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14 Mar 2015

Ice fishing

Despite the wonderful spring sun, the ice was thick enough for a real “ispimpla”- ice fishing. You drill a hole in the ice, fasten a maggot onto your mini fishing rod and drop the wire into the hole. We tried for 5 minutes but did not catch a single fish. We moved to another hole to try again, but another five minutes later, no catch. Alas, we know we are too impatient for ice fishing, but at least we tried. […]

16 Feb 2015

History

Today we hiked through the snow to a neighbour. She takes care of the photo albums showing many of the original inhabitants in Näset. It was lovely to browse through some of them. So many villagers emigrated to America! Our neighbour made a family tree from the birth of Marcus Eriksson, especially for us. He is the man who built the farm. From the picture he looks like a real dandy, a man with courage. We’ve already heard stories about […]

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