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Hi Hannes,

You see? I have full confidence in your abilities and well done πŸ˜‰ !LOLZ

Ah yes, I also have some backups on external drives and usb sticks, and every now and then, I update them. Over time I had some failed external hard drives, but thankfully nothing on the usb's yet. But of course, nothing as grand as you have, as I can only afford the cheap stuff.
It seems that all businesses and government departments are investing in extra security, as some of our government departments have also been hit by scammers. Your system looks great, and it's always a danger to have too many people that have the rights, as much can go wrong.

Great to hear and I can't wait to see the van upgrade my friend. I am sure that you will take care with the installation. Don't forget to hang portraits on the walls, as then it will look like a family lounge 😜

There's a time for everything and you only have to follow your heart. We are having it difficult now, as the hive price is very low, but as usual eventually it will climb again πŸ™

Thank you and the day was good, I know you also had a good day, especially with the test, and may you also have a great Wednesday 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

thanks, it works fine, but I have to make it fool proof, because there's a colleague who is able to destroy any software just by looking at the monitor 😁 !LOLZ

My backup drives are not expensive either, and I wished I could afford a better solutionthat works automatically.

Haha, I will not hang any photos on the walls of my van, because there's not enough space on the walls, and I don't want my family to watch me sleeping 😜

I'm really not sure about the Hive anymore, but I'll wait for some more time and hope like we all do.

Wednesday was a holiday here, but I didn't do anything, apart from a short drive around town, but I haven't been in the moon to take photos. So I had a lazy day at home and did only some work in the van, because I'm still waiting for shipment of the final parts.

Tomorrow is Friday and I have to go to a shooting training, but I am sure I will not kill anyone 😁

I'm happy that you have had a good day and hope that today will be as good as well πŸŒžπŸ˜ƒ

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Hi Hannes,

we also have some of those over here, and maybe you must make him wear a blindfold 🀑 !LOLZ

Well, you can always try using the cloud storage, but I don't as if a scammer cracks the cloud, then all of one's stuff will rain down into the scammers pocket πŸ˜›

Strange, as Wednesday was also a holiday here, called "Worker's Day". I think it is called May Day in Europe? I also didn't take many pictures and I hope that your van is starting some shape, and that the final parts will round it off into a real showpiece 😲

Just make sure that you are not pointing the gun at anyone while you are trying to fire it πŸ˜€
I hope that you will enjoy it my friend πŸ‘

Thank you and please take care at the shooting range πŸ™

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

these people are strange ... everything works fine until they use it 😱 !LOLZ

I have some things on the OneDrive cloud, but I prefer to have a real device in my hand.

May 1st is also called Worker's Day here - Tag der Arbeit, but nobody is working on this day 😁

I want to keep the van quite stealthy outside, but nice and cosy inside.

I don't like these trainings at all, but I have to absolve at least one a year.

It's Friday, my friend, wishing you guys a lovely start into the weekend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Good evening Hannes,

I think that all countries have them and they belong to the international butter-finger club πŸ₯²!LOLZ

Nope, I love clouds, but only the real ones, and we are the same, as if you can hold it, then it's safeπŸ˜‰

You are right, but I think that in our case they should call it National Unemployment Day, as half of our country is unemployed. 😲

That was the idea when you bought the van, and you did well to rig it out by yourself. Now I only hope that the new furniture will be built good enough to last for a few years. Do they give you any guarantee on it?

Part of the job my friend, and a necessary part, especially for the butter finger guys, as they will try to shoot an attacker, and end up shooting themself in the foot 🀑

Now there you go again with one of Piber's beauties, and the scene is magnificent. The water flow looks so real πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

May you guys also have a great weekend πŸ™

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

"butter finger"? I have never heard this expression before, but don't need a translation 😁 !LOLZ

The new furniture is well made and quite sturdy. It comes in parts and I have to assemble it together myself. My own work that I had before, wasn't that good built. That's why I have decided to renew it all. I also hope that it will last for many years.

The shooting training was quite fun, but I am happy that it's over and I don't have to shoot again till next year. Of course I could train more often, but I don't want to.

Thanks that you like the image - it is the only one from last weekend that I really liked.

We have best weather here - it's sunny and warm, but after getting up at 3am, because I wanted to see a nice sunrise at the sea, I am a little bit tired. And there was no nice sunrise, of course.

But on the way back home I drove through the Soča valley in Slovenia where I could take some photos of a White throated dipper. At first I thought that the right one was shouting at the other, but the I saw that it is a baby and the other one was feeding it 😊

Hope you're enjoying a wonderful Sunday, my friend πŸŒžπŸ˜ƒ

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Hi Hannes,

butter fingers means that a person is very clumsy and they break most things that they touch 😜 !LOLZ

Ah! So it comes in kit form with instructions and that's always good. The only problem that I have with the assembling, is that I always have spares left over after the job is completed. Looking forward to the final show πŸ‘Œ

Yep, we are the same. After my army days, I think that I went twice to a shooting range up to now, and I also have lost all interest in it long ago. My cousin and his son are hunters, but that's not a hobby that interests me, as I don't want to go about killing animals πŸ₯²

Oh man, you still sound a bit tired, and I am sure it is all of the hard work that is draining your energy. But then again, getting up at 3am on a nice warm day is always a good thing. Pity that you couldn't get the sunrise my friend, but there will be many more. Over here I cannot get the sunrise, as the mountains hide it at the East, so I have to drive far out inland if I want to get it 😊

I called Marian to come and look at your bird photos, and as you know her feeding habits, she was over the moon with your photos. Babies and children are the same, as they all scream when they are hungry, and the parents just have to feed them. A great series of shots my friend πŸ‘

Sunday was slow and calm and I hope that you will have a great new week.

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

I don't know if you know the furniture from IKEA, but if you do know how to assemble these, you must know that my new van interior is twice as complicated πŸ˜€ !LOLZ

I eat animals, but I could never kill one, but I'm not so sure about humans, although I would never eat one 🀣

Though I'm always tired at the moment, I cannot stay in bed and have to get up as soon as I wake up. When I come home and lay down I'll fall asleep within seconds though 😴

Thanks that you and Marian like my baby bird photos - I think these are the best wildlife photos I have ever made πŸ˜†

My week has started busy, but that's nothing new at the moment. In the evening I have an appointment with the friend who does the maintenance work on my van (oil change, inspection and such), so I will not be online later.

Wishing you a great start of the new week, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Hi Hannes,

no, I don't know IKEA or their furniture Hannes, but if you did the correct measurements for the supply, then I am sure that you will work it all well in the end. Complications were made for you to solve, and I know that you are good at it 😊 !LOLZ

Nope, I only kill cockroaches and I also don't eat them, everything else stays alive 😜

When my eyes open I also get up, but you are lucky to fall asleep within seconds. Even when I am tired, I still roll around in bed for hours before I fall asleep. But I know that you have a sleeping hobby and that you can fall asleep anywhere 🀑

Excellent shots that tell a good story and you can be very proud of them. So, if you can get the small wildlife, you can also get the big wildlife like an Ostrich feeding its baby. That could be a good challenge for you methinks 😲

Getting colder here and I know that you are always busy. I hope that the guy will sort the van out good, so not to worry about being online, as you have to see to the priorities πŸ‘

Wishing a kinder week for you and much rest.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

Ikea is a big Swedish furniture company. It's relatively cheap, but you have to assemble the furniture yourself at home, or pay for it. It's very popular here.

I can only fall asleep easily when I am paid for it. At home I'm usually awake for quite some time, but at the moment I think I could sleep anywhere at any time πŸ˜‰ !LOLZ

Thanks my friend, I will do my best to take more wildlife photos πŸ‘πŸ˜ƒ

The weather here has become nicer and above me there are some lovely pink clouds ... I'm having breakfast on the balcony with one of our cats. My wife is still in bed because we are going later to work today. Before work we have to go to the passport office to get new passports, because the old ones are valid till this June only (10 years).

Hope you're having a great Tuesday with nice weather 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Good evening Hannes,

okay, now I know, and over here we call the self assemblies kit forms. They come with assembly instructions included, and I think that Ikea would do the same 😊

Hahaha, you are so funny, and I had to laugh at this 😁 !LOLZ

I know that you are very capable with photography my friend, but I like to tease you sometimes 😜

So, you are eating the cat on the balcony for breakfast and that's not a good idea, as your wife will beat you up when she awakes. Passport services can take a long time, as here we have long queues. So good luck and hope that you guys will not take too long πŸ™

20Cs here for the whole week and raining right now. Wish you a lot of sunshine 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

I've had no time in the past days - too much work at work and too much to do at home πŸ˜… !LOLZ

Yesterday was a holiday here, and I have been working all day long on my van. It's all so different in there now, I have to put all things on other places. It will take a while for me till I'll get used of it, but I like it a lot. I'll post some photos soon.

I'm not so sure whether I should like it to fall asleep easily, or not, because at the moment I even don't want to get up in the mornings when I'm off work πŸ›Œ

I seriously would love to take more wildlife photos if it wasn't that boring most times: I see a bird or another animal, it disappears and I wait for it to return ... and wait ... and wait ... 😴

Hihi, no, I've had some cake that my wife baked πŸ˜‰ but actually, I have once tasted cat: many, many years ago, the man my grandmother married after my real grand father died in WW2, used to catch wild cats and eat them. One day he let me taste it, but I can't remember the taste anymore, and I'm glad that I don't remember, to be honest. If our cats knew that I have tasted one of their family ... 😜

Nowadays you have to make an appointment long on advance, so it took only 20 minutes and we've been on our way to work. The passports will be sent by post in a couple of days.

We've had nice weather yesterday, but the weekend will get wet, says the weatherman - we'll see. I have enough to do in the van and at home anyway, but I'll try to get out for some photos, of course.

Hope you guys are fine and will have a great weekend 😊🌞

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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I know and I also know that you put most of the work in the van at home 😜 !LOLZ

You see? As I said above, you even work in the van even on holidays. Only teasing as I know what it means to you, and I am sure that you will get used to the new outlay. I am now very inquisitive and cannot wait to see the photos 😲

Oh man, to fall asleep quickly is only a dream for me, as lately I have so many pains and cramps that I roll around for hours. I think that only the van will make you rise out of the bed very quickly πŸ˜‰

Ha! You forget that Mother nature is teaching you patience, and one day when you have waited long enough, a very rare animal will pop up to pose for you πŸ˜‚

I think that you liked the joke 😊 and this is an amazing story. Like me, you also love animals and that tasting must have been a horrible experience. So much so, that you mind has erased the taste of it.
Btw. Only kings and queens have cake for breakfast, so in a past life I am sure that you were a king, maybe even the king of Austria πŸ˜…

20 minutes only! Wow, such a great service that you have there. We also make appointments here, but when we arrive there are about 50 people that made appointments at the same time. So, we have to sit and wait for our turn which can take a long time. After about 2 or 3 weeks they send a message to collect the passports and then we have to wait in a queue again. Your systems work, but ours are dysfunctional πŸ˜‰

Hahaha, everything depends on the van again, and I don't know if you remember that I said the van would become your second wife, so now she also rules all of your decisions πŸ˜†

Wet here today from 9am to 4 pm, and then the gaps in the clouds opened the blue sky in patches. So, obviously we popped out to the mountains. Cold and a bit difficult with the light.

I hope that the van will love you even more after this weekend my friend πŸ’•

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

yep, at the moment I'm always thinking of the van and what I could do to improve it. Last night I destroyed the curtains at the tailgate in the back of the van - I tore down the curtains while leaning back 😜 !LOLZ That means I have done a bad job when I installed them and will have to find a better solution ... this van will never be finished 😁

Last night I was on a mountain nearby because they said we might see Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis at night. I've seen a nice sunset

and a nice sunrise,

but I slept very well in my warm sleeping bag in the van when the lights were on the sky (I have seen some Instagram posts about them).

I can't remember how the cat tasted, but I am sure that I will never taste it again πŸ™ƒ

I wished I could take some of the pain from you - to keep me more awake and to help you sleep better 😊

Haha, my wife sometimes bakes a cake for us when she has time - no special cake, but great for breakfast πŸ˜‹

Yep, it took only 20 minutes and the new passports have already arrived yesterday πŸ˜€
Since the pandemic you have to make such appointments and it works quite fine, but before Covid you just went there and had to wait until it was your turn.

Yesterday was much better than the prediction and today seems to get even better, but tomorrow it will certainly rain, says the weatherman. I somehow don't want to believe him πŸ™ƒ
Cool, you have been in the mountains too. Our clouds have been similar to yours, but in the evening the sun painted them nicely, as you can see in the image above.

So, tonight I might give the Aurora another try and hopefully not sleep again πŸ™ƒ

Wishing you a nice Saturday, my friend, lovely weather and some spectacular views 😊🌞

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Hi Hannes,

Another idea is to install a blind that you can pull down instead of curtains. I have seen it in some vans here. I think they attach a rail under the roof of the van that hold the blind inside and then pull it down when they need to. You haven't done a bad job, and I am sure that you find a better way to finish the van before you are too old to drive it 😜 !LOLZ

I just can't believe this! The last time that the Aurora colors were so bright during a sun storm was very long ago. So, you go out to take some photos of this historic occasion, and you fall asleep. I think that the taking of these two magnificent photos bewitched you and your mind got so excitedly filled with tons of adrenaline, that afterwards your mind sent a message to your body of tiredness.
You are the first guy that I know that goes out to take photos of the Borealis that goes to sleep before they arrive. Surely this is a Guinness World Record. I have to give you another !LOLZ here.

Your cats will never forgive you if you eat another cat 😲

The doctor gave me a new course of anti-biotics today, and the things make me a bit woozy in the head. So now my pill quotation that I take every day has increased to 12. Such is life my friend and we each have to carry our troubles on our own. Thank you for the care and I really hope that you will not have the same in your future. πŸ™

Super service that you guys have there, and I really hope that in the future our services will also improve.
Especially now with all of the IT apps that are available πŸ˜‰

Never trust the weatherman my friend, and your clouds are much better than mine, especially in that first photo. I also like the sun on the river in the second photo. A great effect. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘Œ

Hihihi, I will wait and please don't shock me again by falling asleep πŸ₯²

Saturday started with fairy rain and cold, but later in the afternoon it was sunshine (and still cold).
I hope that you will have a busy Sunday editing all of your new Aurora photos πŸ˜‚

Cheers and thanks.

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Hi Zac,

I have also thought of installing a blind, but I didn't, because at least in my van it would be harder to install than a curtain, and you can see from the outside when there's a light on in the van. I already have a kind of "curtain" with magnets that I can put over the window, but I'd like to have a real curtain... I hope I'll find a solution before I'm too old to drive πŸ˜‚

I should have stayed up the other night to see the Autora, because yesterday it was completely cloudy, so I couldn't see the sky, and tonight it's getting even worse after a quite nice day - no Aurora photos till the next sun storms. Bad weather is approaching us with dark storm clouds and we will have rain and cold temperatures all week long, says the weatherman. When I look up to the sky I tend to believe him 🌧️

12 pills a day is really a lot and I also hope that I'll never have to take any of these things that make all only worse.

Thanks for your compliment on my images πŸ˜ŠπŸ™

Today I wanted to show Mother Nature how patient I am by trying to take some bird photos at a rapeseed field. The field was awesome yellow and I could hear many birds sing near me, but I haven't seen any ... Mother Nature must have had so much fun seeing me waiting for 1 1/2 hours without taking any photos but of the yellow field and the trees behind 😁

In one of the images I thought I have seen a little spot that could possibly be a tiny little bird, but I wouldn't bet on it πŸ˜‚ !LOLZ

Today was quite nice, as said above, and in the afternoon I drove a little bit around the lake with my wife and and we went for a short walk at the reservoir where I often make a morning walk, but on our way home the sky was already getting darker and windy - soon it will rain.

Hope you have had a sunny and warm Sunday, my friends 🌞😊 wishing you a nice evening and a good start into the new week.

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Hi Hannes,

I was up at 4am this morning, heart racing and pulse pounding. I think it's the new anti-biotic tablets that are interfering with my normal tablets. The doctor gave me a very strong dose, and now I am thinking about stopping to take the new ones. But I am not complaining.
I am sure that you will get the curtain issue sorted out soon my friend, way before you are too old to drive 😜

Sad about your weather, as there is not much that you can do outside and besides your work keeps you busy. I have seen lovely pictures of the Aurora taken right here in the cape province of South Africa. A guy took them from a coastal town called Gansbaai (Goose Bay), but it is too far for me to drive there, as I will have to leave here at 2am in the morning in order to get there 😲

12 pills have now increased to 15 and I have to take the new 3 twice per day. So now I am struggling to sleep and will again a zombie today πŸ˜‰

Wow! A new record, as you have waited for 1 and a half hours. A great start and Mother nature will be happy that she tested you and you passed the test with flying colors. I am proud of you. The yellow fields and the trees look stunning. So now that you passed the test, she will start to encourage you to wait for 2 hours 😲

The strange thing is that the small dot "bird" was indeed a bird, and had you waited longer you would have seen all of the birds appearing to pose for you πŸ˜€ !LOLZ

As I said above somewhere, your photos are stunning, and thank you for showing them to me. Glad that the wife went with you for a walk at the reservoir and I also think that this time the weatherman got it right. They don't have a thumb suck emoji that I can put here πŸ˜›

A nearly warm Sunday, and only 2 days of the new week that's going to be hot. I also hope that apart from the weather, your new week will be kind to you 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

I think we have had this theme a while ago ... you take tablets and need other tablets against their side effects, and so on. Now you have to take these anti-biotic tablets and probably the doctor will give you other tablets against the side effects. It's a never ending cycle, it seems, that's bad and that's one reason why I don't take any.
Hopefully your body only has to get used of the new tablets and you slept better last night. I know you're not complaining - you're never complaining and take life as it is ... "such is life" πŸ™

There are so many of these Autora photos around that I really don't mind a lot, because they all look about the same. Of course it looks beautiful, and I love the red and pink colors, but I don't think I would have taken better images than the others ... and there will be a next time anyway πŸ˜‰

You know I love Zombie movies like The Walking Dead - you hopefully are not hungry for brains, but I wouldn't be hungry if I was you, because 15 pills would make my stomach full πŸ˜…
Jokes aside, your amount of pills is increasing - I don't like to hear that and wished there was a better way for you.

I haven't made any plans for my next "wildlife" shoot, but I'm not sure that I would ever be able to wait for 2 hours ... maybe, we'll see πŸ˜‰
There was really a small bird shaped dot in one of the photos, but I can't find it again. I could hear them, but didn't see any movement πŸ˜‚ !LOLZ

As the new bed in the van is now wide enough for 2 people, my wife and I will go for a short trip together soon, but till then I will have to have suitable curtains on the back window. If I get home earlier today, I'll give it another try.

It was raining yesterday, but I didn't mind because I was inside anyway.

I'm wishing you a lovely warm day, my friends from the south 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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Good afternoon Hannes,

yes, you are right as we did discuss it one a previous occasion. I really hope and pray that you will never get into a health situation that will force you to go onto the tablet route. They look like candy of all colors, and they can fill the palm of your hand. So, it's a mad merry-go-round, as the tablets fight in your body for supremacy πŸ₯΄

So, I know that you weren't able to get any photos of the Aurora due to sleeping on the first attempt and then the weather spoiled your chances on the second occasion. But you are right, as all of the photos look similar. There will be another chance for you to get the next ultra special one at the end of 20 years. By that time, you will be long retired, and an old man like me 😜

Yeah, I do know that you like Zombie movies, and no brains for me at this stage of the battle my friend. I eat 3 small meals now every day, and the food that I eat has no fats in it. Of course, I would love to have a medium fried one inch steak, but no such luck ever again. At this stage of the fight, according to the doctor, this current situation with the pills is the only way to go. They will not cure me, but they will prevent me from having another stroke that can kill me πŸ™

I am sure that I will be the first guy that you contacted when you have achieved a 2 hour wait. πŸ˜‰
As far as the wildlife is concerned, I look at your photos with a magnifying glass and couldn't see a bird in it. Maybe you were so desperate to get a bird, that your mind convinced you that the white spot was a bird 😁!LOLZ

Ah! A bed that is big enough for the two of you sounds wonderful, and I hope that your winds find the short trip so great, that she will insist to go with every time that you go out. Have you thought about putting a thin metal curtain rail above the back window? In any case I am sure that you will sort it out my friend 😊

Good that you were inside during the rain, and I am getting the most stunning sunset clouds here now.

Thank you and the day was indeed warm. Wishing you also to have a good day tomorrow 😍

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

in a couple of minutes I'll be on my way to my second nightshift this week 😴

I hope that you'll find a doctor who reduces the amount of pills you have to take and who gives you only the ones you really need and that don't need other pills because of their side effects.
And I do hope that one day we'll sit in

I have never been a fan of these green Aurora colors, but the red and pink ones would have been awesome to see. Maybe I'll have to wait for 20 years, but then I will not sleep and send you the photos taken from my wheel chair, of course 😁

Of course I will tell you immediately when I have waited for some animals for 2 hours without falling asleep πŸ˜‚ !LOLZ

I have found a cheap solution for the curtains on Amazon and I do hope that it looks as in the images. It's just like I would have done it myself, but it's cheaper than buying the material and do all myself πŸ˜‰

Yesterday and last night it was raining and today it seems to be wet too. I don't mind because I'll be in the office anyway.

My next shift will be on Monday and then on Thursday. After that I'll have two weeks off πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€

I'm wishing you lovely weather and an even better weekend, my friend 🌞😊

Sending !PIZZA and !LUV as always πŸ˜‰
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