If....

I found this following video on Thursday night, "Freddie Mercury / Pavarotti / Queen: Too Much Love Will Kill You" and I immediately thought, MY!!!....

I could have brought my father to "modern" music with that! He was a fan of Pavarotti.

Then it made FLASH!!!!

OMG!!!

I forgot my fathers day of death!!

HOW COULD I??!! (aghast)

Has it come true, time heals the wounds?! (relieved/wondering)

No! It was the 16th! Not the 19th!

But now I wonder... I am SO due for a holiday, I feel it.
Would I have forgotten my father´s day of death? (I wear the date in my ring every day, more or less!) Or would it have struck me today? It´s no working day!

Does it mean time heals wounds after all?
All the years I was feeling sick DAYS before the 19th! Sad. Hurt. Angry!

Now... I´m not sure.

But I find it ... I have no words for it.
Here is the video and I dedicate it to my father (and I feel pain, feel mad, feel angry yet again):



"... only the good die young"

What A Small World

I really have to say: I love my camera!
So small I can easily take it everywhere, and I do.

Today we went to the post-office round the corner and...

OH MY! How can anybody do this?!, I thought! Look!



Dunno how you call this? You can store stuff in it and sit on it.
You don´t believe me?

Look here:



Ages ago I saw it at Ingo´s place - and I loved it! Reminds me of happy, colorful childhood-days of the 70´s.
Ingo gave it to me.

It traveled to Hildesheim, where I studied. Went to my parents place when we went on our first big journey, back to Hildesheim, to my parent´s place, to this town and moved with me all the time.



And today, when I showed Ingo this poor, set out equivalent of my... "tub"? - I finally heard it´s story (he somehow assumed I knew... man, how?!).

It wasn´t bought from some place, as I thought.

It was produced in the factory where Ingo´s Grandma worked!!!!

At Schmalbach-Lubeca (German) - they made the first tins to conserve food here in Germany (did you know, btw, Henry E. Steinway, the famous piano manufacturer comes also from my home-town (Seesen)?).

And guess what: Schmalbach-Lubeca was originally founded here in Braunschweig!

Ingo´s Grandma got this "furniture" for free - and many more items made of sheeting combined with color like trays and such.

I have a real treasure here! And someone threw his just away!

It´s a small world, no?

My Mom just called and I told her the story. She said, oh yips! There is more!

Lubeca had another factory in Tornesch - this is the village my mother´s family fled to in WW II. "In the last street, near the train-barrier, they produced corrugated card board."

There is more, still.



They lived at a farmer´s place back then and my Mom was the one who repaired the farmer´s little moped from time to time. He was a rather fat man and the ball bearing needed replacement from time to time.
She was 12 back then and certainly had to "test" the moped after repair.

Now I understand why she didn´t freak out completedly when I took our BMW 5 Series for a drive at age 14!!!

(Gets even more weird... The article on BMW says, "The BMW 5 Series is a mid-size / executive car manufactured by BMW since 1972". I was born in 72! Freaky, huh?!)

Under Construction

Henry is working in the Lion-City!



Which is cute, I think.

Not so cute... it will take till end of 2010 to renovate/rebuild the bridge. Oh, Henry, work harder!

Bumblebee

... what a sweet name! In German she´s called "Hummel", which doesn´t sound nice at all!
Here she sits, in one of my sunflowers. You can click to enlarge.

Yes, taken with this cam - is really great for bright days!!!

Ingo thought she was dead and I know that sounds stupid, but at first it felt odd to take pictures. Maybe not dead, only deaf! The clicking of the camera didn´t impress her at all, but when I came back she was gone.
Isn´t she just beautiful?

We went to the hardware-store today, didn´t get what we needed, but Ingo bought me two sunflowers for 1 €!

A gardener is included in that!!! And he brings his tools and own house even, too:



I didn´t like the house and Ingo, the creative one here, made some very cool 70´s platform shoes from parts of the roof for my gardener.
He now lives on the grass in the windowsill. Hope he´s happy with that:



My Poppy finally blossoms, too!



You just step out the door these days and the city is so, so beautiful:



Summer...

We also saw this car, belongs to the garbage-management (German) and it says:

"[Break up with your garbage. But do it right.]"

Funny pic, no? Yips, waste separation is great ;-)

You need to click to enlarge to really see it.



From left to right; Paper, compost, rest-garbage. Rest garbage certainly is not glass, metal, plastic or batteries, those go extra in public bins (that are always full here. If they got emptied you shortly after see people running there with the "residues" they have had so long in their apartments - us included. That´s sadly no joke).

Chocolate-Chilli-Sausages

Just to finish this report: Yips, next day I went and bought the Chocolate-Chilli-Sausages and Sunday we went to the park and gave it a go. We had some regular stuff with us, too, in case they´re awful.

They got all crusty and brown, yum:



Here you can see the chocolate:



They were yummy. Really yummy, but I tasted neither chocolate nor chilli! And hence I won´t buy them again. With 4 € for a pack of four they´re just too expensive.

Great Idea For An Anniversary

... or any other tribute, how great is this?

Walled In

Ingo found this...



I consider myself really lucky that I grew up in "West-Germany"... with no death-strip keeping me away from freedom.