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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Friday, April 7, 2023

Happy Easter

 Wishing you all a Happy Easter!
Love those Easter lambs and also the 'Rosebud' Pelargonium
Lovely 'Appleblossom' Rosebud Pelargonium
Polished and lacquered brass ornaments...
Polished and lacquered laser cut brass window decorations from Ulm, Germany.
My hand made organdy beribboned eggs
Villeroy & Boch porcelain egg vases that my sister Diny did carry in her carry on luggage, September 12, 2007 when they stayed with us for a full month.
More Easter window decorations
Circle Vase with Leonardo figurine bunny from Germany
A very special vase for displaying your daffodils...
Easter Table Setting...
Easter lamb place card holder and Villeroy & Boch porcelain egg vases.
More Easter bunnies...
My favorite Easter bunnies on bicycle!

ENJOY this special time of the year!  

Monday, November 22, 2021

Thinking about Mom and Dad on Saint Cecilia

 Saint Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Musicians


Above video from Easter Saturday, April 6, 1996 is a nice musical medley with Mom & Dad and Pieter first playing the keyboard and later playing the organ.
Keep in mind, this is just IMPROMPTU...
The video can best be viewed on YouTube, so you can read the text below, where I've better explained with clickable points.

Songs being partly sung are: Thank You Lord (Dad) with Pieter playing the organ.
Dad with Mom and our friend singing 'Ich bete an die Macht der Liebe', a German song 'I pray to the power of love' by Russian composter Dmitri Bortniansky (1751 - 1825) and text by Gerhard Tersteegen (1697 - 1825).
Next is Guten Abend, Gute nacht (Good evening, good night – Brahms lullaby (1868).
German – Strophe 1:  
Guten Abend, gut' Nacht,
mit Rosen bedacht,
mit Näglein besteckt,
schlupf unter die Deck':
Morgen früh, wenn Gott will,
wirst du wieder geweckt.

Strophe 2:
Guten Abend, gut' Nacht,
von Englein bewacht,
die zeigen im Traum
dir Christkindleins Baum.
Schlaf nun selig und süß,
schau im Traum 's Paradies.

English – Stanza 1:
Good evening, and good night,
With roses adorned,
With carnations covered,
Slip under the covers.
Early tomorrow, so God willing,
you will wake once again.

Stanza 2:
Good evening, and good night.
By angels watched,
Who show you in your dream
the Christ-child's tree.
Sleep now peacefully and sweetly,
see the paradise in your dream.                            
                     
Pieter also gets summoned by our friend to play How Great Thou Art (which Dad never had heard...).
Video is ending on Easter Sunday at home and it shows that Pieter could not refrain from pulling some weeds!!! 

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Buying Property in Cornuda, Italy below Madonna di Rocca

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
~
One more solo flight for me, from Atlanta to Amsterdam in May of 1988.
With an Audi rental car from my hometown, I drove to the north of Germany.
Doing my two weeks of mushroom consulting.
Husband Pieter also flew from Atlanta to Amsterdam and joined me after that.
Together we went to the Dutch Mushroom Days and next we flew via Düsseldorf, Germany to Venice in Italy...
We arrived okay but only 1 of our 3 luggage pieces got there...
So after lunch, Pieter went with our friend Tommaso back to Venice and retrieved the luggage pieces!
Later in the afternoon, we looked at property for building a house.
At the top to the left you can see Madonna di Rocca, a Sanctuary in Cornuda, Treviso - Italy.
Below is the street going to the building site...
Not the best photo but a beautiful area!
Now Madonna di Rocca is not visible to the left...
This was the corner where our house would get build.
This is it!
To the right you see some kind of guard rail, that is where the romantic Runero was running, a little creek.
A different angle and Madonna di Rocca is to the left, again not in sight here...
Stepping back from that corner you see that also behind the lots there was another hill.
A rather natural setting and peaceful.
Back to the view towards the main road (where the taller houses are).
It was a rather steep climb, if you preferred to go on foot, as we've later done several times.
Santuario della Madonna della Rocca (Cornuda) TV, Italia just click through for viewing a short drone video.
On top of a military observation fortress stands the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca, a place of pilgrimage from the surrounding parishes and spiritual point for many people.
It dates back to 1245 and got damaged and destroyed several times during wars and battles.
Yes, due to this being in an earthquake region, the Church's bell tower is always built separate from the Sanctuary...
Husband Pieter was requested to give a lecture on June 8, 1988, at the beautiful Natural History and Archeology Museum of Montebelluna, Treviso Province in Italy.
An interesting conference is being organized for tonight.
The theme: "The advancing technology in mushroom cultivation and marketing"
Yes, Pieter was still working for Campbell International then!
But we both were preparing our move to Italy and starting to work there for the largest Italian Mushroom plant.
Sergio Venzo, chairman of the ecology and agriculture department whom we met upon arrival in April, a previous trip in 1988.
That was a trip to The Netherlands for Pieter's Mom's 93rd Birthday and we flew to Italy from Amsterdam to Venice. We talked with the deputy mayor Sergio Venzo for two hours in French! Yes, both of us did not speak nor understand Italian yet...
Sergio planned to offer something to Pieter in June, on behalf of the city of Montebelluna... so here we were.
Museo di Storia Naturale e Archologia di Montebelluna, TV Italia click through for more.
It was a great turnout of some 80 mushroom growers in attendance.
We later had dinner together with our friend Tommaso Sartor and his friend Sergio Venzo, where Pieter also got presented a couple of his Italian books.
King Spawn was the Sartor family's own mushroom spawn plant, they'd sponsored this edition of P.J.C. Vedder's publication in Italian.
LA MODERNA FUNGICOLTURA (Modern Mushroom Growing)
The mayor also visited us at our table in the restaurant...
The preparation for our new job and everything around that, was in the process!
On June 9, after some work at the mushroom plant, we went again to the location of the property and to see an architect. Pieter planned to use his design from our home in Georgia, adapted somewhat.
We did buy the property that day, around 18:00 and went out for dinner with Tommaso but that proved to be a disaster as our steak with green peppercorn sauce was 'green' inside!
Good grief - our only restaurant disaster ever, within Italy...
Friday, June 10, we did have a general meeting at the mushroom plant and in the afternoon we went shopping in Treviso with Rosella & Tommaso Sartor.
We found a beautiful gold-plated shaving set for Uncle Bo as a gift...
Saturday, June 11 we got up at 5:00 and Tommaso came to pick us up for the flight from Venice at 7:15 and via Milan we flew to Amsterdam and with a phone call home we left for Atlanta, USA...

We now also had our own property in Italy...

Preparing for the next chapter!

But on June 17 we both flew to Sydney, Australia with Quantas from San Francisco... My 1st trip to down under!
Hectic lifestyle!

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Monday, April 2, 2018

HAPPY EASTER 2018

Already for quite a while I had the photos...
So, here I will use them for wishing all my readers a HAPPY EASTER 2018!
Yes, one of my sewing creations, quilted and padded place mats with matching napkins.
Photo got made on Sunday, March 20 of 2005
Gero Zilmeta 528 Menuet silverware and for dessert the Bridal Rose by Alvin in sterling silver.
Fragrant daffodils...
Used here in a table setting for a dear friend on her birthday in 2007
Same as the 1st photo but now with flash light.
Those picture frames are always lovely for individual use at table.
Round silver napkin rings we had made in Indonesia.

Wishing you a HAPPY EASTER WEEKEND!



Sunday, March 27, 2016

{HAPPY EASTER 2016}

Wishing all my readers, worldwide, a Happy Easter weekend!
May the sun shine in your part of the world.


My handmade Organdy Ribbons for decorating Easter Eggs... 
Closeup...
Egg warmers made by my sister-in-law Elly Van den Munckhof.
She and my brother Harry, are one of my most loyal blog readers!

Lazy chick from our German son and his family...

Fond memories all together!

HAPPY EASTER 2016!


Monday, April 6, 2015

{Happy Easter}

Wishing all my readers world wide a Happy Easter!
Heart created with Violets from our Garden...



Monday, April 21, 2014

{HAPPY EASTER 2014!}

To all readers, all over the world, I like to wish you and your loved ones a HAPPY EASTER for 2014! We are lucky that the heavy rain has stopped here, we got 3 inches of rain yesterday! Our 2nd Easter day is supposed to be sunny! In Europe 2nd Easter day is still being observed as a holiday but not so in the USA; but sunshine is always welcome.
A previous Easter Table Setting...
For more photos click: {Easter Season}


Sunday, April 13, 2014

{Dad Told us Stories About Bunnies on Bikes & Mopeds}

As little children we loved to listen to Dad's stories, during lunch time (our hot meal of the day) after coming home from school. Dad had worked on the field and he always fashioned exciting stories about bunnies on bikes and mopeds as they tore through the corn- and pole beans... Dad told these stories with such a vigor that we really BELIEVED him! Too bad, we all had to walk back to school as Dad again could encounter his furry friends once he returned to the fields. These stories are forever in my memory and low and behold, this year's Easter Catalog from Gump's, did show Mr. & Mrs Bunny on their Penny Farthings or High Wheeler. I just could not resist ordering them...
Here they are, cycling in our garden amongst the mosses and the white violets...
Are those not lovely?!
Now on top of our picnic table with bench near the pond with the Japanese Somei Yoshino cherry as backdrop.
Don't worry, they will not drive into each other's wheels. Mrs. Bunny just tries to avoid some bird poop on the table...
This couple of fun bunnies did bring back to life those exciting stories told by Dad!
Even though we in our garden have no rows of corn, nor pole beans...
This is cute enough for reliving my childhood imagination! 
Mrs Bunny already did get her bike straight so she will not clash with Mr. Bunny.
Gump's San Francisco offered them.
Easter 2014 will get celebrated different with those fond childhood memories!
Hope you enjoy a lovely Easter Season.
Time is moving so fast...

Related links:
{Daffodils Bunnies & Hearts} | previous post by me
{Happy Second Easter Day} | previous post by me showing my handmade Easter Egg Ribbons
{HAPPY EASTER to all my readers in 190 countries!} | previous post by me with our Pelargonium
{Easter Table Setting} | previous post by me with another cute Bunny with Baby-Bunny
{CIRCLE Vase with Candles for Easter} | previous post by me
{Hand Made Easter Egg Gift by Friend Ellie} | previous post by me
{Daffodils in CIRCLE Vase & Leonardo Figurine Bunny SPEEDY} | previous post by me
{Challenge Accepted + Easter Photos} | previous post by me
{HAPPY EASTER to all my readers in 163 countries!} | previous post by me with more info about the Chateauhotels/Kruisherenhotel
{Our Organdy Beribboned, Porcelain and Brass Easter Eggs} | previous post by me showing the hand made ribbons by me
{Happy Easter with Our Pelargonium 'Rosebud'} | previous post by me with more Pelargonium info
{Who can locate these EASTER EGGS for me?} | previous post by me
{¡HAPPY EASTER WEEKEND!} | previous post by me
{Easter Season} | previous post by me showing the brass window decorations with link


Friday, March 14, 2014

{Daffodils Bunnies & Hearts}

Spring is such a lovely season with flowers blooming.
Don't you love having such a vase indoors with fragrant daffodils?
From our German 'son and daughter-in-law' we did receive some lovely Easter bunnies and hearts...
Erika always is giving her heart to us in a most caring way.
We were lucky that both of them with their two children did visit us in our Vacation Home Vakantiewoning Pardoes, while we stayed in The Netherlands for Mom's 90th Birthday and Mom & Dad's 65th Wedding Anniversary.
 Yes, they drove up to us, all the way from the beautiful Eifel in Germany and gifted Mom & Dad with a beautiful handled willow basket, filled with edible goodies from their region.
Now I have turned a different fragrant white daffodil facing the camera...
Don't you like these double ones better than the single one in the first photo?
Those are the cutest little bunnies with the lace scarf buttoned around their neck.
Daffodils are inside a French Baccarat Crystal vase.

Very glossy Mr. & Mrs Bunny...
So glad they traveled well inside our suitcases.

Don't you love them too?


Monday, April 1, 2013

{Happy Second Easter Day}


  • In Europe they do celebrate TWO days of Easter; First and Second Easter Day! 
  • So let me wish those lucky ones a very Happy Second Easter Day!



  • My Organdy Beribboned Easter Eggs in yellow and salmon...

  • This is the book from which I got the idea to make those Organdy Ribbon bows...
  • Photo from the millennium year with lovely Easter bouquet from our own garden!
  • Tablecloth and placemat is from Le Jacquard Français.

  • Yellow roses were Midas Touch but we lost them all to the drought.

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