Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

He is Risen……..and a Blue Garden Letter

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Easter Morning.
Christ is Risen.

13 hours on the road yesterday, and we arrived home to a most wonderful dinner, prepared by Ingrid´s mother in law. Thank you Rita.

Travelling is making this a different holiday (we have suitcases to pack again tomorrow). We have not been to church to celebrate. 

But church or not. The risen Christ is filling my mind today.

He is Risen!
Yes,, He is risen indeed.

And while I praise, and prepare a leg of lamb for a huge family dinner tonight, I have a letter to write. A Blue Garden Letter.

Who wants one this time?

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Next Sunday´s Blue Garden Letter will be a travel letter from Venice!

 

My niece Tone

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We drove up to Stavanger one day, to visit our niece Tone. Ingrid has knitted her a hat with the special, traditional Marius pattern, and she wanted to give it to cousin Tone personally. Tone is a member of a small church in Stavanger called Pionerkirken. They have opened a cafe downtown Stavanger, Cafe Blue Bird, where father in law and Tone have made the coffee tables.

There is a very special relationship between Tone and farfar, and having coffee in "their" cafe was a very special treat I have been looking forward to for a very long time.

Tone has a special type of blood running through her veins. It is called creativity, it has all the colours of God´s rainbow and it flows freely, some days like waterfalls, other days like silent water.

And like farfar, Tone uses her creativity to praise her Creator.

Tone, one day I would love to make a blog post showing a few of your masterpiece cakes. Another day I would love to take one of your cake making classes. All days you inspires me to walk God´s path.

 

Family Tales

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When we celebrated Easter with grandpa a year ago, in connection with his 90th birthday, I created a special folder on my iPad where I started to write down farfarhistorier,  granddad tales. Last night I opened the file and read one of the tales for farfar, curious to hear what he thought. The tales was his of course, but written down in my words.

 

Farfar often talkes about his own farmor (mother of his father). When he grew up she lived in a room on the first floor of farfar´s  house. The other day, when we had dinner with my brother in law and his family, we got more farmor tales, and farfar said: "If I could write, I would write a book about farmor."

There and then I decided it is time to add farfar´s farmor tales in the iPad folder, and last night I told farfar to tell me as much as he remember about his farmor.

Today is our last day at Moi for this time. Tomorrow we will be on the road again. After lunch we plan to do a hike up in the hills. Farfar has a special car and is able to drive "everywhere" with it, so he will come with us.

I will bring a notebook, and I plan to ask farfar a million questions.

 

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I am sorry I neither answer your questions, nor reply to your email these days. My internet time is so limited, I have no possibility to do it. But short - yes, yesterday´s dog was Winnie, as Jane commented. my brother in law´s dog. We don´t have a dog, and will never in a million years get one, but Terje loves to play with Winniw when he gats the chance :-)

Today´s photos show farfar preparing yesterday´s dinner, an Easter meal with lamb.
If I were to write a Michelin Guide, farfar´s "restaurant" would be included.

 

Playmates

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Roadtrip Norway

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We left Trondheim on this winter´s spring´s coldest and wettest day. Heading south. 13 hours in the car ahead of us.

 

Luckily we soon met better weather.

Norway is a long country, and even though we are in the southern part, it takes is 12 hours to drive from Trondheim sout to Moi, where my 91 years old father in law lives.

When we arrived, the table was set and his special fish soup was ready.
The table was set for four though, himself, me, Terje and Marta. But as a special surprise for grandpa, Ingrid came with us as well. We soon found another soup bowl.

After a good night´s sleep we just woke up to find these two natives in grandad´s garden.

 

These are a few of my favorite things…...

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I do have many favorite things. One of them is setting the table.
Our cabin is small, and we live a very simple life there. There is not much room for anything, but still, I have a collection of china, and I love to mix and match, play with colours, set the table.

As often as possible we eat our meals outdoors, on the terrace, using our table for two, and older one which makes four, or we carry out the huge diningroom table.

 Or we eat indoors, which is almost like eating outdoors anyway, as we sit in front of the huge floor to roof windows.

Can you guess my favorite colour?

Painting Easter eggs

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My parents came out to the cabin yesterday, on a daytrip. They brought with them our little "babygirl and her boyfriend, and when my parents left after dinner last night, the two youngsters stayed. I woke them up with blueberry pancakes this morning, and eggs ready to paint.

It is not easy to paint on eggs, especially when all we had were some old brushes and an almost empty paintbox from when the kids were small. By the way, the almost empty paintbox is what I used when I painted the daffodils yesterday......the winner of the letter will be announced at the end of yesterday´s post as soon as I am finished with this one.

We had a lot of fun though, and our two "guests" had a very charming "quarrel" trying to vote for the most beautiful egg.

 

Our little girl is 18 now, and has a boyfriend.
Where did the years fly?

Blue Garden Letter #2

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It is time for the second Blue Garden Letter, this time written from the cabin garden. Since last Sunday I have been downtown to buy some new stationary, handmade sout Indian paper, especially for watercolours, and thin, soft Indian envelopes. And I have been thinking about what to do, how to develop this idea. 

I started this project to promote handwritten letters. I don´t want this to be a dying art. The first letters is mailed to Pam in Minnesota, a life long handwriting letter artist. The second letter might be yours. Add your comment to this post, and tomorrow I will pick a winner.

Several of you have asked for my address. It is
BrittArnhild Wigum Lindland
Vestre Husebytun 11
7097 Saupstad
Norway

 

And yes, I love handwritten letters and postcards :-)

 

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It is almost too difficult to pick a winner, but then I tell myself that I hope to continue this Blue Garden Letter writing for a long, long time, and in the end there will be letters for everyone. The winner this time is Jane and her Whimsical Garden!

 

 

A new road ahead, but first….

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Yesterday I had my last day as a leader at work. From now I am a senior advicer. This change came because of my health issues. The road leading here has been difficult to walk, but now I see the opening, I see how to walk towards light again. But I am tired, and have a few weeks ahead set for resting, before I go back to work. Resting = travels, starting with a few days at the cabin. 

I will take you along, and don´t forget, tomorrow is time for Blue Garden Letter #2

 

On a carpet of blue

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Come walk with me,
into the future