Ha! My pictures loaded backwards—so here’s my day in reverse!!
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| A Volkswagen wearing the Bollenhut! This is maybe the most German picture ever, and please note that the red balls mean that this car is unmarried. |
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| The clockmaker! His father is 87 and still carves the little details of the frames and faces of the clocks. |
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| One of the cuckoo clocks that is in the running for the contest this year |
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| So we learned today that the Gutach people are extremely superstitious (unmarried women, for example, wear mirrors in their hair so the evil spirits do not attack from behind—after they’re married, the husbands protect them), and one way to ward off evil spirits is to hang an ox head in the rafters of your house…. |
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| To keep the floors clean, you’re to wear these shoes made of straw—Hausschuhe. |
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| The dark rooms of the old German homes |
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| This is butter that my dad churned! |
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| Here he is, an expert churner! |
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| This lady, in 80-degree weather, is wearing socks made of rabbit fur, a velvet vest, two skirts (one a wool blend, one silk, a puffy shirt, bloomers, a collar, a hair covering, and a Bollenhut on top of that. This outfit cannot be laundered. That’s all I’m going to say about that. |
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| This is a typical German home from the olden days (although the ones from the modern days look a LOT like this)—note the flower boxes, as people compete to have the most beautiful ones, and the thatched roof, which will last at least fifty years before needing replacement. |
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