I’m afraid our digital camera has bitten the dust, which is a double disappointment just now because I had a great post all lined up but it won’t work without a digital photo visual aid. Curse the luck. I suppose now we’ll have to buy a new camera, because Lord knows my life would scarcely… Read More Picture-less

The weather has been so nice for the past several days that I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I think summer has finally come to Västerbotten. Since Saturday it’s been warm and sunny with clear skies and only a tiny bit of rain (scarcely enough to mention, really). This is… Read More Wednesday

We have got to start getting to bed earlier, but considering that it’s past ten as I type this and nobody seems to be winding down yet, I don’t think tonight will be the night. Since Olof’s vacation started a week ago, we haven’t gone to bed before midnight (yes, that includes the kids, I’m… Read More Sunday

It’s been warm and sunny all day long with scarcely a cloud in the sky. I could hardly believe my eyes when I got out of bed this morning and was greeted by clear blue skies. I think I’d almost forgotten what how nice a real summer day could be. After lunch we drove down… Read More Let the sun shine in!

So I guess there won’t be a flood, despite what must surely be close to forty days and forty nights of rain. I’d been looking forward to this afternoon for over a week because today was the day that Helena was coming to visit. It had been over a month since we last got together… Read More Promises, promises

It’s official — I’m hooked on geraniums. For years I managed to stave off the beast, convincing myself that three or four of these lovely plants were enough for me and that I didn’t need anything beyond the usual varieties to make me happy. Alas, even the strongest of us has a breaking point and… Read More Resistance is futile …

I feel like a bit of a copycat, considering the craze that’s consuming Carolyn and Jessica these days, but I bought two new pelargoniums today. I can’t quite wrap my mind around calling them “pelargoniums,” actually, both because I grew up calling all such plants “geraniums” (and at least one of mine is truly a… Read More Tuesday

This morning I was out hanging laundry on the line and there was a little brown bird flying around and chirping her fool head off. She kept lighting on the end of one of the arms of the clothesline and chirping incessantly and annoyingly. I couldn’t figure out what was going on with her but… Read More Monday

I took this picture off my front porch about five minutes ago, at 2:20am. I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to this.

I can hardly believe it myself, but it actually didn’t rain today. It looked threatening for most of the morning, but the clouds cleared away by early afternoon and I managed to get the grass cut and two loads of laundry hanged out on the line. It even got warm enough for Tage to take… Read More Oh, happy day!