Family Life

Finally some real summer weather. It’s the last day in July. It’s supposed to be the hottest month of the year, and today is the first properly hot day we’ve had. Debbie was feeling cheated out of her summer, but today she’s getting her money’s worth.
At work we’ve been testing a plastic molding line. This [...]

Going back to work on Monday morning (today) was a bit of a letdown, after such an excellent weekend. There was lots to do today at work and it was interesting and I got a lot done, so it was a good day at work. But I didn’t really feel like it. I spent the [...]

We were at a Swiss National Day celebration today, held at a local farming museum. We started off at the festivities and then moved on to wander around the museum grounds when the kids got restless. There was yodeling and alp horns and cowbells and accordion and fiddle and singing, some of it in English, [...]

What a delightful Saturday! We had absolutely no commitments or deadlines or things we had to go out and do. So I played all day. It’s been a long time since I could to that!
The day started with pancakes for breakfast, always a Saturday favourite. Today it was a leisurely breakfast because we didn’t have [...]

Daniel and I went ice skating tonight. It’s cheap and not crowded in the summer. Debbie dropped up off at the arena and went on with the other two boys to do the week’s grocery shopping.
We were done, changed and back outside a good half hour before Debbie got back from shopping to pick us [...]