Blue hour

Photos made with my phone. No filters.
Winter in Sweden!

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Animals

This has been a year full of small animals.

Wasps occupuying our fire wood storage, ants moving into the garden and the brown all-eating snail everywhere. The apples are eaten..
I found a huge frog in the basement and traces of a mouse in october.

The other day I saw a dead slow-worm in the basement but today it was gone, who ate it? The mouse?
During one week in december we catched one mouse per day..

Its time we take the space back!

The wasps are gone since september because of the cold weather. Next year we now know that we have to be attentive and take the nests away as soon as they appear.
Its a week ago since we heard a mouse, we hope they got the hint and will stay out. (Or I’ll have to ignore my allergies and get a cat!)
The ants will maybe not be there if we have more time for the garden and move around more, give more water, take more care. This year has been wild.
I hope it was a snail year and that next year will be much better.

But thanks to all of our small guests I learned alot.

Now 2013 starts!
YES!

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Yellow October

New use of guestbeds

We went to a second hand shop. Bought two guest beds and then had a coffee.

When we came home we took away the legs of the beds,

watched some fotball and went to sleep.

The day after we put strings where the ribs where,wheels in the ceiling.... and FINALLY! We have a place to dry our clothes even when it rains and snows!

(Now we just need to find a way to make them stay straight and not dance around!)

I wish

I wish I could say that the carrot soup I’m eating now would be made of tasty carrots that I picked from the garden, that the ginger miraculously would have grown in the green house next to the orange trees. That the feta cheese I put on top of the soup could be made from the milk of the sheep we could have on the field behind our house…

Well, we do have a beautiful field behind our house, we have plans for a green house and there is an apple tree just outside the window.
I’m happy making plans, eating my soup and looking at the black birds enjoying the apples on the ground.

Beach vs forrest..

From this to that! Luxury life.

Is our car gonna become Swedish?

Finally we came so far with bureaucratics that the spanish Saab is gonna go to the check tomorrow! If it goes through we can apply for plates – then it will look as Swedish as it is.

And new hiking shoes! (If the car won´t go through)

Sunday

It rained the whole day. In the evening clear sky and mist.

New blyg-green indoor member

The orange ferrari-fast vacuum cleaner is changed for this beauty, Herr Lillfisk!

Wasps

How do you get them out?! The nest is huge! Like the size of a handball..

I´m not looking forward… There are three of them and we need to come inside of the shelter, to get bikes and cut wood. I´ve been reading about how others do – most people call someone else to do it.. Or buy a killing spray, or they put them in buckets in the middle of the night or – the best: destroy while they are still really small (I´ll do that next year).

Puff, we will have to kill them I guess?

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