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First lines If it would be me living mid in a forest: a badger dug through the patchwork into the cellar, a racoon or marten climbed the roof and found a way in, a boyfriend of a daughter isn't trained to leave silently, ... The rest: in German I would name it a Poltergeist.

Many Pizza restaurants here sell Federweisser to their Pizzas. At your place too? Or even with a poutine? Next weekend the xmas time starts in city. Typical my favourite foodtruck will sell Zwiebelkuchen (onion yeast cake) with Federweisser (wine still in fermentation). You can buy Federweisser in bottles. But they are not fully closed (gas from fermenmtation has to evade) so you have to transport them standing. At firefighters we do onion cake and Federweisser 4th of advent. Reads: fermentation closure, don't lay

baby duck -> Sekttorte A cake with Sekt (german for certain sparkling wines) in the batter. We do it mainly to welcome the new year with friends. 23.55 and time to lift up from chairs to ready for exchanging handshakes, hugs and kisses with family and friends.

Cardinal Stritch Ubiversity -> Castle/chateau I was at the Justus Liebig university at Giessen/Hessen. Since Giessen was heavenly destroyed in WW2 the new buildings were placed all around the town. But international meetings were placed at Rauischholzhausen giving to the univerty by a rich person. While doing my doctor I had to do city trips with the guests.

In my youth we hadn't Halloween but something similiar: carving terrifying faces from sugar beets. There was no fixed date, just when the farmers harvested them - end of octobre, begin of novembre. Kids put a candle in the skull and placed it on a stick, walking from door to door and collecting stuff. Most often stuff the people had: sausages, eggs, bread, ... Kids weren't wearing costumes, just warm stuff. Then the kids met at a campfire and did the stuff in a big pan. So yes, our glowing devils days was allways on a saturday with no school the next day. Halloween is same day as Reformation Day so here we had no Halloween till Germanies Reunion when some workfree religious day were given up to pay for reunion.

Halloween collides with Reformation Day. We are 5 villages which rotate in doing not Halloween but Reformation day. So people who want to go to remain silent and remember the reformation can visit our church in evening. I have to do a short opening speech and will do a solo not with my tuba but with a banjo. So if you fear for your health, stay away from our church. Then our third will play a Neanderthal song on the organ. The Neanderthal valley was named after the composer Joachim Neander who did the German original of Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. then a pastor, different chorus and at the end 'Die Gedanken sind frei' played by our family orchestra. it will close the ring since I will do Pete Seeger's version of it with the banjo. Picture of the next video is the White Rose. An anti nazi-movement of students in 1942. The members were executed. The song is often played at Reformation Day because Luther's thoughts were put free.

lion tamer -> Monty Python

lion -> tamable All members of the cat family are tamable. All? No, my avatar, the European Wildcat is the only exception. That's why ferrets played the role of cats till 17th century at farms away from shipping.

like em! -> Leonberger After finishng university we moved to our nowadays house, mid in a forest, lot of ponds, ... We wanted a family dog, companion and guard for our then near 3 year old. Water rescue training. Pictures like these made us decide to choose a Leo. Just as with most breeds, don't choose price winners. Some breeding goals are just unhealthy. Very protective and smart with good health is the way to go. Our first was Tarzan. Holding a towel above the pubs he was first to catch it, bite into it and never let it go. Swinging in the air like Tarzan on a liana. We have 7 dogs now. 5 Leos. my hunting dog and a cow dog from a farmer who couldn't take it into his senior home.

Sloeford Specials Somehow there are no recipes with sloes in Sacred2 Sloe crustata Mother in law recipe: Pancake like cookies with mashed sloes, sea buckthorn berries, quinces... Vitamin bomb for this autumn weather Sloe Olives Recipe from grandma, Since olives are not natural here: making a mix of very salty water with spices, boil it, pour it on sloes, remove bigger spice parts, led sloes ripe in glasses for some month. The main difference is that James Bond never used Sloes in his Martinis. https://en.garden-landscape.com/eifel-olive-sloes-from-mediterranean-8659

gone with the wind -> Wind of Change The wind of change has gone with the wind, hope for living in peace vanished and the old fears are back.

dune -> nethack ->dune -> Falcon's Eye to stop the ring closure, Falcon's Eye is an isometric 3D variant of NetHack

dune -> NetHack An enchanted worm tooth, the crysknife, is the mostpowerful weapon in the game. Probably the game I played most on a former number cruncher computer with the DEC Alpha processor.

decaffeinated -> Sting I don't drink coffee, I take tea, my dear Doesn't matter if it is coffee or tea, caffeine is bad when working with explosives.

coffee -> Sorry the name is changed by autocensoring. Coffee replacement without caffeine when coffee was very expensive or not available in Germany. Grandma mader her own in afterwar year to sell it on the blackmarket.

Nightfrost, fog, wet and icy leaves- and an idiot who drove too fast ending in a trench. Only slightly injured, car beyond repair - and the call was 3:30am GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

rousse -> Licher Being 8 years old we lived between Giessen and Lich. The brewery had a contract with the US army. My sisters liked the brewery because you could visit their horses

taps -> beer In German it is Zapfenstreich and reaches back to the 16th century. Zapfenstreich is the stroke to drive the tap into the cask to close it. End of drinking and time to visit the bed in the camp. The Grosser Zapfenstreich is highest honour grated by the armed forces to retiring chancellors, ministers of defense or generals. Normally a parade in the evening, lit by torches. The retired person can wish three songs. Some are a challenge gor a military band.

bean stalk -> tipi Living on a hill with lot of storms - placing the bean stalks like a tipi is better.

peas in a pod -> bean sack My wife is an identical twin and they used to make jokes out of it. I got used to throw a bean sack - if catched with the left it was my nowadays wife, if with the right it was her sister. The main use of bean sacks is now for making animal photos.

wife: Cover the plants, nightfrost predicted. me: Already done. wife: but it was just in the weather tv. me: cranes in vanishing cloud covering You know that your family lives too long at the same place when you are quicker than weather tv with all its computers. To be fair, my family lives here for nearly 200 years. My wife is from another mountain range where she knows the weather better.

appointment -> appeasement (politics) At least in mathematical game theory a tit for tat strategy is better. In kid education I prefer a tit for two tats. The first tat results in a warning and not action.

Shakespearean English -> Minnesang Lovesongs performed by knights who travelled from castle to castle. Because they needed the people to understand their songs they started the first attempt for a unified German language. I had to write a semester work about Vogelweide. Most of his songs remained only in fragments. Only his song about the fourth crusade remained with melody and text.

Ate some tunesian ghoulash/tagine from quinces and lamb for lunch while at Frankfurt. Wonder if I can use up the quinces and boar I have at home, The Ras el Hanout spice the restaurant used, will it work with boar?

Old Montreal -> Old Town of Wetzlar The first picture ever taken with a Leica, build just a few metres away. The house is the centre was newly build 1599.