October Is Clearly Here

 

 

Ingo went to the market Saturday morno.

I could not join. I had a very bad cramp and hurt on my right leg like crazy.

 

It is October.

Let´s face it and see the good!

 

 Nature is an artist!  Right?

 

If you head into the cold half of the year... what is your fav comfort-food?

I felt better later and...

They didn´t even look at me! Pffft.

They were jealous!

"Signorina"  got an extra big bowl. Boy, I had fun till the mill, so much this was!

"Superbowl" is not always only in American Football!!! 🏈 🤣

 

And certainly... travel-flowers! 🥰

 

 

See... I would miss out on this if I worked in an office.

I cannot take Ingo´s flowers on the push bike over kilometers back and forth every day!

Henry 🦁

 

 

Are We Done With It Soon?

 

 

What a sign. Taken here in Braunschweig. No idea why it does not say "Beendet den Krieg".

Anyways...

More and more Ukrainian people come to Germany.

Winter is near. What else should they do.

Can "we" manage this? 

 

Where to "put" them all? Germany is rather small, too.

The political situation is not good.

Germany always took and takes in refugees from everywhere.

I am glad I do not have to make decisions.

 

 

This is from around the corner, near Gauss-bridge. 

An elderly couple makes a big sign here.

The woman cannot move her legs no more so the Hubby/Boyfriend got a special bike and together they care for this little "garden". 

It´s not theirs, they´re not allowed to do this and every one enjoys it.

 

BIG SIGN!!!

 

 

I have to say... in my ... "mind" (?) it is always small men who start big wars. They never fight themselves cause they are cowards. Let their food tested etc etc.

 

Ukraine. Destroyed. What does "he" want with this? How can he even sleep or look into the mirror.

Just what does he want with the corn that is no more, the sunflowers, gone.

Isn´t Russia big enough?

 

Yes. I am not that interested in politics.

 

Why???

 

Yes. We, also women can - and I do! - vote.

But I often wonder... what for.

The Simpsons have not only one episode on this.

Trust in a true voting system is kinda gone.

I just wish... The world understands the wrong and ends it.

Just saying. The Russian as the German PEOPLE ... men?... never wanted to fight.

We all are peaceful at heart.

Aren´t we?

 

This is for Tom´s Signs2.
 

Henry 🦁

 

 

Just imagine all the mental lives destroyed.

If a bomb went down right here... Lock me in, my life would end in fear.
 

T Stands For... To Books... And UniTy

My ticket to Elizabeth´s T.

Hm. Won´t buy that again! Nothing compared to REAL coconut-"water" - don´t buy this!

Go to a food-festival, buy a real coconut... "bio" does not mean it´s real!

 'nough bragging (it was a whole liter to drink, gaaahhh! And as I don´t waste I drank it all!)

 The journal, I try to keep my week short!:

 

Monday: Zipped by. I was sooooo tired.

 

Tuesday: Running after colleagues.... exhausting. 

One said yes!!! Yippeee! No idea if he´s the one for the job, will find out! He is WILLING to help!

(Actually I am willing to help, aw, well... Intranet... the thing you do NOT need)

I got a real cool book!

Learning for life is always good - won´t name the blogger-friend who made me buy this - THANK YOU! And stop it 😉

Really. I need to play lotto, win and have TIME for reading!

My job is exhausting. So.. I admit... I surf your blogs on left monitor, TV is on the right for "nearby-entertainment".

My forced day off. My mind was in working-mode... Stupid thing, that!

Wednesday: Went to the doc. A man came into my direction, coffee in hand, smiled at me and said "good morning!". Funny. I live in a city! He was a total(ly nice) stranger - more people like that, please!

The doc wanted to check me through (why ever!) and on seeing my scars went, "ow! What happened there?!".

I hardly see them. I should´ve allowed Ingo to take a pic when they were fresh, really.

The assistant saw my Koala-tattoo... she loves Perth, has spent 9 months traveling Australia and loved Perth most 😘

Later to the city to meet colleague K to give her Rudy Rucker´s 4th Dimension (Ingo got a second copy).

 

 

(Did I mention... too many books, too little time? And time sadly here is not the fourth dimension)

She is in depot, she wrote. Thought the tram-depot and waited outside.

Haaaaa... she was  in a shop in the mall called "depot"! 😜

They sell kitchen-ware, hence I was never in there...

Thursday: Colleague C, later K then M... spontaneous meetings from their sides. And as good bye Admin T.

Yes, I did get some work done, too!

How can one think I am lonely working from home???

 

25C - reading time on balcony (World Central Kitchen).

Friday: Good start with an "xD" from my Admin T and a "we are 450 Mitarbeitende"-note from another (male) colleague. No "Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen" or "Mitarbeiter*innen"-nonsense! Mitarbeitende means "people who work together".

 

Good news: My ALSTOM-project pauses till March next year!

So I can truly enjoy our six weeks in Australia!

New job-offer...2 times a week in the office. Do I want that? In winter? What for? Let´s see...

Weekend: Saturday: City-fun. More to show soon 👻

 

Sunday: Had a bad dream. Monday I have a forced holiday cause Tuesday is a public holiday... and Wednesday???

The new school! When?? Where is my classroom, what to bring???

Oh, my gosh! 

I am 51 and in my dream I was a teenager again.

I have this dream from time to time. Maybe cause my teamleader offered me a new job where I can bring money in - but I want to finish my project I have NOW (it´s internal). My heart is at it as I know the technique and it gives me a chance to meet new colleagues! And I think I can IMPROVE something!

Important for an introvert.

Why can´t my brain  take a long weekend as well?!

New job > school... dis-orientated. A horrible dream.

Munch-wise...

And "art"-wise...

 

(These are grapes)

Ingo´d asked me to put a €-cent in the pic so people see how small the canvas is.

This I painted happily on a "hot" - aka bearable (not freezing) - summer´s day.

Seesh. 

Ya all had too much heat and we froze our butts off here.

Sadly/gladly no one can "want" weather.

Looking forward to our summer-holiday in winter come February!!!!

 

Henry 🦁

 

 

 

Yes, Henry. No more melons. I am as sad as you are. What a shit#y "summer" this was anyways...

To a good new week!

 

Today is German Unity Day. 

To all the nice peeps I met from "over there"!!!

And there are many!!!

And yet... the wall still is in our minds... is it in yours, too?

"My T" is one of them...

 

 

On Dudelsack And Life

 

Me, working for cgs at Volkswagen.

New colleague, T (aka "my T").

Every time I went into his 4-men-office he, in a hectically sec, hid his left hand under the table.

Odd.

If he´d did this slowly I wouldn´d even noticed.

 

Summer. 5th floor, south, huge windows, no aircon.

We luckily could wear what we wanted.

"Armless" top, I choose, hence. Not the flippy "spaghetti-top", of course, but you could see my shoulder. 

And T stared. And stared. And kept staring.

I was like, "in a sec I give you something to stare at!!!"

He stared at my  - back then still rather bad looking scars.

One the whole length up my right arm  - I still can bite by butt I did not allow Ingo to take a pic when it was really fresh.. like a Cordon Bleu that needs to go into the pan! 🤣

The other  - really ugly one - on my shoulder, and it has a small companion to the side.

Not to mention the now healed one on my hip, where they took a piece of bone for my arm... docs are amazing!!!

Heck, I didn´t care.

What does this show???

It shows I survived an accident and live a happy life!!!

I cannot do everything (I miss Badminton and such, but, alas).

 

T... slowly moved his left hand from the table.

Index- and middle-finger missed two parts.

Me (too loud): "THAT´S IT????" (more silent) "you can still dig in your nose!!!"

We were friends ever after.

His nasty divorce (sad story, not his fault), his new girlfriend... oh, I cry writing this... her brain was fit. She could move but one eye... over a way too long time cancer too slowly killed her. T and I were the only ones left caring.

And when one day I got no response... nor the second... I knew S was gone. Finally.

Ever since - I sure did not leave him like that - we WhatsApp every day. And if I forget he calls me cause he knows Ingo is in a bad health condition per se.

Ingo played ... ummm. no. Ingo tried to play the bagpipes.

What a pain!!!!! Arghhh!!!!

 

T often told me he loves that music, there is a band nearby, he visits their concerts, so I asked, "T, ... pretty, pretty please.... don´t you want to have Ingo´s bagpipe? He drives me NUTS!!!"

 

T happily agreed.

 

T finally left S´s house (he still has regular contact to her son, who owns it now) and invited us to his new apartment.

 

By golly! He knows Ingo is sick and he knows how much I eat... he made food for a gazillion of peeps (we didn´t need to buy food for the weekend).

And there it sat.

Neatly decorated.

The bagpipe.

I casually asked (I didn´t want to hear!!!!) how´s it going?

T - the man who hid his hand! - laughed.

"I totally forgot!!! With the two missing fingers I cannot play!!!"

I laughed my head off!

Just so you know.. he has a new girlfriend, they live together a very happy life.

Have you accompanied someone through such ups and downs?

Right now they´re holidaying in... on??? Mallorca. Enjoying a late summer.

Henry 🦁

 

 

Two posts today, as I certainly join Sami with the mural´s theme, just scroll down, if you like 😊

And yes, have the day off, start cleaning condo after brekkie!

To France Again, Maybe

More murals from that beautiful carousel.

 

 

This is for Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 

Henry 🦁

 

  This was fun!

 

Another New One

 

This idea is from Christine - thank you so much for the inspiration! As sketching on these tiny papers!

I had white pens but´d ran out of black paper, went to the city and got some more cool stuff I´ll share soon!

 

I really dislike the dark half of the year. At least till December we have happy lights.

 

Well - who thought October might pop up this fast?!

 

The month of September ended with Ingo coming home with these "broken" ones:

 

 

I admired the flowers all evening. Thank you, Ingo 😘

 

Here is what I "unwrapped" today: 

 

 

My heart nearly stopped.

I saw this for real many times in 2011.  

Our last holiday together, Mom, Bro and I...

 

 

Cancer, I HATE you... We made the best out of it, if you like look here.
 

Mom passed away on December 29th...

Will send a pic to Bro...

 

 Henry 🦁

Happy October. Two Birthdays are coming up, little Niece and Bro´s.

 

For Bro (and Ingo and I).... scroll  down, if you like, it´s about scones at "Lille Family Time".

 

 

 

 

Lille Family Time - Did You Have One Of Those?

 

 

You see his friend´s is carried by his parents (you see the blue-white tip only)  as the spoiled kid also got a rose.

Why I know that kid is spoiled? I had the "honor" his older sister chose me as friend and Mom always made me go to play-dates. The father is a doctor, the mother a housewife. Who always insisted to be addressed as "Mrs. Dr. D". My Mom always emphasized it extra, but the lady was too dumb to get the irony implied...

Very sad, Bro told me this boy later in life drifted away to drugs.

 

Did you have a school cone? 

I did. I was not happy an official photo was taken!

 

 

Also I really disliked the clothes my parents forced me into. A real dirndl from our trip to Vienna, Austria. The socks had "bommels"!

 

 

... he had to wait decades!

  

 

He took an English-course, I thought this counts as going to school.

 

I can´t remember what I had in mine. Think practical stuff mainly.

These days you get the coolest practical  stuff and toys and sweets, of course.

 

Wiki says "When children in Germany and in parts of the Czech Republic close to the German border, in parts of Poland (Greater Poland, Upper Silesia, Warmia), in Austria, in the German-speaking parts of Switzerland and Belgium set off for their first day of school upon entering first grade, their parents and/or grandparents present them with this large cone, attractively decorated and filled with toys, chocolate, candies/sweets, school supplies, and various other special treats. 

The cone is given to children to make this anxiously awaited first day of school a little sweeter." 

 

Ha-ha. I learned mostly dumb stuff and only now via blogger-friends learn interesting things!

 

Addendum... see Ingo´s comment:

 

 

Keeps a six-pack cool for quite a while (that English-classes were crap, Ingo showed me the material... like for kids.).