1. August, National Holiday Switzerland

Our Nationalday is like Sunday. It is the day to go for brunch and then at night to go someplace to see the fireworks everywhere.

A bit of rain in the evening after a pretty hot day

Time is ripe for combine

Our third Partner Hanspeter Thomet is combining and he also likes to take
pictures from the tractors, the fields and so on.

Swiss weather online

The beautiful weather of recent days, made the grain ready to harvest and the combine are in use almost days and nights.
We are always 6 hours ahead of you, when it ist 10.00 am in the morning in Switzerland, then you are still sleeping and it is 4.00 am.
When we go to bed 11.00 pm at night, then you will be eating supper at 5.00 pm and still have the evening in front of you.

Here you can see our weather radar:

The world is a globale village

When the prices get high then we start to spend less money on less things we don't really need.
And the results are seen all over the world.
Till now almost everybody has work here and it is hard to get people for a job on a farm. Normal work is 42 hours a week and on farms it is 52 1/2 hours a week.

The gazoline is still about Fr. 2.-- a Liter and the diesel is about Fr. 2.20.

Switzerland took 2006 the oil to 48.8 % from Libya, 30.6 % from Nigeria and 11.9 % from Kasachstan.
Libya is punishing Switzerland because they arrested Gaddafis son in Geneva.
Now we hope Switzerland and Libya can discuss this matter in Tripolis and will settle down the differences.

View from the south

We got a cool, fresh summer, cloudy and not to much sunshine and some rain every other day.
Its cool in the morning and I hope for some warmer weather in the next few days.
But it is well for farming and plants are growing fast.

My sister Therese and I went with my parents Ruth and Erich on the lake Thun.
Monday was our mothers 82. birthday and she just loves to be on the lake.

Rain over the weekend

Some Farmers startet to get the barley, but after a few days came some rain again and it got cooler.
This is the view from my kitchen, to the right you can see down to the railroad station.
It takes by feet 10 minutes to get to the station and about 30 minutes to be downtown in Bern.
We got several new calves last week and they are doing fine.
Every 2 days comes the truck to get the milk.
To that time we give away 640 Gallon every two days.

Finally is the summer back

News around the world easy to translate

I found this news in german and put it with the translation tool to english:

Already 25 Groundings because of expensive oil
The rising price of fuel this year has put some 25 airlines worldwide, forced to close as many as never before.

It is cool outside and I hope summer will come back for this weekend.

5 weeks school vacation

Yesterday started the school vacation.

The family upstairs went on vacation for two weeks to France and our partner family went on vacation for Italy.

So Hans has more work with the farming and I have three more cats to feed.

We had just enough rain last week, so everything can grow just fine in the garden and on the field.

Otherwise the weather is just fine.

We still are looking for a guy, which would like to work on our farm, but employees are to that time not interested to work on a farm, because earnings is to small on a farm and 52.5 hours a week is to much, when you can get a job somewhere else for more money in just 45 hours or less a week.

There is still enough work around and we are yet not hit by unemployment.