Why did the cows cross the river?

Poland Returns Cows That Swam From Belarus
WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Poland transported 240 cows back to Belarus Thursday when vets established the animals were in good health after swimming across the Bug River. On Sunday at Janow Podlaski, in eastern Poland, border guards tried to herd the cows back across the river to Belarus but after their efforts failed they placed them in quarantine, Radio Polonia reported.

Radomir Banko, a Polish vet said the cows, all 14 to 18 months old, were "very good swimmers" and all in good health.

Banko said he believed the cows were attracted to cross the Bug by the sounds of cattle grazing on the Polish side of the river.

Fishing Boat

Here is one of the fishing boats that the fishermen use on the Baltic Sea. The letter/number designation on the front of the boat show what fishing community the boat comes from. This one comes from Piaski and is number 44. They don't have 44 boats however, only about 10 or so. I wonder what happened to the other numbers that are missing?

Mending their nets

Fishermen around the world still mend their nets. These on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Piaski are no different. They work during the afternoon mending and untangling their nets. They put them into these blue barrels and load them into the boats so they are ready for the next day of fishing.

Wild Pigs!

We were driving back from dinner to where we were staying in Krynica Morska and we found these wild pigs having a feast in the grass. They totally destroyed this park and flower bed! They were huge; the largest easily twice as big as Rebecca!

Baltic Sea Weekend

We had the opportunity to go to the seaside this weekend. It was very nice; cold at night but the days were comfortable with a jacket. This is a pretty picutre of the sun set on Saturday night.

Special Delivery

We received a box of books from a church in Arkansas today and can you see the look on Abby's face? She was so excited!

The girls need your help!

We are conducting an experiment for our science class. These 4 stalks of celery are sitting in 4 glasses of colored water. The girls would like to hear your hypothesis about what will happen to the stalks and how quickly. Please let us know, the girls are waiting.

Tacos? In Poland?

We were in a store the other day and they had these boxes of taco shells for about $1 each. I was amazed. Usually if we can find them, taco shells cost a small fortune. So we did what we have been conditioned to do after living here for nearly 4 years. We bought them all. You might think that is strange, but things are not regularly restocked and sometimes not at all. So when we see something that we like or want, we buy it because we may never see it again.

Friends Return for a Visit!

These are friends of ours here in Olsztyn. They have been living in Scotland for the last year and returned for a short visit. We were so glad to see them. We hope that someday they will return to Poland to stay. We were reading on the internet the other day that 50% of Poles between the ages of 18 to 24 plan to leave the country for work in the next two years. Pray for the economic situation here, that Poles will be able to stay here and work instead of having to leave the country.

Sugar Anyone?

A new hypermarket (grocery store) opened last week in Olsztyn. It is a French outfit called CarreFour. I don't know why, but it is very popular to offer sugar at a low price as an enticement for new shoppers. We went to check out the store and came out with our very own 10 pack of sugar. Yes, 10, 1 kilo packs of sugar. Every single cart in the store had at least one pack of sugar and so we just felt like we had to join in. We were very proud of our sugar and brought it home to display as a badge of honor. Our Wednesday night Bible study group saw it and they were proud of our shopping prowess as well.

Beautiful Fall Day

We spent Saturday outside visiting some nearby cities and having a picnic on a lake in the park. Here is a picture of the girls, aren't they getting so big?

New Nephew

Lydia's younger brother's fourth son was born this week. Here he is with the rest of his brothers.

Castle in Ogrodzieniec, Poland

On our way back to Olsztyn from Katowice, we stopped to see this awesome castle. No picture could really capture how large and awesome it is. It lies in ruins now, but it must have been quite a site when it was complete.

Kosciuszki Mound - Krakow , Poland

Hello from Krakow! We had a great time this weekend on a short trip to visit friends in Katowice, Poland.

Bubble Science

This is Rebecca making a gigantic bubble! The girls studied about water and surface tension yesterday and making bubbles was part of that.

New Family Pet???

We have a new family pet... kind of. He (or she) is a bat! A very cute bat we think. He visits us nightly when he takes feeding breaks under the eaves of our back porch.

Unusually Warm Day

We had a warm day recently, I know it's warm still in the US but here it is already cooling down. It was so nice, we all went outside. Here is Becca in the sand having a nice fall afternoon.

Art Class

On Fridays we study art. Here are the girls studying how to draw and color realistic 3D shapes.

WF?

You were wondering what WF means? It means the same thing at PE in English. This is our fall and spring WF program... ride bikes! Here are Abby, Cara and Sean out for their afternoon exercise!

Tour de Pologne

The Tour de Pologne is a bicycle race with 184 riders similar to the Tour de France. Yesterday was the first day of the race, it started in Warsaw and ended in Olsztyn. We spent the afternoon watching the race and thought you would like to see a picture from our view point. It was awesome, they went right in front of us like this three times. The girls thought is was really cool.