Switzerland

The spring is coming!

My view from the kitchen

Since I didn't write quite a while in this blog, I decided to blog a picture from my kitchen view from today.

Ready to harvest

We have mixed weather, like April!
Yesterday hot and just right to go swimming and then finish the evening with a barbeque with friends.
Today its cooler and it rains in the morning.

Harvesting before the rain comes

Summer is over

So fast went summer over

Oberbottigen in the summer

Here are some pictures from the haymaking last sunday. The weather ist beautiful and we enjoy the summer.

Growing, but not for every price!

As faster it grows and bigger it gets, then it is dangerous to stay on the ground and be kind and fair with everybody.

Always on the "go" and for what?

So stay still, think about your friends, call them and take you time.

If you are here for them, my be they also want to be around for you, when you need them.

Our house in Oberbottigen, Bern

It's not very hot, but nice and warm outside. We got some rain, but we are happy not to have to much rain. Everything is green and growing well.

Early in the morning, picture of the day

I had to hurry up, to get this picture, it started to rain later on. The colors of the forest are now very pretty.

Picture of the night

We went with friends to a folk music night and had a good time till late that night. We just could go, because we had reverations. Otherwise the room was booked out.

Schweizerische Volksmusik ist in! Especially the "Schwyzerörgeli" is just something!

Picture of the day

Nice evening in town, not to far away from our home. The stores in Bern are opened till 9pm and people like to go shopping and have a good time in town after work.

Picture of the day

A cattle in the fall.

Good Crops in Switzerland 2009

Even with the unsteady weather was the crop very good and we are satisfied.

Surfing on rivers

River surfing is a quite dangerous and you have always to have somebody watching you, in case you need help.

Our Cows don't have a skateboard

Our cows are enjoying life, but they enjoy it without a skateboard.
As long as we don't use one, we don't think about giving one to the cows, haha

Cows & Politics Explained

A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.

A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?

AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.

A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.

A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. They are mad. They die. Pass the shepherd's pie, please.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship both of them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported on them.

AN ISRAELI CORPORATION: There are these two Jewish cows, right? They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to Harvard to become doctors. So, who needs people?

AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION: You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.

Sun or rain, Bern is always ok!

Our summer is mixed with sun and rain, no problem to visit Bern, this town is for every one and for every season.

Walking in May

Who comes there?

May is the time to go walking

Happy Easter

Bahnhofstrasse Zürich

Bern to Zürich by train