Awake 8:15 am Sunny
We are still not sleeping well. It's not the bed nor our room. Our
symptoms are: we are tired when first turning out the light...sleep very
well for an hr or two, then wake up & unable to get back to sleep for
several more hrs. The big Lutheran church bells in town ring each 15 min &
for nearly 2 hrs, we whisper & casually communicate until more sleep
overcomes us again. UGH!
Oskar has invited us for 12:30 pm lunch so we check & write e-mail in the
morning time...then bike to the Stoll farm & have a good lunch with both
Oskar & Thomas.
After lunch, Oskar, Kathy & I spend over 3 hrs digging up large sunflowers
from their garden...putting the roots & dirt in a plastic bag, hauling
them 4 & 5 at a time into the BIG barn using a wheelbarrow & place them in
a decorative fashion around the huge space we swept clean for Saturday
night's party. When we finish, we are sweaty, thirsty & dirty...so we have
some local beer with bread. During this time, Thomas is using one of the
farm trailer's to bring in the tables & benches from the local farm co-op.
Then @ 4:00 pm, Thomas leaves for another concert @ the Kloton Zurich
airport.
Kathy & I ride the bikes back to Myrta's apartment, take showers, get
dressed & return to the Stoll farm house for an inside dinner.
Gigi(Myrta's sister) greets us @ the door as she is breast feeding her 3
month old Nicole Patrica daughter. We kiss in the typical Swiss fashion:
left cheek, right cheek, then if we are dear friends, the left cheek
again. Gigi & her husband Gabriel have 2 children with 3 yr old David
being their first. David is learning English & says hello to us.
7:00 pm Dinner: This meal is called rocklet(sp). With a portable electric
grill & 6 small skillets, we have a choice of different cheeses to
boil(french, plain, pepper corn, etc) in our individual skillets. Then we
pour that hot melted cheese over our asparagus, string beans, potatoes,
peas & carrots before eating. The cheese before boiling doesn't taste so
good, but afterward, it's delicious. I end up eating a lot more than I
expected to. We talk for hrs + having a few cordials before biking back to
the apt for the night. It was another great day. Lights out:
11:20 pm
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