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 :-)
It is the last day of April, and here in our corner of the world we are still far from any warm weather. The daffodils are blooming in the cabin garden, but here and again a snow shower passes over us. In between a cold sun is shining.
We are stubborn Norwegians though, and we do not lack warm and proper clothing. So after lunch today we went out fishing.
Well, even for us it felt icy cold. I got nothing. Terje got two sei (coalfish?) And then we gave up.
Poor Terje had to clean the fish. Afterward he had problems putting his gloves on, his fingers were so frozen.
Now we are back in the cabin, the fire is burning, the sun is shining and we are both warm again :-)
This view. Of course I can never have enough of it.
My parents really found the paradise spot when they bought this place back in 1975.
Winter is waving good bye, see you again in a few months. Spring is swinging at the top of her voice, here I am, who wants to play with me;
Thank to all of you who contacts me to let me know that you keep on checking Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods, wanting to hear from me. I am here and will do my best to update more often.
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By the way, here is my latest video on YouTube, from yesterday:
We cam out to the cabin this weekend in search of spring. Back home it is still winter, cold and snow, here, near the coast, spring is already into the process of colouring the world in her lovely spring colours.
And what did we do? First thing after breakfast today we took the car and drove up to the snow....... Terje for cross country skiing, I for hiking.
Well, the day and the snow was so beautiful, we could not resist :-)
A couple of hours later we were back in spring,
enjoying flowers and birds and sun and view and.......life :-)
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I am a little behind with sharing my videos, but here is the one for orange week:
You can easily find my other active blogs through my new webpage, brittarnhild.no The other blogs, which focus on different themes, are all in Norwegian, but the images are all our shared language, and you can always easily use google translate :-)
On Facebook I hava a page connected to this blog, which I call, obviously Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods. Feel free to subscribe to it. I am also considering making a group connected to this page, where we all can post, chat, have discussions, sharing and so on. Would that be of interest for you? Well, let's see where this path leads us, shall we?
I do have an account on snapchat as well, mostly for family and a few close friends. Let me know if you are interested in getting the stories I share there, and we might connect :-)
Not far from the cabin is a rhododendron nursery which we visit every year. Slowly a dream of our own rhododendron garden has stated to grow inside me, and today it happened.
So far with only two plants, but everything has to start somewhere :-)
Now we cross our green fingers that the deer will not eat the new plants and that the sky will give enough sun, enough rain.
We have the most amazing view of fjord and mountains, but we also see birds. I was up in the wee hours this morning, made myself a mug of tea, picked up my knitting needles, and sat there, watching the birds.
A pure morning, serene, quiet.
Can you name these birds? In Norwegian they are dompap, rødstrupe and svafrthvitfluesnapper :-)
By the way, I do all my YouTube videos bilingual now. First in Norwegian, then in English. Here is the most recent one:
Norwegians love their cabins. For a month we have not been able to visit our cabins, cottages, summer houses, whatever you call them, in fear of spread of the virus. Monday this week the ban was finally lifted, at least for now, yesterday Terje and I packed our car and drove the two hours out here, to our cabin paradise. It feels so good. We stay here alone, we do not meet other people (except from some essential shopping), but we have each other, we have to birds, the flowers, the trees, the wind, the rain, the sun, the sky.
The first thing we did when we arrived was to check if we had got some new tenants. We had. Two blue tits are busy building a nest and a family in one of the bird houses. I can see right out there from one of the living room windows where I sit, writing this :-)
Then Terje started carpeting, while I explored the garden.
Spring is always several weeks earlier here than it is at home,
and I can't have enough of them.
Hans Christian Anderson has some time said something like....... to live is not enough, what we need is sunlight, freedom and a little flower.......
In this tiny little path of God´s earth I am thinking of all my friends. In Norway and international. I hope and pray that you are all safe.
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I am back to blogging today, and will update the list of active blogs as soon as I post in them :-)
Fløy en liten blåfugl - my birding journal (click on the picture)
maskerade - my knitting journal (click on the picture)
Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader - my online journal (click on the picture)
Nederst i hagen - my greenhouse diary (click on the picture)
Britt Arnhilds naturdagbok - my nature journal (click on the picture)
Hytteliv på Rastarbo - cabin life (click on the picture)
Terje and I are spending the weekend at the cabin. Winter, but no snow, tough some very wet snowflakes are falling from time to time, but melt quite fast. Used as I am to a white world at this time of the year, the winter green nature fascinates me. Wet, lush in a kind of deep, sparkling green way, a few songbirds out even at this time of the year, days still short.
Inspecting the nest boxes is what we always do at this time of the year, before the birds start looking for a place to lay their new eggs. But look, what has happened to this box? To hole is way to big for a tit or a flycatcher! Who is the sinner? A squirrel? A woodpecker?
We have no idea. But as a pair of flycatchers come back here every years to breed, Terje changes the nest box with another one we have, with a hole the correct size.
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I had a bad fall in the wet, slippery snow just outside our cabin this morning. Hurt my left index finger badly, a finger which is essential when I knit. So here I am, updating blogs instead of knitting. So far today two other blogs have been updated:
November light at the cabin. Great days with Terje, with my brother from Iceland, with daughter and grandsons.
November light. Nothing like it!
Short days, but so beautiful when the sun is out, so interesting when it is not. Treat for afternoon coffee - fire on the out on the terrace hearth, marshmallows, a boy almost four years old loving every minute of his life.
All texts and photos by Britt-Arnhild Wigum Lindland
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I am living in a red house surrounded by a blue garden near Trondheim, Norway. I love everydays and post about my steps through life. Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods is open to everybody. Welcome over!
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