Oktoberfest at Conghaile Cottage

"View of Mon Jardin Secret THROUGH My "Schwarzwald"... These are the same trees as grown in Germany's Black Forest...

You can see the reflection of fall coming in the window of my Dutch Door Clock Entry to my Kitchen...Hubby drew this design on the side of the house when I told him I wanted my entry to look like a Cuckoo Clock... Within a week, he had built it for me...

"Oktoberfest" began this weekend for us as I took out a collection of things that Hubby's family brought back to America when they came back to stay(My Dad in Law was a military man)... My husband lived in Germany until he was in the fifth grade...

The large stein is one I gave my Husband for our first Christmas together. He has a VERY large collection that dates from Antique to New... The Carved Wooden Boy is an antique from "The Black Forest"...

This Antique wooden plate is one of six(all different scenes)that Hubby's Mom gave me because they are from "Wurzburg, Germany" where he was born... I also was given wooden chalices and steins(set of 8 each), these plates make "WUNDERBAR" chargers...

These majolica leaf plates are made in Portugal... I bought them in the 70s, and they are PERFECT on the German Wurzburg Chargers...

The napkin rings were a gift from my Dear Friend Ginny(edelweiss from Germany) These two steins are VERY OLD...The smaller is Hansel&Gretel... The larger has a cute little inscription That states, "A little health, a little wealth, A little house and freedom. With some few friends for certain ends, But little cause to need'em"(I have thought about this and it seems to me to sound like contentment??? This stein has gorgeous heavily raised wildlife all around it in a forest scene... 
Oh, do you see my little GW Goebel bear sitting there on the Stollen Board...No wonder he followed me home, he must have KNEW we were starting our celebration this weekend!!!  "AND Yes! there will be Apple Strudel"!!!

If you look REAL carefully at this stein you can see the "witch talking to Hansel & Gretel"(Oh My, No little children, Don't eat her house, RUN Back into the woods)... The carved board on the left is a "German stollen board"(Yummy, one of my very favorite Christmas treats AND the one I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE is the one filled with marzipan)... These carved boards are SO Unique they are definitely one of a kinds, "I LOVE them and have several"... The little carved boy is one of a set of three, the girls are around there somewhere ... They are visiting from Italy(they are ANRI), and he wore his German Lederhosen for the occasion... "Tomorrow we are grilling a "bratwurst feast" and I'm making homemade spaetzle..."Yummy"... Hmmm, I think I'll use my new GW bowls!!!

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