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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.

Cranes normally don't cross the Alpes. And Austria cranes were extincted and now it has very few, if any, breeding cranes. The cranes which we can watch from our place mainly fly towards Spain and a smaller amount to the Camargue in France, as it was yesterday. We live in a mid mountain range and a river to the north. So there is a lot of thermic if it is sunny late in afternoon. Hessen is the state painted green in the mid of the Germany map. You see the red dots for sightings which form a band through mid/northern Hesse. Below this band are very few sightings. Cranes avoid the Alpes.

Cranes, thousands of them. For people not from my place: cranes flying south means mid Octobre, sun, hot (27C!!!), clear skies ... You can see and hear the chains for miles.

Robin Hood -> Schinderhannes Around the Lahn River where I grew up you often find metal plates attached on trees which mark the walking route through the area the german Robin Hood, the Schinderhannes, did his crimes.

Speedy -> Speedy Gonzales

tray bake -> field kitchen Today we have state elections. Our firefighting building is a voting location. We make a Steckrübeneintopf (rutabaga one pot) with the field kitchen to attract more voters and to feed the people who control the voting. typical autumn recipe potato diced, yellow/orange rutabaga diced, really fine cut autumn fruits, rubbed horse radish, cured pork, vegs, spices before serving the cured pork is cut in dices and placed on the plates curing pork was a way to make it last in a time before cooling. Often people had still some reserves of pured pork when next slaughtering was done With this recipe it was used up

No, forget the eyes - The way through a man's heart goes through his stomach. Girls invest thousands of Euros a year in beauty. A cooking class would be so much cheaper and lasts a lifetime (*) (*) sponsored by a former classmate who offers such classes in his restaurant beholder -> gourmet

honey -> door With global exchange of goods there are now a lot of parasites from all over the world in beehives. As a plan B I have some humblebees for the early in year blossoms of fruit trees. Humblebees are quite strong and so you can attach a light plastic door atthe entrance of their nest. Humblebees can open it, wax-moths not. Wish there would be such a simple solution for bees too.

Fog in the woods till afternoon, leaves turning yellow and red falling down, ... My guess is that this weekend the first cars drive to fast on wet leaves and I would have to pull them out of a trench with the Unimog. 3rd of octobre was workfree re-union day. I took the time to pickup my father in law as a motorbike expert to checkout an offer of a 2017 Yamaha Viking in a c+ condition for 5000€. He said he could easily repair it when having the parts, So we are now the owners of a new light workhorse for use in forests. The twins help their grandpa with the repair and learn driving while doing the tests.

LEGENDARIUM -> plagiarism Our oldest has Runhild as her second name. It is an old germanic name: Run stands for secrets and wisdom as in runes. Hilda means a female fighter and guard. Our family names book which we read when choosing names for her said Runhild is 'she who protects her family with wisdom'. When a teen our oldest said fighting with mystical strange stuff means that she is a Ninja. However it is Brunhild and not Runhild in the one and only ring from Wagner. Brünne is old german for a ring mail, so she who fights in a ring mail. Even the name of Tolkiens dwarves are from old sagas, Not enough male actors who could ride so in the movie women with false beards were the Riders of Rohan. So it was more a Ride of the Valkyries... While in this movie the Ride of the Valkyries was performed by men, strange world we live.

GoodFood -> foodsharing GoodFood is a sort of shops which collect unused/unsold food from restaurants, supermarkets, households. You just put as much money in a box as you think it is worth.

Quebecois -> Quetschekuche met Riwwel Local slang for Zwetschgenkuchen mit Streusel. prune-plum cake with Streusel. In baking and pastry making, streusel (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʁɔʏzl̩]) is a crumbly topping of flour, butter, and sugar that is baked on top of muffins, breads, pies, and cakes. This time of the year the sour prune-plums are ripe. Sour- so a sweet Streusel topping on the yeast dough layed with plums. Old ladies from village will do some in the baking house next week.

Texas Renaissance Festival -> Braunfels People from Braunfels founded New Braunfels. Braunfels is a very small neighbour town from Wetzlar where I was born. I am member of the Braunfels Glider Club, My older sister was born just 100m from Braunfels castle, I think funnel cake was brought from Germany to german speaking parts of USA. Here it has several names like Strauben, Trichterkuchen, Kringelfritz... My Grandma did a not sweet variant with parsley and bear-garlic.

arachnophobia -> ironing There is only one local spider I really fear. Big beasts in the garden which catch clothes with their nets. Always means that a long and nasty ironing session of the victims is close. These cloth dryers are called Wäschespinnen (cloth spiders) in German,

Have to do a business trip to Rotterdam and put this on the playlist for returning at night with the car.