Hello again, All you blog readers!!
Someone is reading my blog!!!!
I had an email (I won't say who, to protect the innocent)
to tell me they looked on the blog and "WHAT" the blog
was not updated. Sooo. here it goes.
This is the last day of August. Where has the summer gone?
I have spent the last 2 days in Klagenfurt taking training on
Thermal Solar systems. I plan to put a complete system in
our new home to not only heat our domestic water but also
most of our HWH radiation (heat). I would guess almost
30% of the houses here in Austria have some sort of thermal
solar systems. In Germany 50% of all new homes are installing
thermal solar. IT IS NOT PV solar (Photovoltacis) electrical.
Europe is way ahead of the US in Solar not to mention diesel
fueled automobiles. that get better mpg then anything we have.
I see on the internet that diesels will be coming in the next few
years. And not to soon in my opinion. Hybrids are to complicated,
to expensive, to much to repair, and do not have the longevity or
enough power and economy compared to TURBO_DIESEL!!
Well, enough of that! cough! cough!! hmmmmm.Government Agency's
Hmmmmmm! Climbing off my soap box.
We are at max on our luggage weights.
With our stuff the plane will have all it can do to get off the ground!
Gloria has been busy cleaning and packing. With all our stuff you
would think we had moved over here.
We leave in 2 days. Drive accross upper Italy, avoiding the large
mountains in Switzerland to Annecy, France. (35 mi south of Geneva)
Will spend a day taking pictures there and head for the airport in
Geneva to fly out Wednesday morning Sept 5th. 22 hrs later
we will find ourselves back in Denver. One LONG day!!
If I don't send in any more blog updates. I want to thank everyone
who have kept up with us. It has ben fun doing the blog. telling little
stories and a few funnies. I wish they would have allowed larger images
but being I have taken about 10,000 images, it was always a question
which one I should post. The one this time shows that western Europe
(at least Austria and Germany) has gone color-crazy!
I thought when I first came over that it was wild!!
I now kind of LIKE it. Everybody is doing it. Yellow, red, blue, violet,
green and all shades in-between. I think I will miss it. The US will seem
sort of drab now. I'll have to re-train and have a culture-shift.
What? no more smoke filled restaurants, cars coming at me in my lane.
How will I cope?? Ahh, I babble on. I think I will be difficult for me to
drive in a straight line I have developed large steering wheel turning
muscles! Beware of me for a few weeks. I'll get better!
Well enough.
With my typing skills this has only taken an hour (speedy eh!)
Hope all is well with all who read this
Drop me an email if you have time.
I have lots of other stories
Lowell
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The Last days of Summer in Austria
Well the blog-a-roooo is running out steam.
2 weeks from today we leave for the states.
I can feel a little "autumn" creeping into this
area of Austria. A little more wood smoke in
the air. The days are getting shorter as well.
There's just about enough rubber left on our
tires to get us to the airport in Geneva. Don't
know about the brakes! We have seen and
done a lot of things since we came on May 1.
I have tried to document a lot of it with images.
I think I will have close to 9000-10000 pictures.
I have been trying to keep up the organizing on
my laptop each day and deleting as I can.
Wont have much time for that when we get back to
Colorado as the new house project will keep me
busy.
Lowell
'Glorio here'
It's funny how getting ready to go home is as
forward looking as the trip itself. We went to a
wonderful concert in another town last week
They have "Kirchetag" celebrations in every town
which is Church day in our language.They celebrate
a "Saint's" day. The concert was terrific!
Lowell will be taking training in a nearby town
regarding Thermal Solar and domestic hot water
heating the last two days we are here. We hope
to include this technology in our new home.
In Colorado it would be the most efficient and
fuel saving way to go with all the sun we enjoy.
On Sept. 1, we will head for Annecy, France before
getting on the plane Sept. 5th. It will be good to be
home for our 1st grandson's 12th birthday! Hugs
Gloria
2 weeks from today we leave for the states.
I can feel a little "autumn" creeping into this
area of Austria. A little more wood smoke in
the air. The days are getting shorter as well.
There's just about enough rubber left on our
tires to get us to the airport in Geneva. Don't
know about the brakes! We have seen and
done a lot of things since we came on May 1.
I have tried to document a lot of it with images.
I think I will have close to 9000-10000 pictures.
I have been trying to keep up the organizing on
my laptop each day and deleting as I can.
Wont have much time for that when we get back to
Colorado as the new house project will keep me
busy.
Lowell
'Glorio here'
It's funny how getting ready to go home is as
forward looking as the trip itself. We went to a
wonderful concert in another town last week
They have "Kirchetag" celebrations in every town
which is Church day in our language.They celebrate
a "Saint's" day. The concert was terrific!
Lowell will be taking training in a nearby town
regarding Thermal Solar and domestic hot water
heating the last two days we are here. We hope
to include this technology in our new home.
In Colorado it would be the most efficient and
fuel saving way to go with all the sun we enjoy.
On Sept. 1, we will head for Annecy, France before
getting on the plane Sept. 5th. It will be good to be
home for our 1st grandson's 12th birthday! Hugs
Gloria
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Blog Goes ON------------ and ON!!
Aug 3rd 2007
August already! Wow are time is winding down here in the old country.
We will be getting ready to head home in a month. We have just about
traveled every road and eye-balled every "dorf," I mean village, in the
the south of Austria. There must be a million villages and towns that
their name ends in burg,furt, stein or dorf. Ah! the culture. I will miss the bad
drivers, the narrow roads, the smoky restaurants, the me first!--- Oh I regress.
What I will miss:
The flowers, the pride of ownership, the wonderfull mountains, the
Austrian architecture, the turbo-diesel cars. This is our 11th trip to Europe
in 20 years. We have been blessed to have seen so much of Europe. We
have visited 19 country's, all are different. Actually we enjoyed the different
currancy's before the euro. As far as we can tell, the EU country's are proud
that their money is worth more than the US dollar. But the cost of living has risen
a lot and that has not helped the low or middle income worker.Well, enough
of my political insight. Maybe I've stayed over here too long. If and when we
travel again, it will be time for something new. Maybe a penguin safari in the Antarctic?
or how about a non-vaction. We haven't tried that . hmmmmm!
Well what ever we go-- there we'll be!!
Its time to----------------BUILD THAT HOUSE!!!!!!!
Chow
Lowell
Gloria's 22 cents:
I don't know how it became 22 cents.! Anyhow, I am getting used to the view,
the apartment and even the people. I remarked "I could live over here".
Well, you can see how far that got me! The people need the Lord here just like
everywhere. Right now I have put Austria and indeed all of Europe as high a
priority on my prayer list as the USA. I only wish I knew the language better and could
communicate more. So much has happened since we left, of course
I miss our family, especially those little ones who keep growing up without my
"Nana eyes" seeing their changes. I hope the folks that were on the bridge in Mpls.
were ready to enter eternity. Hugs from me. God willing, I think I'll be building
"that house" too...
Gloria
August already! Wow are time is winding down here in the old country.
We will be getting ready to head home in a month. We have just about
traveled every road and eye-balled every "dorf," I mean village, in the
the south of Austria. There must be a million villages and towns that
their name ends in burg,furt, stein or dorf. Ah! the culture. I will miss the bad
drivers, the narrow roads, the smoky restaurants, the me first!--- Oh I regress.
What I will miss:
The flowers, the pride of ownership, the wonderfull mountains, the
Austrian architecture, the turbo-diesel cars. This is our 11th trip to Europe
in 20 years. We have been blessed to have seen so much of Europe. We
have visited 19 country's, all are different. Actually we enjoyed the different
currancy's before the euro. As far as we can tell, the EU country's are proud
that their money is worth more than the US dollar. But the cost of living has risen
a lot and that has not helped the low or middle income worker.Well, enough
of my political insight. Maybe I've stayed over here too long. If and when we
travel again, it will be time for something new. Maybe a penguin safari in the Antarctic?
or how about a non-vaction. We haven't tried that . hmmmmm!
Well what ever we go-- there we'll be!!
Its time to----------------BUILD THAT HOUSE!!!!!!!
Chow
Lowell
Gloria's 22 cents:
I don't know how it became 22 cents.! Anyhow, I am getting used to the view,
the apartment and even the people. I remarked "I could live over here".
Well, you can see how far that got me! The people need the Lord here just like
everywhere. Right now I have put Austria and indeed all of Europe as high a
priority on my prayer list as the USA. I only wish I knew the language better and could
communicate more. So much has happened since we left, of course
I miss our family, especially those little ones who keep growing up without my
"Nana eyes" seeing their changes. I hope the folks that were on the bridge in Mpls.
were ready to enter eternity. Hugs from me. God willing, I think I'll be building
"that house" too...
Gloria
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