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 ... while the rest of the world is [zzz], it must be me to open up the Diner for today - just for reasons of geography (hehe, I am doing my best to change that... [;)])Good Morning everyone,Flo, I´ll have the breakfast special # 2, with all the works and coffee, blond and sweet, in my LKAB mug, please ´n thanks. After the WET and stormy days, we now enjoy a crisp and clear autumn day again. It is quite frosty, though, and some areas here in northern Germany have already seen some of that white stuff we don´t want to mention in here.Petra and I are checking our gear to decide what we can take along, what can be sold or just left behind. It is always amazing to find out how much useless stuff of no value at all accumulates over the years and how little valuables  there are. Interesting also to find out that the stereo I bought only yesterday is already 20 years old...Well I found an old Marklin track plan book from the late 1960´s that showed the plan for my first layout I built as an 11-year old. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/MRKLIN-NOSTALGIE2.jpg?t=1255850432" mce_src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/MRKLIN-NOSTALGIE2.jpg?t=1255850432" width="1002" height="485">It was built with the typical Marklin HO tin-plate track on a table roughly 4 by 8 ft. For scenery I had glued one of those green mats made of colored saw dust on paper to the plywood base. The track was then screwed to the plywood and the trains made a terrific noise, despite the rubber buffers I place underneath each piece of track.  Certainly crude when viewed from today's means and methods, but it was fun to build, fun to run (even operate) and it was MINE! I wish I still had it, but I sold it off when I was 16-17, just before I left Germany and headed towards Washington State. Never cry over spilled milk ---- [sigh]Tomorrow I will have to go to get tied up with the red tape again - I need to get welfare approval to rent the flat, although it cost less than the allowance granted, but is is slightly bigger. I then need to go to the county council to get the approval for renting a publicly funded flat. That will take me a day and some 100 miles of driving... [:(]Petra has made some  "Apfelkuchen" for the "chowhounds" in here to enjoy ...<img src="http://www.helmut.friedrichs-essen.de/rezepte%202003/Rez.%20als%20bild%202003/italienischer%20apfelkuchen.jpg" mce_src="http://www.helmut.friedrichs-essen.de/rezepte%202003/Rez.%20als%20bild%202003/italienischer%20apfelkuchen.jpg" width="300" height="227">You all have a good day!
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