I didn't take any pictures the first few days Cindi was in town or when we were in San Francisco. The third day we visited Muir Woods a national park just north of the the city about 45 minutes. It is a large stand of giant redwoods. They are not the largest but as you can see by the pictures of David pointing to the rings and Marie and I standing inside one they are large.
After seeing the cow picture I thought I'd add some of my own. We went to the farm (Serge and Alexa Van Dyck's house/farm, our Luxembourgish friends in the village) about 10 days ago on a day that the sun was actually shining. I brought my camera.
Here's Guillaume on a pile of hay with the back part of the barn in the background. You can't tell in the picture but right behind the hay the floor slopes down and back into the barn where Serge stores his round bales of hay and his farming machinery. You can see how few bales are left - winter is coming to an end. In the fall he has over 500 bales back there, stacked 5 high - which I am constantly having to keep the kids off of. What you also can't see in the picture is that Guillaume is at the end of the cow area so he has cows on each side of him.
Here he just rotated on that same pile so I could take a picture of him with the cows.
They also have a dog that Guillaume loves to play with. I just love being able to visit the farm whenever I like to let the kids get dirty and play with the animals. Of course I love even more being able to leave it all behind and come home to a clean-ish house, animal-free.
I've wanted to take a picture of this one for awhile and finally had my camera available. I think it's a little pointless! But it sure made me chuckle.
Lots of births in the springtime. Here is a little calf trying to shy away from Guillaume who kept coming up from behind - which scared the calf.
OK, those are my cow pictures. But I had to laugh at the cow licking his nose because it's true, they do that all the time. Oh, the 'farm' stuff I'm learning!
Most times these days when I go to my mailbox it’s filled with throw-away advertisements and a few bills (I do a lot of online bill pay) but yesterday, when I opened my mailbox there was a special surprise for me inside. Oh, how happy I was, an envelope from my ‘Sweetheart Girl’ in Luxembourg was there waiting for me, and inside were four very special gifts and a special ‘Thank You’ card too! This year Jocelyn had the kids make Christmas tree ornaments with their pics on the front for the Grandparents. I took them out of the envelope and hung them on the pan rack in the kitchen so that everyday as I walk by I can see the faces of my ‘Sweetheart Grandchildren.’ I love my grandchildren very much and wish they lived closer, but will have to do with seeing their pictures on these special ornaments everyday. Also, I am thankful for a sweet daughter who thinks of her Mom and does ‘little’ things to brighten my day!!
