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Back to work?
Friday, 24 Jul, 2009 – 0:18 | No Comment
Back to work?

I don’t think so!
What happened? I got a phone call yesterday asking me if I want to teach unemployed people "what life is all about in the corporate world".
Now I do love teaching …

A cup of coffee anyone?
Thursday, 16 Jul, 2009 – 0:00 | No Comment
A cup of coffee anyone?

I love weekends. You would say: why? You are retired already?
Well, my kids aren’t nor some of my friends, so for them it’s the only time they have to pay a visit.
So I bought a …

Too much water in the basement
Saturday, 11 Jul, 2009 – 23:53 | No Comment
Too much water in the basement

Really: old things break down more easily than younger things…
Health is an issue when you get older and well, machines just break down…
My water-pump in the basement finally broke down after more than 40 …

No spare parts when your body gets old
Thursday, 25 Jun, 2009 – 23:00 | No Comment
No spare parts when your body gets old

When I was 40 I never said but I always thought: gosh, I am not in my twenties anymore. And now having passed the big 60, I must say I am not 40 anymore…
A big …

Getting a bit fat
Tuesday, 16 Jun, 2009 – 3:21 | No Comment
Getting a bit fat

Woops, since I am helping with the laundry these days, I was thinking my trousers had shrunk, maybe I had used too hot water in the washing machine?
Turns out I still have the perfect skills …

Say aaah!
Thursday, 16 Apr, 2009 – 6:23 | No Comment
Say aaah!

Coming down with a flu… My own stupidity: working in the garden: sweating like hell in my cold clothes and than taking out my sweater and continuing.
According to my wife I have to stop thinking …

How to use birch juice?
Friday, 27 Feb, 2009 – 7:04 | No Comment
How to use birch juice?

In my previous post, Birch beer, I told you how to tap the juices from the Birch tree. You need to do this now or in spring that is before the leaves are out (otherwise …

Pruning roses
Monday, 23 Feb, 2009 – 10:56 | No Comment
Pruning roses

Prunes and roses: as if summer is in full swing…
Yet it’s still February so no fruit available but ideal time to prune the roses before they start growing again due to a way too …

Happy Valentines backup plan :-)
Saturday, 14 Feb, 2009 – 14:25 | No Comment
Happy Valentines backup plan :-)

Nice of Google to joke about retirement … But they know how to draw, that’s for sure.
I wish I was as good in baking as they are in drawing…
Very difficult to get …

Our geese are hatching
Saturday, 7 Feb, 2009 – 10:54 | No Comment
Our geese are hatching

As usual around this time of the year, our daddy and mommy goose started hatching their eggs.

I intend not to give them names because maybe 1 day they need to end up in a …