Last evening we had a nice walk along the lake to our local bar/cafe. I had listened to a podcast about how an Italian aperitif always includes some nibbles so I was eager to try that. And it didn’t disappoint as you can see from the pictures. The 30min walk home was a lot harder than the way there, can’t wait to get our bikes so that we can do this regularly.
I had spent most of the day trying to pay our property tax. We decided to pay it instead of waiting to become resident at which point we don’t have to pay property tax at all (at least that’s what I think). It’s only 228 dollars and without it we can’t get trash services. They have a special system to pay local taxes and it didn’t work for me at all. Thomas’ worked after several tries (at least we think it did) but he can only pay half and I have to pay the other half. Tech support was very helpful, it just took a while to try different things, reinstalling the app multiple times ….. This morning it finally worked and now we can tackle the trash services. Trash has to be sorted into plastic, paper, glass/cans, green waste and regular waste each with having their own container or bag and the bags have a barcode on it so I can’t just set out a regular trash bag. We still have a few bags for regular waste from the previous owner but nothing for our plastic waste, so we are eager to get the waste management establish but it might take a few more weeks. Thomas has been working diligently on the paperwork to establish residency so we will try that next Friday since he is leaving for Germany tomorrow to pickup our German drivers licenses and ID cards.
I am currently conducting taste tests for dry food with the cats, which is very interesting. The cats are very happy now that they can go outside, they are now hunting little lizards instead of mice/bunnies which are a lot easier to clean up.
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