Karin Bartsch's Journals

Yesterday was my birthday. 74 years..... is that middle-aged nowadays??  We had a guest for a cup of coffee, he brought a home-made cheese cake. He is a Chef in Port Aransas and has his own restaurant here - Marcel's. He comes from Bavaria and his wife is from Texas, I met her in the internet. We always enjoy his genuine Bavarian accent in German.  All the telephone calls from Family in Germany were also a highlight of that day. Dieter offered me a visit at the Chinese Buffett in Rockport, we had to delay it because it rained "cats and dogs" yesterday, it came down in sheets - about 9 inches here within 24 hours and 12 inches in Rockport.

We have all winter hosts present now and we have 12 days off  after 3 days work.  Good!

Today Dieter and I remembered his mother Gertrud - her birthday would have been today and she would have been 100 years old. She was almost 93 years when she died.  We said a toast to her spirit  when we sipped our Red Wine.

When my mother Elfriede Herrmann would have been 100 years old, we had an office Potluck  party here in Port Aransas on April 1., 2009 ( coincidence...) and I had my picture taken by a co-host to remember her special day. This picture ( my head)  is the avatar in almost every forum I participate including Windows Live Messenger.

The surgeon in Corpus Christi released me for now. My belly will heal further in time. I will see him before we leave here in spring. Next month I am through with the Plavix Tablets I was prescribed after the stent implant in Dec. 2008. That leaves me with a water tablet against slight ankle swelling in the evening. That is my only prescription tab I take.