Monthly Archives: April 2000

April 25 2000

Summer’s coming!

Today was the first really warm day in Bonn. The temperature ranged between 20 and 25°C (68 to 77°F). I know, those of you who live in California don’t think this is spectacular, but for us, it is!

André and I went inline skating in the afternoon. Perfect weather for that! At a little creek not far from our house, we visited to parrots. Or whatever they are. We saw one of them, a bright green bird with a parrot-like beak but smaller that a real parrot, a couple of days ago. That time, it was chasing a squirrel on a tree, or rather, shooing it away from a hole in the stem which we guessed was its home.

Today, we saw two bright-green birds on the same tree. Must be a couple. One of them disappeared into the hole quickly, the other was again busy keeping a squirrel away.

I didn’t know there were wild parrots in Bonn, but we saw some in Cologne (30 miles north of Bonn). They prefer to spend their time in the Cologne Zoo, but don’t belong there. We were told they are the descendants from birds that escaped from their cages.

I guess we’ll visit them from time to time to see what they’re doing. They must be awfully cold in winter!

Trip to the USA

Day 24: From Yosemite back to San Francisco.

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24. Tag: Von Yosemite zurück nach San Francisco.

Der Sommer kommt!

Heute war der erste richtig warme Tag in Bonn. Wir hatten zwischen 20 und 25°C. André und ich nutzten das perfekte Wetter und gingen Inlinerfahren.

An einem Bach nicht weit von unserem Haus besuchten wir zwei Papageien. Das heißt, ein richtiger Papagei ist es wohl nicht, aber ein kleinerer Verwandter. Es sind leuchtend-hellgrüne Vögel mit roten Schnäbeln, die von der Form her wie Papageienschnäbel aussehen.

Einen hatten wir bei unserem letzten Spaziergang dort entdeckt. Er saß auf einem Baum und verjagte ein Eichhörnchen von einem Loch im Stamm, in das er nach einer Weile verschwand.

Als wir heute ankamen, flogen gerade zwei grüne Vögel auf den Baum. Einer verschwand gleich in dem Loch, der andere mußte mal wieder ein Eichhörnchen auf Distanz halten…

Ich wußte gar nicht, daß es wilde Papageien in Bonn gibt. In Köln leben aber eine ganze Menge. Sie halten sich auch gern in den Bäumen im Zoo auf, gehören aber nicht zum Zoo, sondern sind Nachkommen von entflogenen Haustieren.

Wir werden mal öfter bei den beiden Papageien hier vorbeischauen, um zu sehen, was sie so machen. Im Winter frieren sie bestimmt ganz ordentlich hier in Deutschland…

April 24 2000

Another community link

I searched Weblogs.com for andrea.editthispage.com. It found eleven weblogs which I knew – and NoLondon: “Andrea avoids LA

Now who is NoLondon? Anyway, he’s right. We didn’t visit Los Angeles on our Trip to the USA. Did we miss anything?

John Muir

Yesterday I wrote we met John Muir in person. Duncan says there was a John Muir Festival 2000 in Dunbar these days. Details can be found at www.muir-birthplace.org.

“Can’t believe more than a week has gone by since my last post. I have Andrea to thank for giving me the impetus to add some news to this site. In particular, her and André’s weblog entry about their trip to Yosemite.”

I had hoped a link to you would get your page flipped!

Community link

“And Andrea, how have I been missing a link to you all this time?! It’s there now.”

Frankly, I don’t know how this could have happened. After all the Schogetten we sent to you!

Just kidding. Thanks for the link, John!

Trip to the USA

Day 23: second day at Yosemite National Park.

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23. Tag: zweiter Tag im Yosemite-Nationalpark.

April 23 2000

Happy Easter! easter: Frohe Ostern!

The personal value of keeping a weblog

At On Deciding… Better, James Vornov writes:

“I think the weblog is an unmatched tool to help one lead reflective life. Simultaneously both private and public, it can help one become the person that one aspires to be.”

Books with books in them

Craig Jensen of BookNotes has started a community project: Books as Characters.

Trip to the USA

Today we have something for Duncan Smeed!

Day 22: First day at Yosemite National Park. In the evening, we met John Muir.

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22. Tag: Erster Tag im Yosemite Nationalpark. Abends machten wir die Bekanntschaft von John Muir.

April 22 2000

Am I being watched?

Hearing all those things about how you are being watched on the web via cookies and what not all, this almost scared me:

“Andrea Frick came to this site today. Welcome, Andrea! Heh, heh…fun with macros.”

How does John know I’ve been visting his site? (I mean other that just guessing that I come by every day.)

I signed out to see what happens – and yes, that part was gone. Phew!

Now how do you do this??? Must find out.

Trip to the USA

Day 21: From Utah back to California – and a visit to Mono Lake.

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21. Tag: Von Utah zurück nach Kalifornien – und Besuch des Mono Lake.