So anyway, this happened in Germany: after a livestock transport crashed, somehow a bull escaped and made his way into a nearby Netto supermarket and fucked up all kinds of shit on his way in. Before going out in a blaze of glory, the bull injured a few people and caused about 10,000€ in damage.

More here in German: http://www.merkur.de/bayern/bulle-eggenfelden-supermarkt-erschossen-gefaehrlich-6280089.html

The pictures in the article only show the bull after he was shot and killed inside the supermarket and then dragged out into the parking lot.

Here is a picture of the bull after being killed by a police officer in the middle of what appears to be the frozen food section (WARNING: blood & gore. However, if you grew up on a farm, you’ve seen this type of shit before. For those of you who are squeamish, you do not have to click the link in order to read further. You have been warned.): http://imgur.com/bton7hO

Two things:
1) Netto is not exactly know for their high quality meat selection. The caption/title on the second bloody gory link is “Endlich, frisches Fleisch bei Netto. / Finally, fresh meat at Netto.”

2) The slang word for a police officer in German is “Bulle” or bull. Therefore, a better caption for the article would have been, “Bulle erschiesst Bulle” / “Cop Shoots Cop.”

Oh, by the way. I’ll reactivate this blog soon. There is lots to tell.

There is a lot of stuff going on. Work. House. Work. House.

There is more to come, but here are pictures of the kitchen after being partially installed….

I’ve been building lots of walls lately. I built walls in the Spitzboden, a few in various spots between the Alt- & Neubau and one in the future master bath. I’ve also done a few ceilings. Continue reading →

The Neubau and Altbau are joined together in such a way that there is a height difference between the floors. This leads to an interesting stair situation that requires a creative solution. Loyal readers will recall that I built a short set of stairs not too long ago, thereby eliminating one set that needed to be built and saving some money at the same time. Yeah! However, we still have 4 short sets of stairs and 1 long set of stairs that need to be built. Boo!

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Not too exciting this weekend. Did some drywalling on a ceiling and filled some gaps between masonry work with expanding foam. If you are working with expanding foam, wear gloves, protective clothing, a hat and goggles. Don’t do what I did, which is just wear gloves. If to gets on your arms, in your hair or in your beard, it will hurt trying to get it out. And it might bleed a bit.