One picture says a thousand words!

Jonathan took this picture of Papa the other day sitting in front of his PC. He never even knew his picture was being taken.

My first try at German

Jasmin, wollte ich begrüße Sie auf das Blog auf Deutsch. Die einzige Art und Weise kann ich dies mit dem Übersetzungs-Tool, dass Tim in den Blog.

Ich habe den Countdown der Tage, bis Ihre Hochzeit. Es wird nicht lange. Ich spreche zu Ihnen in Verbindung setzen.

Judee

PS, I hope this works or I'll really be embarrassed if I'm saying something terrible!

Dress Rehearsal

Jodi's belly dance troupe will be opening for a dance recital. One of Jodi's troupe members is the dance instructor and she invited them to show off. The best part is that we got to attend the dress rehearsal. I think that might be more fun than the actual recital. I love to watch little kids trying to take a step towards being grown ups.

Tim

if i could write...

I really enjoyed creating the book covers, so I decided to launch a public blog and post more. I created an alter ego named Lance Andrew Boyle as the creator of the blog and author of the books. Take a peak.

 if i could write.

If you have ideas for books that you could write, leave them in the comments and I'll create a cover for you.

Tim

The sound of Swiss cows

Ever wonder what cows sound like in Switzerland? Wonder no longer!

Dad took this video behind the Royal St. George Hotel in Interlaken. 

Tim

A day in the life of Abbey Road

Check out this video of a complete day of people crossing the street on abbey road (think Beatles cover). The song is nice and the video is pretty cute. I would definitely be one of those that pose.

Books that I Could Write

A Change for the Spring

Welcome back to our blog. I thought that you might like a fresh look for the spring. New design, new image and a couple new functions.

Followers are the People that follow our site. If you want to be a follower of our site, just click on the button. Want to learn more? Click here.

How do I say this? With our international following, I thought it would be nice to have an easy to use translator at hand, for when you are looking for that one word that you can't remember.

Would you like the blog to notify you via e-mail when somebody makes a new post or comment on our blog? If so, I can add your email address to the list of people notified.

If there are any other changes that you would like me to make, or if you don't like these changes... just post a comment to this thread.

Tim

What I did on my Spring Vacation

If you would like to see a slide show with highlights from our recent trip to Switzerland and Germany..... look here!

One Stone

I'm sure that many posts and pictures will come out of the trip that Dad and I made to Europe. However, there is one memory that keeps popping into my mind. Some how, Einstein's name came up and Uncle Jo made the comment... "I see that you have heard of One Stone." One Stone is the literal translation of Einstine's name.

My mind being what it is, I keep wondering if Einstein only had a single testicle and if he was born that way. Is this the reason that he was such a genious? What if he were named Dreistein and had three testicles.? Would he have been an idiot? How about Ohnestein....with no testicles, would we all have personal jet packs and vacation homes on the moon by now?

Do you think that Uncle Scott might have five or six testicles? How does he walk around with all of those things? Can the number our testicles change as we grow older? I seem to be a bit smarter now than when I was younger. On the other hand, Uncle Scott doesn't seem to have changed at all. Nobody could every accuse Uncle Scott of not having any balls. 

It's a confusing subject to be sure. Grandma has lots of balls, but she is smart as a whip and has no testicles at all. Wait.... Grandma is smart and has no testicles... there is a connection there someplace, I just can't seem to put my finger on it....

Think I'll go scratch myself and think about this a little bit longer.

Tim (Grosststeine)

Did you know that Jasmin has a book?

If you have not noticed yet, we have a new member to our little family blog. Jasmin Hillen is the daughter of my freinds Jo and Jeanette Hillen. I first met Jasmine a while back when I was visiting Katie and Holger.

Jasmine has the distinction of being the only person that I know, who has illustrated a childrens book. The book was written by Gabriel Sturm and is called Justus is Traurig ( Justus is Sad) and was written to help young kids deal with death.

Check out Justus is Traurig online to see Jasmin's work. If you are really lucky, I will show you my copy (With a nice note from Jasmin of course!).

As a side note, Jasmin will be married to Gabriele's son in August. Her new name will be Jasmin Sturm (Jasmin Storm).... I could get used to a name like that.

Tim

Confessions of a Lurker...

I look forward to getting up early on Sunday mornings because I can't wait to see the new postings on PostSecret.

I am geeky enough that I read XKCD every week so that I can catch up on the antics of the stick people.

I read A Cup of Jo regularly... because... really, how could you not think Jo's site is the cutest ever?

ExplodingDog...where else will somebody take a sentence that you submit and turn it into a cartoon?

I read them, but I never post a comment on them...does that make me a bad person?

Tim


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The “Mcmurdo twins”

Hello all,

a little late but better than even not here some pictures of the two Americans. One thing I can say is that we so far had a wonderful time. You know that I like Big Tim but I like Tom as well – he really is a nice guy and we had lots of fun. Sunday was a nearly perfect day although I thought it would be not, when I went out to buy our breakfast and saw fog only. An hour later the sun came out and was shining all day long. We made a trip to Rhine river and showed Tom the “Loreley” and Jo as our scout again took us to places I’d never been before. I think the McMurdo twins will tell you all about when they're back. Tomorrow we will go to a castle and will have a Pizza in the evening as a good finnish of the entire trip. I’m the only one who still is awake and I feel it’s time to follow the others in my bed.
Cheers Holger