@brittarnhild
With the lovely weather which continues, I am tempted to start early with the sowing. I know that there might still come nights with frost, but I don´t have room for all the pots indoors. I have an oven in the greenhouse which I can turn on during the cold nights, so hopefully it will be okay. I also believe that the plants will develop to be strong and stubborn with this start.
Of course the sowing is perpetuated at YouTube :-)
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@brittarnhild
I am back home in Norway, with a fast working internet again, and hope to share with you some Italian tales the coming days.
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@brittarnhild
It had been a long day, and I was longing to go back to my little island to have a rest in the hotel before going out for something to eat for dinner. I saw the vaporetti was ready to leave when I arrived and I ran towards it, asking "Murano?" "Si, signora". And I jumped on board.
The boat was different from the ones I usually take, and when we came to the island it didn´t stop at the usual place. But there are several stops on Murano, and when it stopped next I didn´t leave the boat. I can wait for the next, I told myself.
The only problem was that the next stop was not Murano at all, but Vignole, another island in the Laguna. I have never been to Vignole, well, now I have, and I wouldn´t have minded going there if the time was right. Which is was not. Can you imagine, I felt quite flat! "Oh, my! What to do now?" I started to say something to the boatman. He just looked at me and smiled broadly. "Wait here. Another boat will come in five minutes. It will take you back to Murano."
All of a sudden I felt very adventurous.
I remembered we had driven trough wonderful birdland on our way out,
so I took my camera and walked out on deck to do some birding.
And had a most wonderful ride back.
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Here are my two latest YouTube videos.
Enjoy:
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@brittarnhild
My smart phone camera is filling up with short videos. I long to put them together and post them on YouYube, but to do that I need to transfer them from the phone to my MacBook. And the internet connection is soooo slow at the hotel. Good thing every single hair in my head is already grey. If they were not, they would have transformed now :-)
I have figured out that the hotel internet is working better in the morning though, so here is the video I posted this morning.
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@brittarnhild
First one cancelled flight, then one delayed flight, then one flight on time and last another delay.
Finally I found myself at the Marco Polo Airport outside Venice,
and could take the short Alilaguna boat ride over to Murano,
where I am staying for a few days.
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@brittarnhild
Good to have a little glimpse of spring indoors when it snows non-stop outdoors:
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@brittarnhild
It is Saturday morning, it is March 17th, and this winter seems to be a never ending story. The temperatures are finally predicted to rise a little today though, but the snow is still deep outside and in the green house everything is deeply frozen. I have got a naughty cough, so here I am, indoors, with a fire burning in the fireplace, a huge mug of hot water with lemon and ginger, birds busy out in the feeders, and a knitting which grows and grows and grows.......quite slowly.
I have many unfinished projects waiting, and didn´t actually plan to start this new cardigan sweater now. But then it started to play in my mind all by itself, I drew the first patterns, I bought yarn, I told myself I would just give it a start and then take it with me abroad next week to work on over Easter.......and now I can hardly put it down. The pattern changes all the time, and I want to see the next row only, and then then next, and the next.......you know the feeling, don´t you :-)
I do give myself the luxury of knitting slow though. The intricate pattern means that I can´t knit fast anyway, but I slow it down deliberately as well. Enjoying every stitch, let my fingers be caressed by the yarn, the wool, let my thoughts wander, knitting in a prayer here, purling in a prayer there.
Last night I told Terje: "Now I know what to do in my next career, in my next life! I will be a knitter. A full time hand knitter!"
I have been working on my vlog the last few days, my YouTube video blog, sorting the videos into playlists. So far I have nine videos in the "My knitting" playlist. You find them all here:
My knitting
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@brittarnhild
Spring is going to be late here in my corner of the world this year. I long to start working in the green house, but so far everything is deeply frozen. The garden is covered in a thick layer of snow, and more snow is predicted next week.
A lot more!
I do have quite some fun to occupy me with while waiting though.
Like designing new knitting patters.......
.......and make YouTube videos of it :-)
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