April 2011

Groundbreak

30 April 2011

We’ve been keeping a secret for the past several months, and it can now finally be revealed. We’re pleased to announce that construction has begun for our 4th McDonald’s restaurant! It will be located on the Autobahn A1 at Rade, the first exit from Hamburg heading towards Bremen. We expect to open at the end [...]

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Road Construction

21 April 2011

Normally our village is pretty quiet. We only have 4 streets, none of which are paved, a couple dozen houses, and no shops at all (no bakery, no post office, no grocer, no gas station) other than a bio farmer who sells asparagus in the spring and Christmas trees in December. This is the usual [...]

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Quiet Week

14 April 2011

It’s going to be a quiet week for us next week, the week before Easter. Not that we don’t have enough to do, we have plenty of that. But our son is going to be away the entire week. He’s flying by himself, for the first time, to Minnesota to visit his grandparents. We noticed [...]

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Accidental Shots

10 April 2011

We had sponsor tickets for yesterday’s HSV match against Dortmund (we applied for the tickets last summer, so I obviously knew in advance that Dortmund would do well this year). I couldn’t connect to Twitter in the stadium, so you’ll have to take our word for it that we were there. The sun was shining, [...]

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