FFO, Yum Smile And Laugh

 

With these two I join Nicole´s FFO and Gillena´s Lunch Break (>> happy music! LOL, "eat don´t everything" - I do anyways!) again. 

And this should make you smile:   

 

 

Now for some funnies:

 

 

 

The internet series: 

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 

Rocking Chair

 

The rocking chair was created in the 18th century by colonial settlers in North America and was a combination of chair and cradle, intended for nursing mothers. However, it quickly caught on with others and soon became a staple of the American home."

Henry 🦁´s wife

 

 Have a happy one.

 

 
 

Hanging Out

 

 

Today I join  Rain´s Thursday Art and Dinner Date with "Hanging Out".

 

For the dinner-part - there is no recipe, I just threw together:

 

  

 

 

 

Ingo complained I always cook with oil, so he can never get his share. 

Put this sign on whilst it marinated over night. Doesn´t want tofu...

And I hate the smell of hot, clarified butter...

 

Next... cook meat in broth? It stays difficult...

 

The internet series: 

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 Keys

 

The wooden locks on the massive Greek and Egyptian doors also required massive keys, which could be three feet long and were so heavy that they were usually carried over the shoulder – a fact mentioned in the Bible."

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 Have an easy Thursday...

 

 

 

 

Tipp Of The Day

 

Sign still from Perth 2024 - sadly with tea I do stupid slower ;-)

This is for Tom´s Signs2.

 

The internet series: 

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 Corkscrew

 

Corkscrews now often signal good evening, but they are modeled after a military tool called a 'gunworm', a metal claw used to remove misfired ammunition from musket barrels. The corkscrew was formerly known as a 'steel worm'." 

 

Henry 🦁   

 

This was taken in my very first, no, only own apartment, summer 2007, Braunschweig.

When I finally quit flat-sharing  - why ever Ingo went with this "concept" for so many years.

End of 2007 a second flood ruined Ingo´s apartment and he´d promised - and kept word - to move to Braunschweig, if the water comes in. I sure wished for that!

13 years of weekend-relationship was frustrating.

Ingo´d spent that September-weekend in my place. My Brother called on Sunday, we should better come and see ourselves.

The water was so high it flooded the bathtub, so powerful it moved massive cupboards - lucky we were in Braunschweig, not there!

Bonus: After years of enduring a mean neighbor I moved out! 

 

 

 

 

T This Weird Week

 

 

With this Mango-drink I join Elizabeth´s T.

In the background you see the teacher´s chair!

My job: Explain how to check, to exchange it, if necessary. You usually have it at the wall.

LOL, I sit in Braunschweig, Germany - "she" is in Vienna, Austria! 

So.. my customer runs "downstairs" to take pics for me!

 

I am the luckiest person in the world - I want to keep this job!!!!

(I am "sold" to Brussels already and will lose my mSA, buhuu... - bet nice colleagues there as well)

The journal:

 

 

Monday: A "light" night. Woke when Ingo got up. Later the door was being unlocked! Ingo never locks, so what is this, I got scared! It was Ingo, unlocking, sick, sweaty face saying his colleagues are too dumb to work with, lay down and fell asleep, food by his side - I hate these "real" dreams, I saw everything in detail!

Later we moved. We had a cat and a dog and the dog waited for the cat to get out first.

The new place was a classroom with wonderful murals I saw  all in detail.

Why such dreams?! 

2 meetings - I was mentioned as first person... oh, yuck! And this was real...

 

 

Tuesday: I´m officially in the list, I have the tram´s windows - in red! Me, not mSA!  In red: "Can you deliver earlier?" - fK says it´s good I´m on red.

Help me Rhonda. When even mSA doesn´t know how it works - how am I supposed to?!

Next time he goes down to the tram he will check if the lock has to get out before the window can or if there is a simpler way. "Beschissen!" I need to keep my humor, right...

So I said, OK, I take the reed relay then - whatever that is. 

And LOL, he didn´t know, either, but said yes to my suggestion after I found hopefully correct out via AI and YouTube. The thing has a Füßchen, a "tittle foot".. 🦶

And - good thing - I have an addition to my presentation that shows what REALLY is needed, and I can buy time. 

Me to mSA: "think it´s unfair only my name is mentioned in the document." - "I change the date instead, Helau!" On 11th11 11:11 carnival starts.  Is he my secret twin???

 

 

Wednesday: Wondered why I got hungry at 07:00 a.m. - yupp, ate 5 spider legs yesterday and was too full for Ingo´s soup.... 🕷Sorry, Charlotte... and Ingo, don´t buy this stuff!

(OK, was actually for his colleagues) 

 

 

Evening.... yummmm soup!  

Started with "Against the Wind" - thank you, River. It is quite a series! VERY interesting!

Boy - boring, then very cruel at first! And now I run from Austrian to Australian accent! And all the magpies, ravens and kookaburras you hear, awwww, lovely!!!

Based on fact, which I like. All convicts, 1796, I knew.  And I know some places :-) Wonderful. "The stars are clear like crystal"... YES.

 

Thursday: Thank you, Facebook! 12:42 sirens went off. If FB hadn´t warned they have emergency tests in Braunschweig I might´ve flipped!!

But, honestly... if I wasn´t sitting in silence with only the clocks ticking, working.... I´d overheard that! Too silent. 

 

Picture this: Two Engineers, one Austrian (mSA), one German (me) over a Czech document that was badly translated from them to English and .. we.don´t.get.it! Plan: ask a Czech colleague tomorrow.

"The customer-meeting is on...." - me, "Wait, let me look up when I have my presentation .. 26th" - "Oh, on my Birthday!" - "Bring me luck!" Please, this MUST work!

 

 

Friday: mSA´s daughter got sick so he had to cancel the Czech help. And... I found out myself!!! Yipeee! We will laugh so hard on Monday! The window´s motor didn´t work, hence...

Went to Jürgens Brewery for beer and bratwurst, I got 1/3 > Ingo is eating better! 

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Braunschweig: Ingo: Weather is icky!!!! Cold, rainy!

fK sends me a pic in a t-shirt in the sun!

She´s in Munich for a seminar. Her wife has Usher and she learns to guide blind, deaf people for when the inevitable arrives. Both are strong, they have teenage-twins and my biggest respect.

Ingo cooks big today! Yummy times ahead! 

Sunday: Die Maus: An Edeka (grocery) made from wood - the first worldwide  in... Braunschweig!!! Henry is mightily proud! Sadly they didn´t give away where exactly and Braunschweig is quite big... I had this with munchy...

Usually we had warm food for dinner, not lunch. My stomach has to get used to this and weee. It was too much. But I will find a way for the yummy potatoes. 

So, here is munchy:

 

 

Spinach, egg, potatoes!!!! YUM!!!

 

The internet series: 

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 Shoes from Nike

 

In the 1970s, Bill Bowerman was coaching runners on a slippery but hard track. One morning, while watching his wife's waffle iron, he had an epiphany: he created a new kind of running shoe with a waffle-pattern sole to help runners improve their speed. This waffle-pattern-inspired design was the starting point for the global athletic shoe company."

 

Henry 🦁   

 

 This is our Edeka. Lions go shopping, too!

 

United? United!!

 

 

My friend fK sent me this from a visit home.

Zoni-Henry looks a bit grumpy and I cannot give an artist.

 

Many call former "DDR"-people "Ossis", I grew up quite near the "border" and there was a "zone" you could enter but didn´t want to! 

Ingo went through there a couple of times, having had family, and meep... I could tell stories.

 

I went through once and .. never again!

 

We called them "Zonies"... when the border, the wall fell... mixed feelings, it was too fast.

 

But I have friends I love by heart from there!

 

As said fK says, "there are friends for a reason, friends for a season and friends for a lifetime". 

Two  T´s I lost contact to, sadly.

 

With this Henry 🦁 and I join Sami´s Monday Murals. 

 

 My Nieces already have "one Germany" -  we are united now, yipeeee! (are we?)

 

The internet series: 

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 

Clocks

 

 Today we often have more than one clock in our homes, but before their invention and before they were widespread and could be used as alarm clocks, clockless workers paid so-called "wake-up men" a small fee to knock on the windows in the morning."

 

Recon more to come! 

My Dad, amongst other, was a watch-maker and the ticking in our living room drives fK nuts.

So we usually sit in the kitchen with atomic clocks - no noise and the time made by "us", by the PTB in Braunschweig! For all in Europe! (I am a bit proud living in this City of Science)

 

As kid I hated the noise of ticking clocks, now... I miss my Dad so much I have clocks everywhere. 

When not on teams tick-tick-tick is all I have, and I am happy with that! 

 

Have a happy new week!

 

 

HO-HO-HO! Oh, Dammit, Janet!

 

 

The bell rang - the postie was here yesterday, Ingo got it.

Was for me.

 

There was no note "from Santa" or such!!!!

So I opened - it was from Santa!! 

 

 Thank you, River!!!

 

Also!! Thank you for mentioning Ingo first!

Here we have a huge debate since decades about this subject and I am just like you! 

 

What did I find in the horribly expensive envelope (really, what do they do to us with the taxes?!).

 

 Irony, I know. I´ll read this sad book on the swing! And tell you what! It will make me feel even more grateful for what we have! It will "burn down" even more! Be more humble...

 

Maybe some of you remember I had the series on this from the internet.

Now I will dive in deeper - and there was more!

 

I told myself to NOT.

 

Wait till January 1st!!!

 

I could not.

Let me present you the COOLEST calendar I EVER got!

 

 

I made a happy dance (in my mind)!!!!

Ran over to Ingo! 

 

Sad Grace does not blog anymore, she´d just bend her head down and say, no. 

Her daughter and I ... "there is a The-Simpsons-episode on that".

When we met all ran away ;-)

 

The COOLEST  calendar ever!

 

and bite and bite, bite, bite, bite, bite bite.... Itchy and Scratchy, of course ...

I could not help myself I went all through! I felt like a kid, cheating!

Here is an example, so cool:

 

 I´ll let you know, I promise - all THE events!

 

 Certainly. The Simpsons! Created by Scientists and Engineers. WOW. 

I have not seen this here!

 

Thank you River - you made more than my day!!! 

 

Baby Henry 🦁 

 

 

We´ll share!!!

P.S. With Janet I refer to The Rocky Horror Picture Show - it just came to my mind... 

 

 

 

Tiger And Mouse And Sweet Night

 

 

 I had a very busy week, a lack of dinosaurs and saw no animals other than our neighborhood black cat - but didn´t have my cam with me - so... these finds must do for... 

 

 

Eileen. 

 

And at night... 

 

 

And that, my friends... is how I pulled my muscle! It comes aaaaall back! 

The internet series: - today by coincidence with ... a critter!

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 

Sofas

 

Sofas are taken for granted in many living rooms, but they weren't always! They originated in Egypt and were later enjoyed by the Romans, but when the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century, the sofa disappeared for the next 1,000 years."

 

We have a swing instead... you? 

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 Hey, wait, I still have to do groceries, lazy Henry, you!