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I tried to remember the name of the show I used to listen to in Switzerland in the early 70s on ORF3 (Austrian Radio 3). It was called something 'Folk with ?', but I could not remember the name. Then last week I suddenly remembered. It was 'Folk with Jack'. Jack Grunsky was born in Austria, grew up in Canada when his parents moved here and then returned to Austria where I heard of him. I always liked his songs and a stroll around YouTube lead me down memory lane. When my twins were young I got a children's tape by Jack Grunsky  with the song 'Dreamcatcher' on it. Now that my kids are all grown, I had totally lost track of Jack and to my surprise discovered that he's still producing interesting music. So I could not help but introduce him to others. More Information about Jack: Jack's Website from Wikipedia Facebook Fan Page MySpace Page YouTube Jack Grunsky Search

It is official, June bugs are now also May bugs in Canada. Last night they appeared and flew into my bathroom window.  They are attracted to the light. Last year I was wondering if they are turning into May bugs in Canada and now I know it is true. In Switzerland the same bugs are called May bug, because they come out in May. Searching for some new pictures of May bugs, I came across chocolate May bugs. I had totally forgotten about them. I also came across a blog post called "Swiss are still weird" about chocolate May bugs.

On Friday's walk around Oat Hill Lake we came across the first ducklings of the season. That's why I always take my camera along on my walks. The ducklings must be very new as they still have yellow in their plumage from the egg.

Talking to my mom yesterday I discovered another piece of my dyslexia puzzle. She casually mentioned that she was watching the election of Mister Switzerland and that last year's winner said that his biggest problem was spelling and that many men then wrote in and said that they had the same problem. I wonder if boys have a different learning style regarding spelling than girls? Is the teaching style geared towards girls and not boys? Well, that brought our conversation to me and learning to read in Grade 1. My mom explained that in 1960 I was taught the whole word method and not sounding out the words. I vividly remember telling the teacher that reading sucks and that I was never going to learn to read and would not take my homework, a box with words to make sentences, home. What was the teacher to do? She found an older neighbour's girl and asked her to bring my homework home for me and tell my mom. According to my mom is jumbled the letters b and d and everybody assume...

In today's news from Ontario, the government announced that sex ed will now start in Grade 1. Now there is a big controversy going on. I am surprised, because after all we are in the 21st century on hone hand and on the other hand we are still in the dark ages when it comes to sex ed. Looking back over the years I have these key memories about my twins (boy & girl, now almost 32 years old) growing up. We were visiting my parents in Switzerland when they were 3 years old and happened to come across a TV show in the afternoon where a woman gave birth. My daughter was very intrigued, my son could not care less. For the next few days our daughter gave us very graphic replays of what she had seen. It was all very natural to her. Then her attention was captured by something else that was it for giving birth. The twins went to kindergarten in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and they had sex ed. So for the next 3 months my daughter drew mommies with babies in their tummies. Then one nice ...

Phil Mickelson - 272 Lee Westwood - 275,  Anthony Kim - 276 K. J. Choi - 277 Tiger Woods - 277 Fred Couples - 279 Here are the scores for April 8/2010, April 9/2010, April 10/2010 Fred Couples (Oct 3/59) - 66 - 75 - 68 - (209) Tom Watson (Sep 4/49) - 67 - 74 -73 - (214) Lee Westwood (Apr 24/73) - 67 - 69 - 68 (204) Phil Mickelson - (Jun 16/70) - 67 - 71 - 67 (205) K. J. Choi (May 19/70) - 67 - 71 - 70 (208) Tiger Woods - (Dec 30/75) - 68 - 70 - 70 (208 My predictions for the winner was right on, read yesterday's blog post to see. Biorhythm info  on my main website.

The Augusta Masters course has 18 holes, 72 par and is 7500 yards. Here are the scores for April 8/2010, April 9/2010, April 10/2010 Fred Couples (Oct 3/59) - 66 - 75 - 68 - (209) Tom Watson (Sep 4/49) - 67 - 74 -73 - (214) Lee Westwood (Apr 24/73) - 67 - 69 - 68 (204) Phil Mickelson - (Jun 16/70) - 67 - 71 - 67 (205) K. J. Choi (May 19/70) - 67 - 71 - 70 (208) Tiger Woods - (Dec 30/75) - 68 - 70 - 70 (208 Score Order for April 10/2010 Lee Westwood - 204, Phil Michelson - 205, K. J. Choi - 208, Tiger Woods - 208, Fred Couples - 209 Biorhythms for April 11/2010 Player Emotional Physical Intellectual Intution Score Tiger Woods 95% 81% 72% 50% c 69 Chad Campbell 5% 43% c 31% 2% 71 K. J. Choi 89% 69% 87% 80% 69 Fred Couples 61% c 97% 95% 19% 70 Trevor Immelman 50% c 56% c 27%  73% 72 Zach Johnson 95% 37% 1% 58% c 75 Phil Mickelson 71% 90% 1% 0% 67 Tom Watson 50% c 90% 1% 58% c 73 Lee Westwood 95% 50% c 84% 98% 71 c=critical day After observing the player's bi...