Welcome to the Habicht family's status and resource page.

• Amelia's stroke
• • amelia.habichts.net
• Cub Scouts, Dragon Den.
• • scouts.habichts.net
• Tae Kwon Do info.
• • tkd.habichts.net
• Our running and other exercise
• • run.habichts.net
• Smile!
• • fun.habichts.net
• Oliver's calendar. Shows when Oliver is "busy". (To be replaced June 2010)
• • calendar.habichts.net
• Family-related travel plans and itineraries.
• • Our info on the annual, regional Family Cycling Tour (Labor Day weekend).
  • Mom's travel plans.

Other links and resources

• Top-level Habicht's web link compilation.
• habichts.net domain registration service (EasyDNS; $55/yr, 4/2010) 
• Oliver's running log (not public) [3/21/10]
• Personal items related to the Varna Volunteer Fire Company.
• House location: Current. Previous.
• Bacon humor. :-)
• Oliver's body scan (3D)
• Cady's original song, combining Halloween and Christmas. Recorded 12/3/2004.

So, how do you pronounce Habicht?

Habicht is pronounced a bit like "ha-BEAK-t". Close enough if you don't already speak German!

Super-short instructions: "ha-BEAK", as in a bird's beak.

If you'd like to get closer to the original pronunciation, the "eak-t" sound is actually supposed to be the German "ich" (as in "Ich bin ein Berliner"), with a "t" added to the end. Which I suppose is why it's spelled "icht"! :-) But that sound is usually hard to do for folks who don't speak German. (JFK cueued himself to pronounce the "ich" sound more like an "ish" sound, for example.)

And if you speak Spanish, you can pretend that the "...cht" is a "jt". (Thanks, Dad!)

Question:

How far would you let an 8 yr old walk alone?

An answer:

Here's a great graphic showing kid freedom through recent generations (in England).