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Some days I love to live in a snails pace. Slowly, with nothing special on my agenda.
I have an idea for a fun knitting project. To knit colourful snails with yarn from my left over stash.
I knit slowly.
At a snails pace.
How good it is to be in no hurry.
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I will talk m ore about this project in my next video.
Meanwhile you can enjoy an old video, from May last year:
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@brittarnhild
Winter was long this year, spring was short.
Well, technically speaking we still have spring, but for days and days now we have had sun and mild temperatures. The garden is sprouting, and I am busy from early morning till late night. Busy in a very good way. Out in the garden for hours and hours.
Our garden is a place for beauty, but just as much a rustic place, for grandchildren to play in. If they break a flower stem or ten, what does it matter? If the weeds grow faster than my fingers can fight them, what does it matter?
I plant, I water, I weed.......from time to time.
But most of all I enjoy every minute of my days.
It is still spring, and it feels like summer.
The Nordic summer with daylight almost around the clock, chilly mornings, days warm enough for the children to shower under the water hose, long, bright afternoons and nights taken from my dreams.
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We have had a garden filled with children and grandchildren all day today.
When they left it was time for me to water the garden. I love watering. Time to reflect, time to go back and enjoy moments from the day, time for prayers. Time for growth, for me and for the many plants.
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Have you not seen this weeks episode in Britt Arnhild´s World yet?
Here it is:
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@brittarnhild
After many years of blogging, ever since January 2005, it was a natural development for me to start YouTubeing.......many years later. My very first video on YouTube was posted in January 2018, and since then I have made more than 300 videos. I started in English, then after some months I continued in in Norwegian, and since January 2019 I make twin episodes, one in Norwegian, one in English.
For me, doing videos, developing my YouTube-skills, have been a way to move forward. I don't want to say goodbye to my first love, blogging, along the way, but naturally (?) making videos has taken more and more of my blogging time.
My goal is to be able to do both, to be active here on Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods and also make weekly videos in two languages in Britt Arnhilds verden (Britt Arnhild´s World) on YouTube.
I would love to hear from you what you prefer.
Blog posts
YouTube-episodes?
Both?
Here is the video from this week:
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@brittarnhild
Do you know hoe to make a willow flute?
Terje does and every spring he makes me one.
In today's episode of Britt Arnhilds verden/world on YouTube, I have included a film of him making me one.
Enjoy :-)
By the way, this flute is not made of willow, but of rowan.
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@brittarnhild
I had a very strange dream last night and woke up with mixed feelings. With the dream filling my mind, I wondered what the day would be like.
Well, the late night sun is shining though our dining room window, the dream left me even before breakfast, I showered it all off. And the day has been just as beautiful as the light made by the sun.
Life is good.
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@brittarnhild
Saturday. A perfect day for gardening.
We have been collecting milk cartons for some time, and today was the day to fill them with a mixture of sand and soil.
Our sand has too many pebbles, så my apprentice´s first work was to remove them.
What a great job he did.
Working together is great fun.
Soon we had the carrot seeds in the soil.
We watered.
And now we wait for fresh carrots to eat.
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My most recent video on YouTube:
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@brittarnhild
I love doing these videos on YouTube.
Of course they are most easy too do in Norwegian, but doingingthem in English means I reach out far beyond Norway. I love that.
Enjoy my most recent one:
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@bnrittarnhild
For my birthday earlier this month I got a new waffle iron, one to take with me when hiking. It had been on my wish list for some time, and today was the first day to use it.
We hiked out to a place where we almost always go when we are at the cabin, a place with a fire pit everyone can use. Terje brought wood, I brought the batter and some raspberry jam. And a thermos of coffee of course.
Oh my, can you imagine a better lunch?
I did took some footage of course, which I will include in this week's episode on YouTube.
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Sorting through some old photos I found this one, yes, it is me :-)
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@brittarnhild
Our cabin is situated two hours by car from our home, out near the western coast of Norway. The landscape here is fantastic, close to the see, close to the mountains, with the cabin in the middle of the woods, which I love. The area is perfect for hiking, something we do a lot.
Today we decided to go to a place where we have never been before, to a mountain peek out on one if the islands. Not very high, 170 meters above sea level, but as the climb was steep, 170 meters were enough for me. I love hiking and during spring, summer and autumn I am out several times a week. Not so during winter. I used to do cross country skiing, but have not had skis on my feet this winter. I am too anxious of falling.......
As spring has slowly started to arrive the past few weeks, I have already started my hiking season, but today was the first climb. Well, very fit athletes would not call this a climb, I do! And I did it. The climb I mean.
Even though it was "only" 170 meters, the view was amazing. I took some footage, which I plan to include in next week's video in Britt Arnhild´s World on YouTube (Britt Arnhilds verden)
We had coffee up there, and then we had to do the steep climb in reverse. Climbing down is always harder than climbing up. Oh my, I had a hard time, but good for me, Terje was there, in front of me, with helping hands when I needed.
By the way, we were lucky and hiked in the sun, but if we turned around, this is what we could see (the above image).
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