A day in Heidelberg

Today was our chance to walk around the Aldstädt, visit a few friends, and otherwise relax. Completely ignoring how wiped out I was from the time zone changes, it was a lovely day.

We had lunch with a friend who had children in the same kindergarten as ours back in the 1993-1995 time frame. I met with a long standing friend from my knitting group (10+ years ago) and passed along some spinning fiber along with a couple of skeins of yarn. Walked around the city, occasionally looking up.

(sorry, for whatever reason photos are not loading to the server at the present).

George had a lovely evening with his Stamtisch – a group of mostly dads who started meeting when the kids were in kindergarten. A few have been lost over the years (we are all getting older) and there have been additions.

I packed up those things which need to go out in DHL in the morning, watched the UCSF Medicine Grand Rounds and crashed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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