March, 2011

Written April 2

Friends and Families ,

Every once in awhile, we need to just put in some reminder diaries. These are probably not interesting for others, but they let us supplement our memories. That's increasingly important.

First, there's the home town, Pommersfelden. This is a pretty quiet time of the year. The castle and its gargoyles and gates are still here, but no visitors. The local mill still doesn't work. My car scared me with a light that was diagnosed as meaning I needed 2500 euros worth of catalytic converters. Later diagnosis reduced that to a couple hundred for a sensor repair. The "Alte Bahnhof" train car is our town's new restaurant. And, finally, the "maulwurf" are back, digging up the yard.

			My Offenbach office mate Ben came down for a weekend and we toured Bamberg and the "Franconia Switzerland", complete with moutain chalet.
	The next day we visited Nuremberg. The "Documentation Center" is sobering, but a unique story of local history.

OK, so now we have a little record of a bit of March. After this, I'll do a work-related story and then a story of a weekend trip to the land of gnomes.

Stay tuned.

John and Marianne