You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital.
It’s a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you’re eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder.
On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade, within 1 mile, has become very popular . . . You start calculating the distance to the plane door and wonder . . .
“Do I feel lucky today?”
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Apples are healty and good for you
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Click on the picture to see what a really hot flash looks like!
On 21 August 2004, the family met at noon at the Restaurant Le Tableau in Kempten, to celebrate Hilde’s ninetieth birthday. Everybody had a great time and Oma managed to eat the full course, plus a huge dessert that was a meal in itself. We still call her Oma (grandmother) though she is Leonie’s great grandmother.
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| Friederike and Oma | Oma, Siegfried, Lilo & Ju | Willi, Rosi & Friederike |
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| Alexandra, Peter & Willi | Brigite, Baerbel & Oma | Bernard, Friederike & Rosi |
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| Oma with grandson Nic | Oma all smiles | Nic |
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| Leonie with her lunch | Oma & her younger sister Baerbel | Oma, Nic, Leonie and Baerbel |
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| Bird’s vie of La Tour-de-Peilz and the upper lake Geneva | Flower bed at the Quai in Vevey | Cog wheel train for Les Pleiades running near a field of narcissses | ||||||
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| Raclette on the terrace | Evening from the terrace towards the West | Winter landscape |  |
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The west corner of our terrace | Grapes ripening slowly in our pergola | Orchids in our square hibachi |
On the the first photo showing La Tour-de-Peilz in the foreground, on lower right corner you see the HQ of Nestle Switzerland. The port of La Tour-de-Peilz (mainly sailing ships but also motor yachts) is close to where we live. There is a large whitish building with a yellowish dot to the left, that is our building. The large one is Nestle’s International Training Center Rive Reine. In the back you see the long viaduct of the expressway running down towards Villeneuve at the end of Lake Geneva.
The 2 ‘ horns’ above the viaduct are called “Les Tours d’Ai”; the highest mountain top too the right is the “Rochers de Naye” which you can rach by cog-wheel train from Montreux, situated on the thrid peninsula with a high white tower (a hotel). The ‘tooth’ to the left is called the “Dent de Jaman”, an excellent rock for climbers.
Here the various stages of construction progress of Nic’s and Alexandra’s new house in Daettlikon, above Pfungen ZH (near Winterthur).
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| 1-the land from street | 2-the model of the house | 3-excavation |
Excavation started in late fall 2003, the young family took possession of their new home per 1st of July 2004
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| 4-foundation | 5-basement walls | 6-wood structure ground floor |
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| 7-wood structure 2nd floor | 8-wood work comleted | 9-tiling the roof |
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| 10-scaffold on main part | 11-scaffold on living dining part | 12-the finished house |
Explanations of finished house in Daettlikon:
View from the south with living & dining room (red) and covered outside living area.
The main entrance and the double garage tract are in the back of the covered space and cannot be seen (it is visib le on photos 9 + 11).
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| Bird’s eye view of a beach and golf course with ‘coverable’ pool & large parking in the immediate foreground |
The same ‘coverable’ pool with man- made beach scene seen from within |
This man is walking for peace. Let us all hope he will reach his destination.
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