Christmas & New Year Wishes

 

I thank each and every one of you for the Christmas/New Year wishes, past I posted, these that came a tad later - let us start with our neighbor W who is my Dad´s age.

I do not like sweets. 

That was the result Ingo found...

(All eaten up! By ME!!!! I can roll into Perth! I didn´t want any extra-calories, but my... that was double-yummy!!!! Beer still in the fridge).

Is that a German saying? "Through the flower" W let me know I.Should.Drive.A.Car again!!!!

I do believe in an emergency I can do that (haven´t since 2018).

Isn´t his handwriting beautiful? Just like my Dad´s was.

 

Mailman Ingo never gets tired...

This one came from "around the corner", from bertiebo! Thank you!!!

A Happy New Year to you, too!

This came from America, from Erika, to be precise, I got many an art-advise from!

Thank you 😘

The likely last came from dear Tom:

This was a superfun photo-card, but as I don´t know if I am allowed to share faces all you get is these wise words! Get dressed - SMILE 😊

Two last shots from our Market:

Glad I don´t like sweets!!!!

 

Wish me luck this will go for Freo as well!!!!

Henry 🦁

 

 ... and friends from around the world!

Yippeeyayeah, Cowboy?

 

We´re back at the Christmas Market. This sign led the way!

We wanted some more of these and 3 for RIGHT NOW:

 

 

But due to the floodings no new sausages were delivered. (See here, if you like).

We, so at the...

 

... had...

 

In case you think eating this kind of meat... see...

 

Pic taken 2015 in Italy.

Meat is from animals (hopefully). 

And yes. I rode horses and ponies, I cuddled with them and cared for them.

 

This we didn´t give a go...

 

I promise, tomorrow will be the last Christmas-post.

This is for Tom´s Signs2!

 

Henry 🦁

 

 

Henry cares and helps with Frühe Hilfen vor Ort.

See why I love my city?

  

T Is For Telephone And Trains And...

 

As I work 99% from home K went to our boss M and got me a mug, so I can have my tea properly at home. And yes. That is my private PC-place. It was Christmas!

Wish me luck ESE keeps me (so far no answers from the customers (ALSTOM/Vossloh), I don´t bring in money... I am still in project Intranet).

 With this mug I join Elizabeth´s T of course!

The journal:

Monday: A woman called me. I answered the phone as I learned:

"K" (we answer the phone with the surname) - "Hi, it´s me!". ... "Hi, me also!" (I had a guess)

Was my big Niece!!! Like an adult (she is 13), apart from that "faux-pas" on the introduction it was like talking to an adult!!!

Same school, all the rooms she described... like being back. Teachers all unknown, sport and math are her favs. It was very sweet.

@Ingo: I do NOT want that phone!!! NOT.  

And I mean it - see on Thursday what happened with W - also more happy mail to show!!

 

Tuesday: Cried watching "The Green Mile" ("4 times in one night", LOL!) after Ingo let  me know "Lost Places" is on and I finished that!!!

What to do in this icky weather otherwise?

Wednesday: We are still on holiday. And what does Ingo do????

 

Yes, letting me know, Siemens with railway is on TV. As if I was a junkie! (I started in railway with Siemens mobility, not ALSTOM).

I admit, I enjoyed it!

Payed a bill. Yes, worth a note!

You need PC, Smartphone, back and forth! But you get the bill on paper. How small can you print? I needed to take my glasses off and write it down. I am short sighted, lucky me.

I could do it all on the phone but prefer the PC. I am old, you know...

Thursday: Could not sleep in, got darn bank-stuff done. (Yippee, Australia, I´m on my way!).

Ingo went to the Christmas Market/City with me, despite he hates that 😘.

BY GOLLY!!!! Can people not be THANKFUL for once?!!! City full to the brim with people bringing back their presents. So many! I hope some at least had vouchers but most ... forget it.

X-Mas-Market: Not the sausages we wanted. All gone! Due to flooding, thunderstorm and all, ... see here, if you like (we´re good!!!!) they didn´t have the small sausages.

We shared a big one. 

How sad also for them! We´d bought at least another(!) 9 to take home! (Where we needed to take a detour to).

Friday: Lazy day. Lost Places and a docu on why you should also eat meat. Interesting. We don´t eat much of it, well... "back in the day" men didn´t kill a bear each day, either, huh, women got fruit and all that.

I am thankful I have no food-allergies and can eat anything!

 

K brought "vegan egg-salad" to the Christmas brekkie. Nah. I tried. Nah.

I am open for veggie/vegan, the latter so far disappointed me every time. Every time.

Also they said more water etc is needed. Aw, well. To produce ANY food you have to invest.

I could read myself into it, but I have too many books already. Cows fart a lot, vegan needs a lot of water.

Eat wise, a bit of everything.

What do you think? I love the variety we have, I do live a bit lowcarb. 

But a fried egg on a slice of bread with cheese I cannot pass by.

Yes, I could bake lowcarb-bread. Did. Froze it. Ruined.

 

And, no. No training whatsoever. I hope my arm is healed now!

Weekend: Saturday: Grocery-shopping. Peeps stocked up BIG with fireworks, oh, gack.

Ingo - despite he actually does not like it - got pizza-baguettes 😘, for Sunday, as I was too hungry to wait... 

Paper-tons are empty!!!! Ingo also got rid of the halfbike-carton. Now I HAVE to learn to ride it.

Sunday: Die Maus, Tom & Jerry and Dad´s classic, It's a Wonderful Life.

With ASII (Angel, second class, aka Clarence).

Because... "every time a bell rings an Angel gets it´s wings"!

Art-wise I have something to say! 

The nose (OK, not mine, I "suffered" enough with that. Boys called me pig, socket, German Shepherd... you name it), THIS one from FFO:

As we all help and motivate each other let me share!

I have these "pens", I think from LIDL! - I needed to learn to use them, but once you got it - great - PLUS, my good "old-fashioned" water-colors. Et voilà! Easy-peasy!!!! Just a wee bit of grey.

 

 Munch-wise

 

 

Thank you, Ingo! 🥰

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 Henry and the Oker-bees wish you a happy-honey-liy 2024!

Calendar - How Much Does Color Weigh?

 

I got a second "Imagine"-calendar and wanted to know how much weight 2023 gained.

I´m not talking about myself 😉 and yes, third post today. I blame it on the long night yesterday due to the ### who had fireworks till... argh.

Here they are side by side...

Tomorrow will be it´s last appearance.... time runs.

Any guess?

It surprised me:

 

 

As you maybe saw in first pic I have more calendars:

 

Einstein? Just scroll down for calendar #1! And, what I did not expect but was so happy about:

 

 

Maybe that means ESE will keep me?

 

And for now last:

 

 Who does not want wisdom, huh?

 

 I am sorry it´s all in German.  But just take the small info, that should do, right?

An endless translation is rather boring, right.

 

It will NOT be the last. 

We will go to Perth Children Hospital and get the Firefighter-calendar that is reserved for me.

 

With these (plural) I might join Erika? Despite there is no sketch?

 

Henry 🦁

 

  Henry, it was a tough, loud night! I made up with three posts, OK?

January 0st

 

I kinda totally forgot (sorry, the fireworks went waaaay into the night, what nonsense!)... today is January 1st. Or, is it?

 

 Well, as you do in coding, right?

I had to get the next "a fun crash course in science"-calendar 🤗

With that again: Happy New Year, we can learn a lot in 2024!

 

Henry (´s kids) 🦁

 

 

Sorry, yes, forgetful me started with two posts again...

At least two GOOD ones!!!

And reckon I´ll pop into the city tomorrow to get two cheapy calendars for hall/bedroom.

 

 

We´re Good

 

As our Monday-host Sami is still on holiday I take the opportunity to show those who worried: We are fine!

When we came from the Christmas Market we were a bit ... "shocked". 

We could not go home this way! 

 

We didn´t wait to see, I don´t wanna see a mini-drama, we went the other way round.

 

The same sight everywhere near us.

 

 

We live next street. A bit scary it was (we live ground floor, too).

It even was in the national news:

This was crazy weather!!! 

Firefighters and THW did a great job, Braunschweig, apart from some areas, was mostly safe and dry.

I cannot remember a flooding in December. Nor snow in November! 

Flooding usually happens around September and snow rather February! And we had heavy winters here!!!! -20C / (-4F?).

 

My poor Polo!!!

See the number plate?

BS does not stand for BullShit but BraunSchweig and then... my boss!!!

He always payed extra-money so we all got personalized plates - and that drove me NUTS!!!

He always used our initials and birth-date.

Once I was asked what the number is.

Ummmmm.... Something with my name and date!

Every three years we got a new company car. This had IK (first name, surname) 72 (year born).

I also had IF  (first two names) 191 (day/month) and so on until I said, dear A - stop it, please!

That as a side-note. It is not that these nature-phenomenons do not happen. They always do.

Just the times are unusual. And really. I never saw Oker going up THAT high!!!

I am glad we live a bit far from river Oker, and this was just a mini-arm of her! 

Mighty enough to stop us, though...

Weird thing is: Working from home you don´t even realize how much rain is coming down!!!

Ingo knew, I did not!

We were spared - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Henry 🦁

 

 Smile!!! Play! Have a good time...