Before and after Thrift Shop cabinet.

Windmill: De Prins van Orange in Bredevoort.

Bredevoort is known as The Book Village. Most houses in the centre of the village have shelves of books for sale.

The park on the edge of town.


www.bredevoort.nu

92 degrees today and likely to be hotter tomorrow. The lavender hanging in there.

Milou in her new inflatable kayak.

The guys connected 3 rain barrels to the down spouts of the garage and the house.

On the back corner of the house is a notched out cubby hole, where a small bird has a nest of babies.

On my walk this morning. Moon, deer and sunrise. Bliss.

6 a.m.

Miss him.

With my nieces and nephew in Houston. 100 years ago. Marielle, Marlynne and Bas. All parents now!

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Good morning!

At a vintage car show there were displays of old things, like these coffee mills. This one is in our kitchen. Belonged to my grandma. Still use it sometimes.

This is not far from our house. A special place indeed.

A war memorial at an unexpected location: On march 2nd 1945 the German occupier executed 46 political prisoners here by a firing squad. They came from all over the country and were kept in the "Kruisberg" prison at Doetinchem. This brute action was a revenge for the liquidation of four German soldiers by a resistance group, which operated from "de Bark" farmhouse on the border between Dinxperlo and Aalten.

The 46 body's of the victims were buried on the day of the fusillade at the General Cemetery at Varsseveld. Later four of them have been reburied at the Ereveld at Loenen, one at the cemetery at Varsseveld and the others in their own home town. 

At the spot of the liquidation grew the corn that year higher than elsewhere in the field. This corn has been harvested separately and is kept in the bell-glass.

Every year on march 2nd at 12:00 hrs, a solemn commemoration is held at this special location at the Rademakersbroek. For more information the town hall can be contacted.

I miss this little munchkin.

My dad, who was a master at chess, would likely say: I hope they realize she can move in every direction...:)

Keith sent this photo of Stubs in Abaco Groceries.

Linda with two of her grandsons. Bradley and Jackson.

The lovely Gemma amoung lavender.