Cool Cars with some Kool Kats

Classic Car Days in Chatham

Good time on a short visit with the girls. This was an evening of small town fun. The town's main street is shut down to regular traffic and the classic cars come out to shine.

snow chair

Our first snowfall of the year started on Saturday and continued though the night. We awoke to everything covered with snow, albeit slightly wet, it is still beautiful.

We started our Thanksgiving a little early this year, today, Sunday, with a wonderful feast at the home of a North American family.

I also started playing Christmas carols while I was preparing my traditional Colonial Williamsburg corn pudding and snaps for the meal.

I seemed to have started a lot of things today; let me finish by saying: have a Happy Thanksgiving and Godspeed in your travel to your chosen home-place for the holiday.

8th Birthday....Lego

On November 14, 2000 my son was born, two minutes before 12 noon. Now mind, that I had no idea it was a boy, but I knew when that baby would arrive. My doctor had said see you after lunch, and I quickly said..I don't think you will be going out for lunch Dr...this baby will be here before then. And he replied with a knowing grin...well I had the last say on that one! have not had many since that day.

So on with the party:

Boys and Lego, 'nuff said:

add more friends to the pile of Lego means more fun...

then add sticks, ....(notice the girls in the tree, without sticks, smart girls)

plus Fire....

and birthday cake, candles and wishes

and presents! .....

Grand total= ONE SUPER 8th BIRTHDAY PARTY!

random fotos from Basel

A couple of weeks ago I was in Basel, Switzerland for a training meeting. Basel is a beautiful and old city founded by the Celts many years before Christ. so we are talking old, but I have so pics of new randomness that goes along with the old, enjoy:

this is a Xmas shop and it has got to have one of the longest German words I have ever seen. Translated it means: Holynight tree decoration configuration business.

Bikes are all over Basel. It is a major form of transportation...

and parking can be a problem. Check out the sign painted above the bell. Velo (bike) parking forbidden.

pretty iron work on a random door

Hey there!

Thursday, Oktober, 30, 2008

OUR FIRST SNOW!!!!!

Just a dusting in the yard, and it has started to rain....but look up higher.....

over the roofs of Rümmingen...

high on the hills of Öttlingen....

there is SNOW....as seen from our upper window!

not a lot but it is there.

Thursday mit kamera- Oktober 23, 2008

Trees along the road to Basel.

Trees on roofs in Basel

Roof top Tree gardens

Ladies waiting for the tram along the way among the trees, green and grey.

Thursdays with camera, Oktober 23, 2008

Yep, third Thursday in a row it has rained. The day before was beautiful, the day after sunny with partial clouds blowing through. Ah well, so we go inside:

We girls are taking riding lessons at the stable here in Rümmingen. My girls for the first time; me not for the first time, but my legs think so. It is a scene from the familiar approaching middle age life: My mind is willing, but my body says: what are you doing?!

I must say however that all of the knowledge and time in the saddle are coming right back. Now, my nerve to do some of the same things while astride a horse, four feet plus in the air, well, maybe not~~~but you never know, once I get my legs back.

So enjoy the girls while they groom down Nadine after their third lesson.

Thursdays with camera

I am beginning a new project: "Thursdays with camera".
My basic concept to to take pictures every Thursday.

I started with the first Thursday in October, 2008. It was raining. I skipped the next Thursday, since it was raining. The third Thursday, 23rd, it rained as well, but I continued with the picture taking. rationalizing that if I stopped because of rain, at this rate, I may never get any Thursday fotos.

So here are the first in my series entitled "Thursdays with Camera"