It is springtime in Rotholz!

Finally!!! It seems as if spring is back or actually if it has arrived. The winter lasted very long this year. We thought it won’t get away and wouldn’t leave any space for spring. We had just one nice and warm week from February until April and that was the week you were with us! 4th – 8th March was fantastic. In that week it was a bit too warm for the time of the year, but it was perfect for our being together and our activities. But the rest of the time was terrible cold, sometimes extremely windy and grey and cloudy. Although we didn’t have the disaster with snow in March as many European countries, we weren’t satisfied with the weather either. It was cold but there weren’t that much precipitations as we actually wanted or needed. But it was and is necessary to heat our houses. So we need a lot of wood for keeping our houses warm and that is on the other hand good for the farmers who sell firewood. In March, as an example, it was about 2°C colder in average than in the last years. At the moment we have nice warm weather (about 15-20°C and in sunny places even more) but it is also very windy. The wind brings with it that it dries out everything. That means we could do with some rain! At the moment it is still OK but we can’t do without rain much longer. The situation at school is good. Though the lack of precipitations our crops and grassland is doing well. Due to our farm manager Mr Haas (our vice headmaster) everything is in a good state. The food for our cattle is growing – not just in the valley, on the alm too. Pumpkins, potatoes, crop and our fruit trees are on a growth period as they should be in that time of the year. The farmers are manuring their fields with dung.