Windmill 'Zeldenrust', Lith

'Zeldenrust' = 'Seldom Rest'

Fabulous weather, even though it was close to freezing.  Thankfully, hardly any wind.

Yet another windmill close to the Maas River.  The location has been tagged and there's an extra. I asked AW why there are inordinately more windmills in the east of the province compared to the west.  Simple, said AW -- people were poorer in the east of this province and could not afford the electricity-run machines that took over labour in the western part.  He is right.  Even today, the west, which is closer to the sea, is more heavily industrialized.  As early as the Dutch Golden Age, all the money entered via the sea and spread along the coast, and stayed there, for the most part.  This is the earliest evidence in this country that 'trickle-down', or, in this case, 'trickle-east', economics does not work in practice the way it sounds good in theory.  Of course, there are still loads of windmills in the west as well, but not in the province of Noord Brabant.

Housework, genealogy, and the news.  The genealogy had a break of almost a whole year so I did need a bit of time to get back into it, but all is going smoothly again.  A health update on our friend in AMS who contracted COVID-19 seven months ago -- she's still in hospital as the virus led to complications in her gall bladder and the rest of that part of her body, so she has had to undergo surgery to have it removed.  Whoever reads this is welcome to share this bit of info with anyone they come across who says the virus is fiddlesticks or a hoax or came from the 'deep state' or any other piece of nonsense.  Our friend, who is 78, is hanging on out of sheer will power and will have to continue self-isolation for at least half a year more, if she makes it that far.

As for our tired and patient frontliners, ... they 'seldom rest'.