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

WINTER SAYS, "EVERY GOOD ACT DESERVES AN ENCORE!"

Wonder if they are contemplating flying further south?

Lauren :)

Like Father Like Daughter

Daddy - Daughter Love

(missing Lea and Jonathan)

While Grandma, Katie, Kelly and Bill are enjoying a prelude of Summer in the Bahamas, we wondered whether or not to believe the reports about our local weather. It must have changed 10 times between noon yesterday and noon today. The much anticipated snow finally arrive in Douglasville around 11:00 AM. I know those of you that live and/or grew up in it can't imagine the words "much anticipated" and "snow" in the same sentence. Here in the south, it's a nice break for everyone to make a run on the grocery store for bread, milk and comfort food. Everything actually stops for just a minute. Then the next day it's gone and we all go back to business as usual. In this hustle and bustle, a snow day is exactly what the Douglasville McMurdos needed. (Well, would it be too much to wish for it to carry over one more day? - Skipping a Monday would also be on my wish list.)

Unfortunately, Lea is at college in Carrollton and Jonathan is in Cartersville with his Mom, but both of them enjoyed the same benefits of our version of a blizzard; food, movies, friends, playing and a lot of lounging.

It's nice to see the brown and muddy landscape covered by a fluffy blanket of white. I know; I know. Once it melts, there will be even more brown and mud to take it's place, but don't rain on my parade. I'll deal with that reality tomorrow when the sun comes out.

We've enjoyed watching Winter's encore. Now I think we're ready for sweet, sweet summertime to take the stage.

Hope all is well with all of you.

Love to all!

Steph