So nice to see you, Cetacea!!Hey everyone!
After a very busy year so far, I'm back in the Christmas Spirit.
We moved in our brand new flat at the end of July in a new "village" which belongs to the conurbation of the City Lucerne/Zug. Now we are slowly getting used to the new place. While it is very close to two bigger cities, it is still very green and "out in the Country".
Anyway it is great to be in a place that is so much bigger than the old flat and everything is new and shiny.My parents were able to buy the flat (with the help of a early inheritance) and If god is mercyful they never have to move out of it again. There are Elevators in the building and everything is suitable for possible disability.
Don't know how the climate in your Country was so far this year, but we here had one of the hottest summer ever. It didn't quite top the summer of 2003, but it really was close. The average temp was around 96.8° for weeks. Some part of Switzerland had no rain for two month straight.
I don't know what candy corn is, but I really don't like fruit cake. At least if fruit cake is made of tried fruits like raisin.
What is an almanac? In Switzerland there is a very famous group of old men living in a certain part of our Country that are called "Wetterfrösche", they predict the weather according to how the animals behave or how tree and plants look like. My Translation tool says I should translate this word as following: "tree frog as in "means of predicting the weather". Not sure if this is understandable.
Oh my, this sounds frustrating. If you don't mind my asking, with what kind of symptomes was your FIL admitted to the hospital the first time? Does he live alone / far way from relatives? I keep your FIL and your family in my mind.
Congratulations to your family on their new home! It sounds lovely.
Do you like your new village?
It has been a very humid summer here, with a lot of heat in the past month and a half. It is finally cooling down! I awoke to a 54 degree temperature, with a high of 68 degrees today. We are still having high humidity, though. Sorry to hear about your draught. We have had the opposite problem, a lot of rain and some flooding.
An almanac is a book that comes out every year, predicting weather, farmers planting schedule, information about the tide, astronomy, etc.:
http://www.almanac.com/
My mother-in-law recently passed away, and my Father-in-law now lives alone. My sister-in-law, and her family, live a mile away, so she checks in on him daily. We live an hour and a half away, and are down there a few times per week usually.
He has had some unexplained pain, headaches, memory problems, confusion, behavior unlike him, etc. And often no recollection of these episodes when things do come back to him. They are intermittent, but happening more often. Many tests have been run, and stroke and heart attacks have been ruled out.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Take care, friend. Have a nice rest of your week.
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