A Reminder of our Cuckoo Clock - From the Black Forest
My sister Vic sent me this photo above from Oli's in Triberg, Germany - the home of the Master Carvers Club who handcraft *real* cuckoo clocks . She was in Triberg with my folks recently to show them the town (it is awfully cute) and to show them how you can see/tell the difference between clocks (hint: look at the side and if you see plastic in the little circle, pass on it.). My sister and Equation Boy/Man bought a clock from Oli's and while they were there, they sent the photo you see above. The one in the middle is the clock that Nat and I picked up when we were there all the way back in last Summer. It has 'balusters', which is kinda awesome if you have been keeping up with our house build . It's funny, though: we shipped the clock to Elmhurst from Germany and when it arrived, it was so well packed that, since we didn't have a place to put it, we just left it in it's box and mostly forgot about it. This photo, though, brought me righ...