A day at the parrot park!

In the parrot park we saw this beautiful rhinoceros bird.











And this nice parrot!







Hey? Are you looking at me?







Where is the fish?







And this nice stork.











Fish-eagle on the lookout!











Probably for this big-belly piggy?







This is a snowowl.











And a Oehoe.











Lizard (difficult shot, not much light and at 300mm......with 1/30th sec exposure)






Tropical bird.

A day at the safari park Beekse Bergen

Before entering the park by bus, we were inspected.......










Playful bears............












A sleepy hyena.....






A muddy hog







And Zebras of course.....







An Oehoe, it has such soft feathers, you cannot hear it fly. That is how it cathches its prey, they don't hear it coming!










A fish eagle....








And the vulture!







And here is a giraffe family!








And a nice leopard!

Cow milking robot

The shop where we always buy our fresh cheese, (Ruurhoeve in vershof Bladel) have their own farm with cows. Yesterday they got their first brand new milking robot (Lely type). We were lucky to see it in operation.
It was teaching itself the specifics of each cow, in close cooperation with the farmer and 2 engineers from Lely.


And also of course the cows have to get used to it. Some are still scared a little bit of the robot. But some other cows like it and already went 5 times in 1 day to the milking robot.
Now each cow can more or less milk itself, it does not have to wait for the fixed times of 600 or 1800hrs. The farmer only has to concentrate on health of his cows. The robot automatically gives alarms if a cow did not come within 1 day or if it gives not the normal amount of milk.

"The One" at Dorpsplein Oostelbeers

Yesterday we played in Oostelbeers, the sound was really good and we entertained the people until deep in the night. We had a lot of fun on stage and many people were dancing.

There was a lot of rain today, we just found a little hole in the sky for having or evening walk after dinner. But there was a big thundercloud luring......




Also Marion saw this beautiful Atalanta butterfly. I quickly took some pictures of it while the sun was still shining in front of the clouds.

Pasta!

A long wish of mine came true: making my own pasta. A few weeks ago I accidentally found a shop in Oirschot that sells the real italian durum semola and farina wheat (with the standard dutch stuff the pasta is too soft).

And after a very long search on the internet I found a shop in Eindhoven that sells pasta-machines. It is "les cuisines" in "de kleine berg".





For the first test I use "standard" dutch wheat. It is also for cleaning the machine because you use it for the 1st time.

It all works very easy, and you get the hang of it in a few minutes! And it is really nice to do.....too..







And this is the tagliatelle after cooking! Not bad for the 1st time. Next time I have to add a lot more salt and roll it even a little bit thinner, but that is no problem with this machine, just set the knob a one number higher!

Many rain: so cooking time!

It is raining a lot these days, so not nice for riding the motorcycle or walking......so time enough for some cooking!

Here's an Ambonese meatloaf dish with cabbage, rice and some emping on the side (I forgot the atjar!)

Very nice: fresh and ready within 1 hour!


Or, salmon with stewed carrots (NEVER cook vegetables!) and tagliatelle with a tomato-onion sauce.

Also very nice: fresh and also ready within 1 hour!

Just after heavy thunder and lighting!

We went for a walk after the heavy thunders and lightning. There were some beautiful clouds over Hooge Mierde

Again: the abbey route

Today we drove the "abbey route" again, because it was so nice. We started at the Postel abbey.





From there we headed south. And had to cross the channel on this 2nd worldwar bailey bridge. The part where you drive on is just hard-wooden planks. It looks flimsy but it could hold a tank in the 2nd worldwar!









From there we went to the Averbode Abbey, one of the most beautiful ones of Belgium.







This is where we parked our bikes, next to the gate (illegally?)






This is the Abbey-church. Where the "Norbert-fathers" sing and pray.







This is the inside.












From there to the Tongerlo Abbey.







A view through the main-gate....











To reach those abbeys we had to drive on some very small roads. Here's one next to a big canal. On the rightside is a very old bunker.

Middle Limburg route

On monday we drove a trip through the middle part of "Limburg". We started in Ospel, and via many small roads we drove to Maaseik, from there up to Stevensweert, where we had to help a little boy that was lying strangled in his bicycle. Fortunately after we -unstrangled- him from his bike he stood up very quickly and started walking again (it looked more serious than that...). After that we went on with our trip and passed the very beautiful town St. Odillienberg (under Roermond). It has a very nice church on a hill.

Trip around Belgian Abbeys

Today we drove the abbey route through nothern belgium. Saw many abbeys today.....

Gig at B&G Best

Yesterday we played at the family day of B&G fences Best.
It all went fine until......





....These clouds came with many rain and thunder........
Never played in the rain before. And also my bass amplifier didn't like it very much...

Motortrip east Brabant

After our 180km trip through East brabant we were (again) very hungry. This time we ate at the "bijenkorf" the place where we also had our wedding party.






And there was already another new couple that had their wedding party over there.......

Countryside art

Some farmers in our neighborhood put large frames on their land to show how beautiful it is. "Like a country-side painting".

New band address card

For anyone that wishes to book our band: contact us on the numbers or email addresses on this card

Hungry after motor pickup

The valves of my motorcycle had to be adjusted, and the carburettors synchonized. That's a difficult task, so I took it to the workshop. After we picked it up we were hungry........






So we went to "Herberg Kerkzicht" in Diessen, because there they have the best fries of the whole neighborhood. It is really true! You should try it!