Sound advice for frugal parents

Wash your child and your dishes at the same time! – At least that’s what Papa Scott suggests. Heh.

Cute photo, by the way! But then, Christopher is always cute…

Weblog Community

Everyone celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday. Or at least, the Americans did. It was nice to read about what people are thankful for, and it was interesting to read what they were all having for dinner because we Germans don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. It surely sounded like something I would like to try!

By the way… It seems the Annual James, Bierner, Prewett, Hutchinson, Jensen Thanksgiving Feast was a very short and uneventful one this year… no food after the wine. Or they may have forgotten to take photos because the wine and food were so good…

Oh, wait… Craig just flipped the page! It seems he’s uploading the pics now. Yay!

Ach ja, und dann war da noch…

… das nach Muscheln tauchende Schwein. Gibt’s nicht? Doch:

Wo die grauen Säue tauchen – “Im kroatischen Hinterland soll es Schweine geben, die unter Wasser nach Muscheln suchen. Jörg Albrecht ging der Sache auf den Grund.”

Leider fehlt im Online-Artikel das Foto von dem süßen Schwein…

Und dann noch was Praktisches für den Alltag:

Legendäre Saftbremse; von Christoph Drösser.

“Man sollte Fleisch scharf anbraten, damit sich die Poren schnell schließen und das Fleisch saftig und zart bleibt. Stimmt’s?”

Kleiner Hinweis: Stimmt nicht.

Wow, the Saenz’s Thanksgiving dinner looks delicious!

Day without Weblogs

Mollie explains her view of DWW. I agree!

Internal news

I started a collection of Sunset Photos and updated this site’s Index.

Antarctica

Diary Antarctica is the journal of Xinzhao Chu, who seems to be working somewhere in Antarctica. Quite a few nice photos on her weblog, too!

While it may not be as adventorous as The Bancroft Arnesen Expedition, it’s still interesting. I mean, how many people do you know who work at the South Pole?

No sunset today

At 4:30 pm, a little while before the sun set, it started to rain quite heavily. Instead of sticking my camera out of a window towards the west, I took these photos from our living room windows – away from the sun!

These were, as you can easily see, four photos. Here’s another shot of one end of the rainbow. You can sort of see the second rainbow outside the first one. (It was clearly visible outsinde, but the photo is not as good, sorry.) Note that the colors on the outer rainbow are inverted.

And here’s a shot at the sun. Yes, the sky was really that yellowish-coloured. Nature always impresses me – sometimes even in the middle of civilisation…

Okay, I admit it all looked much more impressive in reality… sigh. At least you should get the idea from the photos.

New house

Did I hear someone yeee-hawing in New Mexico?

Must’ve been Sandra and Garret – the house is theirs! Congratulations!

“You’ll have at least five jobs after you graduate, four of which haven’t been invented yet.” – Michael Cox, Chief Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Found here via Duncan.

Tired?

Al has a photo of him edithing View From The Heart after a night shift. Megan and Janelle seem to me much more awake than their dad! Cute picture!

What happened to people who post search requests?

For a day or two now, people have been complaining that Google seems not to link to their sites any more. I’ve only submitted a search request there once, but Google still finds it. My page is not in the top ten results any more, but I don’t really care.

As for whether people still find my site via Google or Yahoo – well, take a look at my referrers!

Benjamin Blümchen

Helena looked at my compilation of websites for kids (in German) and wondered why Benjamin Blümchen wasn’t included. For those who don’t know: Benjamin Blümchen is a talking elephant, and he is the main character of a popular radio play (is that the English word for Hörspiel?) series for children in Germany.
Um, well… I forgot about him. But I guess the Benjamin Blümchen series (and website) are for kids in elementary school, and fifth-graders might consider themselves way too old to be interested in Benjamin Blümchen any more…

The Famous Five

I used to listen to Benjamin Blümchen cassettes when I was in elementary school. Then I discovered the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton (in Deutschland besser bekannt als ‘Fünf Freunde’) and collected all 21 cassettes that were available back then. I also watched the series on TV. Today, I did Google searches on Enid Blyton, the Famous Five etc. and discovered some interesting sites.

Gary Russell played ‘Dick’ in the Famous Five TV series that were produced in the seventies. He tells the story of how he became Dick and how the series were shot. I don’t know about you, but if you watched the series on TV and liked them, you will probably enjoy reading this! Be sure to take a look at the photos as well!

Some sites about Enid Blyton in general are Enid Blyton online, including the Enid Blyton Society and a list of links, and the somewhat commercial Enid Blyton Ltd..

I also found this Enid Blyton Webring, but haven’t checked out all the sites.

In case you were wondering – yes, I admit I also read the St. Clare’s (‘Hanni und Nanni’) and the Malory Towers (‘Dolly’) series by Blyton when I was about 10 or 12.

Um, I’m just wondering… are Enid Blyton’s books known in the US as well? Has anyone read her books, too? Tell me!

Fünf Freunde

Auf deutsch gibt es auch einige Sites, z.B. Kirrin Island (auch über andere Hörspielserien) oder die Fünf Freunde Fanpage. Insbesondere dürfte für Fans hier Allgemeines und Hintergründe zur Serie ‘Fünf Freunde’ interessant sein. (Von hier habe ich auch die Bilder aus dem Vorspann zur Fernsehserie geklaut.)