We have accumulated, I was noticing, after we hung the hunting scenes around the old Chinese lamp, quite a few things from the horsey-set. Beforehand, I saw that we had more than a few goats around the house. The ceramic Trojan horse was made either by my grandmother or her best friend (that has been debated) in an arts and crafts studio in Bad Tรถlz sometime in the late 1960s. 
The American army base there (in one incarnation) where she was stationed had been converted into a shopping centre with Freibad (public spa) when I investigated a few years ago, and a lot of the trappings of an American military presence still seemed fresh. I bet the CIA outpost from Cold War times survived that round of closures.
Speaking of another extensive collection, we spent nearly twenty minutes this morning setting back the all the clocks for European Standard Time. The time change that hastens in the dawn and chases away the sun earlier and earlier in the afternoon happens a week prior to the to recalibration in the States.
