Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Wishing you a Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Holding our Tiggy-Tiger girl and wearing my sewing creation (jacket) wearing my Rose Jewelry, ring and bracelet.

Pieter wearing his Irish Blarney Castle Sweater that we bought while doing consulting in Ireland.

Wearing my Irish Blarney Castle Sweater...

Are you wearing anything green today?

Related links:

{Burda Pattern Jacket - My Sewing Creation} | previous post by me

{Our Irish Blarney Castle Sweaters + Short Hair} | previous post by me

Historic Town of Guanajuato, Mexico and Adjacent Mines | previous post by me from where the malachite silver earrings came

Pieter playing Silver Threads Among the Gold by H.P. Dank 1873

 Another song that husband Pieter was practicing to play as an amateur (without ever having had one single organ or piano lesson): Silver Threads Among the Gold by H.P. Dank 1873

At clickable 2:43 I zoom in on my dried Brizia grasses (Bevertjes in Dutch...), my Mom's favorites!

Pieter a Former Motorcycle Guy ALWAYS Remained one at Heart!

 When we were on vacation in Florida we did stop at the Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass and visited Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th...

Pieter LOVED this soft as butter motorcycle jacket!

Sharp looking at almost 93...

And this $ 1,400 jacket was on sale for $ 199... a steal and size Medium fit perfect!

Nice look together with shorts; don't you think?

Both of us were SHOCKED by seeing the stores so poorly stocked...

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH OUR ECONOMY?!

No, we did not bring this jacket home.

Pieter's former Dutch A = Motorcycle + C = Car Driver's License + E = Trailer

In Italy he had the very same for Motorcycle and Car except for a trailer = E

Norton WWII motorcycle like husband Pieter rode 1947... together with brother Toon who went as a Marine to Indonesia in 1948.

This is NOT Pieter's Norton but it is very hard to find an image.

It was a very rickety motorcycle from WWII and Pieter had it only for a brief period...

BSA that husband Pieter and brother Toon rode in early 1950s. Jan Rutgers helped them tune it up.

Pieter also served in the Dutch Military from 1950-1952

Motor Scooter "Rumi Scoiattolo", 1953 - one that my husband Pieter rode till mid 50s and he also went to the University in Wageningen on it.

Again, not a photo from his Rumi...

This one was manufactured by Rumi in Bologna, Italy. A 125 cc two-stroke motor with two cylinders, 5 Hp and 4 gears.

When husband Pieter lived in Bergen in 1956 he rode a Heinkel (NOT RED!). It was a 4-stroke engine.

That was the time when Pieter was a Dutch Government extension service officer, to help develop the horticultural industry, in the southern part of the Netherlands.

From then on Pieter rode a new Fiat 600, as his boss managed to secure mileage compensation for a motorcycle with sidecar and that helped pay for the mini car!

Pieter did not drive this: {2013 Fiat 500 versus Fiat 500 Topolino}... previous post.

Have any of you driven a motorcycle?

Related links:

{The Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass} | previous post by me

{Outlet Scores} | previous post by me