JanBeek

Spreading love, joy, peace, faith & unity

Personal Goals

October 25, 2026

Do you set personal goals for yourself?

Of course I set goals for myself. Doesn’t everyone?

Bee loving
Bee compassionate
Bee as Christlike as possible
Bee healthy
Bee intentional

What goals have you set for yourself?

We are sooo blessed to bee here! Bee present in the moment. Love life!

Those are our “Swiss daughter and Swiss Son” (Sylviane & Christian Zufferey). They are the reason we have such a deeeelightful family here in Switzerland. In the 1980’s each of them spent a year living with us as AFS exchange students- and our daughter, DeDe, married their first cousin after she spent a year here living in their family.

Here are De & André. They live intentionally too!

And here is De with her sweet mother-in-law, Denise.

We just had a lovely lunch prepared by Syli. Bee grateful!

Our son, Ty, and daughter-in-law, Monika, had a great Saturday. Fun with a friend. Flying and experiencing the opportunity to be the pilot!! They are staying in touch. For that we are very grateful. Staying in touch is another of my goals. How about you?

Love, JanBeek

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Belief, blessings, Family, Gratitude, Love

Images of Italy

October 23, 2026

Churches usually dominate the highest place in cities & villages

Vineyards are everywhere in this region near Barbaresco

The display of food at our B&B was amazing

This cheerful fellow was our breakfast server at DaMamma B&B in Alba

Amazing landscape

Now we’re headed back to Switzerland. It was a wonderful trip to Italy.

See ya tomorrow

JanBeek

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Family, Love, mountains, Travel

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Wet Wednesday

October 22, 2026

Wet

Weathered Wednesday

We’re wondering why

We waited without winter’s

Water

Ah – Swiss beauty – Italy’s interesting – here we are!

Challenging

Cheerful Choices

Choosing Cheese & Chardonnay

Cheers from Alba, Italy

Love, JanBeek

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Family, food, Love, Poetry, Travel

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Mmmm

October 20, 2026

Mmmeals here prepared by my chef son-in-law, André. Ammmmazing!!

And a yummmy cake to celebrate our great-grandson’s birthday. Deeelightful!

Our middle grandson, Nick, shaved his head to match our oldest grandson, Mike. They are as much fun as they look like they’d be!

Have a fun-filled Tuesday.

Love,JanBeek

Can you find me in there? I’m on tippy-toes!!

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Family, food, Gratitude, happiness, Love

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Fun in Switzerland

October 18, 2026

Yesterday we attended a wine/raclette/music festival in Sierre, Switzerland. Our grandson, Mike, was there with his wife, Tania, and our great-grandson, Ethan. Today we are Celebrating Ethan’s 2nd birthday. Here they are … and here’s the fife & drum corps:

Fife & drum corps

After the festival we had the privilege of visiting with Chantal. She is our son-in-law, André‘s cousin. She lived with us for about 10 months in CA back in the ‘70’s when she was about 17. Such fun to catch up with her again! Being with family & friends is what this trip to Switzerland is all about!

I went to church this morning with Denise (André’s mom). It was a beautiful morning.

That round building with the bell tower is right across the street from where Grandmama Denise & De/André are living.

There is their apartment building. And this display of water fountain and flowers is right behind/beside their apartment building:

It’s such a pretty day here!

It’s rare to see these buildings in disrepair… even the ones built in the 1700’s! But sometimes they do show their age.

More typically, the buildings are in pristine condition… like at this winery.

De helped Bob select the perfect bottle to share at today’s party.

Santé, my friends. Thanks for visiting JanBeek. See you tomorrow.

Ciao!

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blessings, Family, flowers, friendship, Gratitude, holidays, Love, music, relationships

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Swiss Family

October 16, 2026

Such fun to be with our daughter, DeAna, and her mother-in-law & her husband, André, and his cousin, Sylviane (Syli)!

Yummy food and great company!

André is our DeDe’s husband. He’s the first cousin of our AFS Exchange student from the 1970’s.

We are loving our time here – and our brains are slowly adjusting to Swiss time! It’s an 8 hour difference!

Great accommodations prepared for us by Syli. God bless her.

Nap time 💤 See ya later.

Love, JanBeek

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Family, friendship, happiness, Love, relationships

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Hello from Switzerland

October 15, 2026

Yay! We are in Sierre with our DollyWolly!

It’s a beautiful Thursday morning

Sierre, Switzerland

Grandmama (Mammie) Denise was happy to see us!

We were delighted to have all 3 of our Swiss grandsons join us last night

Céline (Nicky’s significant other) joined us briefly. Such a sweetheart!

André (our son-in-law) fixed a gourmet dinner for us. Yummmm!

We spent from 6:30 am Tuesday to 7:30 am Wednesday on 4 different flights to get to Geneva. De & André picked us up there. The 2 hour drive to Sierre was gorgeous! Pictures don’t do it justice. Zoom in on those terraced mountainsides covered with vineyards!

There are the vineyards on the north side of the valley.

The southern side of the valley doesn’t get the afternoon sun. No vineyards there.

This is the view from our 4th floor patio

“Grampy” Bob is sooo happy to be with our daughter, DeDe, again!
So am I!

See ya tomorrow.

Love, JanBeek

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blessings, Family, food, happiness, Living in Harmony, Love, mountains, relationships, Travel

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Ready!

October 12, 2026

We are staying the night in a motel near the airport. Ready for a 4:30?wake-up call and a 6:30 flight to Switzerland. 🇨🇭 yay! Great dinner at Fiesta Mexicana tonight.