As always, Bertil follows us on our walks.

This isn´t a place where things happens if You know what I mean, but on Sunday mornings even less happens if possible :-) Still it´s easy to feel the difference from an ordinary day, perhaps it´s because there´s even less traffic on the big road a couple of kilometers (miles) away?

I´ve spread some ashes on the snow just to see how much faster the snow melts there. The ashes is black and keeps the heat from the sun so much better, so therefore the snow should melt rather fast there when the sun shines.

The snow is now rather thick and compact. I can walk on it with crutches without any problems. Well atleast early in the morning before the sun reaches it :-)

The morning walk was fantastic today. My dogs knows where they can run around like they want and where they have to wait for me before running away again. So there´s no need to shout after them. So we were walking around there in the sun and really cold air when I suddenlu heard the pigeons sound. I would like to say that it was the first sign of spring I noticed this year. Weather it´s forest- or ring necked pigeons I have no idea. I could see the bird in the top of a spruce, but it was still to far away to say what kind it was. On my way home I heard another one :-)

There were plenty of deers running away from us through the forest and on a distance I could see the big fox sniffing on the ground after food. Walking around with crutches makes it a bit hard to reach the camera in time and even if I had done so the camera still has to decide weather it wants to take that photo I want it to take :-) :-)

Teodor preferes to stay at home most of the time :-)

This is his basket. No one else is allowed to be close to it :-)

Now we´re back again and I´ve enjoyed a cup of tea, the second of many this day I´m afraid :-) My dogs are spread around my cottage and my cats are sleeping on the kitchen table. Yesterday I could reach my left foot and cut my toenails for the first time in months :-) Every step feels so fine :-)

Have a great day now!

It was a bit tricky ta get pass this icy little lake this morning :-)

Now is the time that we most likely can hear rifles sounding over the area. Is it a new hunting season You might ask Your self? No it´s not and the shots are blanks too. This is the time we really get tired of our Jackdaws (Kajor). I love those birds because they are funny, as intelligent as an intelligent parrot and they can learn how to talk too.

Old Erna and Bertil the cat kept company most of the time.

But they have a habit we really don´t like, they build their nests in chimneys. We all have some kind of protection on our chimneys, like a net but that doesn´t stop them from trying :-) Even if they can´t break through the net, they can get small sticks and other things used to build the nest down the small holes in the nets :-) :-) Since I don´t have a rifle I start a small fire several times every day in my stove. If I can find things that smokes a lot the better. Then the Jackdaws can see how stupid it would be to build a nest in my chimney :-) But that doesn´t always help either.

While Orvar and Hector fought over sticks :-)

The sun is shining and it´s over freezing point now, but it´s not as nice as it was a couple of days ago. The arctic winds might not blow hard, but they don´t have to. The cold air does push away anything that is even close to spring. If we are unlucky this continues through April too. But I do hope it will turn soon, my tomatoe seeds has started to germinate now You see :-) Well, now it´s time for a cup of tea and then I think I´ll watch some skiing on tv.

Have a great day now!

 

The road is plowed all the way down to the creek now, but it´s still a bit far for me to walk. But I guess I´m there in a couple of days.

I wonder if he expects a cup of tea since he´s sitting on the chair by the breakfast table :-)

It´s a bit funny really, because as soon as I knew the stitches were gone from my left buttock I felt so much better :-) :-) I still have a big bandage over, so it´s just the feeling of getting rid of it that makes me feel so much better. But the nurse had some problems getting rid of it all. I had healed so good and fast that the scar tissue had grown over the stitches on some places. No problems with me, because I have no feeling in the scar yet. But she thought it must hurt something awful, so I think it was much worse for her :-) :-)

He does look as if he needs one anyway :-)

It started to snow when I went away to the health centre and it continued for over a whole hour. Strangly enough nothing seemed to stay on the ground. After that the sun came and now it´s really pleasant outside, even if there is a cold arctic wind blowing. When looking at the weather forcast last night it didn´t look as we would get warm winds for over ten days, but looking at it now it seemes we´re getting it already in a couple of days. The one who lives will see, as we say over here :-) :-)

I was lucky both on the way to the health centre and home again to, because I was the only passenger :-) Since I came home so early I therefore didn´t have any problems getting home the food from the grocery store either. So all in all this seemes to be a rather good day. Especially since the forest owner has plowed another road that I could walk on today :-) It does get a bit boring to walk the same road several times a day every day in the week :-) Now it´s time for some tea I think and then I´m off to the mailbox.

Have a great day now!

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

Spring won´t come for yet a couple of weeks I´m afraid. Even if we get 4C (39F) during the day, the nights still are to cold. This night was the less cold we´ve had in months -2C (28F). The cover of snow have sunken down quite much, but it´s still almost half a meter ( almost 2 feet) thick. This is how winters used to be in this country and I have to say I don´t like it :-) :-) I´m quite happy with the warm and rainy winters we´ve had these last ten years :-) :-)

The roads get quite icy now when the days gets a bit warmer. Not easy to walk here at all.

My buttock is healing fine and I would like to walk much more than I can. In the hip there´s nothing to heal to be honest. The things sits where they shall and that´s it. But my left buttock now has a thirty centimeter long scar (12 inches) and it´s that big muscle that will keep my hip in the right place. There are some things I´m not allowed to do now, like shovelling snow or cross my legs. Not drive yet either and that is a bit troublesome.

Like tomorrow for instance. Then they are going to take away all stiches and nowdays they don´t come home to me to remove them, I have to go to them. Since I don´t drive I then have to order a taxi (reduced price ofcourse, otherwise I would have taken those stiches myself). To the closest doctor there´s no problem, I will be there in time, but home is another thing. We are several people that will go in that taxi and it´s not sure we all live at the same direction :-) :-) So even if I start at 10 am from the doctor it´s not sure I will bw home until 4pm :-) :-)

But otherwise I´m just doing fine here. I would like to walk much longer than I can, the roads are not to good here now, lots of ice on them. So I have lots of extra energy and I have no idea how to get rid of it :-)

Now I can smell the coffee from my kitchen and it´s time to say godbye for now.

Have a great day now!

 
 
 

The snow has melted away in some places.

I think I´ll take a small vacation now.

It doesn´t happen much in my little world at the moment, so I think a blog vacation is the right thing to take. So I´ll be back on Thursday next week!
Have a great time till then!

I´m in a much better mood today :-) The sun is shining and I´ve been able to take a walk outside. Soon I´ll take another one. And as long as I don´t think of the swedish railways sytem this will probably be a good day :-) :-)

The hardest about this hip surgery isn´t that it hurst in my leg, that pain dissapered rather fast. No it´s the pain of not being able to sleep like one wants to. I can only sleep in two positions to be honest. On the back or on my right side. All the time with a big pillow between my legs. I´m not allowed to cross my legs at any time these comming three months and preferable not later either. If I do this early my hip will most likly pop out. It hurts quite a lot too.

Can You see Teodor? He sits above my entrance door :-)

So not being able to sleep like I use to makes my back hurt rather much all night. So I sleep for a couple of hours at the most at the time. I know this will all dissapere in a while, but it doesn´t make it easier when it´s going on to know that :-) :-) The more I can move around during the days, the faster it´ll happen.

Now it´s time for a cup of tea I feel and then out into the snow and ice :-)
Have a great day now!

I´m in a real bad mood today. We´re having a snowstorm again and this awful white mess seemes never to stop falling from the sky! So now I can´t take my walks outside, i have to walk around in my cottage all the time. The sun will come tomorrow they say. It will also become much colder again. so there´s no spring even close to come up from the south.


Another thing that makes me mad is the railway company! We have one big and they sort of does as they like with their customers. According to them service must mean that the customer has to follow their ideas how stupid they might be, because there´s no one else to turn to.


Like today when I was phoning to them to order a ticket for my mother on Friday. At first nothing happens at all. After five minutes a voice is heard telling me that I have to wait over twenty minutes to be able to order the ticket. After twenty minutes they just disconnect me from the line so I´ll have to start all over again!!!!!


When I finally reaches a real person they tell me that I have to get the ticket already today! It can´t wait until friday for some reason one doesn´t get to know. It´s just that way!! I can pay for it via internet, but I still have to get it today or get it by post. Well, nothing works as it should in this garbage weather so the ticket might not arrive in time!

So on Friday I´ll have to send my mother on her way without knowing if she´ll get the ticket she wants. If the trains are full she then has to buy tickets for another day, come back to me just to go away the day after or a couple of days later. Why can´t things just be a bit simple sometimes :-) :-)
Have a great day now!