Today, Christmas starts in Germany. And, as last year and the year before that (and so on), today my ‘No bitching until the 2nd of January’ resolution will be renewed. In the time ‘between the years’ – as they say in Germany – I will not bitch (though I didn’t do all that much bitching this year, did I?), but write little posts about this and that.
Let the time between the years begin!
Due to our area in Germany, my hometown does rarely get a white Christmas. We’re on the border between the valley of the Rhine and the Black Forest. As the valley is always a bit warmer, we don’t often get the low temperature for Snow – at least not before January (just like this year).
But this year seems to be special, not only did it start with lots of snow, we’ve even gotten snow right at the moment. As we had a very warm November, nobody really expected any snow close to Christmas. But it has gotten very cold over the last two weeks or so and yesterday in the evening, snow started to fall.
There’s not that much snow on the ground right now (lucky me, I have to keep the sidewalk in front of my house clean this week … until today, that is), but we have snow and very cold weather (well, cold for our area). And it’s close to Christmas.
Will we have White Christmas this year? I don’t know, the snow could be melted until then. But chances have definitely risen.
Welcome to this week’s weekend update! So, what am I going to do this weekend?
And I’m going to write and enjoy looking at snow and … well, who knows?
I really did it! I completed “Plant Tycoon” and found all six of the Magical Plants. Whew, that really is a good feeling, in the beginning, I never thought I would see the day. I can go on planting and crossbreeding plants, but I have won the game.
What a wonderful feeling to have all six plants in their golden pots, the nursery furnished completely and (with one of the Magical Plants that can be sold for over 400$ each) a money making machine at my disposal.
I’ve been busy playing “Plant Tycoon” this week (well, I’ve let the game run while doing other things, it takes about one hour to raise plants, even on the fastest setting) and I did well. I’ve got five of the six Magic Plants.
Admittedly, I was lucky, too. I bought the seeds for three of the five plants. You can’t see which plant you buy until the seed is fully grown. All I miss now is one plant and I have plans of crossbreeding to find it soon.
Too bad, though, I won’t see all the 529 different plants you can breed. Still, I wouldn’t be able to keep seeds to all the plants … there’s only space for 120 seeds in the seed boxes.
As you can see on the picture above this post, I’ve also gotten all the ornaments for my nursery. Money is no longer a problem, I’ve already gotten the fabled lemonbush which can be sold for over 400 $ each. 15 of those (you can raise 15 plants at once) and money worries are over – guaranteed!
The last Magic Plant is just waiting for me, a couple of more plants to breed on the way. I’ve gotten my crossbreeding sheet, I know what to do.
