Abandoned places ·

 

Another history lesson:

 

"The rusting steam locomotive, abandoned along a forgotten stretch of railway, is a haunting reminder of an era when these iron beasts ruled the tracks. Vines and overgrown vegetation have slowly engulfed the train, as though nature itself is intent on erasing any trace of human intervention. The train cars stretch out behind it, their once-powerful engines now silenced, lost in time.

Urban legend tells of the "phantom engineer," a figure said to appear in the train’s cabin on certain moonless nights. Some believe that the train was part of a doomed final journey, where an engineer, driven mad by loneliness, drove it off the rails into obscurity. Since then, hikers and explorers claim to have seen the figure of a man in the cabin window, staring blankly ahead as though waiting for a signal to move.

One summer night, a photographer ventured to the site to capture the eerie beauty of the decaying locomotive. As he framed his shot, he noticed movement in the corner of his eye. Glancing up, he saw a shadowy figure sitting in the engineer’s seat, hands gripping the rusted controls. Heart racing, he snapped a photo, but when he looked again, the figure had vanished, leaving him wondering if he had encountered the legendary ghost of the tracks. "

 

 

Memory Lane Moments

 I have another for you:

"Memory Lane Moments
  ·
Not a movie stuff, still worth reading!
"We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” - June Wandrey
“An eighteen year old boy is carried into the shock ward, and he looks up at me trustingly asking, “How am I doing, nurse?” 

 

I just kiss his forehead and say, “You are doing just fine soldier.” He smiles sweetly and says, “I was just checking,” then he dies. We all cry in private. But not in front of the boys. Never in front of the boys.” - June Wandrey

June Wandrey Mann (1920–2005) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from Wautoma, Wisconsin. She was the author of Bedpan Commando, an account of her military service in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany from 1942 to 1946, during which she was awarded eight battle stars.

Source:
American Military History
(From Indiana Spirit of '45)
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿  𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀: https://besrilankan.com/vintage-photos-of-the-old-school.../"

If you don´t wanna cry, just scroll down to Saturday Critters... Mielebär is waiting for you.

Freo/Yanchep

 

Do these guys sitting in Freo count as critters to join Eileen?

The bear is our Mielebär again.

 

 

This was in Yanchep NP, where our friends Grace and P took us pre-COVID.

 

 As I know many a birder is at Eileen´s... help?

 

 Here is yet another gem:

 

 "Albert Einstein's creative and brilliant quotes

 

About the present moment

 

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks it should be."

Henry's 🦁 alter ego, the Black Swan 🐣:

 

  To a happy Saturday!

 

Memory Lane Moments

 Here is another history lesson I found very interesting:

"Memory Lane Moments
  ·
“This is my great-grandma, Christina Levant Platt at age 100, weeding her garden. She was born into slavery. Her “owner” was a wife that taught my great grandma to read and write secretly, which was illegal and quite dangerous at that time for both of them. She learned to read the Bible.
She had 11 children, she lost two, one son was one of the first black attorneys in US. She sent the 4 boys to college in Boston. Exceptional in those days.
She passed 5yrs before I was born but I love her as if I knew her. Family tells me she would say “ I put prayers on my children’s children’s heads”.
This apparently worked💜
Around April 12, 1861, Christina was at the 1st battle of the CIVIL WAR, in Fort Sumter at Charleston Bay, South Carolina, working in the cotton fields.
She said “the sky was black as night” from cannonball fire. She saw a man decapitated by a cannonball.
She was the water girl for the other slaves as a young girl and “ the lookout” for the slaves in the fields for the approaching overseer on horseback as they secretly knelt and prayed for their freedom.
She would watch for the switching tail of the approaching horse and would alert the slaves to rise up and return to picking cotton before he saw them.
She eventually married a Native American from the Santee Tribe. John C, Platt.
After freedom, Christina insisted upon taking her children north as she knew they would not get a good education in the south, and that’s all she cared about. She died at age 101 in 1944, where she and her husband had built a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, the first black family to move there.
With great respect, I honor my great grandmother.
So much more I could say about this miraculous woman. She gave me much strength in my hard times.
Whenever I thought I was having a hard day, I would think of her and shrug it off
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿  𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀
Credit  🫡: respective owners (DM for removal )"

FFO - Hello Summer 70´s And Smiles

 

I started to sort out stuff - these I will keep! Hello SUMMER!

 

I found those posters I took to my home from my family´s home after also Mom had passed away (2011).

This is a poster-series from Zeiss. Dad (and now Bro): Optometrists. I think in that little  town of ours it was not appropriate to pin the posters in the store (I have some more), I found them in a map - oh, if I had the space!!!

With this cool face (and hot body) I join Nicole´s FFO. 

 

My current glasses from Brüderchen (Bro):

 

 Left: monitor-glasses, right for going outside, bottom.. reading glasses.

I am allowed to let my company pay for the ones on the left, other Bro refuses money from me.

I have spares cause I am clumsy. And I now live in another place.

 

What made me smile this week, with which I join Annie´s Smiles... 

 

 

See here (more summer-pics!), Wednesday I was in the "scorching heat" on the way to my company to the yearly meetup.

40-minutes-walk one way, all traffic lights against me so I was two minutes late to meet fL before the meeting for a private chat.

(If you are new: f=female, m=male)

ALL went so well!

Yesterday I got hearts from my soon-to-be-teamlead, as, yes, it went well! (I work a lot with females now, though admin mT also once sent me a heart via teams, but I think he mis-typed!).

That panic-look of "mine" was not necessary! SMILE!

 

Also this made me smile:

 

Some funnies?

 .. in any language. German: Dingsbums. My mT (admin) always knows what I mean.

 

 

I really saw this! You, too? People alone in the car, wearing a mask! What were they thinking?

 

 

 

 I have the day off and... will do the taxes. Bleh.

(Did you sing in your head, too?)

 

 

As we´re in the 70´s today...

 

 

The taxes-thingy will come back anyways. I asked for more time and got a "no". OK,mean lady (I know her in person), work twice on that.

Taxes are made SO complicated and it´s a summer´s day, I don´t wanna invest time.

I still have no notification about 2022, btw!

Aw, well...

 Henry's 🦁... cousin:

 

 But, wait!!! Here is another one:

 

"Albert Einstein's creative and brilliant quotes

About genius

Every person is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Have a happy Friday!

And go for a swim?

 

 
 

@ The Grinning Cat

 

Went to ESE yesterday. First, private short meetup with fL.

Then the yearly meetup, uh-oh.

 

Railway-boss was in the room and I thought? Have I lost my job?!

He was super-friendly and left.

 

But then! fL already´d asked - "seminar-room, not fC´s office? Unusual."

fE was there, too, I thought as secretary and luckily didn´t ask.

She had a super-cute outfit and I said that.

 

"Thank you. I´m your teamlead when fC retires, btw 😉"

 

GLAD I said this before I knew!!! She was in the meeting to learn how to do it. 

 

Customer is happy with my work, now/still-teamlead corrected my work for the better (I had to say how good I think I am, she thought I´m better).

 

Both liked my idea of "Lessons Learned" and a dictionary with abbreviations for all - as in all ESE can help and we split it for Siemens, Deutsche Bahn, ALSTOM etc as they all want it translated different. (e.g. ALSTOM: earthing, Deutsche Bahn: grounding - cutomer is king and gets what he wants).

 

Ingo´d printed out work problems with which I was told to go to mK. Who laughed and took it easy, cause... he´s been there, too.

 

fK was already waiting for me - with GREAT NEWS, we took off to Grinsekatz (Grinning Cat) - formerly Okercabana and had.... 

 

 

Well, shared.... she had to eat up my last bit, too.

Those people from East Germany don´t care I had eaten without fork&knife but with my mouth.

Also: "Wanna try my drink?", she offered - from the bottle. We´re all still alive.

West German people are different. Well, us old ones. But I learned. 

Wonder about this generation, must ask big Niece.

fK and I took off our shoes and buried our feet in the sand... SUMMER!!!!!

 

I remember the tour through Italy. Our tour guide and our bus-driver, both from East Germany... we shared. He ate up my pizza I´d munched... without fork&knife, of course!

The four of us shared a cigar!

Our bus driver even offered I can take his swim trousers (he´s taller than Ingo so.... no).

The great news: fE will be my teamlead and (my friend) fK will be hers. 

And she can keep  her only 36-hours-work-schedule!  And get more money.

And I might be safe, even if no new project sits around the corner immediately. 

 

fE has learned about me and is on my side. We know each other since two years, too. 

One more:

"Albert Einstein's creative and brilliant quotes

 What matters

 

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

 Henry's 🦁... cousin:

 

Max is a tad ... grumpy.

 

But... let all of us grin! Another summer-day is coming up!

 

 

If We Ever .....

 

 ... would have had kids I sure would´ve been such a Mamma.

Sign found in Perth.

Eat*Drink*Dance!

This is for Tom´s Signs2.

And one more:

 

 

"Albert Einstein's creative and brilliant quotes

 

About being great

 

Great minds have always met with fierce resistance from mediocre minds." 

He was talented in so many ways...

Henry's 🦁 alter ego, the Black Swan 🐣:

 

T Stands For SUMMER-Time

Another Summer-Thursday (the Jürgens Brewery is only open to public on Thursdays and Fridays).  A happy Ingo with an Alt, I had the usual CRABBS.

And yes, this is a parking lot. All guests accept and by now maybe love the quirky way...

And with this I join Elizabeth´s T 😍

You can read "Braunschweig LÖWEN" (LION) on Ingo´s shirt.

 

The journal....

 

Monday: Sped by!!! I really have to write down each and every day. 

All I remember is work, being tired,  the dehumidifier drove me nuts - we live in a jungle!

 

 

Tuesday: I have a monster-file to translate. Sooo tired afterwards.....

See... the trains get refurbished.

They are that old, there are still ashtrays - and they were written by typewriter!!!

Hence AI sometimes does not understand text and I have to retype. Wonderful.....

Formats are gone, too...

Wednesday: Monster is done and dusted. Fun with admin mT after (my) work.

I even went to the toilet to give him the Chuck Norris-joke. We have a poster with toilet graffiti there (he started this!!!).

ESE is more like a bunch of friends/family, huh (450 peeps). 

We help each other, we make each other laugh. 

When we find info, we share. When we find jokes, we share.

 

I asked and mT as well as fK said it´s OK I´ll mention them by name in my yearly talk with my teamlead and both agreed my idea of "Lessons Learned" for all to contribute is a great idea.

Maybe I´ll succeed. 

I made the summer-BYO-festival happen, too. So...

 

See, at ESE, with the help of colleagues you develop in more than one way!

You are understood, supported... you grow up after all... (what I never wanted, actually).

I HOPE THEY KEEP ME!

 

Ingo: "N24 doku: Railway!" At work and afterwards... I´m kinda into railway non-stop!

It was about Maintenance - what I do right now! So interesting!!!! 

Niece turned 14. I talked to an adult!

Thursday: I flamINGO 🦩 (standing on one leg) and write with my left hand to trick my brain back to normal.

It´s flaming...

 

 

Tips and word-creation by fK. 

She decided for a FlamINGO  after the fire as she knows I am very afraid of fire...(I lost much of my right hearing and with that balance that I need to regain for my halfbike - my admin mT is really after me with this!). 

My new glasses arrived! My brother wrote my whole name and for himself "Mr. K" - I think my company will get we are related....

 

Beer at Jürgen´s Brewery! 

Friday: Day off for both of us (Ingo needed to bring his car to the garage again).

He came home on foot with the most yummiest breadroll for me!!!

 

 

A new place he found, Brötchenmanufaktur (Bread roll factory - we have a cheap "backery" They call themselves: Back Factory - "Back" from "backen" - to bake. I always think of the human back - Rücken, why mix German and English????)

Either way, Ingo said he wants a Roastbeef-breadroll for me. That he managed in German (Roastbeef is roastbeef in German, too. But then.... think... think... with.... ... "horse radish" - the dude understood! Meerrettich is the German word.

 

Languages live - I need to accept this!!!!

Super-yummy, hot,hmmm, .

Doorbell. Huge guy with a huge parcel.

My Aussie pies arrived! The cooling material took off all the space, phew!

I wonder how the posties handle elderlies or Turkish people. Apart from a happy "Tschüß!" he only spoke English and French. In a mix. Glad I speak both...

 

But!!!! Whilst German posties just throw the parcels in the hall (mostly) these guys ring your bell and ask what to do (somehow always ours. Is there a note "lady working from home"?)

Either way, those pies are frozen.

What did Ingo do parallel? Order 50 frozen horse-sausages. We have a small freezer.

We´ll play "freezer,or horse-tetris"...

 

Weekend: Saturday: No yummy breadroll but some beautiful flowers from Ingo.

 

 

💙💛

Pie (Chillie-cheese) was... nahhhhh....

Sadly then ... as life goes.

Sunday: Ingo´d bought gear to help me with my internet-problem. The instruction is unclear and ... kabooom. I am too "dumb". Maybe he is right, maybe the AI that wrote the instruction is, it did not work. Pie  Spinach-cheese was yum:

YUMMYYYYY... will order this again!

 

Sunny but too cold.

One more:

 

 "Albert Einstein's creative and brilliant quotes

On the error of designations

I am a Jew, a Swiss, a human being and only a human being, without any special ties to a state or a national entity."

Why can´t we all be like this?

Do I feel German? Not really. Some German words I have no clue of.

French, yupp, a bit still, and English is no problem, mostly.  I can order beer in Spanish (maybe I am German after all). Would love to know Italian.... when I retire, I tell ya, I´ll learn that! And return!

Ingo will book a bus-holiday with a guide again and off we will go! In 20 years maybe...

I am 52 now. 67 they said, till retirement. Politicians will  "lift that up".

If ESE keeps me that long, OK....

 

 Henry 🦁... `s cousin Max: