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Natures Magic

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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.

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Getting there

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Zoooom

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.

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Made up my Mind

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When I signed up for the hosting I was telling myself “this time you gonna write in german”. It’s easier for me to write in my mother language, even after 20 plus years of writing in english (heck, I sometimes even think in english), buuut the point is, I blogged in english since the year 2000, I’m hosted by an US host (german hosts suck), I use WP that is created in the US by people who speak english and IF somebody will stumble over this blog eventually they will be able to read it because most people on this planet can communicate in english. And well, it just feels right to me to write in english. If needed (for a massive rant for example, I just rant better in german) I can still write in german here and there, right?

Something you should never underestimate is the fact, that my enlish skills, depending on my current level of coffee, can be somewhat entertaining for native speakers. I have a talent to do really funny spelling or to use the wrong words at the totally wrong spots.

Now as the language question is out of the way, I can start to fill the blog and to relearn the ropes of WP. Everything changed a lot. These guys have come a long a way. So yeah, I better get busy now. Have a pawesome day!

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Ein neues Abenteuer

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Her Royal Cuteness Princess Amilia

Meinen allerersten Blog hatte ich im Jahr 2000 und WP war zu der Zeit noch niegelnagelneu. Das Internet war noch Social Media frei und irgendwie viel besser. Vor ungefähr 10 Jahren hatte ich dann endgültig aufgehört zu bloggen weil es einfach keinen Spaß mehr machte. Alle Freunde hatten endweder schon aufgehört oder waren zu Facebookzombies mutiert.

Vor ein paar Monaten schlich sich nun dieser Gedanke ein: pssst wäre es nicht toll wieder einen Blog zu haben? Och nööö womit sollte ich den denn füllen? Mein Leben ist so ereignisfrei wie eine Steuererklärung. Das hat sich nicht geändert, aber trotzdem habe ich nachgegeben. Der Punkt ist, von meinem Hund und dem gelegentlichen Schnack mit einer Nachbarin mal abgesehen, habe ich nicht wirklich jemanden zum reden. Ein Blog ist immer da, er ist günstiger als ein Therapeut und ich kann ihn vollsabbeln bis ich grün werde. Er gibt keine Widerworte und er erzählt mir nicht ständig “das kannst du nicht” Also fange ich einfach mal an und gucke wohin es mich führt.

Es wird eine Weile dauern bis ich mich wieder in WP zurecht finde. Das hat sich ganz schön verändert. Hier ist der Weg wohl das Ziel. =p