I have many problems and in the last time more and more problems...
I write this post on the computer from my nephew because my computer is damaged some hours ago, perhaps the hard disk. Probably I have lost all addresses, my photos, application documents, about two hundred scans from the book "Wir Maedel", everything. The computer is one of the most important things in my life.
Since several weeks I have pain in the back and on Monday I have an appointment with the doctor. After a motorbike accident in 1993 my doctor told me perhaps I get problems with my back some years later. Perhaps I must have an operation, my leg must be broken and I get some metal bars in my leg. I thought I don't get any problems and the doctor is wrong, but now I am worried. Perhaps I think to much, I don't know...
The good news from today I have become another gift from Mauser*girl and SGT Trueman, a movie with Nicholas Cage. Thank you very much! In some minutes I will watch the movie.
Some of my friends like my pictures and therefore I will show a couple of new photos from yesterday.
Wild ducks march over the ice...
...and take a bath in the frosty river.
A calm place at the riverbank...
...and the sky.
Beautiful reflections in the water...
Learn by pain was a proverb during my days in the German Army and in the following case it matched very well.
In the last post I had written it's at the time very cold and now a 10 year old German at the city Selb has tried something. It was -0,4 Fahrenheit(-18 Celsius) cold and he licked at a lamppost...
Ambulance men must rescued the scholar and he was slightly injured. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the "intelligent" boy.
Perhaps Charles Darwin's theory is right, but I hope the scholar has learned something by pain...
The last days were very cold in Northern Germany and it becomes colder and colder.
Some days ago I had taken these photo with a sunrise at the river Elbe. The river has a strong current, but nevertheless you can see ice floes in the water.
Every day is my car coated with ice and I must use a ice scraper for the windows. Not only the outside, even the inside is frozen and you can see snowflakes on the instrument panel. The snow is the scraped off ice from the windshield. You can see the time 9:15am but the time is wrong, it's in reality 8:15am. The summer time is still adjusted...
These photo is from today and the river is nearly completely frozen. My digital camera is made of metal and it was to cold to make more and better photos.
Today at noon a package from America arrived me with some Christmas presents.
Thank you very much Mauser*girl and SGT Trueman!!!
In the package was a very nice T-shirt from the state Virginia and don't worry, it fits great Mauser*girl. Two classic war films, I've nothing planned for tonight and I will watch the movies SGT Trueman. :) In addition four stamps with distinguished US Marines and one with Greta Garbo...
Many many thanks!!
The oldest river horse of Europe died on December 31st in Berlin.
The hippo Bulette was born 1952 and his father was the famous hippo Knautschke from the Berlin zoo. Knautschke was born in the year 1943 and he was the star of of the Berlin zoo. Before the world war 2 had the zoo about 10000 animals, only 91 survived and the hippo was one of the survivors. The zoo was heavily bombed and Knautschke was also disabled by a bomb. In the year 1988 died Bulettes father.
In my childhood I saw the both river horses, when I was with my parents in Berlin.
