Two Aquarius in the Alps

At the end of January, we took Miki to the vet for vaccination against cat leukemia and cat flu. He was really brave when the doctors drew blood to test if he carries some of the pathogens and can be vaccinated.

We booked Miki a visit to the vet, and the appointment is today. They have to draw some blood, make tests, and hopefully vaccinate him. He won’t be very happy, we know, although he has been a regular patient since they saved his life and knows the doctors really well.

I am sure most of you cherish memories of Christmas markets and this unique Christmas spirit they carry. We all have lovely memories from such markets, but most of them date back from years ago. Nowadays some Christmas markets are not what they used to be, or maybe the markets did not change - we did and changed them.

2026 came. Yay! And no, we are not sharing our plans and goals for the new year; it will be such a cliché! Why start making plans from day one?

For the first year, we put a Christmas tree up in our new home since we bought the house. December and Christmas have been many times really hard for us, and we have not always been in a mood to decorate a Christmas tree.

It’s again this time of the year - Christmas season! So many kids asked for snow, and Santa delivered! Outside it is snowing, and we have sat here on the first floor of our unfinished house looking back at the passing year and the best things that happened to us.

We have been to Ljubljana so many times but never had the chance to go and see Ljubljana castle. It has been always something else that needs doing or fixing and we have been postponing this visit for a long time.

When we bought our house, we saw that in our garden, we have a persimmon tree. The first autumn it gave so many persimmons, and we started thinking, what are we going to do with so many fruits that we don’t like eating?

Passing by a billboard around Dolenjske Toplice, we saw the ad that they will have this festival to mark the apple harvest. We love apples, so why not go and see what Slovenians do at such events?

Our first two winters in the house we bought were very cold. The first thing we did when we got the keys was to disconnect the old hazardous diesel heating system and remove all the ugly radiators and pipes. They looked really awful, but then we did not know the real state of the house roof.