FFO And A Big Smile

With these happy faces I join Nicole´s FFO and Gilenna - dance along there!

I am too tired to sketch and I ran out of small paper and am too tired to cut it, too...

For Annie´s Smiles I took over I have this:

Now some funnies:

 

The other night I really dreamed I drive Ingo´s car. Since 2018 I have no car anymore, I gave my company car to the pool. 

Some years ago when fetching something from Ingo´s car in the pitch dark a man asked me to set it a bit backwards so he can park better (there was enough space).

I closed the door, put in the key, put the seat to my size, light went out.

I failed to get the backwards-gear in the dark and had to turn on the light... embarrassing... 

 

 

I get up at 05:00, but, sounds familiar?

Henry 🦁

Have a happy Friday!

 

FFO And Smile Over A Rescue

In our kitchen.... note the magnifying glass... attached to his glasses...

 

... at Grinekatz with fK last week.

With these faces I join Nicole´s FFO and Gilenna (with a very happy song!)... atm my heart is not into art (hmm, that rhymes at least)...

 

And for Annie´s Smiles...

Another Smile:

 

 

 Now some funnies, following this:

 

 

...oh, Dean, #Supernatural...

 I also have this for you:

Bones.... Chapeau to the person who came up with this, I laughed my head off.

Henry 🦁

 Have a fun Friday!

Matrjoschka #2

 

Yesterday: I sleep with ear protection, my right ear is near-to-deaf, I cannot find directions that are audible.

I am on holiday, forgot to switch off the phone - 5:00 a.m. ... phone wakes me up, just where???

Not at my night-table.

And why do I hear it through the closed door? With ear-protection!

But then my brain often wakes me at 04:00 a.m. to check if Ingo got up, so reckon it was my brain.

Off with the ear-protection and on  the search to the phone!

Not at my PC-table... it sounds like kitchen.

Not on the table, sounds like Microwave. WHAT?

OK, change of plan (it is 05:01 a.m. and I´m on holiday, it is dark).

 

> Get.Your.Glasses!!! (I am very short-sighted)

Didn´t help. I heard the ring but didn´t see it!

Like in Perth 2017(?) - Matrjoschka #1:

I put my red hat in a bag, Ingo put the bag in my backpack whilst I got two pints of beer.

When I wanted my red hat it was "gone".

Asked for my red hat. Two words: Red hat.

Barkeeper in panic: Lost Redhead!!!! 

I didn´t hear the difference and it was a bit of chaos.

 

I was asked about the size!!! I´d bought the hat in the kid´s section but luckily said, a bit pis#ed already, "well... MY size!!"

 

They thought I lost my child. My hair is reddish > Redhead. 

Really. IF I had a child and lost it in a bar (???) I would say boy/girl, size (OK we get there) what the kid is wearing. I would be precise.

> Tuesday went to ESE and put the phone in my backpack.

Ingo took the backpack for grocery shopping and put it where it belongs, beside the microwave.

Phone was still in there.

GAH.

Luckily I remembered I´d put it in there for... hahaha... in case I get lost.

Old people need fixed places, lesson learned!

On the other hand: brain needed to find the solution and it did.

Sö:Fixed places, other: Matrjoschka gets you!!!

 

 

... or half of her...

Hihihi.... "Sö" > typing-error from my side. East Germans from Saxony say "söööö".

Sweet memories of Tuscany. Our bus driver (and all) where from there.

It was an Educational trip and Grit was Ingo´s age, Jens mine. We had educational fun! 

Of course I bought that apron...

We are Germans, right. So, all the beer that was left Jens gave to us all... in that apron - it was hilarious. But...

 Henry 🦁

 

What a beginning of the day that was.

Hope I made you laugh...

T This Tired, Crazy Week

 

This drink, with which I join Elizabeth, it asks you to indulge, to treat others.

I treated myself...

The journal:

Monday: FIL on Ingo´s nearly empty phone, I got the NEW number for "landline".

BIL. Same as their Mom, FIL´s Mom, INGO.... pancreas. Inflamed.

BIL´s new wife, nearly my age, highly pregnant.

FIL invited us to celebrate Ingo´s Birthday. In Emden. Let´s see. All too much.

Pancreas inflamed and a baby on the way?

I.Want.A.Boring.Life.

And really. Come to Braunschweig to celebrate!!!

Why are we supposed....  Braunschweig is a very beautiful city!

Tuesday: fK.... "my 'wife' is OK with you now, but our kids are not 😂 "Iris" here, "Iris" there, all the time."

I had no idea!

Ingo: ... same with her. "fK, fK, fK"....

Same in your life? 

 

Wednesday: O.   M   G.

Phone. 08:50. am - Think it´s fK. Pick up as usual with "Hi!".

Meep, ESE. Got a laugh. Will now always answer with my surname!!! Boy, glad fM laughed! (we never met) - OK, I reveal cause it´s such a beautiful name: Margarete!

Then fK  - then fE!!!! They all call me "meine Liebe" and I think they mean it.

Asked in April and due to "issues over there" get two responses only now. 

From two different companies - and lovely people I worked with at both - see my dilemma...

 

Thursday:  Tired.

I do the sketches for this journal on the weekend and saw a note for this day ... Nieces Birthday.

SHOOT!!!! WhatsApped her hence on Sunday, her answer: "It´s OK, even if late, thank you!"

She´s like me. 

Scary. Genes, huh. Her Dad/Bro´d make a big fuss again! 

She´s 15 now. An adult.

Hey, wait. I just held her in my arms, 5 days old, she slept and I adored her little fingers!!!

Friday: Tired.

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: They sit right here, called "LaFamme" a pill I am to take soon. No. Guess I won´t. fK had another... no. Thank you but likely no. Women over time went without - I can do that, too! Right?

Ingo feeds me with cold fruit to cool down.

On TV: Pizza!!! A docu.

Dreamed of Da Nico at night and a Ten Without Ham. (See  "Change Of Blog-Title? An Era Ends" - my dear Bro is in there, too...).

 

Nico retired 2024 and went back to Italy.

He always smiled big when my Brother, my Mom (!!!!!!), Ingo or me myself ordered one.

There was no "Ten (without ham)" anymore and the answer always was: 

"Can get cold, goes to Braunschweig, right?"

Can you imagine my face when my Mom!!!!! came to my home in Braunschweig with that?

I think I smiled BIG all day!

 

Sunday: Not kidding: TV: docu on Pizza. Different channel and docu, but... Pizza!!!! (Tried to order pizza on Thursday - they wanted ALL my data before showing the menu. No.).

Btw. fK said my sense of smell might change when I get off the pill and I might not like to smell Ingo anymore!!!!

Vanilla. Ingo smells of Vanilla. I like vanilla. Löwenzahn: On smelling. Life is creepy.

 Henry 🦁´s Wife

I feel shit#y but pampered! 

I am not alone in menopause and especially studies and job-sorrows!

When Ingo was so severly sick bloggy friends were there and helped - real hugs and I´d broken down, not able to help Ingo, hugs from far away help(ed).

 

 

Did You Know#3

 

#3 from Rosamund Young´s book The Secret Life of Cows! (and other farm-animals)

 

Did you know...

 

 This is for....

 

 Eileen.

 

The  internet-series:

(I´ve learned that some of you think these are my words, my opinion, but it is from the internet and I think it´s interesting. so I share.

All orange text is links, you can click on it for more info, but now, here goes.

This link goes to a German site. I let Deepl translate all there is.

For in case you want to use the link for the others and not hop around on my blog, that´s why I added the link.)

"33 retro dishes that are rarely served today

 

 

 

Bananas flambéed

As we already know, flambéing desserts was extremely popular in the 1950s. We have the Brennan's restaurant in New Orleans to thank for this classic dessert of banana in caramel sauce, doused with rum and set alight - from there it conquered restaurants all over the world. The banana dessert is still a bestseller at Brennan's today."

Too sweet for me ;-)

 

Henry 🦁

Happy crittery Saturday!

 

Addendum: 23 years ago today Dad lost his fight against cancer. 23 years already, feels unreal... 🌻

 

And... white ones are cute, too!

 

 

FFO And Smile BIG (rain)

Today I join Nicole´s FFO and Gillena with this Baby. That had arms too short and after I changes that...

Same options in my old "Photostudio" - can someone explain?

Anyways for Annie´s Smiles.... a big awwwwww...

 

Now for some funnies- it is Friday!

... he´s an optometrist.

And last, not least...

The  series:

"33 retro dishes that are rarely served today

 

 Chicken fricassee

 

Today, you'd expect to find this dish in your own kitchen rather than in a fancy restaurant. But the creamy combination of peas, carrots, mushrooms, and peppers, served with rice or on bread, was indeed a hit at wedding brunches and in fine dining in the 1950s and 1960s. However, its triumphant progress came to a halt in the 1980s—perhaps not least because a fricassee doesn't offer much visual appeal."

On week-school-trips this was served at least once.

I still love it - despite!

Henry 🦁

 

 

To a great weekend soon.