Bis morgen, ihr Lieben!!C u soon!!
Hugs, maike
Bis morgen, ihr Lieben!!
Hugs, misola


Es tut mir leid, dass ich in letzter Zeit ein schlechter Besucher euuer Blogs war. Momentan fehlt mir einfach ein bißchen Zeit.
I'm sorry for beeing a bad visitor of your blogs at the moment. There's not enough time at the moment.
Hugs to you all,
maike
Und der nächste Tag folgt demnächst ...
The next day is coming soon ;-)
Hugs, maike
Das ist mein Bild für Tag 186. Schnell aufgenommen nach einem weiteren Tag am Strand.
Habt alle einen schönen Abend!
Wish you all a nice evening!
Hugs, maike
Das Schifflein, dass ihr hinter meinen Mädels sehen könnt, ist die Oslo-Fähre.
The "little" ship behind my girls is the ferry to Oslo, Norway.
Und hier noch ein paar mehr ...
Habt einen schönen Feierabend, Mädels!
Liebe Grüße und einen angenehmen Tag!!
Liebe Grüße an euch alle!
Hugs to you all,
maike


26. Juni 2009
Noch mal ein Ausflug zur Kieler Woche. Diesmal allein mit einer Freundin und ich habe euch ein bißchen Abendstimmung mitgebracht. Schaut mal, es ist fast dasselbe Bild wie von Tag 173.
A trip to Kiel Week again, this time with a very good friend. Its nearly the same picture like the one of day 173 just after sunset.
27. Juni 2009
Am Samstag fand das Highlight jeder Kieler Woche statt - die Windjammer-Parade. Ich hatte euch ja schon davon erzählt und nach vielen Jahren Regen hatten wir endlich mal wieder schönes Wetter. Auf dem Bild seht ihr die Gorch Fock (Segelschulschiff der deutschen Marine), die wie immer die Parade anführte.
Wer noch mehr Segelbilder sehen mag, darf gern auf meinem Fotoblog schauen.
At Saturday happend the highlight of Kiel Week - a parade of big sailing ships. I already told you about it and after a lot of years with rain on this day we were lucky to watch the ships in sun shine. On my photo you can see the Gorch Fock as the leader of the parade (its the sailing education ship of the german navy). If you wanna see more sailing ships please take a look on my photo blog.

28. Juni 2009
Der Samstagabend endete spät ... oder besser gesagt früh am Sonntagmorgen um 3.15 Uhr. Kieler Woche ist eben nicht nur segeln, sondern auch eine Menge Spaß. Und den hatten wir ;-) Für den Rest des Sonntags war ich zu nichts mehr fähig als zu einem kleinen Spaziergang, bei dem dieses Bild enstand. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber ich glaube, es ist Echinazea - Sonnenhut - oder?
Kiel Week is not only sailing also its a lot of party around the town as I told you. Saturday night endet up lately or better say early in the sunday morning at 3.15. For the rest of the day I was too tired to do something. We only took a little walk and those beautiful flowers came up to my lense.


Yesterday we've been at the Kiel Week again. This time with the girls and we started directly after school. Here in Kiel we have steam boats for public transport and they are very popular at Kiel Week. Also for our girls it's a highlight to go with this steam boats because normal we use them rarely.
But every year there is the same problem with those steam boats. Because there are so many people using the boats it takes a long time to get in and out so the boats are always to late. Yesterday we had to wait about 45 minuts!
My picture for day 175 shows you a sea gull at the boat landing stage. I don't like gulls very much but with the sea and some boats in the background it turned out good.
At the right side of the photo you can see one of those boats disappearing.
Gues what my 2nd shot is!?!
Hugs, maike
Nothing special for today. We had wonderful summer weather andd I took a sun bath for nearly 1 hour! The shot for day 174 is lavender as you can see.
Hugs, maike
Today we made a little walk with our girls to Kiel Week. I can not remember when the weather was so good as today the last time at Kiel Week. Normaly it's raining and it's cold most of the time.
On my photo for day 173 you can see some old sailing ships. I love those ships and can't get enough of watching them. I took a couple of photos you can find on my photoblog.
Every year a lot of sailing ships are coming to Kiel to take part on a sailing ship parade, in german it's called "Windjammer-Parade". If you keep your fingers crossed for good weather this year for the parade you'll see some pictures! Its an impressing spectacle!
Hope you all are well,
hugs, maike

Ratet mal, wer das ist! Genau, ein neues Opfer von Josy. Wie auch immer die kleine Maus in unseren Flur gekommen ist. Bei genauerer Betrachtung des Bildes habe ich eben entdeckt, dass sie wohl vor Angst ein paar Ködel hinterlassen hat und habe erst mal genauer die Fußmatte inspziert ... War aber nichts mehr zusehen.
Gestern, am 20. Juni 2009, hatte Alina wieder einen Wettkampf vom Leistungsturnen. Diesmal war es die Kreismeisterschaft im Mannschaftsturnen. Ich hatte meine Kamera unserem (seltbsternannten) "Fotografen" verliehen, nachdem sein Speicherchip voll war und so kam es zu dieser gelungenen Aufnahme (abgesehen davon, dass das Bild sehr dunkel ist). Alina hat sich allerdings gefreut zu sehen, wie weit auseinander ihr Spreizsprung auf dem Schwebebalken tatsächlich geht. Leider ist sie beim Handstand dann noch heruntergefallen und hat nicht so viele Punkte bekommen, wie sie hätte haben können. Aber egal ... Mein Bild für Tag 171:
Und jetzt ... Die Gewinner der Kreismeisterschaft 2009 der Jahrgänge 1999 - 2001
As I promised yesterday here I'am with some photos of the last days.
The first is a shot of some flowers standing on our terrace in a flowerpot. This shot was only a try but I think, it turned out great!
Day 170:
This little mouse was another victim of Josy. I catched the cat and put her into the house to give the mouse a chance to escape but some minutes later we found out, that the mouse was sitting in our hall!! Nobody knows how it came inside the house! So we locked Josy up in the living room and I tried to rescue the mouse with handbrush and shovel. It was not easy but a least I got it and put in the garden. Hope the mouse is still alive!!
Day 171:
Yesterday, June 20th, Alina had another gymnastics competition (apparatus gymnastics). This time it was the championship of our administrative district in team gymnastics.
I borrowed my cam to our self-appointed club photograph after the memory card of his camera was full. He made the picture of Alina jumping on the balance beam. Her jump was nearly perfect but unfortunately she fell down after handstand and got not so many points as she could get. But it doesn't matter. The other excersises run very good and on the last pictures you can see the WINNERS!!!
I'm so proud that her team got the 1st place for the second time!! (Last year, too.)
I told you yesterday about Kiel Week. Its the biggest sailing event of europe, I think. It lasts about 10 days and there are a lot of other things you can do besides of sailing. If you are intrested in take a look on the page of Wikipedia.
I'm sure you'll see some photos of ships until the end of the week.
Hugs to you all!!
maike
Lilli in der Badewanne ... ich glaube, mehr muss ich dazu nicht sagen. Tag 168 ...
Und, weil ich es einfach nicht lassen kann, Blumen zu fotografien, hier noch mal was aus unserem Garten.
The first picture is the sunset of yesterday evening. I had a date with two girls I know since the birth preparation course of our kids (since nearly 10 years). We met in a new restaurant directly at the Baltic Sea and had breathtaking view on the sunset.
The picture of day 168 shows Lilli in the bathtub. I think I don't have to say anything more about it, or?And because I can not stop taking pictures of flowers here is another one for you. I love the little water drops and the color of the flower.
Thats all for today. I go to bed now, my head is aching.
Good night to you all and see you tomorrow!
maike
Und ich habe auch mal ein Bild zum Thema Bodenperspektive für euch. Erstaunlich,wie GROSS unsere Katze plötzlich wirkt ...
The new collection is arrived!! Alina and her best friend Jana did handicrafts and made some ear rings. I love the color of the pearl, turquoise is looking like summer. And the best is ... I got a pair of ear rings, too!
The second picture is a contribution to the theme "Prospect on the ground" (free translated ;-) ). I'm not sure if I wanna join this project, too, like some other girls do, but as I saw Josy walking there I had to use the chance.
It's amazing that our cat turns up so tall by changing the prospect.
Hugs to you all!
maike
Our kids stayed overnight at my parents so my DH and I used the chance for a walk this morning at the beach of the neighbour village. This part of the beach belongs to a small nature conservation area. I took a couple of picture and this is one of them - day 165.

This is the garden of my parents. They have a really small garden full of flowers and plants. Its like little paradies. There is just enough space for the girls to romp around.
Have a nice weekend!!
Hugs to you all, maike
Hugs,
maike

It looked so wonderful red and delicious - a radish!! After I took this photo the radish became a part of the tapas during my spanish lessons.
Have a nice evening, girls!!
Hugs, maike
Ich kanns nicht lassen ... schnell noch ein Blumenbild ...
The waterdrops I found at the lower edge of the open roof window. They are my shot for day 160 because the weather was sooo bad today. It rained the whole time, only in the evening the sun took a short look through the clouds. 
Yes I know it's borring to show flowers all the time nevertheless you get another one today. I found this rose in the morning and was fascinated of the small dew drops on it.
Also there is an update to our project 'pond'. Proudly I can present you the first leave of our water lily (the round one in the center of the picture). It took a very long time until the leave came up to the surface of the water.
Hugs to you all!!
maike

Yes, she's back!! I'm so very happy!! My DD Alina came back yesterday, June 6th, at lunchtime. I had to admit that I just could hold back the tears as the busses with the kids arrived at the parking place of the school. I was so happy. So my picture for day 157 is a shot of Alina, not a special shot but a very special moment for our whole family!
Yesterday evening a took a great shot with my mobile phone from the sunset during the beach party. You won't believe, but I'm too daft to take the picture from the phone into my laptop.
The picture of day 158 is again Alina this time cuddling the cat. As you can see, Josy is lying relaxed on the floar (between a lof ot things which had been in Alinas backpack and she put on the living room rug yesterday) and let her do.
Okay, it's time for me to take a look around your blogs!
Hugs, maike

Today it's a special day for Lilli. She has a overnight stay at her kindergarten. It's a very exciting thing not only for the kids also for her governess. The do this party every year with those kids who will start school but I'm sure it's different every year. I'm curious about if Lilli will stay in the kindergarden the whole night.
At the picture you can see her place to sleep.
CU tomorrow,
hugs - maike
I feel a bit sick in posting my pictures every evening so you get the one for yesterday again with a little hesitation. I'm sorry for that but maybe you feel or felt the same.
Bevore I go relaxing on the sofa I show you my picture for today. Lilli and I ve been at the beach! It was windy but warm enough to stay there in bathing suit. By the way the school journey of Alinas class started this morning. It was so exciting for me (more than for me as for Alina) and it was hard to keep the tears in. I'm not sure if I can stand it without her until saturday!