For those wondering why no updates since August, well, we helped our oldest son to built up his house in Portugal in the mountains, just in time to have everything ready before the first snow …

Today’s unhappy smiley face is dedicated on the 41 year old woman who got buried today in our little town…
You guess it right, she died from cancer and has been going in and out of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

First thing I did when I went to bed the first day of my retirement was:

taking my alarm-clock
removing the battery
putting all deep down in the closet…

So these days I wake up when I hear my …

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 …

Well, we just need to wait until the 10th of May before we can finish the job putting the fragile tomatoes, zucchinis, cucumbers and sweet peppers in the open air.
Meanwhile our cat is having kittens …

It’s March, so my computer is enjoying his retirement, because I am in the garden and the greenhouse
Every August people ask me what strawberries to plant and every March, people ask me what …