TOTAL SHUTDOWN

No, not the government shutdown (that’s a coincidence) but the shut down of my original blog. The hosting company Typepad informed everyone a month ago that is would be shutting down on September 30, 2025.

I had an inkling this was going to be happening so I transferred by blog to a new service called WordPress. The only problem was that all the photos needed to be downloaded and relinked to the new site. So that’s partly why I haven’t posted much lately. I’ve been spending hours downloading and replacing all those many many photos – about 2,600 posts total. It seems silly but I’m not ready to let go of all those memories.

I did not succeed. I got through September 22, 2020. So if I go to those posts made after September 2020 I will only see words and broken links to the photos. I have the photos archived elsewhere but I will still need to find them and place them – sort of a cumbersome task.

Anyway – here’s the update on what else is happening around here.

Claire is officially the number two bread-winner in our family. She has a job at a local bakery and cafe called Three Tartes. She is so happy to have a job and I’m so happy for her! She does cookie inventory, she cuts cakes, she organizes the retail area, she cleans a little and apparently she has to shoo customers away after their closing hours. Sometimes she comes home with some cake or a muffin (bonus!!!). She just got her first paycheck this week.

Bea is attending the prepatory program associated with the Technical University of Munich. She’s settling in a her new apartment. She’s over a lot of the stressful parts of this whole transition but she is still waiting for her residence permit and student visa so not all-together out of the woods. Here are a couple photos – it’s located in the Arabella Park area of Munich.