Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

Cat Call, Wolf Whistle, Parrot Screetch

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I went for a walk and I heard a wolf whistle. Now I’m past the age that I am at the receiving end of wolf whistles (I’ve never been on the giving end, to be sure) but I looked around. I couldn’t see anybody and kept walking. Again I heard a whistle … It took me a while to locate the whistler. I looked up and there it was:

It was a macaw who was taking the mickey out of me!

I know that smaller parrots have made themselves comfortable in our area, mainly the rose-ringed parakeet. But mawcaws?

I documented my sighting (rather, it sighting me) on a local facebook group and immediately got the feedback that this bird is a pet who likes to take long flights but always returns to its human.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Parrot

They Are Meant to Make You Stumble – and Think

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Thousands of Stolpersteine, literally stumbling stones, are found in central Europe. They are a reminder of missing or killed people during the Nazi era. These particular five in Ladenburg are of the family Kaufmann who were deported to Gurs in France, where Mathilde Kaufmann died. The other four family members, Meta, Luise, Julie, and Sally were murdered in Auschwitz.

FOWC with Fandango: Stumble

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I’m a Fan of Ancient Toilets

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Inspired by Geriatrix’ toilet signs last week I consulted my archive and came up with these:

Haselburg
Windeck
Tiefburg
Oppède-le-vieux

Arranged according to age: 

A Roman toilet from around the 2nd century in a villa rustica near Höchst im Odenwald.  
The Windeck toilet with a long drop built around 1100 AD in Weinheim.  
The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim is about 200 younger but features the same kind of jutty toilet. 
And the simple hole in a stone toilet in Oppède-le-vieux, also from the middle ages.

I’m a Fan of … #212

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