Last week, my Trailing Spouses group participated in Bleigiessen, a European practice of pouring hot metal into water and interpreting the various shapes. It’s very much in line with the German obsession with lighting things on fire. It’s also a New Year’s tradition that I didn’t learn about until well after the New Year had passed, so I’m hoping it’s not subject to the same superstitions as the dreaded German “Happy Birthday”.
The world’s least-likely group of drug users meets up and tries to decide whether it’s bad if the spoon gets burned. If either ‘Weeds’ or ‘Breaking Bad’ were about heroin, I might have been better prepared.
Mine was the first to melt, and when I dropped it into water, it turned into a mouse!
He even has four little feet.
Interests include photography and very short walks across the kitchen table.
Unfortunately, if your metal is in the shape of a mouse, then it means you have a secret love…
We share the same not-so-secret love of chocolate.
Neat! I only just heard about this melting-metal thing a few days ago. Kind of fascinating!
It was fun! I didn’t realize that it’s popular in a lot of European cultures (not just in Germany). People even use this method to make jewelry.
I’ve heard of this but never done it. Wow, it really IS a mouse!