My Southern Cross

For my 35th birthday my Mom (paying) and my brother (doing) had a great idea for a birthday-gift: The Southern Cross as a pendant.

So many, many times I sat in the width of the Australian Country and looked up in the sky to admire this constellation of stars you cannot see from here. To admire the clearness of the sky, oh, I miss it.
What I not miss are the Mossies, though. Or Ants, Beetles.... BUGS of any kind and there are many, yuck!

Anyhows, my dear Bro missed one star...



(no, that´s not my skin, that´s a table!).

He added the missing star, but the position wasn´t right (yeah, I hear ya, never content! But the star stood out way too much!)

He has a lot to do, his girlfriend´s house has a hole in the roof and it needs protection against flooding and so on.

But yesterday I went there for a visit, also to fetch my new Sunglasses (pics are to come) and to ask him to finish the pendant:





It´s done! He went downstairs to polish it and it took ages. He came back with an unhappy face - the machine had grabbed the cross and threw it someplace. After finding the cellar being wet there, too and after searching unsuccessfully, he was very frustrated (ask me!). He promised he´s gonna find it. I do hope so, the yellow one is a brilliant!

Well. Anyhow it was nice to be back again. We went to have something to eat and I even saw a person I once went to school with!

Here is my Bro thinking, gosh, yet another pic!



Well, yes! I hardly see him these days!

Ingo is still in Luebeck in hospital. His brother called me often. Two operations later I hope Ingo is on the way to get healthy again. I hope he comes home soon.

Well, home.... To Braunschweig at least. Martin said Ingo has to go into rehabilitation, gaining weight and strengthen his muscles.

Our first summer "living" together... aw, well. At least he will be ok sometime more or less soon.

BTW.: By just looking up in the sky with your eyes and no further help like a telescope you cannot see the star on top is yellow.
How was my dear Bro to know, he has never been there, sadly.