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I actually came to take pictures of the horses. This is the best lineup out of hundreds of pictures. It took us the whole afternoon :-)

Have no pets myself, but this is yours truly in his sister's garden...

I also have a newer iron... A little less vintage. Still NIB. The arrangement of the cord makes it a bit awkward to use for a left handed person like me.

OK, I use a vintage iron... And I love it! It's the best I ever had. My first iron with a cast iron soleplate and it floats over the sheets without effort.

@ DanManTN: There was no switch or setting for the time zone. One had to set the hands to the nearest hour and then press the start button. The problem was that it tried to set the time several times a day and each time stopped at a different hour. The time could be off one hour, two hours or...

We had several of those, both at work and at home. They were unreliable: sometimes the hands started running round and round and then stopped but not always on the correct hour. The minutes and seconds were usually correct, but you had to guess the hour. We don't use them anymore.

Wow, water hardness in Cayuga is 120. Assuming that this is comparable with 120 dH the people there must spend fortunes on soap. Why is it not softened in the water treatment plant?

As mentioned in the hard water thread, the main source for the Amsterdam municipal water is the river Rhine. It's ok for drinking and washing. Amsterdam uses ozone instead of chlorine so the taste is good. I never use bottled water. It is said that the best water is found in the province of...

According to regulations, water hardness in the Netherlands must be between 1 and 2.5 mmol/l (100-250 ppm). In Amsterdam, the water hardness is 8.4 dH (150 ppm). The water in Amsterdam comes from different sources each with it's own hardness. In the past the main source was rain water that had...

That's a great job I don't think that I would have the courage to do a restoration after such an accident. Is this machine only for use with liquid detergents?

Don't like that polyester/cotton fabric...

Update I spoke too soon... Just found that it doesn't really matter. CO distributes evenly through the room. As CO is usually formed during combustion and initially rises to the ceiling because of the higher temperature. Eventually it will distribute evenly through the room.

I have always been told that a CO detector must be installed near the ceiling since CO is lighter than air and therefore CO concentrations are highest near the ceiling....

Update I just tried the link again and there is more English text than I initially thought. When a Dutch page appears, select "Engels" in the menu for an English version.

Miep Gies certainly wasn't the only one who helped jews during the German occupation, but she was lucky to find the Anne Frank diary that made her famous. Only recently, while looking for information about an appartment opposite mine that was for sale, I found a website (I selected the English...

So what is done with the garbage then in NYC? In Amsterdam all trams and metro trains have stickers saying that they are travelling with green electricity (produced by burning waste).

Peak shaver Yesterday the LNG peak shaver was put in operation. This was done in a live radio broadcast. Dutch homes and offices are almost exclusively heated with natural gas and the national gas supplier keeps several large tanks with liquified gas standby for use when demand is...

Hmm, those legs in the Gorenje PEA advertisement are very distracting...

Louis, You may be right, the insulation thickness is a likely reason for not having 50 cm wide A++ rated fridges on the market. As said, for the time being I can manage with my Dometic fridge. I am just evaluating some ideas, but I haven't decided on a specific set-up yet.

Cold in Amsterdam too... Not as cold as in some areas of the USA though, but cold enough to wrap palm trees in protective foil. Yesterday I saw for the first time this winter substantial ice formation in the canals. (took this picture while shopping for yoghurt this afternoon)