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Sören is now seven - starts school this year.
(Knows everything about any wild animals, dinosaurs, knights and pirates, can count and even read and write a bit .... but doesn't know the time/clock!)

Actually, I look, walk and gesture like my father, everone says.

Well, you didn't volunteer a photo of your father, but
I can see the resemblence to your mother.

my nephew brendan and me



my niece nautica



my nephew Zackary



brendan

walter : that's a great picture from the dining room of the "hotel hinteler" . the waiter seems to be missing in the picture(when we travel and i take a picture of mrs h at the breakfast or dinner table, i find that the waiter often offers to take the picture. i usually ask the waiter to stand right behind mrs h so that she/he can be included in the picture. pretty well all the time they are happy to oblige and i have managed to get some really nice pictures that way). btw. in the centre of the breakfast table sits something that looks suspiciously like some nice slices of "westphaelischer schinken" ?
since we went for our weekly shopping at our danish deli, we also had some nice slices of "schinken" but not"westphaelian" on our brekfast table ,,, and also some slices of "geraeucherte ochsenzunge" - which we cannot get very often. hope there is some left for tomorrow morning ! hbg

I remember schinken...what was that farmer's schinken called?

That one on the table was either Spanish Serrano or Italian Parma :wink:

Depends on, panzade - 'Landschinken' is a general term.

what, no "westphaelischer schinken" in westphaelia ? (when i grew up italian ham/salami was viewed with suspicion in hamburg. the claim was that itialian ham/salami must surely be "esel- fleisch" - i.e. "donkey meat" - hope no one is taking offense; it was a long time ago). hbg

No, sorry - those you get here now are mostly "fabric made" = riped to fast.

And the real good ones are either too expensive or only to be found accidentally.

ocsoftballer, these are most precious pictures of you and
your nieces and nephew, they're just adorable (you too )

Schinken? THere is nothing like Black Forest Ham, smoked
of course. Sooooon, I'll be eating that again.

In Spain I remember the bodegas with their hams hanging from the ceiling. Riquisimo

Time for more pictures....

Calamity Jane -Beautiful girl and cute puppy too-I love how they're both smiling.

I hate to ask, but how do you post photos without directly, without using a link?

aidan, like this --

[IMG] the url of the image [/IMG]

no spaces...

Thank you aiden! Here you can upload pictures directly from your computer into and get a link.

http://www.domaindlx.com/

Just register and start uploading your pictures
After you have uploaded your picture, click on it and
a new window will open with the picture giving you
an URL to post (just include [img] URL [/img] as Region said).

Thanks Jane and Region - I'm gonna try it.

The picture must have a .jpg ending or .gif aidan.

Take your picture from webshots and drag it over to your
hard disc. Then you use the domaindlx. website
and upload it.....

Since some can't come to the meeting at my place in two weeks, since it really looks pretty, especially in springtime, I'll post some photos here.

All were taken two days ago [Nikon F 80, with Sigma lenses (17-35mm f2.8-4 / 28-70mm f2.8 / 70-200mm f2.8 )] within a range of 5 minutes walking from our apartment.

To enlarge the photos, please click on the thumbnail!


This is the closest to our's: our local 'Kur Theater':





(Bad Waldliesborn is a so-called 'Kurort'. A Kurort is a resort for preventative medicine, recovery, and/or cure. Bad Waldliesborn is a thermal spa. Going to a spa or Bad is also covered by [Austrian and German] health insurance plans. A doctor may prescribe eine Kur.)

Until about 50 years ago, people stayed in houses like those below for their Kur:



105 years ago, some people tried to find coal here, a place with just a couple of farms. But instead of 'black gold' they found a couple of salty, but healthy sources.

On the photo below, you can see one of the pumphouses and a half a 'Headgear Pulley', the latter from a real coal mine in the Ruhr district.



A different view:





For a cup of coffee with Schwarzwälder Kirsch or nice lunch, a dinner or just a glass of beer or wine, we can rest at various places, like this one:

Our parc isn't really famous for its flowers, but for the sculptures. Out of the more than two dozens, here are just a few




Of course we have a couple of flowers in the parc, as you may have already noticed, not just only 'hidden' ones like these tulpits in a stump :wink:



The former railway line from Lippstadt to Münster became our "promenade"

Yeah, thanks Jane - I'll try again later. My son's friend just came over so he's left me in the lurch and I'm ridiculously technologically challenged. I'll get my husband to help me when he gets home. I will learn how to do this though.

And thanks for posting the thread. It's a fun idea.