I am way behind in updates,  if you care!   It has been a very busy summer.   Marie Chris and Mary Jane are home from Switzerland.   They had a wonderful time with wonderful friends and family.   I am working on getting pictures downloaded and will try and load them to an album.

My homebrew club had a successful outing at the Oshkosh Brews and Blues.   We have been eating and drinking way too much (is there such a thing?).   We prepared for Door County and July 14th to 28th we spent in Penninsula State Park.  Well except Marie who stayed at Julie’s Cafe and Motel at the edge of the park.  It was her first time ever to Door County,  and I think she had a very good time.   It was great to see old friends, and how the many families have grown.   We started going there 30+ years ago at the end of July and have every year since.  Funny we were youngster’s then, now our children are older than we were.  As usual our 2 weeks went by far too quickly.  I worked 4 hours most days, a benefit of my job that as long as I got an internet connection I was able to accomplish some work.   Although I will still be trying to catch up this week.  It has been a busy time at work.  And over the last few weeks my reporting structure has changed, I now report to Corporate.   So I need to work on this first impression!

And I started that by trying to catch up this last week and then taking off Friday!   Thursday we drove to New Glarus and spent Friday, coming home today.   We went to see New Glarus,  since the girls had seen Glarus in Switzerland.   We actually went to see old friends of Marie, Karl and Kay Gmur.   Karl played many years with the Roger Bright Band in New Glarus and around Wisconsin.   They treated us wonderfully, and spent a lot of their time with us.   And we thoroughly enjoyed it.  Oh, and we did get in a tour and tasting at the New Glarus Brewery and around town.   New Glarus has always been a special place for Chris and Marie because of their Swiss Grandmother.  The time went much too quickly there also!   And we had more than enough to eat and drink, as is our custom!  And this morning headed to Wautoma, so we could make it to the celebration of Andy and Ann Dekeyser’s marriage.   There were married in Oregon a couple of weeks ago and it was an honor to be invited to the celebration.  Andy is our god child and they are a wonderful couple.

The disturbing part of our drive this weekend was seeing so many dry corn fields.   Much of the state we drove through the corn is stunted and drying out.   Many many fields will not produce this year because of the dryness and the heat.   Lot’s of hours spent preparing and planting will be lost.

So as I said I will try to share pictures soon.  Switzerland looks beautiful.  We hope all of you are well and enjoying your summer.    And the Olympic’s.

Somewhere in Switzerland

Family hike