Evendays

They ran like the wind on Saturday afternoon. It was unseasonably warm, so the times were about 90 seconds slower than expected, but they managed the hills and the 10K (6 miles) while some of us just watched, cheered and clapped, snapping off the quick picture or two.
Wife finished in 49:27, 11th out of 169 [...]

Mark 11:11ff brings us the quick, action parable of Jesus cursing a fig tree that was naturally unable to give fruit. The riding-on-a-donkey King, the one who comes “in peace”, then goes to the temple and turns over tables and chairs, chases out sellers AND buyers, merchants and worshippers, and forbids city-dwellers to cross the [...]

There are two big supermarket chains in Switzerland. One is COOP (pronounced COE-OPE). The other is Migros. Both have big, orange logos. Both offer bargain lines of products, from cell phones to nights at the club to credit cards. The two companies fight it out every year for the hearts of Swiss residents.
Migros (pronounced ME-Grow [...]

I sent out my “mission” newsletter on Thursday. It’s an email that goes only to people who’ve requested it, which tells about stuff here with the church and how we are trying to reach out to the community.
115 people are on the email list. I ended up getting 8 responses right away, all of them [...]

I’m not a Yankee fan, but loved these comments by Gene Wojciechowski about A-Rod :
Rodriguez isn’t going to keep this up. If he does, he’ll finish with 116 homers and 301 RBIs. I guarantee you, Hank Aaron will fly cross-country to see that.
I read that on Friday morning. I read that on Friday night, he [...]

 
Dad, Sons 1 and 2, and I have all read a stack of books about WWII. And with that knowledge, you walk on the sands and see through the mind’s eye the landing craft dumping their human cargo onto the beach. And man, these beaches are deep with hundreds of feet to the embankment. You [...]

The Germans had fortified the entire Normandy coast with heaven weaponry and machine guns. Most of the heavy canon were not knocked out by air, but by sea (the battleship Arkansas and two French ships took out these canons after a day-long battle) or by ground troops (think Pointe du Hoc).

At Colleville, the French have [...]

Daughter and Son 2 caught up with us after lunch at the Peace Museum. They’d just been to the temporary exhibit about the Hitler Youth. Son 2 told us how teenagers had massacred inhabitants of a Normandy village after the resistance had derailed a train those same youth were on. It took the German Army [...]

We just put the parents on the plane in Zurich this morning. The vacation turned into a blog (and email) holiday too, which wasn’t intended. Thanks for dropping by to the same old post.
We spent most of our time in Switzerland except for the 5 day trip to Normandy. The region of Basse Normandie [...]

The parents are here and we left for Normandy this morning. Dad has always wanted to see the landing beaches. So I’ll be out of the blogging world till at least Friday. 
Thanks for stopping by… and see you on Friday.