Checking in (American in Germany)

in #busy6 years ago (edited)

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Hope you are all having a great weekend! First I wanna say I'm so happy I made the silver giveaway contest I have already met so many great steemians. If you haven't already, please check out my giveaway here....

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Pretty busy weekend, we began potty training my son (3-year-old) and it had a rocky start but now it's going much better. I think it will be a few more days my son takes a little longer to catch on sometimes. If anyone has any advice on that, that would be great!

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Next, it was back by our friend's house to help remove his old driveway. The machines did most of the work, so that was nice. I'm not as strong as I once was so I'm not the best at helping but he was happy to have us there. Check out this cool video of the sand getting flattened.

We finally got the rain we needed yesterday unfortunately, it was in the middle of the driveway project and we had to stop a few times because it was raining so hard.

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After the work we were rewarded with beer and German grilling! It was really tasty.

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Hopefully, we will have a lazy Sunday as I'm exhausted from this week. Although my wife is currently baking cookies to bring over to our new neighbors so we can meet them! Ah well.

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Making use of power tools makes all the difference, you did all of this without a contractor? Impressive!

Looks like some good eats!

Yeah the guy who owns the house works at a construction company so he just rented the equipment cheap. I was surprised he didn’t require any permits from the village they just didn’t what stones on the street so the tractors could pass by hahah

nice, those look like pricey rentals so hope he got a real good deal.

Yeah saves alot of money doing it yourself. Sounds like he has the right connections.

Walk me through what's on the grill. I see chicken breast in the back, and the sausages that look to be wrapped in bacon, maybe. What are the things that look like bacon on a skewer, and what are the large yellow and red items in the front? I love grilling and am always on the lookout for new ideas.

Everything on there is pork! Except for the yellow thing that’s chicken. You’re right about the weiners and the thing on the skewer is pork belly. It’s kind of like think cut salt pork and that is my favorite! Most grocery stores here in Germany have a grill section were everything comes preseasoned just throw it right on the grill! Delicious! Now I’m hungry again!

Ah, grilled pork belly. That would be good. Now that you say it, I can see that the things in the back are loin chops. All of it looks great.

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howdy sir balticbadger! wow your friend is going to have a great driveway, that looked like a major project and the beer and grilling looked wonderful too!

Happy Monday! He definitely has a long ways yet to go! Can’t wait to see the finished project

yes sir it looks like you guys are putting in a drainage line along with it? or some kind of piping, you are going to help him until it is completed?

Yup that’s the shit water pipe! Lol like I said in the post I’m not much help but I hope to stop I in every now and then and lend a hand when I can. What about you sir? What do you do to pass the time only steemit or do you have a day job as well?

balticbadger...I hope you can stop over to your neighbors and show that construction which seems like a major job for a simple driveway but I guess it does have the piping which makes things more complex.

My wife and I are semi-retired but looking for ways to make money, that's how I found steemit through an opportunity or home-based business opportunity type email. she is working part time doing merchandising work at Dollar General stores but she doesn't like it.

I'm just doing steemit but keeping my eyes open for other opportunities.
I'm at retirement age, 64, in great health but companies don't really want to hire people me age, and I don't blame them, except Walmart so I've been thinking about going there...reluctantly. lol.

Your wife has a good job with job security?

That’s cool! You know I think working in the sporting goods section would be pretty awesome! I think steemit will pay off in the long run I think just Luke mainstream tv people will be sick of Facebook and YouTube when their posts are being censored and stuff. Anyways yeah my wife has a really good job funny enough she runs the social media wing at an advertisement company. (She was completely clueless about steemit by the way) it’s a smaller firm but thy take really good care of her and I hope she has a lot of opportunities there.

howdy today @balticbadger! ha! that is pretty funny about your wife's job, the department she works in! So you are both involved in social media, what does she think about Steemit now?

I agree, I can't see anything but growth for steemit especially with fb and ytube doing their idiotic maneuvers and driving people away.

I think we just have to be patient and keep plugging away, you seem like the calm, coo, patient type!
In the meantime your wife will keep getting promoted in her job hopefully! lol.

She doesn’t say much about it but when she is home the last thing she wants to do is talk about social media hahah. Hopefully she will make an account and help me out with mine, I sure could use the help!

Ahhh Germany, I miss it already... The tasty meats with the rock-hard buns. The peace and quiet at night instead of the gunshots we have here... The chocolate pizza I could do without tho! lol

Haha and the peace and quiet during Mittag. So nice. I have to agree I think they over do it on the chocolate sometimes but I do love my coffee and cake!

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