Leather Shorts and Roses

 Slowly it is getting real spring and once more we say goodbye to boots and leather shorts and vest...

Always a great set for wearing on colder days.

My leather boots from Italy with my old lace tights with back seam (see previous post below, with pictures of back).

Together with my very soft leather shorts from Escada and leather vest over a wool sweater.

Pieter the photographer told me to stand to the right but with the oak and wrought iron bench it is a bit wild...

Did capture the photographer as well.

In his cotton twill Burberry shirt that we found in Spain while on vacation.

That pairs well with his Gianni Versace jeans.

My Escada wool stretch skirt with the silk roses blouse and woolen roses cardigan.

To the left you also see that husband Pieter has cleared the underbrush in the adjacent woodgarden, now you can look through easily.

Here the repaired wooden bridge over the creek is visible to the left.

Related links:

{My Italian Boots & Escada Leather Vest and Shorts} | previous post showing you the back seam of my lace tights...

{ROSES} | previous post showing you the back of my Escada Roses Cardigan...

Pieter Found Another Death Cap or Amanita phalloides

Yes, from our own garden once again...

A perfect Death Cap or Amanita phalloides, the alba species and it is recognizable by its bulbous root.

DON'T eat it!

Pieter has its milk on his fingers... he did not lick that off either.

Pieter found this perfect example on October 5, 2021 but through all kinds of other posts, this got never used. But here it is!

Once again, don't attempt to consume this one!

Pieter was wearing his Burberry poloshirt

These images show the bulbous kind of 'egg' very clearly.

Photos from Pieter's Mushroom collection that he used for training.

Again, different stages of maturity

At times they even can appear to be greenish.

Nice combination with the clover leaves.

Again a different shade but all are deadly poisonous and cause organ failure and DEATH.

Never ever eat any of those!

Related links:

{The Most Dangerous Mushroom: The Death Cap, Amanita phalloides} | previous post by me

Yummy 5-Course Italian Dinner at Ristorante da Maria in Dublin, Georgia

 We sure are glad that friend and Lady Chef Maria Runggaldier got FINALLY back home from Italy after having been stranded there for almost 1.5 year...

So, we once more enjoyed her excellent cooking at Ristorante da Maria.

Arriving at the elegant Ristorante da Maria...

Pieter wearing his navy Burberry blazer and I wear my Escada silk blouse and wool vest with red roses.

And still in my soft leather boots, gift from Italy.

It would have been Mom & Dad's 73rd Wedding Anniversary on February 26.

Appetizer:

Zuppa di granchio al pomodoro

Tasty Tomato Crab Soup, English peas, pearl onions and celery leaves

Such a YUMMY and spicy soup...

First dish:

Involtini di pasta con cariofini

Oven baked home made Pasta Rolls stuffed with baby artichoke cream, topped with Parmesan cheese and butter flakes, served on a zucchini veloutée

Fish–Entrée:

Cuore di merluzzo alla mediterranea

Pan seared Cod Fillet, served in a Mediterranean sauce with fresh tomatoes, oregano, shallots, olives and capers

Sorbet:

Sorbetto ai lamponi

Raspberry/Lemon Sorbet

Pieter also did wear his Brioni shirt (Last Call Neiman Marcus score...) for which he also needs to wear his cuff links.

Heinz always knows how to serve an espresso coffee for Pieter, with his dessert...

For both of us, it is very much like being back in Italy.

Maria is an authentic Italian Lady Chef and the only one in our region.

She has an excellent staff as well, they learned so much from her over some 18 years!

At least, her sous chef and staff managed to continue with serving delicious meals on Friday and Saturday nights, while Maria was stuck in Italy.

Dessert:

Crema catalana allo zenzero con frutti di bosco

Ginger flavored "Crema Catalana"

It was indeed a yummy 5-course Italian Dinner...

Related links:

Lovely Birthday Dinner at Ristorante da Maria | wearing my same Escada outfit...

{ROSES} | showing you the back of my Escada wool rose cardigan...

Driving to Macon for Picking up Pieter's new Lenses

 Why not drive again the next day, after just returning from the long Florida trip?

Pieter's 2nd pair of eye glasses were ready to be picked up, so we went there right after breakfast.

Getting it DONE and out of the way.

Pieter is happy and holding his eye glass case in his hand, wearing his leather patched (shoulders and elbows) Burberry sweater.

Only for the special lenses we had to pay twice US $ 520.00 as they are not covered by insurance...

But no doubt Pieter needed a spare set, as he cannot wear his treasured 23k gold pair when being in the garden.

Still holding up very well and we bought them in Indonesia in Yogyakarta at the moment of the Asian monetary crisis. For once, it worked positive for us, otherwise we could never have afforded them.

Pieter also still enjoys his Italian The Bridge purse. A very handy format also.

And I also love our Infiniti QX50 that we got us on April 28, 2021.

So glad we did that, as since there has been a long wait on any cars, even second hand.

So grateful to Vision Eye Group in Macon where I got my eye surgeries done a year earlier.

Pieter got helped here when he had his eye injured: Pieter Cleaned our Front Door Lights and HURT his Eye ←click link.

Very short Relive video of 1:38 minute.

The Silver Bond Pin was awarded to Mrs. Vedder-Peer

Husband Pieter's Mom was the first secretary of the local association and she received a federal award.

This was on Thursday, November 20 in 1986.

Mr. Hermkens of the Federal Board, pinning on the federal silver award for Mrs. Vedder, the first secretary of the local association.

Mrs. Vedder's personal copy that she mailed to the USA...

April 1987... quite a while later!

Queen Juliana with Prince Bernhard on the cover of

LIFE'S

WINDOW

Department Horst 'Lambertus-Norbertus'

On Thursday November 20 of 1986, the 25th anniversary of this department got celebrated.

The festivity started with a eucharistic celebration, with the theme of supporting each other. 

During the party meeting, Mr. Hermkens did pin on the gold and silver awards.

On Saturday November 22, a reception took place that enjoyed a lot of interest from all groups and associations of the population of Horst. The mayor then opened the exhibition 'Elderly and their hobbies'.

Festive celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Association for the Elderly.

This was in the local newspaper and Pieter's Mom mailed it to us, inside her not yet dried up handwritten airmail letter... hence the ink marks.

Did you notice that my 91-year old Mother-in-law was wearing a hair net?

Popular at that time, especially during windy weather, instead of having to use hairspray.

Eco friendly but that is all gone now...

This was exactly three years + 1 day before her death on November 21, 1989 when we were living and working in Italy.

A timely honor...!

Saying our goodbye to Pieter's Mom...

Too bad, she closed her eyes and we had these developed back in the USA, no way of going back and doing it over!

Pieter having said farewell to his Mom on November 7, before departing back to Georgia/USA...

This was our 9th trip back to The Netherlands on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

We went to Regensburg before, for attending the German Mushroom Conference.

Me, after our goodbye. Standing in front of this newly built Elderly Home.

Wearing my favorite boots, also gifted one time by our Italian mushroom friends.

Pieter standing near the entrance/exit with a new gift, his 'The Bridge' fine Italian leather bag.

Our Italian mushroom friends gifted Pieter a nice blue Burberry shirt and this leather bag on November 3, for some advice during our barely three days being in Italy before flying back to Düsseldorf, Germany.

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We had also driven in our Fiat Uno rental car, all the way to Regensburg in Germany for the German Mushroom Conference and from there by car to Bordeaux in France, see links below.

There was very little time for being with family but we tried our best.

21 September 2014 SLUITING BERKELE HEEM←click link

It is so sad that the entire building is GONE and new apartments have been built on this spot.

Government policies have changed and elderly have to stay at home, or being cared for by their children; called 'informal care'...

Unie Katholieke Bond van Ouderen - Catholic Union of the Elderly existed from 1958-2006

Sector: Charity and social work

Times have changed!

Related links:

Lecture by Pieter and Stay at UNESCO site Regensburg during German Mushroom Conference | previous post by me

From Regensburg, Germany to Bordeaux in France and Marl Cave Mushroom Growing | previous post by me

Our Contract for Life

 On November 10, 1983 we both signed our Contract for Life...

May God grant us some more time together!

So happy with this photo that we received just recently...

It was in Mom & Dad's Estate and we never had it.

This one also came from Mom & Dad's Estate...

So happy with them since it is Mom congratulating me.

Peet Kleeven from Happy Hair did my hair.

This is also a new treasure.

We had it in the negatives that I've recently scanned.

My dear Mother-in-law!

This one I also just recently scanned from a negative.

Mother and her youngest son Pieter...

Guess we gave them to our Mother-in-law and with all the hectic travel and scheduling we forgot.

We had only immigrated 2.5 months earlier, together with our Dachshund Mauzie girl. So we all three had to fly back to The Netherlands for our Civil Marriage at my hometown's City Hall.

Pieter's ex did NOT sign papers before we immigrated... that complicated matters for us, also in regard to the green card application!

But we managed, arriving two days prior to our wedding.

On November 11, just  being one day married, we attended the 25th wedding anniversary of Pieter's oldest brother Thé, who is to my left.

Wearing one of two wool skirt suits that we'd found in October in San Francisco at Macy's.

Pieter is in his Burberry suit.

Again, Peet Kleeven had done my hair...

Yes, feeling very happy!

Related links:

Working with my Kodak Negative and Slide Scanner | where I found some of the above treasures...

From Santa Cruz to San Francisco for the Weekend | where I bought the two wool suits together with our Dachshund Mauzie girl...

August 29, 1983 We Immigrated to the USA | pictures of cute Mauzie girl...

{25-Year Anniversary of our Church Wedding in Chile quietly passed by} | previous post

{Angels engraved on lucky calendar coin of 1969} | previous post with some wedding photos

Escada Rose Dress with Butterfly Shawl Tutorial

 Just would like to show you the silk Escada Rose Dress...

Wearing it here with Butterfly Shawl

Below post you will learn how to do that yourself!

Of course wearing my Majorica pearls...

This photo perfectly reveals the sleeveless dress as the 'Butterfly' did kind of slide off...

My hair in a ponytail with a silk rose barrette...

My Pieter found me this shawl when we were at a Rotary Club District Conference and I did check out the Escada Outlet.

Was grateful for Pieter spotting it as the banquet was a very cold happening with the airconditioning setting way too low!

Wore it gratefully with my Escada silk evening dress with roses, see post below...

The butterfly has full wingspan!

Pieter in his Burberry summer wool suit with silk tie in roses...

Haha, our Speckie girl did rough-up Pieter's suede shoe, the foot he's placed foreward.

So much for living with kitties!

A better view of the silk tie with roses.

Those were always the perks of working as international consultants!

You know that I love roses and angels...

Good enough for a blissful relationship! 😉

As promised, showing you how to obtain such a butterfly shawl.

It is in the Hermès Carré book of shawls...

This is it; you tie the ends together, than turn it good side out and wear it!

Voilà!

This is from an Echo Scarf Booklet...

Works of course perfect with a wool shawl for winter time.

So that is the outfit I wore with the 'Hat Elastic' shoes from previous post!

Related link:

Hat Elastic for Preventing my Shoes from Sliding OFF | previous post showing dress with small tote

{Back Home from a Wedding in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France} | wearing the silk evening dress with roses  at a wedding in France

{Angels engraved on lucky calendar coin of 1969} | previous post with photo of Escada evening gown