Is it the Gamsbart that made the triplets giggle? Such $$! And there's a Gamsbart Olympics!! Will Lederhosen and these things still be a tradition when they grow up, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteDear Pip, you made me work early in the morning - now I am climbing like a Gams through the cool heights of zoologic! Please look at my following post :-)
DeleteBavarian garbs might have a chance to survive - in other parts of Germany you very seldom find garbs used other than for tourists - but Bavarians are different, honour traditions, many of them (also young ones) wear it as everyday clothes. (From an older woman's view I think the Dirndl is VERY clever: long skirt, half sleeves, and a sort of bodice - very flattering!
Sorry for the extra work, hahaha! Yes, the Dirndl is very flattering. And cute in miniature, which you'll be busy, ahem, sewing in triplicate when the time comes? Or selecting from the shoppes, more like :)
DeleteMore likely - I can sew, but honestly: it might be more fun to go and select them in a store - IF the girls want them :-)
DeleteI bet if you tossed a treat in to the boars they would have been more enthusiastic. Signs of Spring are so welcomed. I, too, look forward to Spring! We are freezing again today. No sign of Spring here.
ReplyDeleteMany visitors didn't care about the sign that forbids to feed the boars - and those are really wild on uncooked spaghetti! A little boy shared his peanuts (in a shell) with the triplets - I thought that so cute!
ReplyDeleteHere we have about 3° C now - not cozy - but the very first snowdrops don't care. I do: I long for Spring too!
" - 3 ° C" - shudder...
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