Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Tiroler Schutzen #7, Dieter Pillersee



Herr Dieter Pillersee is the leader of this band, the first of the "Grey" Division


Dark grey coats, pants in shades of green and hats in shades of brown are used for the raiment of this unit. 





    Meanwhile, Speckbacher and the Capuchin kept up hostilities successfully on the eastern frontier. Haspinger wished to invade the country of their foes, but was restrained by his more prudent associate. Speckbacher is described as an open-hearted, fine-spirited fellow, with the strength of a giant, and the best marksman in the country. So keen was his vision that he could distinguish the bells on the necks of the cattle at the distance of half a mile.





    His son Anderle, but ten years of age, was of a spirit equal to his own. In one of the earlier battles of the war he had occupied himself during the fight in collecting the enemy's balls in his hat, and so obstinately refused to quit the field that his father had him carried by force to a distant alp. During the present conflict, Anderle unexpectedly appeared and fought by his father's side. He had escaped from his mountain retreat. It proved an unlucky escape. Shortly afterwards, the father was surprised by treachery and found himself surrounded with foes, who tore from him his arms, flung him to the ground, and seriously injured him with blows from a club. But in an instant more he sprang furiously to his feet, hurled his assailants to the earth, and escaped across a wall of rock impassable except to an expert mountaineer. A hundred of his men followed him, but his young son was taken captive by his foes. The king, Maximilian Joseph, attracted by the story of his courage and beauty, sent for him and had him well educated.



Gratuitous Puppy Picture #1


Gratuitous Puppy picture #2; they are three weeks old. 


Gratuitous Puppy Picture #3. Their eyes an ears are open, and they are starting to bark. 


16 comments:

  1. I'm loving these blog entries. They're fascinating. When I was a child there was a Catholic church down the street that served the Tyrolean people in the town. (All the churches were "ethnic", that is, the Mass was in Latin while the sermon was in the language of the congregation. (Slovak, Italian, Polish, German, or English for us in the Irish congregation.) The idea of the Tyrol is quite interesting to me. (I'm not sure if the Tryolean church preached in German or Italian. Many of the congregation had Italian names.)

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    1. The southern third of the Tyrol in particular speaks predominantly an Italian dialect, although it can vary by valley. We will come to more on that later!

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  2. So cute, figures (great poses and paint job) and puppies (beautiful eyes!)...

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  3. What scale are those puppies? And the paint job is amazingly realistic...
    :)

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  4. Your house appears to be reaching toxic levels of cuteness. I recently acquired a Australian Shepard pup and the cumulative 'awww' emitted by one of my classes upon seeing him nearly shattered the windows.

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    1. LOL! Australian Sheppards are beautiful, and great agility dogs - Annie, the mother, is an amazing agility dog for a Golden (as well as a dock diving dog).

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    2. My in-laws are on their third Golden (My avatar is Gus at 9 weeks, he is now about 90lbs and an adorable dufus) I have joked about keeping a herd of Golden puppies handy to immerse myself when I need puppy therapy after a bad day.

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    3. We have had three past goldens, and we have one now (and my daughter two); with the addition of a puppy each, that will be two for us and three for her. Puppies are awfully cute... but the adult dogs are far better, day in and day out. On the other hand, puppy therapy is powerful medicine! When I worked for myself, our dogs were in the office pretty regularly, and those of my patients who liked dogs, would come seek them out regularly.

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  5. Lovely work again Peter, and I definitely have a case of retriever envy.

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    1. Thanks, Lawrence. They have been a lot of work, but we have become very attached to all of them. It will be tough letting four of them go!

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  6. Lovely lads again Peter, make sure the canines don't treat them as chew toys! ;)

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    1. Thanks, Mark. Never had a problem with gaming stuff and dogs. Cats, on the other hand... species non grata in the basement!

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  7. Great looking Tyroleans! Lovely puppies too!
    Best Iain

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