My Childhood :-) - As Others!

 

Hmmm. Of course I never had such a fancy bike. 

But mine was orange, too. With "training wheels" - did you have those stupid things, too?

I fell hard without those later, bloody knees and elbows and no one cared. 

 

Yet, happy times. No one knew where you were, be home for dinner, was the only rule. 

Dinner was German bread and butter, cheese, maybe radish, gherkin, some "wurst".

 

Uck. Dad´s "Harzer Käse" - the bad smell!  

 

Help your Mom put the food off at least! Dad had a beer. We had nothing to drink - you? 

 

The first years the telly was there, later talks about my parent´s work, never about us.

 

Bedtime? Good-night. Don´t come out without a reason!!! 

Bro read endlessly to his Daughters before bedtime.

But Dad brought me flowers sometimes. To the bed. 

 

And the clothes! And haircuts!

 

 

As if I needed help ;-)

What was your fav time? And... hmmmm. actually my life was mostly... is! - my fav time.

And I am thankful! 

 

Henry 🦁...

 

... far away!

 

  

Yummy-Yum

Seen last week at Penny  - these guys were on holiday - in Bosporus?

Either way, when I saw it I thought, "hmmm... & MORE!"

And just yesterday saw an episode of Castle whilst hanging the laundry (yes, inside)..

Castle´s Mom invited all the peeps who were to learn English in class and exclaimed:

 

"THIS is AMERICAN food - enjoy!"

 

And what was on the table?

Guesses welcome and remember - a country of immigrants ;-)

 

We.Are.People. 

What would you do without Pizza?

Moussaka?

Labskaus?

Meat-PIE! (and such).

 

Who helped rebuild Germany after WWII?

Ouzo, someone? Paella? Döner (invented here, more or less, they say).

Schnitzel? Spaghetti.

 

Hungry yet? 

 

Some love Sushi.

Toast Hawaii. Grünkohl...  Should I go on? Lamb-ragout, Croissant... Ice cream! Hot Dog, Hamburger, Pommes Frites...

Thank you, Tom. Now I am hungry! 

 

This is for Tom´s Signs2.

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 ... in a colorful world! And if you care...

 

 

 

 

T STands For... Scary Times

Haha. To Elizabeth´s T!

The journal:

 

Monday: Started Halloween-ish like. Ingo let the food burn and went to work. Neighbor with his daughter came in, he knocked BUT.. had a key and came in - he looked very scary, I called the police. On the dream went. Scary. I HATE those real-life-dreams.  And no. No idea who lives above us.

I know but four parties - how about you? 14 share this house... 

This after a shit#y weekend, again, you want to stay in bed. 

 

Tuesday: I bought a small car. Well, nearly... the internet never forgets - an old website Bro didn´t delete with a pic that at some point (!!!) maybe (!!!) got a license and now we have to pay - hallelujah. Making money. I "programmed" it back in... shoot me, 2002?

Irony: If the pic was good at least - nope, ugly. Taken for "just a few days" - how time runs...

Main thing: We, Bro and I, are good. And no worries: I can buy my new glasses here.

And.. we are good. 

 

 

Wednesday: Crazy. News: Post/mail gets more expensive. Reason: Less mail, higher costs. Ummmm. Not working? 

Nice man at ALDI, nice chat with neighbor from floor 5 and fK who is still in former GDR. Other: Cleaning. 

 

Thursday: Another bad dream, oh, yikes.

fK sent great pics from her holiday. Sunny there (East-Germany). 

And I gave my rocking-moose to a lady who will present her 2-y-o Grandchild for Christmas. He was with me since... 2004 or such. Bye-bye, deer dear moose! Have fun!

 

 

 

Friday: Health-wise on the way up (?) -  a bit.

Stephen King´s "It" at The Simpsons.

 

The first book I bought in the English language at age 14 in London, "It"... - ewwww. was I scared reading it till the end! Today no one would sell this book to a kid! I´m old, "LOL".

Not this old- were kids more ..... "thankful" back then?: 

This touched me.

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Quiet and shit#y weather. Summer-time s gone.

 

Sunday: Löwenzahn on a special Birthday and Die Maus: Bread. 

Other: Lazy, disappointing day.

Ingo got expensive meat that was... uck.... "our" butcher? Gone, thanks to Covid, like many a business.

Fairy tale with stupid sing-alongs. 

And.... "Es". I will watch. (Stephen King´s said "it").

Or "12 years a slave"? (In German) - why two good movies on the same evening?

Ingo´s Dad called. I asked from where. "Still from E." - "Where do you plan to go?!!!!"

"Heaven or hell, who knows...." 

 

Munchy: 

 

 Henry 🦁´s Baby...

 

 Happy Halloween soon?

 

 

Former Horten #1

 

 

I think this counts as mural?

I went to Magniviertel, to a second hand clothes shop to give some still good stuff away and on the way back I saw a bunch of murals as...

 

I think it´s strange.

My dentist, a very, very nice lady, drives her Hubby nuts with selling used stuff via Amazon. 

I still wait for my job, yet give away for free. 

My rocking-moose - a 2-y-o will hopefully enjoy it, her Grandma picked "him" up last week....

 

Wish I could join you... 

 

Dear host, your friend who asked if the store, Horton, later Galeria Kaufhof, still exists... nope.

Maybe a music-school or...??? ... "soon"...

At least a place for artists now. No name, sadly, but more to come. 

 

This is for  Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 

Henry 🦁´s Baby:

 

 ... Winter time.

Yupp. What nonsense with LEDs and stuff, too! 

 

 

 

Karma!

It was a Summer´s day in 1978. "Take care of your Brother!", Mom said and left us in the garden.

I carried him to a tree so he can practice how to sit and left for the swing to read a book.

 

Not long and he started to complain. 

Of course I ignored that.

 

He started to cry. He started to yell. Scream!!! I ran to get Mom.

She took him up, smelled, all good but he didn´t stop!!!! By now it was real bad.

 

Mom opened the nappy and started to... laugh.

 

I swear: It was not on purpose!!!! 

I sat the poor guy on an ant hill.

He has two daughters, "nothing"´s broken and he celebrates another Birthday tomorrow.

 

Fast forward to 1999. I parked the car, took out the chairs, Ingo and I watched the Sun go down in the ocean near Kalbarri, Western Australia.

Ingo: "Owwww!!!" Despite the heat I wore socks but at one point: "owwww!" - grabbed down: pollen. Huh?! Brushed them off. Ingo: "owwww!!!"... yips, wasn´t pollen but huge Australian ants!!!! II´d put my chair directly on their nest....

 

2010 or such (?) our bus from Madeley to Perth broke down, we all had to get out. I stood in the grass when....

So of course 2017 I had to buy this piece of art in Freo and join Nicole´s...

 

 SITAR.

And, if you smiled or grinned... Gillena´s Sunday Smiles...

 

Let´s go back to 1995:

 

 I show you this as a good bye by an Emu, who roams the area, too:

 

 Let me be chaotic like the weather here, I need to show you these two before I really say good-bye and wish you a happy Sunday:

 

 

 

Wiki: "Local legend claims this boab tree near Derby was used as a prison, hence the name the 'Boab Prison Tree' "

 

If I remember correct, what we did in Derby was getting our car fixed.

We´ve been wondering why the workers had beers.

Turned out... it was a Saturday arvo!!! Actually they´d closed down already...

For little money and with big smiles they not only fixed what´d broken but also a bit more that was to break soon. 

Go, visit Derby, on any day! 

And watch the tide of 11.8 metres (39 ft)!!!! More than in Broome! Which is already scary! 

 

 

Splash - Do It Right!

Against the shit#y weather I have this for you today: 

 

 

 .. which is of course for...

 

Eileen.

Likely AI, the video, but who cares... I do not. It´s cute!

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 ... and put on your warm clothes if in Northern hemisphere and enjoy a cool Autumn-day.

 

 

 

FFO - Nearly There

 

 

 Better like this? Ack. I´m rusty.

 

 

 

Let´s hope we don´t get sick. I was freezing my head off despite winter-PJs, robe, two blankets.

Someone knocked at the door. Ingo was gone already.

I was... naked. Maybe cause I was so cold all night?

 

There was a woman, a bit younger than me, also naked and. She.Wanted.To.Get.Inside!!!! 

 

I HATE those real-life dreams. 

 

I yelled for help, no one heard me, she looked at me, mad.

I pulled myself together, said, "OK, come on in, won´t help if we yell."

 

And, like that sketch-girl above she suddenly was nice. 

Halloween on the way?

With this I join Nicole´s...

 

 

FFO.

 

Other... SMILE!

 

 Well, we have a small condo, balcony and I hang the laundry like that - I´m close - you?

 

 Always assuming the worst.

 

 ... what I should´ve done!

 

 

... why I have the DVDs!!! 

When a girl (well, married already) get´s my for-free DVDs to make sure to watch in the original BECAUSE of the quotes being correct, then I can´t be wrong!

 

 ... speaking of...

 

 

Do you have such weird, real-like dreams, too? I hate them.

What are they for??? 

 

Telling me I´ll get sick? Or everything´s gonna be all right??? Love is the answer, all ghosts are welcome?

 

 Henry 🦁´s cousin being near-Halloween-silly: