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My Apartment

Well I now have internet at home, so I should be able to more easily add posts to this sight.

I though I would show you my apartment. I just got my shipment of stuff from the states, but I'll show you what it looked like before I got my stuff.

This my apartment. The bottom floor has two businesses. One is run by the owner of the building. He and his family live upstairs on the the closest end of the building. I live up stairs on the far in end of the building. The farthest 3 windows are mine. I live above a tattoo parlor. (FYI.. If you click on the pictures you can see them more clearly.)

This is a view out of my kitchen window.

This is my living room the blue thing on the left is a wood stove. The access to the stove is in the hallway. If you notice the is just a light bulb hanging from the ceiling. Typically apartments don't have light fixtures, or any kitchen appliances. Sometimes they don't even have a kitchen sink. Fortunately this place had a fully furnished kitchen.

This is my bedroom. I have a lot of space, but there is no closets or storage so I'll need get a wardrobe or something similar for my clothes.

Beds are different than they are in the states too. They don't have box springs instead there are bend wood braces under the mattress.

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.

Welcome To My Blog

I have been asked for pictures and information about where I'm living and what's going on. I decided that this is the best way to share that. So if someone actually cares, they can visit this site and if they don't, they don't have to visit.

This blog will be devoted what's going on with me and what I have been able to see and do. If you would like to see pictures of something around here let me know, and I will try to get them added to the blog.

As many of you know I moved to Germany in the middle of May. The first few entries will catch up on what has happened since then.

I hope you enjoy!
Luke