To All The Great Folks Who Read This Blog

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