T STands For TEN

For Elizabeth´s T-party I join with a sparkling tea - CHEERS!!!! 

I only found this party 2019 - and I learned so much from all of you!

A big THANK YOU!

You motivate me, you helped me out of the big hole called job-loss, too.

As kid I liked to paint.

When studying I enjoyed act drawing - a great break from technical drawing, but with working life I lost interest, other things took over.

Now I enjoy both, my work and getting creative!

Thanks to our host and all you participants.

Ingo was relieved I found a way out of the misery and presented me with (too) many art-supplies.

And the ideas do not stop, to T and Tea!

Bought this teabag-holder with mama and baby Koala in Perth (no surprise).

It sits at my workplace to make sure my tea does not sit in the cup forever.

I hate tea that bathed too long.

And I have international tea, too!

I love both art-pieces, but especially the house, thank you, Darla!

It reminds me of Tuscany. 

And Ingo Saturday really suggested we make a trip there in September!

Tempting...

Either way - today is American tea-tasting day!

Ingo kinda celebrated, too with home made fruit jelly-o:

I join rather with this:

The journal: 

 

Monday: Cooled down, tops only 24C / 75F.

Windy, no balcony-time. Have we been lucky with the weekend!!

Warm enough, though, for fresh, cool cherries and melon from the fridge!

4 sessions of training.

And I lied last T-Day. There WERE mossies... 

Tuesday: What are the chances... Phone rings. Me: "Kaiser..." (Emperor) - other person: "König (King)... I believe I got the wrong number..."

We had a good, lille laugh 🤴🤴 See, that´s why I kept my name when we got married.

Actually it should´ve been Kaiserin and Königin, as we were both female...

Nice chat with new ESE-teamleader, later WhatsApped with ALSTOM-teamleader... on cooking - times are a changing (I learned to cook and bake only after losing my job)!

Balcony time - no training.

Wednesday: 05:something a.m. and 26C/79F already... THAT is life!!!! Birds are chirping... ah, wonderful.

News: From today on we work for us only. The rest was with taxes. It gets later and later every year. €1 is worth €0,47. The stupid working German really "works his butt off".

 

Super-nice chat with two male ESE-colleagues who also have to take a break from ALSTOM - good times! 

Ingo met ALSTOM-teamleader to give my laptop-back... 😥

Bro called, another sad, frustrated call.

Balcony-time, only 2 sessions of training. Priorities, right?

Being an atheist I enjoyed the movie Life of Pi anyways - or even because! 

To not confuse you... it´s not about π - or just a bit. Pi is a boy and he get´s lost at sea with Richard Parker...

 

Thursday: Work was fun with the other two "ALSTOM-holidayers".

Later still-at-ALSTOM-ESE-teamleader called to let me know they are on plan and likely November I can come back!

It cooled down, grey, rainy.

4 sessions of training - in case you think it´s a lot: 1 session is 25 minutes only. To good music.

Friday: At the doc. Woman, my age, filling out a paper, asking the elderly man beside her (cause I was reading on my kindle) what date it was.

Him: "Dunno. I only know it´s Friday..."

Me: " I, after thinking, wrote 14th... hope that´s correct."

Duuuude. Back in the day we knew what date it was!

 

Warm day again, BBQ and sketching, due to all the running to doc etc only one session of training.
Summer is more important, right!

Weekend: Saturday: Started sunny, then... grey, grey, grey, windy. Lazy day. No Botanical Gardens... But later sketching and BBQ - and I forgot the ham!!!

Then rain again. Just drops, sadly - where is my SUMMER RAIN???

We wrapped up and sat on the balcony till late at night with Henry.

Sunday: Stormy! What´s with summer?

Die Maus even stood in rain....

Phew, sorry for this long one...

Henry 🦁

Let´s celebrate creativity!