Good Morning!

Ophiophagus wrote:There are many beautiful coloured bulbs .... like that than the Christmas tree!!

good morning!
Next week, on Wednesday I hope to leave to Switzerland for some days. The village named Curaglia should be nice, look at the picture,
made in summer ..webcam is on the hotel.



On Oct. 8 it was snowing there...the cam was a bit covered with snow too


And the Oberalppass we have to overcome.. was closed because of
the snow....

A part of the Oberalppass during the summer...



2 Days ago you only could see the snowcovered roof..it is near the
restaurant on the top of the Pass. The road was closed.

And today the road has been opened again. The Pass is between
Andermatt and Disentis in the middel of Switzerland, leading from
West to East. A beautiful mountain landscape!

yes,very beautyful,but i'm freezing now on the one caffe "pai"...even the soup was cold...

AllyKass wrote:yes,very beautyful,but i'm freezing now on the one caffe "pai"...even the soup was cold...

Poor you! I'm so glad I can make Cranberrie - drink sweetened with Estonian honey!!!!! Many vitamins and good for everything..

Wonderful that you get to go to the alps that you like so much!!!
Are you visiting someone or is it a trip on your own?? Maybe you stay in the hotel with the webcam???????????????
Lovely scenery is guaranteed - I hope youhave time to take some pics

I wish you a very pleasant trip! The Oberalppass should be passable as the snow is melting quite quickly now (if there´s no new snow...)

caysa wrote:Wonderful that you get to go to the alps that you like so much!!!
Are you visiting someone or is it a trip on your own?? Maybe you stay in the hotel with the webcam???????????????
Lovely scenery is guaranteed - I hope youhave time to take some pics

We (Arno and me) want to visit the Alpine Ibex....if they are there...
Yes,
www.hotel-cuntera.ch

...there you can see a lot!
We hope the Pass will stay open coming 2 weeks!
We will make pics, of course, now I can easier make them when driving....

Good excursion for you, and you see many ibexes!

Thank you, I hope so! Today the weather here is soooo beautiful and warm, but autumn is coming closer:
some trees are changing their colours and there were 2, here seldom
seen flying objects....

Beautiful tree!!! Your summer is so much longer there..... We have a sea of leaves on the garden - the children love those! But it is so cold already, we have now had many nights with frost and even during the day it is only 5-7 degrees. Brrrrrrr....

Brave people with those flying objects!!! Has anyone tried that???

caysa wrote:Brave people with those flying objects!!! Has anyone tried that???

No, I havn´t - and I think I never will

But there is an annual competition with them here - must be hundreds of them flying at the same time The thing I dislike about them is that once wild animals see them they flee, almost panically. Flying along a valley one of these things can make all animals in this valley panic. And when there are so many of them it´s even worse of course...

wow, how cool trip you have, lady!!!!!!
(i will wait pictures)
i had one mystical internet friend, she was the teacher from finland and came to teach estonian childrens...she talked that she drive with paraplanes or something similar........uh, this sounded for me ...frightening....

Happy Sunday morning!

Some friends and I took a short trip the other day to an Amish community ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish ) about 90 minutes from here called Arthur, Illinois ( http://amishamerica.com/illinois-amish/ ) to visit a pumpkin farm and have lunch in an Amish home.

First of all, this is a postcard picture--but the rest are mine! We had hoped to see the men working in the fields with their horse-drawn machinery, but all the fields had already been harvested just like in the postcard. The weather was overcast and a little rainy, but it did not dampen our fun.







This is the home where we had a wonderful lunch of fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn cut off of the cob, noodles, fresh baked bread with apple butter, and coconut cream or apple pie. There is no electricity in the homes (due to their religious beliefs) so all the lights, the stove, and the refrigerator are all gas powered. (No computers, televisions, or telephones ) They do not drive automobiles, so they have to travel by horse and buggy. The homes are usually large white farm houses that are added on to when their children marry and start their own families--everyone lives in their own section of the home and they all come together in the large kitchen/dining area to cook and eat the daily meals and for family time together in the evenings.






After lunch, we went to the pumpkin farm.




My friend, Bebe, looking at the pumpkin tree.

Just as we were leaving, this little guy asked me to say hello to his Estonian cousins. He knew we would be seeing them in just a couple of months.

ah! i'm just lookin and lookin these pics......amazing pumkins (btw,yesterday i cooked pumkin and ate it with butter and bread )


but this,that they have not computers are really ....soft saying-a joke,because...we in estonia have old names virtual bank and guess, whose buyed that infobank?

Morning, Bisky
What a wonderful day you had !!! I have seen many programs and read a book even about the amish people. Somehow such a romantic and lovely way to live but it must have it's downsides too....
It is known worldwide that they make lovely food, you were so lucky that you could taste it!!! If I some day come to USA one of the things I want to do is visit an amish community!
Thank you so much for telling us about your trip!!
Did you buy any pumpkins????

caysa wrote:Did you buy any pumpkins????

No, unbelievably we did not. We traveled by bus and already had too many packages from the three bakeries that we found. I would have loved to hitch up that wagon and bring it home! Next year we will return by car.

Ally, your pumpkin spread looks yummy.

This was a interesting excursion!

Good morning, a beautiful sunrise, but probably the beginning of a rainy day...



8.13 am




Rainy or not: have a nice day, all of you!

Good morning Bisky, what a wonderful report of that day; your pictures remind me of the ones A&J made some years ago in Amish country! So nice things these Amishpeople created with the pumpkins, and they must be a strong community and have their own problems too...young and old living so close together can not be easy every day!

Thank you for showing all those interesting things, I really hope next year you can visit them again by car and bring home all the things you want!

Bisky wrote:
Ally, your pumpkin spread looks yummy.

thanks and...this really "melted in the mouth"

Ergee, I liked your flying object pictures from a couple of weeks ago. Here is a video I came across with more of them, plus one!

http://www.parahawkusa.com/Home.html

Wow, wow!!!
This is just soooooooooo amazing!!

Today Juha totally surprised me
He said that he thinks we need a new camera. And he had already looked one up!! So..... Off we went and got it. Very good deal, I think - normally this camera with two lenses costs 900 euros but today we got it for 500 euros - special price!



Now I only need to learn how to use it

wow!!! congratulations!
i wait new proffesional pictures now!!!!!!!!!!!

AllyKass wrote:wow!!! congratulations!
i wait new proffesional pictures now!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!! But please, do not expect that for yet a long time
We need to attend a course, I think - to learn how to use the camera correctly...
But of course we shall try it out as soon as the battery is fully loaded.

(And after spending this money we shall eat porridge only for a month )

porridge is very healthy ...ehehehheee..why it is the problem???
i wasin the bank and i changed my contract and...they took allmy money...i left 1 eurosent in my pocket andnow i lived 2 weeks without money ( butmy freezer was full and..i get tip often ) BUT i got my intress almoust half,that it was...:D

Yes, porridge is healthy but it might get a bit boring in the long run
Thankfully we also have all sorts in the freezer

You made a good deal with the bank - soon you will see more money there!

Guess what??? A car came... a man stepped out and asked if this is the Suomalainen house... I said yes......
He gives me a plastic bag with smaller bags inside: Grounded moose meat!!!
Then he explains that he is from the hunting club in which area our forest plot is . All landowners get some meat when a moose is shot - wohoo!!!
When you need it the most, the help is just around the corner - now I can make moose meatballs