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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.

Burt Reynolds -> Sex Not only sexiest man alive but also here about 40 sexcs in the trailer:

band -> citizens band radio Still not all in my area covered by cellular phones. Cable telephon has cables often attached to trees which may fall in storm. So we still have citizen band radio and short wave as backup.

Was my company car. The option for extra cargo weight demanded better brakes which had to be tested and certified for this change. Believe me already certified ceramic brakes were the cheapest!!! option. Brembo said that there ceramic brakes last a car life if you are not exceeding 600C. You need 2-3 sets of compound brakes for a car life. So the costs are quite the same and the ceramic has more advantages. I am not speaking about normal cars. But 200km/h, heavy load and 60000km a year change a lot in the calculation.

I used to transport heavy prototype parts to customers. Add that I live in Germany's mid mountain range and that 200km/h downhill with a heavy load works hard on the brakes if somebody changes lane too close. Ceramic lasts longer and is way more expensive, but ... having normal brakes checked and perhaps replaced each half year isn't cheap too. Main reason is the fading effect: if you have to do heavy braking two times in follow normal brakes loose brake power.

Cleaning my uniform and my Flügelhorn for a funeral of a firefighter tomorrow. Firefighters never die. They do a final climb on a rescue ladder long enough to reach heaven... Will play 'Der Gute Kamerad / The good comrade' with our third on trumpet and me on the Flügelhorn

Robin Williams -> Mork & Mindy

NEVER -> James Bond

mushroom weather, sunny in afternoon and wet in morning fog 7 pounds while doing a walk with the dogs: different boletes, chanterelles, blusher, champignon, ... could add bear garlic from our indoor garden for a nice mushroom pan The nice thing with bear garlic: has garlic taste but you don't smell for it

Sorry to hear this. If it was after a repair, Did you have a paper contract with the garage of the mechanics? Take a witness and demand that the garage fixes the new problem for free. I miss my former business car. Some month ago I had to do full brakes and the car behind crashed in mine. My BMW GT was quite new with brake assists and ceramic brakes. The car behind was 20 years old, heavy and bad brake discs. Still few weeks for a new company car. Had to be build individual because I have to transport heavy metal probes at speed 200km/h. Because flying is no option, triggering explosives alarm at airports.