Wim Harwig

Categorie: situations at home

  • just some photos

    just some photos

    life goes on, even though I take fewer photos and not all experiences are suitable for this blog and I have much less energy and enthusiasm to cycle regularly … But to give a sign of life, I’m just posting some pictures from recent times. There is already so much misery and sadness in the…

  • euthanasia

    euthanasia

    Hitch could hardly walk because his back legs failed. That was due to degenerative myelopathy. Our house has lost its soul, our garden is empty without him, and we are mourning. I’ll always remember him

  • Our roof needs maintenance

    Our roof needs maintenance

    Our roof needs maintenance because the PVC foil that has been under the green roof for 24 years has become unreliable. Especially along the exposed edges, the plasticizers have disappeared from the PVC due to the UV light. Now I am replacing it with 1.52 mm thick EPDM foil.It is a lot of work to…

  • photogenic grandchild

    photogenic grandchild

    Grandma’s hand helps to squeeze half the orange on the juicer, while she explains how healthy orange juice is especially for little girls. Then you see through the reflection in the stainless steel coffee machine that your grandfather is busy recording the scene with a large camera in front of his eye. Then you make…

  • turtledoves in our garden

    turtledoves in our garden

    Mother turtle-dove decided to make her nest in a wicker basket that is always on our porch. She laid two eggs which both hatched without any problems. So we could enjoy 2 turtle-doves growing up every day and have also gained a lot of respect for the turtle-dove that took excellent care of their young and defended with great courage against crows…

  • discover the world together with grandma …

    discover the world together with grandma …

    let’s start drawing! choose colors together Let’s draw a fish … but how does a mackerel look like? pay close attention to the colors … tomorrow we are going to eat this mackerel, today time to draw … and grandpa? …. grandpa enjoys the scene and takes pictures.

  • Chistmas again …

    Chistmas again …

    It’s that time of year again … Christmas or as some say X-mas. Also for Atheists, it is a pleasant time that thanks to the long tradition, reminds me of all previous Christmases, especially those where my parents still lived and those where my children were still small children. Every year, exactly on the day…

  • Maintenance

    Maintenance

    The 552 is open again !

  • New Normal ?

    New Normal ?

    I am clearly unable to cope with the new normal that the rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is bringing about. A few days 35 degrees Celsius in Vlissingen … and now I suffer from migraines. Almost all I did was sit in the shade and take pictures from there … and reading books ……

  • in our garden …

    in our garden …

    Yesterday the temperature reached 36 degrees Celsius in our garden. I have done almost nothing but observe what happened around me …

  • Grandma plays vinyl !

    Grandma plays vinyl !

    Marjan has found a 45 rpm record that she often used in her own youth. The old 60-year-old technique of listening to music still works for the one-year-old granddaughter … she has only been able to walk for a month, but she is now also learning to dance …The Dutch texts of Annie M.G. Schmidt…

  • new cleats

    new cleats

    8 years ago I bought my Shimano sandals and today I had to renew the cleats, because I had troubles with my left cleat. I placed them relatively far under my foot, because my heels protrude less deep under the Quest and of course also because I suffer less from less blood circulation in the…

  • grandmother’s tricks

    grandmother’s tricks

    Grandchild gets whimsy and needs a short nap, but she doesn’t realize this herself and you can’t explain it to her either. In this situation, grandmother lovingly presses her to her chest and hums a lullaby … always works … It worked so well … that Grandfather almost fell asleep too …

  • grandchild

    grandchild

    I belong to that generation of madmen who have learned not to throw anything away if you still have room to keep it. For the past 30 years, we have kept all our children’s well-preserved toys in boxes and crates. Recently our first grandchild turned 1-year-old and it is time to take the things out of their…

  • Black&white

    Black&white

    Ellenbrandwijkphotography inspired me with her photos to look a bit more in black and white. So I played with light instead of colors …