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I thought I might share my birthday gift with you?
Through FB I have met some wonderful, real friends.
One is Heidi from Austria!
She gave me permission to share the photos and
her words are so much better than mine ...
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| photo by Heidi |
"Yesterday we went for a fine walk as we had some
sunshine in the
morning. If you look closely you can
see the Alps in the background."
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| photo by Heidi |
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| photo by Heidi |
Dec 6th is St. Nicolas day.
(wiki: "He
had a reputation for secret gift-giving,
putting coins in the
shoes of those left them out for him, and thus became the model for
Santa Claus, whose English name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas.")
Children
get little gifts and sometimes Nicolas comes in person to speak to them
and hands them a little bag with some goodies.
When I was a child St.
Nicolas was accompanied by some Krampus. They frightened us as they were
looking really awful.
("Krampus,"
of which there is no American equivalent. The Krampus is a devilish
looking character who goes around wielding his "Rute" (this is
translated as "rod," but I think "switches" would be a more accurate
description of the whipping device) and beating children who have been
naughty, while St. Nicholas gives presents to those who have been good.
Krampustag (Krampus Day) is celebrated here in Austria on December 5 and
they have what is called a "Krampuslauf" (Krampus Walk). At a
Krampuslauf, the "Krampusse" march out together and then run around
beating people in good fun. Though they are frightening looking
creatures, most kids find it fun, not scary--sort of like kids in the
U.S. would find scary Halloween costumes.)
Our
little self sewn bags were filled with some apples, tangerines, walnuts,
peanuts and of course some sweets and a chocolate Nicolas. Agnes and
Konrad had fun to open it and were very pleased with the "gummi bears" and "smarties" -
I hope you can understand what I meant ....."
Just charming, thank you dear Heidi!
this coming Saturday ...
A smile for Wednesday ...
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