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here is pretty Swiss village houses

Coming soon the not so pretty and quaint side of Switzerland (as soon as I repair our camera)

One down..one to go

Ok so thanks to my good friend Mindy I did go get my haircut today and hopefully Mindy has time tomorrow morning to hold my hand while I pick out new frames for some new glasses. Part of what I dislike about these tasks is the money but that is only a part of my issue… I’m not sure what my problem is exactly but I do know that if I can get a friend to come along with me, I do finally “get over myself” and get the stupid thing done!

So here is the hair…What do you think?

Update

I still haven’t gotten a haircut and I broke my eyeglasses. I wonder how long it will take me to sort this out considering I absolutely hate getting a haircut and spending hundreds and hundreds of francs on glasses.  Don’t yell at me too much if I still haven’t done it in a month or two … I’m have to work my mind around it.

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I look a bit like Frodo these days. I can’t seem to find the time to get a haircut. This is sad but along with my determination to post on my blog, I am determined to get a haircut. I’ll let you know when I manage.

In Spring Frida learned how to ride a bike and now at the end of summer Frida has learned how to swim underwater. Seems like a trivial thing …. but for Frida this is big. She has never liked the water very much …especially water on her face. Over summer she had her first swim course (crabs). During that course she was able to dunk her head underwater for a few seconds. She has now graduated to Seahorse where they should open their eyes underwater. The first class she cried practically the whole time.   Every time the instructor would explain the next activity she would start weeping. But to her credit she would get in line and try (while crying). Last week we had to take care of her friend Maddie so we made a day of it. I took the girls for pizza and we went early to the swimming pool.  When we got into the pool Frida immediately challenged Maddie to a race. HaHaHa Maddie is a fish, she’s been swimming for at least a year already, so I was curious what Frida was thinking. In that instant Frida drove underwater and started swimming. WOW she’s swimming UNDERWATER!  I couldn’t believe it! Where did that come from?? It isn’t like she has been practicing behind my back … or has she? It’s fun to watch this process, to see Frida learn new things. Now if she would only take an interest in learning how to read.

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I know I have been bad about blogging lately. Sorry

However Twitter is not to blame. I joined (like many others) to see what all the fuss was about. But you see ..the problem is that… Twitter is for people on the go ….who’s cell phones have web access. Me…I have a cell phone that only makes phone calls. That’s right people! My cell phone doesn’t even have a camera. I got it that way on purpose. So you see, Twitter is not my thing.

So why oh why have I been so bad a posting lately.( And when i say lately I mean the past 2 years really) Well… I could blame Facebook. It is definitely my time suck of choice. Also, a lot of my computer time is spent  reading other people’s blogs. I will try to be better. So in the month of September I pledge a post a week.

Let’s see how that goes.

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The summer of work, school and travels

I’ve been quite busy these days. Frida is out for vacation but, of course, I still need to work and do my online course. This hasn’t stopped us from doing a bit of traveling. Last weekend we went all the way down to the southern tip of Tuscany and spent a few days camping. It was a nice trip but nothing outstanding that I feel like writing about today. I thought I would upload some pictures though. Next weekend I am off to Heidelberg (again) to take an exam for my certification. I was there in June for a different exam. Then in a couple of weeks we are going to go check out the renovations that my father and mother did to “the place in France”.
But anyway back to Tuscany.
Here is the general landscape:

Don't we look like we are having fun?

B and I came for the food!

Mountain scenes again

I wonder how many years I have to live here before I stop taking pictures when we go to the mountains. We had a very quite and unambitious day in the mountains today. We did go to the top …..

Rigi Klum

using gondola and train and then eventually our legs. We did a bit of walking down hill but not too much.

Ouch that's steep

Lazy sunday….so nice!

Wow I’m just getting worse

At different times during a week I will have ideas for a post on this blog. Of course, when I actually have time to do a post I can’t come up with anything! Frida has had chicken pox this past week. We have been inside together for a week. She wasn’t too sick , so staying home was even harder. We watched a lot of TV and I think it fried my brain. She was able to go back to school on Tuesday, just in time to participate in the school summer play. She was a purple fairy.

Do you see her?

July we will be traveling a bit …in France for a week then I will go to Heidelberg for an exam. Finally in August maybe some camping in Italy!

Awesome tree….

Our new Tree

This is our new tree. Bernhard is in love with it…he keeps fondling it. Isn’t it awesome! It is really big …I mean really big!