This is another one of the old postcards in my collection from way back in 1996 from Appenzell, Switzerland. I’ve actually got a couple from here that I’ll post but this was the first one in the series that I received.
All of of my Switzerland collection were sent to me by Deanna who spent a summer with a family in the town of Appenzell.
She writes
“I live in the country, overlooking the town of Appenzell. It’s so nice here! My room looks out onto the Alps and I can see Austria from the property.”
It sounds like she’s actually describing the pictures on the front of the card, not a real place she could be staying. Maybe she was feeling a little guilty about living in the picturesque Swiss countryside and tried to make me feel better by adding,
“We don’t have a T.V. so I’ve been reading a lot. Please videotape some of the Olympics for me.”
Hah, so it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. While she was living in scenic Appenzellerland I was wasting away in front of the TV watching the Atlanta Olympic games. Come to think of it, I did tape the Olympics but those tapes have been long gone now.
After all these years I never actually known where exactly in Switzerland Appenzell was but Google quickly answered that question for me. However, one link lead to another and I found myself checking out the official Appenzell web site and I have to tell you it they make it seem like their town comes right out of the pages of Heidi.
“This is the home of happy hens, contented cows and placid pigs.”
I don’t think your going to find many towns that describe themselves that way.
Well, according the weather.com we are under a flood advisory, flash flood watch, and wind advisory, and if you look at the weather map you would think we under amazing rains. In reality it’s only been drizzling for the last couple of hours and so far we haven’t experienced any really strong winds so I’m crossing my fingers and hoping that’s as bad as it gets.
Last night while I was trying to get the boys to bed Andrew was taking a long time picking out a book. He would pick one book off the shelf, leaf through a couple of the pages, and then drop it at his feet. He kept doing this for a couple of minutes and he was ankle deep in books, I couldn’t even see his feet anymore, when I finally grew frustrated and I told him,
Gustav is now well inland and it appears that the worst of it is over. Bob called the City Park and it appears that none of the buildings sustained any heavy damage except that there is debris all through the Park. Lots of downed tree limbs and trees. He tried to get them to run by the house but before they could get close they were stopped by the National Guard who wouldn’t let them into the neighborhood, presumably to prevent looting. Tomorrow they are going to try again so we should know more tomorrow.
Gustav has started to make landfall this morning. So far it looks like it’s still too early tell how much damage New Orleans is going take.
