Oh...Stupidity! ...makes me cry

October 13/14....5:30 p.m.

Landfrau had to ship a parcel today.  Small conversation at the postoffice.......

Me...too bad that parcels can not be followed up.

Lady behind counter (from now on L. for short)....no, unfortunately just big parcels starting from etc.etc., but don't worry, parcels seldom get lost.

Me.....well, I expected a letter shipment the other day, a disc, it never arrived.

L. ...mind you, discs, they can be felt in the enveloppe and therefore they get stolen more often. ( nice statement from a post office official......lol)

Me....whoever took it probably had not been very happy, it had been country music and the thief for sure had been counting on pop or rock.

L. ....oh, do not worry, that has not been your fault!

Now! Is this a beauty?

Last Sunday has been better

Being spoiled in Luxembourg by far beats hanging around at home, writing posts which then vanish miracolously. Miracle up to now for me has been a spaghetti meal! Notice? I am sarcastic.

So Now I will give it another try to write a post about our nice time in Luxembourg. 2 years it has been...time runs so fast...since we last visited one of our favoured hangouts and it is almost like coming home,same nice suite, this time thanks to our family, who gave us the WE as a birthday present. Have been wellcomed by somewhat snubnosed "Obama"  (i call him so, he looks like him) the headwaiter, only this time,after we called him by his name..Huges...he even became talkative. He is a soccer fan and has been to Dortmund. Of all places!  And Cody, the dog of the house, Herrn Hunds former playmate, is still around, getting old and stiff too, just like us! 

There are a couple of hotelowned golfcarts now available which we could borrow ( and Herr Husband almost tilted us over with) , so I could show hubby all the paths up in the forrest where Herr Hund and myself had been roaming around.

Otherwise it has been great food, swimming in the inOut pool ,massasges and steambath and sauna.wellness pur!

Our little new car, the Mini Countryman, did a good job. It rides comfortably and is roomy enough for our luggage and the luggie (el.foldable wheelchair).

So now you know why this sunday today can not compete!

I can drive

Herr Husband

The Kamikaze

Senior Moments

September 29/2014... 8:07 a.m.

After an absence of 2 years we are here again for a few days in Luxembourg. And the food is so excellent as ever! There goes my diet. And last night at dinner the lady of the house came up to our table and we chatted. But when I incidently looked at my wrists I was so embarrassed...I was wearing a watch on each! sneaked off one and only hoped no one had noticed, only then I had to fight a giggling fit very hard!

Trowback Thursday

September 12/14....8:25 a.m.


Yes, love to dig up old pics which then bring back memories of times  - often long- past!
Oh, those times I so love to remember...riding full gallop across the riverbanks with my beloved Herr Hund  trailing, cuddling my kids in the evening, having great meals with friends, taking journeys to far away places, walking barefoot on the beach of a mediterranian island, watching the moon rise in New Mexico.
New Mexico, my love..this clear air, the colours, the light! - Somehow sad to never walk on those grounds again. 
Glad to have those memories to cherish...life goes on.

Good Bye, Elsa

August 23/2014 7:49 p.m

For years I have been driving by a pasture, occupied by a fat,little Haflinger horse.
She was dirty and ungroomed,but seemed rather happy on her lonely pasture. How do I know it was a girl? Well there has been a sign " do not feed Elsa, she will get sick". Now Elsa seems to have changed to horse heaven,some goats are taking up her place,
I miss the sight of her!

Our Seavoyage to St.Petersburg - Russia

Our seavoyage to St. Petersburg,Russia

To start off with must say, that it has been very interesting but did by far not beat the charm of our Virgin Islands trip last year. Going up north you must think that you end up with forrest ,lakes, sea and elks...no way! True, passing the baltic coast you see hundreds of little and big islands, lined with charming country homes, some of them have their own little harbour with sail and motorboats..still,the big harbours we visited on our trip are bustling cities with crowds of people milling around and traffic jams. St. Petersburg for example has a population of about 5 million people which almost equals the population of Estland.The capital City of Tallinn ,btw, has been the only place i could imagine myself to live..and there comes the big if....the summer would not only be 3 months and the rest long,dark very cold winter.

Now lets bring a little sequence in my report. As you might have noticed the trip started out with 2 days of Amsterdam, very nice, lively place! We stayed 2 days awaiting the ship and I started out with my mostly solo tours,which had been one of the problems of this journey. Herr H. simply could not cope with the strain of sightseeing any more ,so sharing so often was out. Once aboard it did not change much, what he loved most has been the bed. But I made the best of it, only in St.P., which I had been sooo looking forward to I was hit by dizzy spells and had to see the ship's hospital for an infusion. Tried to visit the Hermitage but had to leave after 3 rooms, the whole place started to turn summersaults around me.Besides ....being weekend,it had been very hot and crowded. But I had a marvellous river- and canal trip including the fortress of St.Peter & Paul with the great (former- museum now) cathedral( where almost all the zars have been burried) the next day. The weather played along, nice and warm...lovely! - So next it had been Estonia with Tallin and then Helsinki ,Finnland, where we had some discrepancies with our booked tour and ended up taking an hop-on-and off leaving from the harbour,which was in the end maybe the better idea, since the weather being very nice we sat on the open deck. Had some worries about being back in time on account of the traffic...ship does not wait for selfarranged tours! but we made it. Helsinki a very bustly city too with nice sights to see and very crowded. But I think up north people enjoy being out once the sun is shining. The weather had been great for sightseeing most of the time during our trip, Twenties C / sixties F.
Dissapointed I had been from Copenhagen/Denmark. First with hundreds of people we glared at the little meermaid (sits quite close to the passenger terminal) then we had a boring tour in the middle of traffic jams looking mostly at road constructions - they build a subway- and the bus was too cold on top, which did not help hubby's severe cough he had develop and still battles with.

Just notice I skipped our first harbour..Warnemünde in Germany, There we took a taxi to Rosock, a pretty,friendly little university town . We enjoyed it!

Now about our life aboard. They put us on a german table, not what we really wanted, Germans we meet plenty around here..they were ok though . Notice my black friends, there had been quite a big table of black people, but did not get to meet any of them. Matter of fact we met not many folks, one night we got stuck at the martini bar, the most highlife place aboard, hangover had been programmed next morning, all I needed with my already swirling head! At the end of the journey Mr. H. got seasick, so there I was again with my lonely meals and ventures.

So, friends, thats about it in short, the little things would take too long 

The Sequence of our NO journeys

May 914.....11:48 a.m.

The jinx about our vacation trips started several years ago with our trip or rather cancelled trip to Vacouver BC. We wanted to see our good friends Bill and Norma and they had planed such a great time with terrific side excursions..instead herr husband took an outtime in the hospital with kidney failure. 
Next cancellation river cruise to Vienna,Budapest etc...hubby took outtime in the hospital with heart failure. We took the trip later on and were rewarded with a Danube in continious rain and high floods so we had to leave the ship in Vienna on the way back.
Next No vacation had been Jersey Islands, my brother died.
And last not least our Xmas river trip to Amsterdam ,cancelled on account of the serious car accident our son-i.l. had before Xmas on the way to Austria.
Whoever is turning that screw must have missed out on our Carribean Cruise, we might have been too fast in our decision to go. 
Now we are in waiting position about Mr. Putin's ideas about spoiling our cruise to St. Petersburg.

Our oldest daughter refuses to consider to take a vacation with us . She claims this would be a bank for a NO-TRIP!

Will there be a Journey?

May 5/2014...3:00 p.m

Well, let's wait and see if Mr. Putin will let us visit beautiful St.Petersburg. Keeping fingers crossed!  🙏  👇

 

Some about Age

April  29/14...4:36 p.m
Phonecall this morning...  One of my girlfriends,who is a proud seventyish and boasting herself to be looking much younger , had been on a group travel to Russia. One of her travel companions had been a 86 year old lady. So my friend got to talking to her and in the run of the conversation gave her a guess about her own age and the old lady said...you are around 83.  My friend is still flabbergasted and I laughed all morning. The old lady made my monday! Matter of fact, I am still laughing!

Slowpoke

April 13/14

The day my younger daughter is getting older and me feeling real old.  Promised to fix a noodlesalad for lunch, which I think can be done in no time but this had been wishful thinking. It took me three days!  First day I battled with the bell peppers, blistering

and  peeling the darn things I spent felt 8 hours. The next day I had been busy felt 10 hours to get the mixture ready and the last touches this morning ...well, At least there I had a normal feeling. No parties for me no more...I fired myself.

About bashing Russia

February 8/14....9:20 a.m.

Have been watching the opening ceremonies for the Olympics last nite.  I liked them, it has been cheerful and colorful. There might have been some minor flaws, but nobody is perfect. but what I have been reading  in facebook,twitter and in media later on I found pretty upsetting. It seems as if the hate against Putin has been bundled up into a Russia bashing. Is it not the spirit of Olympia to unite people under the roof of fair and joyful games? and arn't we forgetting how much work has been put into the efforts to establish good games? If you want,you can always find a hair in the soup and we should rather look upon the goals which have been achieved than pointing with mean fingers at failures.

Well,this is my opinion, you are entitled to yours.

the Spirit of Christmas

December 27/13...5:20 p.m

It is heartwarming to hear about stories like that in our times of consumption and greed. Just let the story put a smile on your face! 

http://www.news-record.com/news/article_c8f8f7a2-6e64-11e3-a7ec-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm

Another Pre Xmas story

December 5 /13...6:42 p.m.

My Personal Xmas cookie trauma

I am not so fond of baking but Xmas cookie baking brings me  to the limit. It starts with having to "free" the kitchen table which takes about 20 min. ..and then the task finding my ingredients in my overstuffed cabinets. The hidden away ground almonds finally were found in the basement storage! this hunt took me another 20 min.,getting the rest of the stuff together another 10 and yippee...finally ready to start the dough. It burns me up to read stories about moms and kids doing cookie baking with red cheeks ,singing Xmas songs. Must be fairy tales..or lies! Mine always quit me after 5 min for watching tv and I will never forget that time when daughter no. 2 invited a friend for baking . After the usual limit of 5 minutes the whining for watching tv started and when I declined the guest kid bit my ass and in sequence I hit her. I must admit that it had been a reflex from the pain and I got absolution from the kids mom. So, you see, I am traumatized an I have a tremendous admiration for dedicated baking ladies....like for example #Lisa Cake Lady Stevens !

The Magic of X-mas

November 25/11...10:24 am



On Facebook, mostly among my U S friends, there is a (rather silly - if you ask me ) game going on. you are given a number and according to the number you have to answer questions about yourself. Well, I played along and one answer I came up with has been "I do not like Xmas". Actually I should have voiced it differently. I have lost my feeling for Xmas because I miss the magic of the Christmas of my childhood.  Christmas time had been covered with a sense of expectations, whispered secrets ,smells of baking of goodies hidden away and crisp cold and snowflakes outside. And oh, that day of X-mas eve when the doors to the locked up room were opened and the smell of burning wax candles and fresh green of the X-ms tree filled the house! - And that first moment of suspense if the wishes had been fulfilled! - 


I have lost that magic to a commercialized celebration where in vain I am looking for the spirit of X-mas

A Prank

November 1/13

...no,no, not Halloween, Herr H. is no doubt able to practice prancs without a given reason. 
Well, judge for yourselves. 

Around this time of the year my car needs a tire change and usually Herr H. takes my car to the service shop. Since he had taken another tumble the previousday I did not quite trust him with my little car. He always claims anyway that he can not drive it (not automatic and the pedals are too small  - which makes me remark that it is not a toy car, other adults drive it also ) - anyway, I took him along to pay at least the bill. The shop usually serves breakfast during waiting time, a nice service, along with morning papers, quite convinient! - So we sat down for our meal and Herr H. had to visit the bathroom. I had my coffee, a nice fresh roll with different things and had a nice chat with the counter guy. After a very long time my dear husband appeared, claiming that he was totally sweaty. It so had happened, that he ,always needing something to hold on to get off the seat, had grabbed the doorhandle which came off and he catapulted right back onto the seat and had himself locked in...door without handle! So he sat there and waited for help but no one showed up and with many efforts got the handle back into the door, he had to be very careful not to push it out on the other side, then he really would have been imprisoned.  You can imagine that I laughed me head off and he still complains up to today that I did not check on him.."There she sat,having leisurely breakfast not giving a damn that I did not show up" he keeps telling everyone. 

But the car had been ready by the time he showed up again.

Yesss...that's me!

september 18/13....11:10 a.m.

So hubby, alias Mr. H. has the habit of dropping his med pills in the bathroom..and not picking them up..grrrrr! and stupid me, after having dropped one of mine picking it up and swallowing it, as if I did not have my own, which I found after it has been too late. and with the variety he drops, I do not even know what I gobbled up! now I am awaiting my doom. yours truly......:(((

An Apple A Day...

September 2/13.....10:45 a.m.

.....keeps the doctor away. Only there is a problem, neither do I like apples nor doctors.

My doc, for example, is in love with his longterm bloodpressure device. Take what you want what I tell him bothers me, his answer: we have to take your longterm bloodpressure. Now,I have been asking,begging, short off rolling on the floor that my bloodpressure is completely o.k. that I take it regularily etc.etc, nooo...I walk out of his office equipped with that hate device. A while ago he took blood samples for every ailment ,like my foot hurts...bloodsample - I have a sore throat....bloodsample. Now I see some reason in that, but still....
I think I have to get myself to like apples and shove all doctors!

BIKEDAY

August 20/13....6.00 p.m.

It is one of those days that I have the feeling to explode if I do no leave the house somehow.Well, there also is a necessitity of bread and oranges. I like it,if I have a destination ,even if it is only our boring little village. Always enjoy it when Ann is around at the veggie shop ,she is from GB and a friend of my daughter Gisa. She is always so overjoyed to see me, hugs and talks no end about nothing. Very refreshing!  Bought a piece of prune cake for Herr H. and my Laugencroissant for tomorrow morning's breakfast, a sin I know, but what the heck, you live but once. Since I had already been on my hate bike this morning, the one without the E (el.motor)  I think I could afford a treat. On my ride this morning I passed the Fährhaus, that place has been empty now all summer, such a shame for this great location right at the riverbanks, with its's garden restaurant, we so enjoyed going there for lunch spontaneously. Now only the fancy hotel Vier Jahreszeiten is left which has not the right choice of food for our taste.  Riding on the levee you can watch very nicely the old villas being torn down in big properties and new glasspalaces being put up. In a way a shame. I do not like it,when the old surroundings vanish.  A wide net of bridle paths has been set up where we used to ride in the wild, but at least the river is the same and the ferry is still running from shore to shore. The weather has a touch of autumn already and sitting outside in the evening you can forget about. All fitting for my blue day today.

Try to be back ( more)

August 12/13...10:55 a.m


this fb communication is just playing up to my laziness. planing on digging more into my blog again, which somehow I find more rewarding. but it takes more efforts. on the other hand, have done it before. or does "old age" also take its toll here? I am contemplating....

that's my life!

July 8/13

...6:49 a.m.