{"id":693,"date":"2021-05-01T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2021-05-01T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T14:17:03","slug":"hannele-and-the-maibaumklau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/01\/hannele-and-the-maibaumklau\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannele and the Maibaumklau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Germany’s lockdown rages into the seventh month (doing absolutely nothing to stop new infections, ho hum). The traditional Bavarian May 1 activities–raising a Maibaum<\/a><\/em>, meeting in the Biergarten<\/a><\/em> to enjoy food and music in the fresh air with friends and family–are forbidden again this year. (As it’s dark and rainy outside, there was a good chance of postponement, but a weather delay is so different than a blanket government ban.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This prompted Hannele<\/a> and the other bears to make their own private Maibaum<\/em>, and sit around it all night drinking beers. This is a Bavarian tradition called the Maibaumwache<\/em>, and it’s necessary because there is another tradition of attempting to steal your rivals’ tree away. The tree is not half bad when you consider they were working only with materials they could scrounge up around the house…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let’s get the party started.
Bad Handy Foto\u2122<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Everything was fine when I went to bed. But then I woke up to this:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Little too much last night…
Bad Handy Foto\u2122<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Maybe they should have stayed up all night drinking coffee instead of beer. What’s that paper? Oh. It’s a ransom note, signed “Oink” and “Firebreath”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bad Handy Foto\u2122<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This is clearly an amateur heist. The thieves forgot to give a time and place for exchanging “a lot of beer” for the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bad Handy Foto\u2122<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The bears found a case of beer, and commenced with some rude shouting. Eventually, the perps emerged:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Oink and Firebreath (a Bavarian dragon named Georg) with the bears.
Bad Handy Foto\u2122<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

All the stuffies decided to share the beer and the Maibaum<\/em>, and they’ve been raging in the living room the whole day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bad Handy Foto\u2122<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t ask me, I just live here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,42,23],"tags":[36,35,37],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer","category-hannele","category-holiday-traditions","category-la-vida-lockdown","tag-beer","tag-hannele","tag-holiday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t