Thursday, August 14, 2008

Lifespan Sistic Fibrosis 2010 Diagram

Pets

Being four weeks in Bad Salzuflen, I left my three guinea-pigs at my daughter-in-law's parents. They own six cats (Persian cats) and three rabbits and  because their daughter's room is empty now (she moved together with my daughter), they've got enough place to take also the three piggies and mind them until I was back at home.

I own three lady-piggies - Fix, Foxy and Cappuccino. The little male died after he got neutered, now it's over with the cute baby-pigs. They were real easy going pets, because the babies are born as precocial animals - with fur and teeth and open eyes. 

It's time I get my piggies back, it's awfully quiet in the apartment. I love their squieking and whisteling. They're never really quiet. 



Foxie's babies, a few hours old. I only kept the one in the middle.





The two mothers with their babies. The one with the black backside is Fix, it's her babies on the left (the nearly invisible beige one leftmost and the one at her left side; Foxy is the one with the beige backside, her three babies are in the right corner. 



Lupo, the late father. 



That is Baily, one baby from my first litter (she is only a few days old, but perfect, LOL)



Saturday, August 9, 2008

When Do Ohio Driver's License Need To Be Renewed?



For four weeks I visited Bad Salzuflen, a nice little town in Germany, Northrhein Westfalia. I've got some treatments because I took a cure.

I loved the park there, I was walking and watching every day of those four weeks and I always found new plants and places and little ways.

Now I'm back at work, only the pictures remember me of that time.

 

The little tower on the left side is called 'Katzenturm' (cat-tower). I don't know why.



Small little streets and picturesque houses.



It looks nice on the outside, but I bet the rooms inside are small with low ceilings and wry walls. 



It looks bewitched, doesn't it?



My daughter and her girlfriend visited me (daughter Britta is the one with the black T-shirt, Sandra is in the front of that photo.



My son Claas and his girlfriend visited me, too. Katja, the girl, wouldn't pose on that handrail.



I really love bagpipe music. The band was there for the 'Schützenfest' (hmm, no translation for that. It's a festival with bands from Germany and other countries, first they make a parade and then they all together are sitting in a tent and drinking beer and other drinks. Very funny with much drunken people). 



I loved to watch the flocks of ducks in the park. 



Oops.



The wall is the 'Gradierwerk'. (no translation again - it's a wall from millions of branches and they put saltwater over it, the whole time, day and night. It's to get a 'sea-climate' in the middle of Germany. It works, I could breath more easily as I got a cold (and it was good for my asthma, too). 



I detected the bumble-bees only as I loaded the photo into my computer.

Friday, August 8, 2008

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Let the games begin

side are just opens the Olympic Games of Beijing. As hoped, but by no means expected, Dirk Nowitzki has been chosen as the flag bearer for the German delegation. Although the hardliners among the Olympic athletes consider this a taboo, the first order of an unwritten law, it was my opinion the only right decision. And Dirk has fulfilled the task with flying colors, which was visible to an entirely on his sweat-shirt and jacket, but also at the special big applause from the audience.

Otherwise, the opening ceremony can be summarized in short, a perfect and bombastic show where the commentators ARD gave their best but these comments by grandiose incompetent mess up (no, Yao Ming is 2.37 m tall!). Let's hope that the games can connect seamlessly to even this great opening. I am particularly looking forward to the course performance of the German basketball team.

Let the games begin ... ;-)