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Define massive... At my moms birthday: mom 1 her four kids and wives/husbands 8 12 grandchildren, 4 of them married= 16 9 grandgrandchildren 34 people from family add friends and other relatives, we normally meet at the firefighters hall The family of my wife is as big In summer breaks we often do tents for the kids of both sides. We do holiday only every 3rd or 4th year. Hard to get replacement as a countryside doc as my wife is.

Yes, same here. Badminton is the name for the competive sport. Federball is more you play the ball in a way the other can return it. Since it is in the open wind is always a factor. Oldest grandchild will be aged 5 August the 15th, The mixed grandchild twins are two years younger.

Still in rehab but at least I could play a bit with my granddaughter. How is this called in English. German it is Federball (feather ball)

bacon -> pike The twins caught one. Will wait with preparation till I am back from rehab. in difference to a carp a pike has not enough fat to taste good So you can wrap it with bacon, or pierce fatback sticks into it, ...

*!§$ Rehab Could not visit The open air concert at the Schiffenberg monastry close to my old university town Giessen. Last time I visited Blind Guardian did a nice live performance of their The Bards Song

million -> location here it is million 1000000 billion 1000000000000 , double the zeros trillion 1000000000000000000, triple the zeros

joy -> Friedrich Schiller He wrote Ode to Joy. Beethoven used it for the sung part of his nineth.

When dad had it the medic of his soccer team pressed a coin edge against the calcanite part and then with a hammer stroke it was loosened.... How -> happy 'How do you do' is one of the happiest songs I can play. This was performed at HIT'S A GOGO (!!!) show. The cover from Scooter

gold coins -> calcaneal spur At war time with very few docs around people used to cure calcaneal spur by using a hammer and a silver coin. With the last silver coins vanishing 1975 in germany the disease was not curable any longer: pressure waves, ultra sonic, ... all were less effective. But I kept three of the coins, just in case

Rehab is more painfully than being tortured by the spanish inquisition. And now they found something new. The real good cook is ill and they found no quick other. The potatoes are too soft because boiled too long, the peas and carrots seem not to be boiled at all.... If I had knewn this I would have asked my people to bring my field kitchen to the place...

Kayak -> Origami Our second has a foldable kayak which she can transport with bus and train.

boat -> Hochwasserboot Our house is in no risc of flooding. But the ones in valleys are. I store a special boat at my barn in case the streets in villages below are flooded. It is moved either by poles or walking behind it between the two grips and pushing. Metal because there are often trunks in such in muddy water.

ocarina -> Hohner Marine Band Had one as my first real no toy music instrument. Still play it today - wandering uphill to a campfire place in nature is not a thing I want to do with a tuba

Starting first day of 6 weeks rehabilitation. Training nerves and muscles after the arm wound The rehab is near the USA. Luckily noz the Trump USA but the Elvis one. Bridge over the river Usa atBad Nauheim where Elvis was as a soldier. My Rehab is in a nice park at Bad Nauheim.

julia dreams -> 8 track tape recorder Used Pink Floyd a lot when doing slideshows about classtrips. 8 track Revox tape recorder: 2 tracks for music, 2 for projectors, 4 tracks for light effects... My brother used my machine for mixing the music of his punk band

fractals -> Julia Julia sets I had to face in my diploma work when studying areas pf convergence

Deep cut on left upper arm... Apprentics are deadly. He opened a transport savety without looking for other people. Steel band hit me... 11 stitches and sadly I am left handed and a bandage at30C is not nice Wasn't a plastic band as on photo, but a 19mm steel one for heavy metal pieces. But I think you know how it happened. I was near 3 metres away but there was no weight on the lower partyso it wa swinging when cut,

friends -> clique When I was young our clique did no lan parties, but swimming at ponds, had our own self build hut for campfires, ,,, Close(d) group of friends all from nearby countryside villages. The town kids had 3 hours a day more to spend because of way closer to school and no bus or train traffic. They lived close to cinemas, discotheques, ice halls, ... and internet access... They formed more loose groups. At our place we had to coordinate our spare time activities. The clique broke up when we went to different places after highschool.

marble brains -> Lahn The Lahn river runs through my birthtown Wetzlar. The marble from the area is world known because of its colours, The entrance hall of the empire state building is made from it for example. That happens when my posting got real life interupted by an emergency call

last days lot of rain, but rain stopped and sun predicted for tomorrow, just in time We will build a 500 people tent in evening for saturdays summer solstice fire from 5 small viallges firefighters Firefighter youth will sell bratwurst and similiar to get some money for activities like summer camp

Black Truffle oil chips -> black pickled walnuts Each year 30 glasses selfmade picked very green with still a soft shell, pierce them too the core with needles, lay them in the rivelet for a week (or several weeks n a container where you change water ever half day), put them in glasses wiith a mix of sugar, honey, water and spices, letthem ripe for some weeks.... you can use them like truffles You can vuy rgwm, but nor really cheap

spicy -> Sauerbraten Instead drafted into army a classmate was 4 years in the merchant navy as a ship's cook, most on an antartic research vessel. He said if you use normal spicing with herbs there is always one saying it isn't his taste. Doing very spicy food noone will say that it is too hot because of them thinking as machos. Now he runs a restaurant and cooks mainly with herbs and not chilli, wasabi or similiar, Most come for his version of horsemeat Sauerbraten. Horsemeat of old working horses is very tough so everyone has a way of marinating it for nearly a week to make it soft.

Wine -> Schorle Selters is a small village with lot of mineral water wells only 25 kilometres away. Selters, selterz water, ... all names are connected to the original selters. So I grew up drinking Schorle at hot summer days. A Schorle is a mix of half sparkling mineral water and half wine, fruit wine or fruit juice. cassis juice and mineral water

Sorry to hear this. If the eye check is physical okay, no glasses needed, then it may be the eye nerves and it gets complicated. Most probably an infection. A person in my village had lyme disease. Some bacteria were already encapsulated when antibiotica were given. They stayed inactive for some time and then the lyme disease came back. It can affect nerves like muscles and eyes. The tricky thing was that at hospital test there were antibodies in the blood but no active bacteria and thought of them as leftovers from the antibiotica time. They found bacteria in a later test in the spine liquid. And lyme is just one of all the possible infections.

Flix -> Verflixt und zugenäht! A student saw a beautiful girl. 9 month later there was a result. He cursed the flyer of his trousers and closed it with sewing so it wouldn't happen again. The saying is used in a meaning of Damn it