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Swiss cow

October 2, 2009

It has been another busy week with the kids! It just flies by…too fast. My six year old is so busy since she started first grade. She has homework every night except Friday, she is pulled out of her classroom twice a week to help her with missing French vocabulary, she goes to a homework [...]

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Berry Beautiful day

August 23, 2009

Yesterday, we went looking for blackberries. We found them in the forest above our village but we must wait a few more weeks until the berries are ripe. We did find some red berries but didn’t know if we could eat them or not. We decided to leave them rather than risk it. I really [...]

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Baby Swiss cow in the Jura

July 24, 2009

Hey! Wait a second lady. Don’t you know it isn’t nice to take a photo of someone when their mouth is full? See? That’s better.

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Cow parade

October 27, 2008

We were out walking when a group of cows in a field started mooing to the other cows behind.  I think they were telling them to hurry up! The group traveled along the fence line until they reached the gate. The cows were clearly waiting for someone to let them out. They looked at us [...]

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Cows invaded our village

September 25, 2008

There are times I forget that I live in a tiny Swiss village.  Life becomes normal and routine.   And, then I look out my bedroom window and see cows grazing in a field. After we picked up my four year old from the bus stop, we sat on a bench under our favorite tree [...]

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In and around Les Emibois

June 4, 2008

We took a good walk this past Saturday. I still would have liked to have walked more but it was looking like a storm was blowing in and we headed home by train. We were right and it rained hard right after we boarded the train but it stopped right before our stop. Inside our [...]

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In and around Montfaucon, Switzerland

May 21, 2008

Montfaucon is a municipality located in the Jura of Switzerland. Sunday, we took a four hour walk in and around this picturesque area. Click here for Google map. Link to Montfaucon’s community website. We started at the trainstation in Pré Petitjean crossing Montfaucon to Les Enfers. We made our way through the village and across [...]

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Swiss cow bells

May 4, 2008

Before I lived in Switzerland, I imagined it filled with the sound of cow bells. The reality isn’t far from this image. However, it isn’t only cows that wear these bells. I have seen horses wear them as well. Enjoy the sound of life in Switzerland!

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