Holland is big on flowers, both cut and potted. We have these on our kitchen windowsill. Orchids grow well here in the high humidity. That's one thing we've learned: nothing ever dries out here. There's a whole different system for doing and drying dishes. Air dry? FORGET ABOUT IT! We still try though. Air dried laundry? 72 hours.
The other pics are all taken over 24 hours. A couple of kitchen pics, since we had a request for more interiors. And, I couldn't help but include this pic of dinner crayfish marinating in rosemary and garlic. River crayfish are also a big deal here. Ours were served with roasted red peppers blended in a cream sauce and balanced with lemon juice and sambal. Finally, there's a pic of Tamara and our resident ducks.
I figured out we really did move to the Netherlands this morning when the alarm went off. It only took 3 months to figure this out. As the haze cleared, and my dreams merged with reality, I heard someone sneezing and gargling. Wait, no, that's someone speaking. A foreign language. That was weird. Why would someone be speaking a foreign language on NPR? Was it already 5 a.m., and time for my commute to ICPRB in DC?
wait...
Is this Holland? A dream? (Listening) ...
No! Dutch!
we really moved here....
4 comments:
Has it REALLY been 3 months??? My word.
I stepped out of Takoma station last night at the elevator and immediately missed you guys. How can it be that you no longer live in your house on Sherman Avenue??
So, Erik, I forgot to ask when we were Skyping, how's your gargling and sneezing coming along?
Ahh, river crayfish. Hope that's a clean river. How are the rivers there, seem to be clean and trash free (not including the canals)?
Nice pictures. I'm looking forward to more pictures of the cycling scene. I hear they happen to know a thing or two about bike commuting there...
Naomi, I am practicing my Dutch using Rosetta stone, which records your voice and you play it back to see how awful you sound. Today, I tried to figure out how to roll my _*&%(@ "R's." I really did sound like a gargling machine, and I wish I had the recording because I couldn't stop laughing at myself while I was gargling.
Jan, I don't know about that water stuff anymore. Once I became an artist, all that engineering stuff just went away, and now I am helpless. Tamara has to solve all of our engineering problems.
The food flowers and wine look great. Sounds like you guys are having a great time.
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