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I never was more south in Italy than Rome. My grandgrandma was from Merano and we still have and use some of her recipes from time to time. Aren't some red onions named after Tropea? Some spaghetti boiled in a sauce with onions? Phoned a friend who runs a restaurant and was a former chief cook on a research vessel travelling the world. Says Spaghetti risottati cremosi alla Cipolla di Tropea :)

I fear it was a mistake to show her how to carve easy flutes from elderberries when she was 6. She always didn't only want to know how to play an instrument but also understand it. The discs in the drums need some maths if you want clear tunes. Most use blueprints and just copy working ones.

Benvenuto Hope you will have fun here. Sadly my grandchildren are time eating and I am not really into the newest mods for Sacred Underworld. But most vanilla stuff should be covered in sacredwiki.

to the light -> Seraphim Radiant Pillar, taking hypnosis as bronze modification

painful truth -> getting old Lightweight babys can crawl on LEGO blocks without pain it seems. But it is hard work to keep them from putting Lego into the mouth. Grey hair, my son is faster in swimming than me, playing parents vs kids at school soccer and needing a week to recover (goalie and having to jump), luckily no need for the blue ones yet, ...

arm wrestling -> finger pulling So much healthier, instead of perhaps breaking the upper arm you perhaps just get a dislocated finger.

olympics -> wrestling Chris Taylore vs Wilfried Dietrich at 1972 olympics At an interview Dietrich hugged Taylor friendly. But he just wanted to check if he would have long enough arms for a throw. Result one of the best wrestling photos ever.

championship -> Modern Pentathlon I tried a lot of different sports when a virus disease in growing phase made my legs grewing too short. Long arms and short legs, swimming was an option. We lived then at a place with a very good shooting club, tried it too. Hated running, but as a goalie I was not too bad. Uncle had a horse farm and l learned riding quite early. Cousine was fencing state team and I trained a bit with her to counter lefthanded long arm opponents. She said I should try pentathlon, not real good in anything. Worked when I was 15, second in state. Butgetting older I lost too much points running. Just goalie in soccer, handball, field hockey - whatever the place we moved too offered.

legend -> 57metre goal I managed to do 7 goals as a soccer goalie at school team. 6 were penalties but one was from 57 metres. Corner ball a minute before end, whole field players far in opposite half. Me as a goalie was just few metres behind the middle line as a sort of savety. The opposite goalie caught the corner ball and did a wide kick in empty room so his fast attackers could outrun our defense. I managed to be first at the place the ball came down and I hammered it away before it hit the ground - under pressure from the attackers. Same moment I turned and run back to my goal because it was empty. And suddenly there was a cry, the other goalie was too far from his goal and couldn't get my shot- which wasn't aimed at all. There is still a photo at my former school, me running back without seeing my legendary goal and my team celebrating. The only field goal I did as a goalie and it was the semi-final.

The best birthday gift I got year back at my birthday just before x-mas. The twins should have been born 24/25 dec, My birthday is just a few days earlier and we had whole family around and planed to visit the hospital the next day because of countryside is a bit away from hospital and snow predicted. At 10pm she said oh, oh and we drove to hospital. Arriving at 11pm, son 23:54 daughter 00:13. So we got used to do no last minute x-mas shopping. All gifts are bought weeks before our trible birthday. We enjoy the x-mas markets but avoid overfull shopping malls. 5000 people town Braunfels (my older sister was born not far from this place) with the marketplace before the castle. Glühwein (mulled wine), Bratwurst, ... Next weekend we will visit the market at Wetzlar and visit my brother. I spend my first 5 years at Wetzlar as a kid. Just follow the road right from the x-mas tree and 5 houses away. My mom's house and now my brother lives there. So much patchwork houses in my childhood. No wonder I live in one now.

family games -> dining room table Biggest table in house. Made by grandgrandpa from massive oak. 90 years old. 240cm*120cm. A friend offered 4000€ for it for a furniture museum. But too much family memories to even consider it. Grandgrandpa died when I was 2, my older sister remembers him. He was a Meistertischler (trained carpenter, furniture maker who is allowed to teach apprentices) He did his first apprentice year at an airplane company. He got a flying license when he was 16 in WW1. He had to final test fly before a plane left factory to be send to frontier. All his requests to become a fighter pilot were luckily denied- age and test flying to detect assembling failures more important. Average survival time were 11 hours combat flying then. What a luck he was too young. I would have missed me when not born.

risk -> Ark Nova Most played last winter at our family.

weed -> Teekesselchen A game where you have to guess the word with a double meaning, like Tor: 1. door, 2. goal at sport, 3. a fool = me I was not considering about weed has more than one meaning. The one I meant two posts ago "A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals" And this weed burner removes it from the garden by using a hot gas flame "weed is slang for cannabis" This weed burner uses cannabis based liquid in an e-cigarette

too hot -> weed burner It will either kill the whole life in gras, or destroy surroundings, or kill you because adding to global warming. I prefer a weed spade. At this time of the year it can be used to harvest wild horseradish. Just don't dig the whole root. The remains will build a new plant.

if you play ice and blood without second party patch: a magic staff dryad with darting assault hit EVERYTHING in shooting range with a weapon attack. See:

My daughter (studying at a special highschool for music and instrument design) visits me for a week at work. I prepared, explaining the explosive welding, savety rules and all this. But then she saw the apprentices at the training room and away she was. She did a lot of asking (and flirting) and then she asked if she would be allowed to use the laser cutter, hydraulic hammer, presses, ... Her first 'product' was a steel tongue drum in one afternoon. Now she asked if she could use two apprentices for another project. Instead doing training exercises they could do something useful. I have to say her motivating skills seem to be better than mine. They help her without being forced to training work on her handpan project. Somehow they didn't listen to me when I taught them calculating normal modes for our wing parts. But they read books to help my daughter with her instrument.

Decembre 5th evening_ Depending on place kids place their boots in front of the house door or use plates on the desk if they live in a place without them. Morning decembre the 6th there will ne small presents. The kids song for decembre 5th while waiting for Nikolaus: Lasst uns froh und munter sein We replace plates by boots when singing.

Read the book before being drafted. Took me 20 years to see the movie. Grenouille -> eel The european eel has the best smelling sense of all animals. Grandpa showed me as a kid how to prepare it. Never have its blood on your skin, paralyzing poison. Now it is endangered but it was quite common in the rivelet when I was young. Still has some.

allergy -> perfume Biology class: sitting next to a beautiful girl and loosing breath. Turned out that it wasn't her beauty but a part of her perfume- Perfume allergy is a nice argument to don't go to operas, shopping tours, ... When our oldest was 7 she got a perfume laboratory for birthday - without the weird and luckily rare orchidee oil I am allergic to.

word -> LaTeX For mathematical formulas. From writing my diploma till now, I really got used to LaTeX if writing music or maths. Maths with Word was like playing with LEGO parts, LaTeX is more like coding.

I wanted to refresh my sacred2 knowledge and decided to play a Druid. Most of what you want to know about playing a shapeshifting druid is covered in the wiki. But there is one skill not mentioned: alchemy. Its main use will be to unlock Divine Devotion. But it is nice to know that alchemy unlocks charms and once unlocked you can use them even shapeshifted. With this, I prefer Philos as a god because regeneration per hit charm helps at melee combat bosses. Redemption at high levels works wonder against spells.

pain -> last will I update it every half year. The pain is more the digital and not the physical part of the heritage mass. What to do with internet and email accounts. At german law internet posts are same as handwritten letters and belong to the hereditary mass. I have 36 social media accounts :company, village mayor, family, sport clubs, firefighters, .... And I have to write down for each who will be allowed to have access in case of death.

hard work -> tax declaration Income tax, ground tax, tax on house, farm lands, animals, ...

Yes, I had to do money calculations too. But I had luck that in a tiny village people help each other. Having a big family is nice. Two of my cousin(e)s are carpenters. Instead of doing family meetings at restaurants we meet at a relative who has heavy work to do. And -luckily- neither my wife nor me are total amateurs in house maintainance. But honestly without kids, we would probably life in an appartment in a town. We wanted to grew them up in nature with animals. Both, my wife and me; liked it ourselfs.

What is x-mas time without the smell of baked apples. We have lot of quinces so we do a variant: baked quinces with own honey.