In the evening we went to take the stars from a storeroom of the church, where our hosts belong to. Petra takes care for the stars, which will be carried around by the starsingers on 6th January. Some of the stars are old, some don't look nice anymore, so Petra creates new covers and we decided to help her today.
Here you see a star, that still looks nice. Nevertheless it isn't, if you take a closer look. Last year it rained a lot and the star got wet. Now you can see white glue running down, where it should be only clear yellow. Some said, that it doesn't matter, but our host didn't like it and she asked us to cut out new yellow transparent paper and a new black star silhouette.
We didn't like the yellow side of this star, so we decided to spray it bronze and cut out a new yellow transparent paper and black star silhouette too.
We had to work really hard.
We also didn't like these two stars and we had to throw one into the bin, because it was broken on the back totally.
Then we had to outline the first star on the transparent paper.
Priscilla helped to cut it out.
But it was rather difficult for her, so Lintilla offered to help her.
While we worked, we found some marzipan potatoes.
We tried to speak really low, because Mi-Go had been fallen asleep in our back and you know, that he always runs to get it, if he sees something to eat.
But we should have knows it better. Of course he also feels, if something to eat is around. He jumped up and caught the marzipan potatoes in the same second. Only Lintilla seemed to take no notice of it.
Proud Mi-Go! We tried to keep calm and go on with our work. We had to outline the black star now.
Mi-Go was anything else, but no help for us.
But to our surprise, he was the one, who asked us, if he could be the one, who was allowed to cut out the black star silhouette.
That looks really difficult, but it seems, that he's the one, who knows, how to do it.
And yeah, it just looks great. Now you can be really proud, Mi-Go.
But, oh dear, we had done a mistake, when we outlined the yellow star. It was the wrong side of the paper and so the star didn't fit perfectly to the wooden star. We were very disappointed.
We had to cut out another yellow star and black star silhouette, which fit perfectly then.
Then we had a break and read the newspapers. We read, that Wulff is the Federal President and that there are some problems, but they aren't really interesting for toyvoyagers. But it was really interesting for us, that they wrote about a storm, which should hit Germany soon - no toyvoyager weather
For me it was interesting to see a photo of the wife of Baden-Württembergs Minister-President Kretschmann. I read, that she doesn't want to be called a First Lady. I did want to read this whole news article, but the others didn't and so we went on to the next page.
We saw a photo with a little bit of snow. Wow, there's snow somewhere in Germany.
But then we turned to read the Bruchsal news and the first thing we saw, what a nice bird singing and a pussy willow blooming. It seems like springtime here.
Did you know, that petrol in Germany is that expensive? I'm not sure, because we didn't know about this. Diesel costs between 1,37 Euro and 1,48 Euro, which means between 1,8092 US-Dollar and 1,9544 US-Dollar. It would be interesting to know, how expensive it is in other countries.
On Karlsruhe page on the right we read about a big construction area, where they build a new way for the city tram.
Here is an interesting page. It shows items, which you can buy in the newspaper shop. They sell items of Baden. Maybe we should go there and take a look, but surely they will cost some money.
And of course it was interesting to read about the weather in our region.
Although we took a closer view we only could read, that we will have storm during the night and rain and a temperature of 8°C - rather warm for winter weather.
We asked Petra to zoom it, so maybe - if you can read German - you will be able to read about the weather too.
