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The Gang of Three is Heading West (cont. I)

Monday, June 20

Rare group picture of the Gang

The first morning in the Badlands starts with a lot of rain. As the forecast indicates that we will have lighter rain in the afternoon, we decided that we start our tour then. Yesterday we entered the park on

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The Gang of Three is Heading West

(Badlands National Park, Black Hills, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park and Theodore Roosevelt National Park)

 

The members are:

 

Andreas Weber

Chicken Nuggets for breakfast, lunch, dinner………

 

Dylan

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Up North in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin

 

Like every year in mid May I go up North morel and turkey hunting. Sylvia was able to get two days off from work and did join me (at least for the morel part). Stephan with his demanding job (aka girlfriend) at Goodwill had no time to support this

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My Top Shows, or what I like to watch

In this challenging political time and sometimes poisonous climate it is good to laugh from time to times. Have fun to watch.

Thomas  

 

 

 

 

 

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Baking Techniques

Reading through SylviaH’s long blog on TFL (Oven-Steaming My New Favorite Way) I decided that I have to give this steaming technique a try.

I always felt uncomfortable with spraying my hot oven and I don’t know how many times I burnt myself in pouring water on the hot bottom.

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Rosinen Broetchen oder Drei-Koenigs-Kuchen

About a year ago when my in-laws from Switzerland visited, they brought a crown and plastic doll with them, accessories necessary for a “Drei Koenigs Kuchen” (3 Kings Cake).

See The Blog Post Here

Of course it was their expectations that I would miraculously produce one of these cakes. Even though never

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St. John, Us Virgin Islands

For Christmas mom’s three boys decided that she’s due for a special treat, a Caribbean vacation! As my consulting contract just renewed I thought we can afford this. (Man, was I wrong……….!)

The duties to get this done were divided equally amongst us: I have to do the research, book and participate in the

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Drei Koenigs Kuchen

It has been quite some time since I posted on our blog. But (un)fortunately the business and consulting world is holding me up from blogging and bread baking. But before I disappear again in the offices of the corporate world in upstate NY, I wanted to share this picture I found by accident in one

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Fall in the Drifless Area in Wisconsin

I was not very active on our blog lately, but I was up again North in the beautiful Driftless Area of Wisconsin. The fall colors where magnificent and the weather most of the time too and with my hunting buddy Mark we browsed our woods stalking our favorite pray, deer. And we were

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Issues with my Bread Recipe Files

Several readers of our blog had difficulties to open/download the files of my bread recipes. Especially if you use an older version of Microsoft Excel it didn’t work. I have added now a PDF version to print and hope that all or at least most readers are able to use this format. It is not

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