“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
Coffee will be taking a bit of a break until Thursday. Call it my annual vacation or, my favorite, a hiatus.
It is Bill and Peg time, my friends from Peace Corps days. I have been busy in the kitchen and my crowning glory is a magnificent coconut pie. We have shrimp with cocktail sauce hot enough to bring tears to your eyes. Gracie and I can barely wait!!
Life is wonderful with good friends and good food!
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June 15, 2015 at 9:33 am
“Life is wonderful with good friends and good food!”
Indeed and enjoy!
Carl
June 15, 2015 at 11:12 pm
Thanks, Carl.
June 15, 2015 at 9:47 am
Have fun!
(…and please don’t waste your precious time to answer our comments.)
June 15, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Birgit,
I am in bed with my iPad so I have some time. It is a wonderful time whenever we get together.
June 15, 2015 at 11:12 am
Have a blast – we will see you on Thursday
Birgit – How was Cologne ?
June 15, 2015 at 11:55 am
Hedley, our concert in a Cologne suburb was really fun and it was nice to meet the barbershop chorus boys from Cologne again, we know them for ages. Beer (real beer, not Kölsch) and sausages and singing together after the open air concert. No sightseeing at all! Not even Rhine or cathedral. Folkclub concert today, well, I hope so, it’s announced as “surprise”. It’s my friend’s birthday and we’ll have to hurry.
June 15, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Are you back in Bochum ? where is the Folkclub concert ? I cant tell if you are singing or attending ? Beer and Sausages in Koln sounds excellent.
Still working on Ulm in May 2016, but lots of things have to happen.
June 15, 2015 at 5:50 pm
Hedley, tonight we just attended a folk concert in the neighboring town. Three unknown local musicians today, nothing special but not bad either. It’s once a month in a small cozy pub and 1€ isn’t really a financial risk so it’s usually a nice evening out, sometimes with great music and always with a tasty wheat beer 🙂
I hope you can make it to Ulm! Do your or your wife’s relatives still live there?
June 16, 2015 at 11:05 am
Hi Birgit
Our family history in Ulm goes back many many years, primarily on my Mother’s side. At this stage it is just memories and history which primarily fall to my cousin in Basel and myself to preserve.
In my late teens I spent several summers at a family home on the hill above Ulm and fell in love with the city and its surroundings.
Next year, there is possibly a recognition that will take place in May and I will travel for that
June 15, 2015 at 11:10 pm
We always enjoy our time together. We laugh a lot, always fun with a friend.
June 15, 2015 at 11:26 am
Okay, should we ever meet, you must promise to make me a coconut pie. Pies are my favorite dessert and coconut is probably at the top of the heap. Enjoy your visit, your hiatus and the pie (you can keep that hot sauce, however).
June 15, 2015 at 10:59 pm
Im6,
I promise to make the pie for you. We have had a wonderful first day. Even Gracie is exhausted.
June 15, 2015 at 11:28 am
Enjoy every minute of it!
June 15, 2015 at 11:09 pm
Thanks, Heather
It is always as if I saw them yesterday!
June 15, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Have a great visit!
June 15, 2015 at 10:59 pm
Thank you, sprite.
June 16, 2015 at 6:23 am
have a wonderful time!
June 16, 2015 at 4:12 pm
Annie,
I am having a great time. Thank you!
June 16, 2015 at 11:37 am
Not sure anyone will see this since the doors to Kat’s Place are closed today, but I really thought we shouldn’t let this anniversary pass us by unnoticed. As difficult as it is to believe, it was 50 years ago today that the volume knob got turned to 11…
June 16, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Brill post im6
June 16, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Thanks for reminding, im6. Volume 11, my neighborhood is now informed too 😉
June 16, 2015 at 4:13 pm
im6,
I would never have remembered. I’m happy you posted this-many thanks!
June 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Thanks im6! Great post.