Ingeborg, our long-time friend from Hannover, checks in with an email and a picture today:
. . . Talking about the weather in Germany, it's been awful for weeks...sunny intervals, rainy showers, thunderstorms, temperature too low for this season. On the other hand, the roses are in bloom quite well this year, it's pretty green in the city.
The weatherman has spoken, "We have to stand another week, then it will become better." There is bad news of our only larger city lake, called "Maschsee," the one where you can go ice skating in winter, remember? The lake is polluted because of droppings from gray geese. Therefore the public swimming possibility must close by hygenical reasons. So there is no swimming possible, but what could we do? The geese love to stay on these premises.
The picture is of the Lake Maschsee, in the back you can see the city hall, built around 1890, and on the left side in the back the large, old tower of the market church, our biggest church building, was built in the medium age.
The picture is of the Lake Maschsee, in the back you can see the city hall, built around 1890, and on the left side in the back the large, old tower of the market church, our biggest church building, was built in the medium age.
(Our pal Inge has excellent English. . . but she obviously meant the church was built in the Middle Ages. Our favorite misstep was one sunny day when Stan was wearing a new pair of short pants, Bermuda length. Ingeborg threw Stan a compliment as he sported about. "Stan," she said enthusiastically, "I like your panties.")
