Category Archives: The Swiss Cats

Finally the holidays !

We haven’t published recently and visited many people because Claire was still super busy with her work. But things are slowly starting to calm down, and the holidays can finally begin.

We had a nice visitor in our garden : a musk beetle.

aromia moschata
aromia moschata

We also have a beautiful resident : a carpenter bee.

xylocopa violacea
xylocopa violacea

The musk beetle came to say hello on Sunday during lunch, and the bee has been living in our log since last year. She’s a very nice neighbor, not aggressive at all. Her body measures 2.5 to 3 cm ; she digs perfect holes in the wood, and the big pile of sawdust on which she landed is proof of her efforts !

Farewell Binga

It’s with great sadness that we heard that our friend Binga got her wings yesterday. She was almost 19 years old.

She was the embodiment of tortitude, and the queen of photobombing.

We’re heartbroken, and she will be greatly missed. All of our thoughts are with Summer and her human : we send them tons of hugs and purrs from all of us.

In the vineyards

Claire keeps running everywhere for her work, but manages to preserve Sunday to walk with Momo. There they are in the vineyards, above Aigle. In the distance you can see the village of Yvorne, with the bell tower of the church, and on the other side, the magnificent castle of Aigle.

Our blog keeps being neglected, and our visits remain sporadic : we hesitated to fire our secretary and take another one, but she has a special clause in her contract for the period from the end of May to the beginning of July : we have to keep her… We look forward to the beginning of July !