Bob Buys A Big Chain In Rechnitz.

A chainsaw chain that is...

Needs and wants do change when one embraces a rural life. Jewellery is useless apart from a nice gold band around the ring finger and even that is more of a brand than anything else...

Hands off, this one's taken

Doing the lawnmower pirouettes about the garden would be dangerous if adorned with mink & pearls. Anyway, Bob's chainsaw got a new chain today. A real big one. A toothy one on the cutting edge. This chainsaw is Bob's nemesis in the tool shed as it loves to be on the blink, refusing to saw through a branch yet alone a tree trunk. A fallen tree is what brought this shopping trip to Rechnitz all about. The storm had felled one of our plum trees and it needs to be cut to pieces...

The Deutsch Schützen Lagerhaus didn't have what Bob needed so we did a short trip to Rechnitz and got everything we wanted. Gosh, the staff at that Lagerhaus were brilliant and even put the new chain on our machine, free of charge. I tell you, Bob was thrilled not to have to fight that battle and so was I, as in the heat of battle choice words would have been uttered.

Rechnitz is a treat ( and now they even have a branch of the divine Heiling Ice Cream Cafe ) with two supermarkets, a Lagerhaus, a bakery, restaurants, wine estates, a bank, a beautician and a petrol station.

Along the way the scenery is often breathtaking and the couple of villages in between have an old fashioned charm all of their own. Driving there this morning made both of us aware of how blessed we are for having put roots into such a nice part of the world.

The photos were taken from a moving car. Aren't the undulating hills nice?

A blank canvas to paint one's dreams on...

Biggi