Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Wild garlic

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Wild garlic. The green gold of the forest.
We have harvested a basket full today.

 

 

 

A perfect day for.......

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A perfect day for spring cleaning.

And for coffee.

And for knitting.

And for gardening.

But most of all for living

 

 

.......and for making a song without words:

 

 

 

Books on the Menu

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden

Hytteliv på Rastarbo

maskerade

 

 

 

 

Back to the cabin

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Back to the cabin.
A weekend of playing.

Which means
reading
knitting
bird watching
eating
hiking
blogging
watching the view
gardening

Yes, playing :-)

"Terje, I need an extra table. I need a table just for me, to hold my camera, my binoculars, my journal, my book (read books), my knitting"

"Terje, did you hear me? Can you finds me an extra table?"

 

Of course he could.
Believe me. This man can do everything!

 

And then, with m y extra table and its contents at hand,
I could watch the birds.

Lovely birds, doing exactly what they are supposed to do at this time of the year.......

.......being busy, building their love nest.

 

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My blog- and vlog- world today:

 

Books on the Menu

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden

Hytteliv på Rasterbo, cabin blog

maskerade

 

 

 

 

 

The old, problematic flower bed

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On the eastern side of our house there is an old flower bed. Already here when we bought the house in 2001. Already then overgrown with weeds.

Every second day I say to Terje, let´s try this, let´s try that. The other days I say, let´s just remove the whole bed and plant grass instead.

Now I have got another idea though. A good one I think :-) I will remove all the old plants and make the bed into a primula bed. Or a primrose bed as you would say in English.

That´s what I talk about in the video today :-)

 

 

 

Norwegian or English, that is the question :-)

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YouTube has really got me. Quite another way of blogging, vlogging as it is called when you use videos :-), and a lot of fun. I am not going to wave goodbye to the traditional way of blogging, but for the moment I am playing along with YouTube and so much enjoy it. Also today I made the video in Norwegian. So much easier for me to talk, so much easier to make. But when I speak, I know that so many of you will not be able to understand what I am saying.

Well, as several of you have suggested, I will see if I can make an English video from time to time. The garden videos will mostly be in Norwegian, but next weekend we are going to the cabin, and who knows what will happen then? And the weekend after that we will go to Stockholm in Sweden to visit Torgeir.......

 

 

 

Blogs updated today:

Santa Maria, the retreat center in Tuscany

My birding journal

maskerade, the knitting blog

My journal pages

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring is in the air

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Spring is in the air, and both Terje and I have long list of things to do. Cleaning the bicycle, was on Terje´s list, and when Leander saw bestefar busy cleaning, he decided his bike needed a deep clean as well. Water and soap and a lot of hand cleaning. And afterwards the bicycles dried in the late afternoon sun.

 

I am busy in the garden and in the greenhouse, and.......

.......made a greenhouse video, in Norwegian:

 

 

Blogs updated today:

 

My blue garden

My journal pages

My bird journal

My greenhouse blog

 

 

 

When everything happens at once

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All of a sudden everything happens in the garden. Growth. Work which has to be done. Long outdoor meals.

I try to keep up as best I can, and I enjoy every single minute.

I try to keep up as best I can, and I made another English video :-)
Thanks for your comments <3

 

 

Blogs updated today:

 

The Columbine Garden

 

My Journal pages

 

Walk to work

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Some years ago, when Terje had another job, we used to drive together to his job, and from there I walked down to the city center and the Archbishop´s Palace. Then Terje got another job, with no parking space. He bought himself a new bicycle with special winter tyres and started to bike all year. I started to go by bus.

Today Terje had a car though, from his work, and I drove with him, and walked to my job.

The catholic church is new since last time I showed you pictures from this area. The old rose bush, which I remember from my childhood, is still there :-)

 

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Bigger pots

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My hundreds of tiny plants need repotting

 

 

Newborn lambs

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Not far from us is an open farm, with sheep, horses, a sheepdog and quails.

It is lamb season, and we went there to have a look.

Sheeps and horses are a bit scary for a two years old.

Tractors are not.

 

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