Thursday, May 17, 2007

First two weeks

For the first two weeks in Germany I spend between Hanover and Hamburg on a NATO military training area. We where testing tractors, and jeeps and guys carrying packs would go by. Most of the time they just ignored us, but we did have a couple of people stop and ask what we were doing.







Several mornings a shepherd with a herd of sheep would go by. I think it would have been interesting herding sheep in that area. Several times we could hear live fire exercise that couldn't have been more than half a mile a way. Maybe the sheep would get used to that.





There was a pile of dirt on one edge of the field and boys will be boys. We had to play a little in the dirt pile. The tractor is a Finnish built tractor. It is sold primarily in Scandinavia, but a few are sold in the States.


I wasn't holding the camera straight on this next one. If you notice the trees in the background, the tractor is on a steeper slope than it initially appears.


4 comments:

Shelly said...

Hi Luke! Thanks for sharing! Welcome to the world of blogging, I have put your blog into our favorite places so I can keep up with your adventures. We also have a blog at ColeHappenings.blogspot.com. I'll look forward to future posts! God Bless, -Shelly Cole

Anonymous said...

Hi Luke! it is great to hear from you! i will check with you and see how you are doing! thanks for including us. are you happy? is it going okay? do you like it? are you home sick?
we are meeting every other week for group now through the summer. last week we hung out at the park.
are you getting paid to PLAY with tractors?!!
take care.
miss you.
megan

LadyGunn said...

Dude! I wanna play with the dirt pile! As far the sheep go, sorry, but they're never interesting. Just kinda dumb. The guns are another story... :-)

Welcome to the world of blogginess.

Man on a Journey said...

Hey Lukie! Great to know you have a sweet blog to keep all your peeps updated, including me. I got the email about your mailing address, and that is seriuosly too long to write. I might fall asleep in the middle of writing. I'll stick to emails and blog comments for now. Hope you're enjoying yourself. How is language learning going?
-CC