Woody Allen Is In My House!

 Remember Mae´s blog-entry on Five Authors and a Historic Theater?

Can you imagine  my face hearing Ingo say, there is mail for you and finding this?!!!!

I think our addresses fly around and that´s fun and OK!

See...

And there is more!

 

It´s not just a tavern, it´s a symbol of today´s!

 

Well. I haven´t sadly seen a horse in ages... or traveled.

I remember good and mean horses/ponies (I often got the ponies cause I´m small).

One was named Alexander.  Any guess why? 

He was great!

In size and character.

I had to adjust the stirrup.

No.let´s start different. I came with the snaffle. Some horses refuse. He put his head down, cutie-pie, that!

The saddle, too heavy and him simply too tall - I needed help. Then adjust. He could´ve run away! He stayed put and waited till I was done and (sorry) bumped into his back. (I needed to jump, he was like really, really tall!)

Guess he would´ve loved the Michie Tavern (thank you for the memories, Mae!).

And one more:

Sorry. My cam was a little "overjoyed"!

Ahh, to see this for real, that would be great!

My uni - Fachhochschule, or "FH, or University of Applied Sciences (UAS)" looked crap if you look at this beautiful building!.

Why am I still proud? I also worked with my hands, with real machines, it was not plain theory.

In the end architecture was not for me, but IT is also some kind of architecture, right?

Mae, you must´ve read my mind!

I thank you big and just have a look at the wonderful... and...

 

The first one features Virginia´s largest botanical garden - oh, have to look if our (small one) is open again! 

 

The next one is Nella Larsen.

 

She was a nurse and a librarian AND she published two novels.
And certainly her "color" is  a reminder of today...
I´ll never understand why "we" go at each other for skin color or else. We are one people.
She was born 1891 and studied as mixed-race descendant at University - chapeau!

I love these history-lessons I missed out on our poor, dumb schools!

I´m pretty sure the last stamp is on the Huntington Library - don´t we all love books?

 

 

And really. If I don´t find a job, guess where you´ll find me? Botanical garden (or, if still closed balcony) with a book!

This library has some whopping "120 acres (49 ha) of specialized botanical landscaped gardens, most notably the "Japanese Garden", the "Desert Garden", and the "Chinese Garden"." (wiki)

When can we travel again?

Why can I not find such stamps here?!

Thank you Mae.

I hate mail, but this was wonderful mail.

Henry 🦁...

I thank you for the big smile!

Contradiction

 These are the times. An old piece of a bed blocking the way to a restaurant and someone - likely the sad owner - felt the need to write on it you are welcome (Germans say "herzlich", by heart). Just... they can´t, thank you, Corinna.

 

I think a lot of people reflect these days.

How much businesses have closed down and how can it be that Ingo works side by side with colleagues - they have to "hand" over tiniest parts - but they are not allowed to go into a bar afterwards and share a beer or whatever.

Or, what Ingo just said to me, "remember when you worked for the undertaker? Tiny parts of chipped wood everywhere when you worked on it - did you wear a mask?" No. And now you find masks everywhere. Likely dumped into the street cause it´s a job too hard to carry  them to a rubbish-bin (irony, right).

You work hard you get hungry. Hm.

"To Go!" ... Just... you have to wear a mask in the heart of the city. Likely it´s cold once you can take the mask off...

Huh. I´m SO done with Currywurst anyways, LOL! Even if "Braunschweiger specialty".

I worked as external for VW and once a week it was Currywurst-day and we were kinda "forced" to join - can you imagine?

 

"Forced" as for the guys we were but a team! Our VW-boss send the song Currywurst around every time 😍

                          

 

16 years and I would´ve been forced to pay 50% more in the canteen being external (the guys up there called it "guest").

I had a VW-colleague who faked a card for me, I paid the normal price.

Pffff. I can tell. He´s retired, I´m fired, it even rhymes!

And he has our Moped!!

This is for Tom´s signs 2.

 

And Henry 🦁? Did he go missing????

 

 

They search for Lions!!!

Now THAT is some sign!

 

T STands For Adriano!!! Help Me In The KiTchen!

 

 

Ingo gave me the Bose and ever since when I cook... Adriano is with me and I bother no one!

Those headphones are brilliant!!!

See... go. Vote!

 

                              

Or how about a ballata? La ballata di Pinocchio? (We´ve been there, Lucca!)

                              

 

You cook like a King with this! (And listen to all the laughter, it´s a joy!) Certainly Homer is with me also (see cooking helper under Bose)!

 

 Here I just took a pic - €23 for a hot-"water"-bag? Not with me.

What did Adriano and I cook (and yes, I cleaned up afterwards, no spaghetti sauce left as mess)...

 

 The other pot was Ingo´s...

Ingo grew up with this, and he grew to over one meter eighty (eighty-four, now maybe eighty-three), I did not and don´t even hit the -sixty anymore.

But this soup and I won´t make friends...

Spaghetti, anyone?

Art-wise I just doodled around. I STILL wait for the book on water-colors, thanks to Corinna it´s all a tad slow...

Spring-colors - yesterday it WARMED UP - sorry for screaming but getting Ingo´s bread was a JOY!!! I used sunscreen! Yippeee-ya-yeah, Schweinebacke!!!

 

(Schweinebacke being winter! YES, take that, winter!!! And here is an interview with Schweinebacke´s speaker! A FUN interview!!! My belly hurts!  I´m in love a bit!)

So Spring-colors it was!

The sun is out!!! Cookie, you!

Red and green, our kitchen. 

Guess what I did.... Took some of my bread out of the freezer. Put chicken and Wasabi on it.

Sounds yum?

I forgot I had loads of chili in the bread, BOY, that was hot! 

Well this Easter will be slim, eh? So I stuck to just a simple, thin, handwriting... but I wish you...

 

Other (other than blogger bugging me, changing font etc every time! Same with you?) and other than not being able to find a job... 

 

...even W said NO! It´s not worth it!!!

I get job offers in Jena! Frankfurt. Top was Vienna.

Perth I would take but that won´t happen.

This was my week:

 

THE HIGHLIGHT certainly was finding Treasure!!!

A post on that Thursday is in the making, we live in dumb-land.

Friday I went up to neighbor W - I´d said I MIGHT make lasagna and share it with him but after dumb I was sick of more heat.

 

He´s too thin, he´s so sad about his wife having Alzheimer´s - mind you, I sure know how this goes, my Grandma in the end thought I´m my Brother´s Wife. Out of 14 Grandkinds she raised the two of us! And forgot me....

 

He loves Stollen - a Christmas Cake and guess what I found!!!! SPRING-Stollen!!!

Even better than lasagna, right! W gave some for Ingo back (I don´t like sweets):

Also my entry for Elizabeth and Bleubeard´s "T Stands For Tuesday".

 

So there we stood, W and I, me with mask on.

W: "You won´t get a vaccine, will you!!!"

It was merely a warning not going for it.

 

No. Not in the risk group, don´t see anyone and meds are taken off the market as considered unsafe in Denmark already.

I said, "have you seen the news, how Merkel...." ... OH BOY. 

W got a bit loud, calling her (rightfully) stupid, asking what good it is to say "sorry" for ruining our country, aka not being able to manage the crisis.

 

THE WORLD, America, rightfully laughs about "us"! 

And yes, rightfully. Compare the size of these countries, Germany is tiny and Merkel goes from lockdown to hard... you get the picture...

GOOD: We switched to SUMMER-TIME!

Wish we could stay there!

And Die Maus!

 

Or "heart", as Ingo calls it...

 

Mine sure is much more beautiful, thanks to Ingo, post to come.

Henry 🦁

Ice-Tea??? Oh, Henry, not warm enough for that, Lion, you!

Just a pic, I cannot buy everything, right...

Popo - And Who Is Lilly?!

On March 1st I got mail!

Real snail mail - I had to laugh so hard!

Because... what was the first thing I saw when I opened it?

 

Yes. Another Popo (butt)!!!

Mine, kinda, too!

As you maybe know I´m rather clumsy and Ella - who sent me this on.the.dot! - calls me Hathi, you know, the baby elephant from The Jungle Book. Elephants and china-cups, or glass for that matter and I... not a good idea!

Awwww... cute card! 

Ingo understood it all, I had to use google translate - what did we do before internet?!

It would´ve forced me to ask Ella ... no - I wouldn´t even know her!!! How sad! But even if... no, pre-internet that would be an awful long wait via snail mail!

I would´ve had to call my fav book-store or library - with Corinna and lockdown you cannot march in, you have to order first, so I would´ve had to order a paper-dictionary. Remember the olden times?

Thank you internet and google!

But there was more!!!

Ella sent herself along!

 

Is that a summer-tattoo?

And that was still not all!

Look at these beauties! Must not loose them on the billiard-table 😉

 

I had a "blue-phase" when I started my first real job!!

 

The carpet in the place I was into flat-sharing was blue, and my dear colleague S... the hanging closet he didn´t need no more.. blue.

First company car, boss asked which color - I said, I don´t care, cheap, you chose? Blue 😂

Sweet, sweet memories.

The last shoes I got for our Australian first journey after so many years: blue!

Unexpected, sweet memories!

 

You think that was it, you´re wrong, along with a lovely letter came a lucky charm!!!

 

 

Maybe a job is on the way? 

 

And a very beautiful card:

 

And can you imagine how I got wide eyes when I turned the calendar page?! Lilly?!!

(That was the name I wished they´d chose for one of my Nieces, no such luck).

This is not Lilly!

I had to get a pen just yet again!

And the title, well, I dunno what it is with Popos these days.

First I find the Popo-Guy on our balcony (and Hathi!), then the Klitschko-Brothers, followed by my lucky pig arriving at Stevenson and where did the mailman put his stamp on?

 

Right... The Popo!

I  walk the street and what´s there? 

Someone wrote...

"POPO" on the wall.

Henry 🦁 laughs and shows me his... Popo!

          

Isn´t this plain hilarious?!

Well, one last thing: 

My Brother is wrong. If online-friends are not friends, then why would Ella care to send me all those wonderful, funny goodies? 

Thank you loads, Ella 🦋, you made my day🧡!

Oh, Corinna

 

Our dear host went mural hunting with me here in 2019.

Oh, how time flies. 

Sadly I forgot to take a note of the artist - bet there you found one, unlike mostly in my place...

Well, this one sadly still suits the times.

Most shops are still closed. And, well... to Germany Australia still has...

... code orange. 

 

 

I cannot send anything over. I joked "maybe for Easter" and I think "lille Corinna II" won´t make it even then... I only hope my Bärenland-man is correct and the goodies will be OK even then.

Oh, wait. July, right, then it´s your Christmas, maybe Corinna waits for that?

And a P.S to last post: I wrote - in context to the song - that I remember the times - I broke that arm in 1994! Aaaaages ago 😉. Yet, yes, sad badminton etc is gone forever for me. I was really good at that. Also.. I´d be a tad old to start studying now, don´t you think?

Even if I still have to show my ID when I want to buy a beer at the grocery store... I´m nearly 50, just believe me!

Henry 🦁

He´d like to serve you a Schnitzel and a beer, but his restaurant is... closed.

All the stylish clothes for nothing!

This is for Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.