A long day at home in Vaihingen

Alex woke me up at just before 7 - the heating was to be checked, and the chimney-sweepers would come between 7 and 8. Gosh, I had slept only three hours, was awake until late, and then somehow missed the alarm ringing. Must have been the weather changing, it's getting colder now.
Today on the other hand I slept that deeply and long, I forgot the Golden Globe was on tv from 2am to 5am. :(
Well, it was fine to be up that early, because of Anna's birthday breakfast. We had some of the tasty applecake we had made together on sunday, Anna loved the presents she got, especially the book on potatoe recipes by Anne Wilson and the huge bowl of (healthy) sweets for her desk. She'll have to sit there and learn a lot the next months, poor darling!
She was away all day learning, Alex sat studying in his room on the second floor, and I did some shopping, went to the doctors, sent some letters, told friends and family to call again late in the evening to give Anna their birthday greetings.
After talking to my sister Ulrike in Düsseldorf, I decided to take the train to go there on Thursday. Family birthday party on Saturday. And Tuesday back to Berlin. Tickets are bought a long time ago, so to travel cheaper, but on www.bahn.de there are special offers all the time now with exactly the same prizes. Yeah, well.
It was a long day at home in Vaihingen. Enjoy the pic on our past: children bringing food baskets to their hard working fathers, like they used to do not even a hundred years ago. The small memorial is just across the road from the town hall, market and mall, two minutes from our tiny 17th century farmhouse.