Family Life

This afternoon we went to the local Swiss National Day celebrations. We go every year, eating lunch on the grass in the shade of a tree, balancing paper plates on our knees, striving to keep offspring (three now!) from wandering off into the crowd. There’s a stage and rows of chairs set up in a [...]

Every now and then a female deer comes through our property, on her way to the river and wetlands across the street. Yesterday she was alone, and today she had company–a tiny fawn. The pair wandered around our back yard for a while, long enough for Debbie to gather the boys at the window to [...]

We went to an engagement shower this afternoon. A friend of mine, Deb, is getting married in May, and some of her friends took advantage of the fact that she was in town for Easter and organized the event. It was fun. Low-key, friendly, lots of laughter. The happy couple live in Texas, a long, [...]

Our neighbour declared that I must take Debbie out to dinner, in compensation for leaving her stuck at home with the kids by herself for a week, while I was in Hungary. Friends at church proclaimed that I must take Debbie out to dinner, seeing as she’d just recovered from a bout of illness and [...]

Did you see tonight’s lunar eclipse? I spent all evening popping outside every ten minutes to take photos. I missed the last couple of eclipses because of clouds, and we’re not supposed to get another eclipse until 2010. Tonight’s forecast was for clear skies with the moon high in the sky–ideal conditions. I set the [...]