Die Blumen

You can go pick your own flowers out in the fields and it all works on the honour system so you leave the appropriate amount in a little cash box. Right now there are rows and rows of lilies, glads and sunflowers. And bees too!
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Black Forest Ultra Bike Marathon

Cycling in Europe, and in particular southern Germany, is sport that many people take seriously. Every year in the Black Forest there is a mountain bike race with about 4,500 participants. Teri and I entered the race this year to take in the spectacle. We only raced the short course (43Km) but many people were doing the middle and long distances (77km and 116km). For our race all the competitors took a train from near Freiburg out into the Black Forest to a town called Hinterzarten. From there the competitors started in waves and raced back to the Freiburg area. Teri's bike got a little damaged during transport so she only had a few gears to work with during the race, but other than that it was great time. Oh, by the way we won our race.......just kidding...would have if we were faster than the 2500 people in front of us.

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Feuerbohnen!!!

The beans we planted are growing like crazy!!! They are "feuerbohnen" or fire beans and grow beautiful red and white flowers. I think they are going to take over the whole balcony soon.

The Month of May

Not too sure where all the time went, but May flew by. Can't even recall what we have done! However, one thing I did do was actually bought fabric and sewed curtains for our spare room!!!