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Chur Christmas Market
… when I was in Chur in late November the town was in the process of putting together the little huts used by the vendors for the Christmas Market. Today I was able to go back and enjoy the sights, smells, and tastes of Swiss Weihnacht at its best. Todd and I had plans to…
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Just some thoughts…
Today is Day 4 of a positve Covid test. I am not angry about the fact that we now have another virus we must educate ourselves about, but I am angry that I once again allowed my laziness to place me in this situation of having to miss parties with old colleagues because I did…
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November Snow
When I was a child there was no such thing as „November Snow.“ In fact, the earliest snow would come in mid to late December at the earliest… and those years were the most special… not because of what had happened earlier in the year prior to the snow, but just the fact that there…
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22 November…
… my brother and my uncle Buddy‘s birthday… neither are on this earth to celebrate. My uncle Buddy died of a drug overdose when we were in our 30‘s and my brother died from complications of the flu almost 9 years ago. As children, we were all close knit, but as I got older I…
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Waiting for the boat…
This is definitely a favorite pastime for me! I love being on the water and I quite enjoy a nice boat ride! I also have to say… the person working the #Brezlkönig at the Luzern Hauptbahnhof was fantastic. As soon as he looked at me and heard my slow, broken attempt at German he said.…
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We are waiting at the main station in Solothurn for our train to Olten…
… and I always read if I see letters pieced together to form words. Granted, I do tend to speak to myself in English phonetic before switching to German or another language with which I have a bit of knowledge. And sometimes I even go as far as saying to myself, „this is a sign.“…
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New day…
This is the view I am leaving from my apartment this morning. I want to get closer to the water today and perhaps tomorrow I will go the mountains… if I am lucky I may get both in one day from Luzern. #SBBGA #WandernMuse
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We woke up to this…
… an unexpected, non-forecast snowfall… in Derendingen… in November… The one weekend I can usually expect snow is the weekend close to December 10. In the four years we have lived here, there has always been snow on the weekend near December 10. So, because we were expecting normal weather today we made plans to…
