Random photos

We did a lot of geocaching with our new toy in October. It's a telescoping fishing pole for grabbing geocaches way up in trees/telephone poles. I call it "sky caching." When J brought it home I cracked up laughing because he slowly raised it until it was towering over our house!

On the day of the photo below, I discovered how not fun sky caching is in the rain, because you repeatedly get big fat raindrops in your eyeballs as you stare straight up at the sky, blinding you.

Yesterday I hid my first sky cache from our walnut tree where people can get it from our street/shoulder without needing to enter our front yard. In the tiny container (petling*) is a tiny key, rather than a log book. The key opens a locked camo-painted ammo can we will hide in our hedge, again no need to enter our yard. I look forward to watching people sky cache from the comfort of my couch, when it's finally published.  (* Petlings have replaced film containers as Germany's most common microcache - they are totally waterproof. Supposedly they are the precursor to heavy-duty plastic coke bottles.)


     






     
On that day I saw a horse with an interesting coat pattern.





     
This grey slate house covering that is typical for our area is often arranged into whimsical patterns. This is the first time I've seen a horse taking a jump! If you look closely you can see the date above, 1890, I think, same year as our house.



     
I said, "No, I will  not buy toilet paper with such a stupid name." But we had to, we were out. BTW, "Happy End" is the German, or "Denglish" for Happy Ending. I suppose it does make more sense, grammatically.



     
We finally got a good mattress and I had to splurge and get us some fancy new bedsheets. They're custom made for our bed and American style with a top sheet (Germans don't use top sheets). The color is much more teal than blue, but my camera couldn't capture it.





     
It didn't take long for the cat to discover it.





     
I recently learnd how to make traditional German potato salad (no mayo). It turned out perfect!


Below I tried to capture the cranes circling/gathering over our house but unfortunately I failed - but you can hear them, and near the end see how they upset Mag. This is after they caused him to run full speed in his pasture for-e-ver, not panicked, just using them as an excuse to find his racing speed.

The cranes normally fly over twice yearly, in opposite directions of course, but this time they seemed confused until I realized they were re-grouping. For almost an hour, it was very loud here. I've never seen one up close, they don't live in Germany, so I have no idea what they look like. The first time I heard them I was terrified cuz I'd never heard anything like that and I could tell "some animal" was close over the trees over my head but I couldn't see anything.