My Daily Banana

 

 

Photo of the Day:

A bit of Scotland in North Friesland

Event of the Day:

14th July 1881

Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett

 

 

 

Born on this Day:

 

 

14th July 1912

 

Woody Guthrie

 

 

the father of Arlo Guthrie (I wrote about him last week 10th July; when Arlo celebrated his birthday)

Woody was a folk vagabond traveling the country with the restless during the Great Depression in the 1930's. He was a protest singer and had a sticker on his guitar that proclaimed "This Machine kills Fascists". His most famous song was "This Land is Your Land"

 

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

 

14th July 1998

 

Richard MacDonald

 

 

co-founder of MacDonald's

 

No; he didn't die of obesity or of multiple mouth burns from hot coffee; he died at eighty-nine of old age.

 

 

Thoughts:

 

On Sunday we had a strenuous walk through the hostile countryside of North Friesland. We drove to the outskirts of Dagebüll and walked along the coast line into the thriving harbour town. No lie, it is thriving, the enormous parts for the wind farms in the vicinity are landed here before being transported in the evening-nighttime to the various building sites; also there is the port for the ferries to the islands of Föhr and Amrum and in most of the German counties the summer holidays have started; so daily hundreds of cars are traveling from here. On top of that the harbour village is growing; a local builder has constructed over a hundred wooden houses within the last three years. The owners of the houses do not live full time in their fabulous property; not because they aren't good enough, the houses are built to the best standards of modern housing, but because they are holiday houses.

Tonight Germany plays against Argentina in the Soccer World Cup! Who will win? I'm crossing my fingers for my chosen homestead Germany; they are going to win 3:1 (I'd say after extended time; so it's going to be a long night).

And, who won?
The German Soccer Team won its fourth star; not quite the forecast that I predicted, but extra time and the Germans won! Fabulous!!

 

Here some photos of our march through the moon landscape; it was rough dodging all the sheep droppings:

 

We arrived in the middle of nowhere

The inhabitants of Nowhere-Land came to greet us

Look someone got lost in spring and didn't find his Mercedes again
How did the car get there and why did the farmer sow his wheat around it?
I'll have to look again at the end of harvesting and see if the Merc' is still there

Wide open country
The harbour of Dagebüll and behind that the Isle of Föhr

The water is returning
Isn't it beautiful?
Sight all the way to the horizon!

Massive

The trailers have twenty axles and each axle can be steered

One of the ferries to the islands



The shopping area in the holiday-house estate
They are the only houses built of stone, because of regulations (all buildings build for the general public must comply with higher fire standards than living accommodation);
the wooden fronts are only a façade
 

They look like modern terrace houses.

Here another well built house in Dagebüll

The roof is a state of art; seen from the view of a roofer (back in the seventies I did a three year apprenticeship to learn to be a roofer; I loved that work)

I can't leave you without a flower


Bye, see you in the morning xxx