Gedichte im zwei Finger Tact by doddelbacke

doddelbacke

  

Hi! I was born in Germany in 1931 and grew up during Hitler's insane war. This proved to be a bit of a drag with all the air-raids we had to endure. That lunatic sure caused a lot of suffering. In 1945 I started my apprenticeship as an industrial electrician and in due time received my ticket. Jobs were hard to get and eventually I decided to look for greener pastures in Canada. This turned out the best decision I ever made and I wouldn't want to live in any other country. I worked myself across the country and finally settled on Vancouver Island. There I met this cute little redhead and eight weeks later we got married. Eventually we bought five acres, developed a small homestead, built a sawmill (Bellsaw) and raised two girls and one boy. We also built a small cabin on the shores of Lake Cowichan. In the summer the whole family goes there on weekends; it is fun to watch our six grandchildren diving and swimming in the lake. I worked in a local sawmill as an electrician till 1981 when the mill shut down. By that time we had quite a bit of money saved up, which combined with my severance pay allowed us to live in comfort, without any frills of course. To be truly happy we just have to limit our desires. Of course we had large gardens and didn't have to spend much money on food. In the meantime our three offsprings left, the gardens are only 50% the size we had before, but we are still pretty well feeding ourselves. Besides happily playing in my large "sand-box" I managed to publish three books: Rimwood Tales, my autobiography, The Canduit Project, a positive timeline for mankind and Gedichte im zwei Finger Tact, poems in German. Since I grew up during a world-war I always hoped that we would overcome our tendency to start them but it hasn't happened; but where there is life there is hope.
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