Welcome, winter!!

It loooks like the weather wasn't late, it was just charging itself.

We had a good rain and ice storm last night, and we were not sure about where we woke up.

could this be Nancy's house?

As you can see, EVERYTHING is white:

And cold:

Happy Birthday!!!

Two birthdays in our family this week. Kevin turns 25 today and Ben will be 32 tomorrow. Yes, that was poor planning by their mother, but at least it makes the birthdays easy to remember.

The lovely city of Detroit.

I have added to the blog a small tour of the City of Detroit. It is the big city nearest to where Megan and I live. It is known for its auto industry and its threat of being jacked for your sneakers. Working for the creative company that makes ads for Ford, Ford offered to buy my group of 7 tickets to the show. The neat thing was it was during the industry part of the show, so there was no public allowed and lots of big fancy people with lots of money. There were mostly heads of corporations and us. I hope you enjoy.


I hope this works.....

http://picasaweb.google.com/koesterk/WelcomeToDetroit

Adventures are us...

Saturday evening. TV is on. Odi left to build IKEA furniture at Michal's house.


Ron and I watched TV (The fast and the furious), at our master bedroom.

At the final scene, when Vin Diesel passed the train, but hit the truck (i guess they taught it's funny), Ron heard some noise coming from the front door of the house. He went to check, and came back with the answer:" i heard the front door - i guess it was the wind."

While the credits was running, Ron heard more noise from the house. no, it wasn't Malakas. he was (and still is) sleeping on the couch. It was the wind, and some other background noises, which came from Keren's room - The big window was wide open, and the shutter was half way closed, laying on the small garden table from the deck. WE WERE VISITED BY A THIEF!!!!



So we looked around the house, and no-one was found. nothing was taken, tho. Ron's camera was next to the computer, Odi's bag was on the couch (next to the big big scary Malakas), and my bag was on the kitchen table. and the most important thing was left out there - Keren & Ben's beautiful wedding album (maybe that's what they came for...)



We phoned Odi to hurry back (he didn't), but he sent the police (not the band) for us.


To make a long story short (kind'a missed that by now), we were questioned, and on the following morning they came back to take finger prints, which they didn't find ("We're not the CIA, you know"). from our own inspection we discovered that they (2 of them) entered from the avocado growth, and escaped threw there. shoes size 42-43. one of them is overweight.



So, what did we do.....


Ron and Odi measured all the windows, and made pieces of wood so it will block the door. apparently (and Odi knew that before), the original lockers are easy to break, with small strength. Luckily, the panel of the windows we have here have a frame which is the handle to open and close the window. we use the frames, so we can lock both sides of the window from the inside. It took them only half an hour to make them all (17 of them, total length of 18 Meter, AND NO, WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN FEET/INCH/GALLONS/YARD/POUNDS/ROCKS...). On Tuesday the operation will be all over, once Larry paints them all white (not for the deck, this time).





The piece of wood, placed at the panel of the window. Now to get in the thief will have to break the window (DOUBLE GLASSED). Odi says it's easier to go threw the walls.

closeup on the piece of wood. the screw is there so we can open the window if we want to. NO, IT'S NOT SCREWED DOWN TO THE FLOOR.

New Flash thingy

I made a new flash thingy. you can see it at:



http://www.geocities.com/sgy_travel/liner.swf

it's a light application, so there is lo loading time. it starts with a blank screen, you just draw a few imaginary lines, and after the third, the thing starts.


every line you make will change the screen.