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Natures Magic

Summer morning in the Haaren Niederung

We live in a town with a university, a theater (in the classical sense), at least 3 major hospitals, several pre-schools and schools, shopping centers, a medieval castle and a historic city center. The archeologists are not sure but our city was founded somewhat between the years 700 – 800. So a totally normal town . . . almost.

Hidden path

Over a tiny path you can get into a tiny nature preserve that sits smack in the middle of our district. When you step over the little bridge it is a bit like magic, you step into a totally different world. The the best time to go there are the very early morning hours during the summer, but all the other seasons have their perks too. We love to go there often during the entire year. For us it’s the best part about this town. Have a magical weekend and be safe.

Crafts · Stop Plastic

No Plastic Wanted

Cute Pill Bottles

I hate plastic! I avoid it whenever possible. I don’t buy plastic containers or other things made of plastic, I even go so far not to buy food items that are wrapped in too much plastic. And yes, I got rid of all my tupper ware, may it rot in hell! Plastic is just evil and not healthy, neither for us or our planet. I always go for things made out of natural materials, like glass, metal and wood. For almost every plastic item there is a environmentally acceptable alternative, you just have to look and sometimes get a bit creative. And here is one example:

Beside of eating healthy I’m totally into vitamins and food supplements just to make sure my body gets everything it needs. There is Vitamin B12, Vitamin E, a vitamin depot for people 50 +, hyaluron, extra stuff for hair and nails, iron, zinc and pumpkin seed oil. You can imagine, that’s a lot of boxes and bottles and it’s easy to get mixed up, beside of the massive clutter. So I was looking for one of these pill boxes where you can put in your daily pills for an entire week. These things are nice, you keep track and everything is tidy, buuut all those boxes are made out of plastic. I searched local stores and Amazon but nothing than nasty plastic. I don’t buy plastic things, so no pill box for me . . . until the day I found these tiny glass bottles at our local dollar store (well, it’s not really a dollar store, we don’t have those here in germany, but it comes pretty close to it). Inspiration bit me and boom my pill box. Environmentally friendly! And cheaper then the regular plastic things.

Be safe and have a pawesome day. =)

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Getting there

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Boy did WP change! When I blogged last time a few years back WP was super easy and straight forward, now they have turned it into some sort of rocket science. I actually had to look for a tutorial just to figure out how to get the image inline. It only took me nearly 2 days. That was a first, in over 20 years. Why do people always have to screw around with working systems. When something works fine and everybody loves it, don’t touch it. Period! But maybe it’s because this is the first time I’m not with a proper host (cpanel and all). Here at WP everything is kinda instant but you are very limited, unless you want to spend a fortune. I have no idea to where this new adventure leads, heck I don’t even really know with what do fill this blog besides my mumblings (I swear, my belly feeling made me do it), but if it turns into something I’ll move to a proper host. I miss my cpanel, but for now this is just fine. Right now I have my hands full with getting back into things.

It’s not only WP I have to get back into. Since I do my own graphics, I have to get back into Gimp as well. Yesterday I pulled out my Wacom and omg I swear, I never saw such a dusty Wacom. =p Ya well, I better get busy now. Have a pawesome day.