I found a great brocki and got some awesome treasures yesterday. A brocki is like a Goodwill store. You can find antique type items and newer items but it’s all used stuff. I think I’m becoming a connoisseur of brocki around Lake Zurich. I’m still trying to get our house set up so it functions…

We resumed the habit of hiking over the weekend. We’re doing as the Swiss do. You get on a train and get close to the mountains. Then you get yourself up a mountain (maybe on a cable car). Then you hike around and look at the view. Then you stop at a mountain-top restaurant for…

Five years ago: And today:

• I’m getting used to driving around here. Not hard really. There are round abouts everywhere. I drive round and round and round and somehow I get where I need to go. I don’t think I’ll be driving in Zurich though. Driving alongside the trams scares me and besides taking the train is faster and…

There’s our apartment – the turquoise building on the left. This is a view from the arboretum and across the orchard. We are very lucky to have this big green space next to our apartment. It’s all part of some sort of agriculture school and above the arboretum is an agriculture research organization which is…

I feel a little like I’m trying to catch up on posting to my blog and I’m trying to catch up to our new school schedule. The girls started on Tuesday and they’ve done great – handling all the newness so well! Bea was lucky enough to have art class on her first day and…

I bought a new rug before we moved. It’s made of shaggy soft wool and it’s shedding. The store said it will shed for a month or so and then stop. It’s a LOT of shedding! There are little bits of wool floating all around the house. A little annoying but I do love our…

We were treated to a rainbow just before sunset the other night. I need rainbow photographing lessons. It’s in the photo above on the opposite side of the lake. The rain cooled us down a little so it was time to do some baking. Just the most basic things since my pantry is not very…

My girls have had a strange summer and now it’s almost over. School starts in a week. We drove over and tried out the playground on Sunday. They were all smiles.