Spring on Campus

Spring has finally sprung here on Campus. The flowers are beautiful and the trees are "a-bloomin thar pretty little heads off." It is really a lovely campus and the Maintenance dept is always working to keep it pretty. They do a great job.



Today it was a cold and rainy, but hopefully it will warm up a little. I just don't want the weather to be cool, then "hello" summer is here!! I dislike the idea of the weather growing warmer then suddenly it is hot, hot, hot.



My favorite season is fall, because it does take a long time for winter to show up. Beautiful sunny days, and some cooler days gives fall a long life. But right now it is spring and it seems like winter hopefully is just a memory. Is it just me or was winter way colder and lasting longer than in the past?

We have some beautiful flowers, and a student worker brought these in from a banquet for business majors. I get all kinds of great freebies. They added a lot of color to my office area.

But my name plate keeps getting taken. I am not worried I know who does this, but it is an interesting place to work.

You know who you are.

Ginger Citrus

OK, this is not a great picture, but I just wanted to say thank you to Jemimah. She is a active rep. for Arbonne. They sell cosmetics and are really good. The thing I most love from this company is the Ginger Citrus Sugar Scrub. I mean I really love the way this scrub smells and feels. It is the one thing I always use everyday. You can only get it once a year at Christmas time and Jemimah gave me a large container of it while I was visiting her. It is the best stuff. Thanks, Jemimah.

At work it's a party

I had to go to a insurance meeting on Tuesday and a support group day of fun on Wednesday so Keli Thomason's birthday couldn't be celebrated until Thursday. Cupcakes were given out and we had a good time.

Happy Birthday Keli!

Then I got home

I got home, after a two hour drive from Landsthul to Frankfurt, a long 10 hour flight from Germany to Chicago then 2 hrs to Little Rock, and a 1 1/2 hr drive to Arkadelphia and finally in my own home.

Johnny had outdone himself with flowers and candles everywhere. 20 vases of flowers, 13 candles, 7 tasty things for a total of 40. Last Saturday was our 40th anniversary of our 1st date. What a sweetie.

Flowers were everywhere, in the kitchen, in the bedroom, & of course in the bathroom.

So nice to relax in my own tub.

Even Dilbert got in on the act.

MMMMMMWAH

The Last day in Germany

The last day in Germany we ate lunch at a German Fish n Chips on base. I had the southern fried halibut. Can't really expect southern fried catfish at a Germany Fish n Chips can you?

Since it was on base it had American Flags, English style fish n chips, German bratwurst, and Thai seasonings. Talk about multi cultural!

Then Jemimah had scheduled a manicure at the local base. The attendants were all German and chattered to each other in German. Obviously we were at a loss.

Mitts for our hands to rest in and a cup of hot tea makes the experience relaxing.

That afternoon we drive around the town of Kaislerslautern. Here are some of the buildings I took pictures of. You can see all the buildings are close together.

It is truly beautiful and you can see how fairy tales came from this land.

That evening we got some advise from a local resident of a good place to get authentic German Food. So we at at Alt Landsthul. The setting is very old German inn.

We had Chateau Briand. Delicious.

What a wonderful week. I went, I saw, I came home. Did I mention it snowed? It was a great time. Thanks Jemimah, Thanks Adam I loved my guest room. And I finally got two stamps in my passport. Next, Capeizo National Bank!

Jemimah's Castle

Here is the castle that is above Jemimah's town.

It is an old castle and is in disrepair and of course we had to see it on a rainy day. Jemimah says that their are little plays and festivals during the summer time. It is still beautiful.

The castle is build on limestone such as this. Looks pretty strong.

The wall that you see as you come up to the castle.









A video of the town from the top of the castle.

The well has been concreted over, but while we were there, the workers were working on one of the roofs. I guess they have to work on it all the time to keep it from falling apart.

These next pictures are of another caslte further down from them. Jemimah and I climbed to the top of the tower. I had Adam's down winter coat on.

Top of Tower

Even though this castle was in better shape and bigger I liked the idea of Jemimah's castle better.

Jemimah is game for all kinds of adventure so up we went.

This view is from one of the landings of the tower

Here we are on the top landing of the tower. Pretty cool. Jemimah is trying to keep her hat on, cause the wind was blowing so hard.

The dundgeon. YIKES

What a day. I loved it. I like cold weather, as long as I am warm.

The snow day

Today I was hoping we were going to rest. Well we did. Jemimah and Adam's car had a flat yesterday and Jemimah needed a rental to go visit some other areas in Germany.

I got up at 9:30 am (2:30 am your time). I wouldn't have gotten up except I needed to get some coffee into my system. So I got up and drank my coffee and what to my wondering eyes should appear? Snow! yes it was snowing.

Such a beautiful snow. Thought I would share it with you.

Jemimah went to get the car and fill out the hundreds of forms. I cleaned out my purse and extra pink paper bag so I can fill them up again. So we were doing what we needed to do for tomorrow.Then Jemimah colored and cut my hair. She is still the best.

That is all for today. Tomorrow we go see a castle.