Westside just around the corner

Whenever I go to Bern or go to visit my parents, it takes me 2 Miles to get to the highway and here is going to be a new shoppping mall, also with cinemas, restaurants, lots of shopping goods, swimmingpools and nearby is a mursing home.
The only thing it takes is a big wallet.
The older people can rent small apartments, one ore 2 rooms and get care, if they get sick.

Von westside0908

The opening will be October, 8. 2008 and they are still finishing everything and givint the last
touches.
I had the chance to go for a tour last week and the paint still ist wet!

Summertime is over, its cooler in Switzerland

From one day to the other the temperature dropped down to 10° C.

Even the Swiss banks felt the black Monday from die USA yesterday.
They say it is like a thundercalp and it will take several days to get back to normal and the worldwide net of the finanzsystem has to be rebuild.
Of course we know that banks help each other in emergencies, but we know, that everything will cool down and we will get more unemployed people next year.

It rains and we go to Bern without an umbrella

It takes me half an hour to go to the station in Bern and as you can see, there is no problem with rain.
Gasoline and heating oil will remain the same at this time, but we got a letter from the electric power company, where they write us, that next year, the price from the electricity will go up by 10 to 20 percent.

Grand spectacle closes Beijing Olympics

First comes Paralympic Games for disabled atheletes and wheelchair sportsmen and sportswomen, and then it gets back to normal that means to get back taking up production in factories and using more oil in China. Oil is low at 115 Dollar and as long as more country like people in India, Africa, South America and China wants to drive a car, the oil will rise up again and it is time to get away from the oil.
It was a wonderful sunday and we went to visit Hans's father and went with him on a walk.

They are all cousins

Cormick, Carina, Leonie and Ronja are cousins.
Leonie has a black mother and Cormick is a boy, which will hopefuly be used as a father for many more cattles.

Pictures from United States

I put the picture from our traveling to the United States on my website www.kopfkissen.ch

90th birthday of Erich, born August 4. 1918

My father Erich Bucher was born 90 years ago in Aarau, Switzerland to Elise and Gottlieb Bucher- Gerber.
His mother Elise was born in Schangnau, Switzerland and she had a older brother Gottfried Gerber, who emigrated to the United States, when he was a jung man.
My father still remembers to go with his mother and his only brother Eugen to visit the homeplace of the Gerber's in Schangnau.