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.

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

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Boomer grandma challenges family norms by asking why she has to do the traveling for visits

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Woman surprises grandma with simple trick to remove corn husk. Everyone is gobsmacked.

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Woke up and couldn't fall asleep anymore, so I did this week's #grandma recording already: Those were 31 Minutes from 27 December 2021, the last recording of that year, which I had started transcribing in the middle of November last year. Ahead, there are 28 recordings from 2022 before the final about 140 from her last year of life.

In this recording, we talked a lot about how difficult it was for both of us to live in the same house as our parents as grown-ups. When it got too much for her, she would often escape to the mountains in Switzerland, where a friend from #Chur had a small cabin near Malix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malix in #Graubünden.

Then we talked about, how live on a Black Forest farm changed meanwhile and that there aren't the amounts of #snow anymore, that she experienced in her younger days with this ... "#GlobalWarming", I finished the sentence for her.

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