Papa is Back in Summerhouse and Gardening in Norway

In between posts from some fabulous weeks South of Norway with Friends and Family, I need to update my readers on the situation here in our Summer House.

It's been an unusual Summer. Cold, then very very hot and then very unstable and wet and chilly. Our Garden is the best proof of out of line.
After all, we did harvest this Sunny Sunday.
You can see some results if you scroll down:

Blue Grapes.

Boyson Berriesh

Yellow Flowers

Redcurrant

Gourgettes - Zuccinis - Squash

We love these charming Flowers- Do you know them. Appears in several colours.

Hips - wild. Beautiful red color

Prunes - still there - lots of them this year. But half of them rotten.

Prunes ready for be Jammed -In Fact about to be cooked

The old Pear Tree broke down 4 weeks
ago.

Well - we used the Brances to heat - in our Fireplace - the smell was magnificiant


Beans - Green

Hortensia.

Well, my dear reader, this was a short glimpse into our Sunday Afternoon.

Have great week to come----

Papa goes on Vacation - report 2 - The Pirat Traveller

Here is the Pirate Tourist in blood and flesh:
We are still in Nancy, the Capital of the former Dukedome of Lorraine.

Papa went crazy to day. He became a Pirate.
Why? Because he went to the Food Market without having a Kitchen on his disposal.

Here are a very few glimpse, hence you know why papa wanted to steal all what he did see.

Oysters from Marennes, western France. Papa has been there several times and bougth several dousins of Oysters directly from the Oyster Farmers
.
Local "Charcuterie", made at local Farms.

Vegetables, all sorts from local producers.

And look at this - oh, Papa went allmost crazy.
This is only 5% of the different cheeses available at this Market in Nancy.

Much more from Nancy, when back home. You can see, we had a wonderful, Sunny day.

Tomorrow we will go to the middle of France to meet old French friends. 6-7 hours drive.

Stay tuned. I'll be back with short reports whenever I can.
And as said before, excuse me for not commenting very much during our Vacation.

Flower Chaos - Power Outage - Garden work and Wonderful Pre-Summer

So to Speak all in one.
In one weekend.

Well, it was warm and dry during this weekend. The seeds needed watering. It's rather steep, as you can see. And we arranged the watering the lazy way. LOL.

And papa did buy more flowers and herbs. For a while our Platform looked very chaotic.

And it was as well something to repair. While we still had Power.
- papa not shaved - out of gas and electricity - besides - haha - a loooong weekend.

Saturday we had a Power Outage from 2 pm until 7:30 pm. Caused by a sailboat that hit the Air-Cables to the Island just down under us.

After all, we prepared Dinner old-fashioned.

The Dinner tasted very well. Baked Potatos, Pepper, Tomtatoes, Fresh Herbs, Whale Beef.

Felicia did controle us while dinning. From the Roof.

Table decoration: Floating Flowers.


Basilikum we call these herbs - in Norwegian.
We have lot's of them - because we like the taste.

Our servant helped us with the Flowers. As you can see, she is very poor. But we paid her as deserved, with a couple of new Summer Dresses and food as well.
Which is probably more than GM can offer for their 250.000 plus employees.
What a sad and dramatic story. I'm thinking about all those wonderful people in Michigan ---
I have no words - you, my regular readers do know my youngest son is living in MI.

Do not blame the Photographer. It's after Midnight. We had very wellcomed, unexpected visitors. And lit up our outdoor fireplace.

Next Day it was time for cutting Branches. In the very steep terrain, well, two days after I still feel stiff. There is no stabel place to stand. Assistance was needed to climb safely down again as well.
And there are many more trees to cut.

Here you see the result - and this is only the very first beginning. It's steep, right?
All the "Jungle" in the background are to be cut down this Summer and used as heating in our Fireplace during the Fall.
Down right, we have Herbs. One of several spots.

Monday afternoon, it was still many boats out at the Oslofjord.
A wonderful pre-summer we had this Pentecoste Long Weekened, with clear blue sky and temperatures 24-28 C (75 - 82,5 F), which we Norwegians considers very comfortable.
On the other hand, mountain roads were block - avalanches and strong winds.

More to come...
Don't forget ABC in Words and Pictures on Friday. This week: N

Papa goes shopping Flowers on TORsday

Handing Papa a Credit Card and asking him to buy Flowers to our Summer Home is like asking for bankruptcy.

In the Green House - see all the tempations?

However, enjoy the beauty of the Flowers. Now at our Summer Home

Here they are - at our Platform

Platform Flowers 2009

More Flowers

Fucsias

Georgine

Geranium

Charming and expressive

More Flowers here

Papa: Days of joy, grief and celebration

I do not know the best way of telling a story of a lost life and at the same time about a new life soon to appear.
A life has gone. A new is to come.
Grief and happiness. Saturday to Monday.
From Joy to remebering with Grief.



It's about my son who died on May 18 one year ago.
It's about my daughter that expects her first child second half of October this year.
It's about my daughters new Family that never get the chance to meet her oldest brother.
And a child that will never meet an uncle.
A person that devoted his life to help the poor. And at the same time the most talented footballplayer when 14.
A person that knew at the same time the most wealthy, cultural and those forgotten.

My daughters man and father of their child to come, did visit the Family grave. Cultural understanding and Respect - and also love.


We where there on Monday, May 18, on year excatly after my son's sudden death.

I will now bring you some joy and happiness.
You, my dear reader deserves some joy in your daily life:
Papa style.

Saturday was the EuroVision Song Contest Final in Moscow

Some food and joy around the Table

We were of course head of our local jury. Who else? Click to enlarge;))

Who did win with the largest margin ever?

Here you see - I say no more than we had fun.

Sunday - May 17 - National Day in Norway.
Royal Castle in the background

2009 - The Norwegian National Day

Kaya was in Norway for the First time

Flowers for all of you.
Just send me your e-mail. To see more. OK?

More photos here