Today's very belated #grandma recording showed how quick-witted ("schlagfertig") her Marie Schindler grandma had been. Once, people from town-hall asked her, what she feeds the chickens (it was post-war time and resources were scarce). She swiftly replied: "I double their wage, but for the food, they must look after by themselves".

Why listening to the recording, I discovered, that the forester which employed Marie as a maidservant, actually was married to a sister of Marie's grandfather (it's ok, if you're lost now). I had always wondered, how exactly she ended up at the job, but the connection now explains it, I guess.

The recording from February 2022 ended with her telling that now it looks ugly with a war, asking me, what I think. Who would have thought, that now, over four years later and with grandma dead for two and half years, this stupid war in #Ukraine would still be ongoing.

#genealogy #chicken

What A Letdown: Grandma Just Emerged From Her Chrysalis Looking Exactly Like She Did Before

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://clickhole.com/what-a-letdown-grandma-just-emerged-from-her-chrysalis-looking-exactly-like-she-did-before/

Personally im of the mind why reinvent the wheel when #wled and #ledfx exists... what i love about #wled is that you can send it through a #grandma and control your lights like a professional fixture.
#selfhost #tech #lighting #theatre #performance
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It's the #Grandma distraction from the #Jesus distraction from the #Iran distraction from the #Epstein files.
Before hanging up, we said goodbye and #grandma said, how much she enjoys doing these talks and that we will continue this, as long as we have our brains ... or as long as we are alive - and we did: the last recording is from 13 days before her death.