Double-Half
or One Ten without ham

Last year I don´t even know if the CSD BS took place with all the flooding, but this time we went again and the Happy Rizzi House just so fits in, right.



By golly, just look how creative this person was - and was so sorry for all the make up later, aw, life can be unfair (more to come but I bet all these people participating will remember the parade 2018!).



And these two, so cool, too, no?
Sadly the parade was very much shorter.

But would you expect these?



Glad to see them!
And like this, too:



Not secured at all!
With all the peeps around!
Would you be so trusting?



Lion of the day :-)

Mini-mural in Zimmerstraße.
Sadly again no idea who the artist is...

Taking part again in Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals :-)

Well, that beer was in the trunk of Ingo´s car a tad too long and got kinda a tad warm with 38.2 C or 100,76 F!

Living room has 31 C / 87,8 F, which would be no problem if it wasn´t so humid despite the dehumidifier running day and night!

The city even asked to put water outside with a stick for the insects...



Doc subcribed a different brand and weeee.... real trouble eating - certainly, over the weekend not a chance to get the "right" stuff, but I have an my Ingo who gets me watermelon, cornflakes and cocoa :-)

And later, when I felt better he even went to the city to get some quality meat and the most yummy, newly "found" potato-salad ever:



And, yes, it´s "dark".
In bright sunshine Ingo tested his old, good cam, put up the sun-brolly and boooooom, when the ISS comes very, very close to us: clouds all over (let´s forget about the lunar eclipse, too)...



Lion of the day is another real Henry.

Addendum... sky cleared, we went and watched the ISS. (Boooring ;-)...)

T said he´s sick of this shit#y summer - haha, it´s not even August - but yes, it´s a mixture of joy and suffering as the humidity is so high.
Water is needed, so, thanks to my thongs, or, as they´re called here flip-flops, no problem :-)



Others cope without water (really that´s... HOT, HOT, HOT (and unhealthy)).



And some have no choice...



Everything has two sides, right?

Just look what we had last year instead - crazy weather!



Lion(s) of the day :-)

Don´t you love to peek into places?
I do.

See how others live like.



In 1999 it took us five weeks to sell our car in Perth and we took some chances, pretending to be rhich enough to buy a house.
We drove by the show houses and dreamed along.



Always funny... or rather embarassing... when you run into "your own peeps" who think they´re the only ones speaking the language.
A German couple in their 40´s/50´s being so arrogant it hurt.

Never assume no one understands you, right?
Or: Don´t be arrogant at all, that´s much easier :-)

Oh, maybe a tad oversized, but look!



One can dream, right?
Oh, we´d need a maid then, too - too much to clean up. Right? ;-)

On my way back home I stopped by Penny and (not seriously) thought about never leaving.
They have aircon, bliss!
Even in the evening we have 28C inside - and we live ground-level - crazy!

Lion of the day:



Am signed sick till end of August and my 80+ y-o neighbour thinks it´s "wonderful".
More and more people realise the gap between right and wrong gets bigger here.

People who never ever worked here get too much for free.

But the German Michael ... he never stands up (so far). I´m no exception. But now I do profit for quite a while. And (too?) many think it´s good (for me).

My docs always have an open door! Lucky me! (after all)

Pic(s) taken on the way back home from HEH after my last extracorporeal shockwave therapy.
The crazy water was much more welcomed than chocolate and I was mistaken, I didn´t buy llama spit twice, she got "Queen" - just appropriate, after all my name is Emperor :-).



And yes, I walked home.
In that heat, too.
All good.



Soon I´m off to see the family doctor.
Let´s see what she says, if she advises to go on with the meds.
Still no positive effect - but the negative ones seem to be over at last.



So, last massage/therapy it was - "That was it".
I´m a bit sad, it was really good (sadly I have to pay myself).
Pain is not entirely gone, though.



But things could be worse, right.



We could have another crap summer - but we don´t :-)



34C tops today! :-)

Ahhh, summer!
I can´t remember a summer like this!

Just to give an example...
At the bakery yesterday.

"What kind of a summer!!!", my baker-lady says.
And I agree.

"Next week we´ll have wine, when is there wine in July???"
Me... "Dunno... do I drink wine? ;-)"
(And why at the bakery anyways??? But they´ll have onion-tard with it, THAT I love!)

"And plum-cake, PLUMS, NOW!"
Me... "Dunno... I don´t like sweets..."

She "threw me out", LOL... Certainly with greetings to the hubby.
Village, right? (there were (sadly) new customers)

Oh... And summer.

And, speaking of crazy. I just HAD to!

For me:



(Baker-lady "gagged" a little but wished me fun when I showed her)

And since Ingo did not want to have "Liebling" / Darling... he got this :-)



Yes. I do fall for stuff like this!
Last massage today and guess.

No. I did not buy chocolate as thank you - do I know if she likes sweets?
Llama, I bought twice - water is something everyone drinks, and it´s funny. Right?

Please, tell me... who comes up with stuff like that?
And why does it work (on me)?
The high temps, right! :-)

Nearly forgot!
Lion of the day!



Are you pro or con ALDI?
And why?

Well. To be honest. I´m cheating, kinda, this is "just" an ad.

But... I´m also kinda very proud cause this product is (yummy) known in the world.
And produced, ask Uncle Google, 13 km from my doorstep!



Well, to be honest... we don´t drink it.
But, hey, if offered we do not say no :-)

Taking part again in Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals :-)

What can I say... 4 minutes it was raining over here!

See...



Rain... for .. say.. 4 minutes.
Thunder now. No rain, just heat :-)

I payed our botanical garden a short visit.



Why only short?
It was stinking hot in the sun and all shadowy places were taken, plus...



... the real flowers looked rather sad.

But I have to admit...



"Adam" by Sabine Hoppe and I, we enjoy the heat-wave!

As does this Lion of the day:



Summer! Can´t remember ... oh I don´t wanna jinx it, right!