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#weeklyreview 05/2025

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Pretty nice run on Sunday with a friend. The little pond in the forrest was still frozen. Swans on the lake showed us their lift-off skills. And finally some cranes were screeching in the flooded meadows of the other village.

Went swimming right after the run and it was …. freaking cold. Water hat around 2ºC. My Apple Watch decided that that’s too cold to operated and turned off. Fortunately only after I finished the swim and the recording of the session.

A frozen lake with a thin layer of ice, surrounded by leafless branches in the foreground and a forest of evergreen and bare trees in the background. Overcast sky above.

Beers with a friend

Sunday evening I went out for beers with a new friend. US American, teacher of art. Was a lovely evening and we had lots of fun talking about the good old early days of desktop publishing. Turns out he’s one of the people who have used Aldus PageMaker in the early/mid 1990s before it was bought by Adobe and layed the foundations for Adobe InDesign.

Dinner

Monday evening the oldest kid came over for dinner and we made roasted potatoes and broccoli/cauliflower casserole. Looks like we’re making these dinners a regular thing now. Nice 🙂

A glass baking dish with roasting potatoes is in the foreground on an oven rack. Next to it, a metal tray contains a broccoli/cauliflower casserole. The oven is closed, with a warm light illuminating the food.

BBQ Ribs

Wednesday was finally time for another session at Chicago Williams BBQ with the colleagues. Still some of the best ribs I ever had.

A plate of glazed ribs is placed on a lined metal tray, accompanied by a small cup filled with mashed potatoes and a spoon. Nearby, there are condiments, a drink container, and a plate with a partially eaten dish. The setting is a wooden table, suggesting a casual dining environment.

The little pond

We have a little pond in the forest we own. On Saturday we went checking whether it had gained some water in the last weeks of substantial rain. And it did. Back in autumn last year it was almost completely dried up and only a few puddles and mud at the ground. But now it looks like a pond again. It’s only about 50cm deep water at the moment. But the surrounding deer and boars like it.

A small pond surrounded by dry grass and leafless trees on an overcast day. Tree reflections are visible on the calm water, and a forest is seen in the background.
A tranquil pond reflecting the surrounding forest with tall, leafless trees. Grassy tufts emerge from the water's surface, and the sky above is lightly clouded.
A tranquil pond reflects the surrounding winter landscape, with bare trees and patches of dry grasses. Fallen logs and branches partially submerged in the water add texture to the serene scene. The background features a mix of evergreen and leafless deciduous trees under a cloudy sky.

Let’s hope it get still some more before they dry season starts.

Antarktis

On Saturday our little village society organised a film evening by a German Astro particle scientist about Antarctica. He had been there several times to carry out Neutrino detection experiments. He also showed us some films of the Antarctica Film Festival and we learned that the German Neumayer Station III is one of the most modern on the continent.