Stadt Mobil

We've decided to cut our carbon footprint in half. Here is our old car(silver) and new car(red). I think we qualify to have Al Gore fly us home for Christmas in his private jet as reward. We are losing our company car (Ford Focus - size of our old Honda Civic in stationwagon form). This red car represents our attempt at "car sharing" where we pay a monthly fee in order to rent this car at a good rate by the hour/km when we need it. We pick it up when we need it about 5 minutes walk from our house.

The girls fit in pretty snug/cosy. In order to close the doors the plastic child seats have to compress about an inch.

(Confession: its about saving money - I really don't think a smaller car will save any polar bears or karaboo)

Fresh out of the tubby!

As you can see, it looks like Kirsti will be another blue eyed beauty.

I see alot of Elli at this age in her big smile.

Family picnic

This is a little park near our house. We did a picnic last week to celebrate one of the last days of summer.

Laptop Repair

Our cord was acting fritsy so repaired the cable. That didn't fix it so I found a great website that described taking the whole thing apart. I ended up taking the whole thing apart twice like this because the first time didn't do it - I only resoldered the top of the power connector to the circuit board (silly me). So I did it right the second time. Luckily - since this laptop is Sally's life line to family/friends.

Romania Road Trip

Humungous thankyou to Sally for enabling one of my dreams of visiting post cold war Eastern Europe. A friend from church agreed to come and we left at noon on Friday -returned Saturday night.