Swedish Midsommar: Guests in both houses, flowers, sun, good food and a long table with family and friends and kids laughing and playing in and around the pool. That’s how we imagined this wonderful feast should be. Yes we know, the weather is mostly terrible on the actual midsommarday, and family is not always around. But this year our perfect picture as we had it in my mind became reality. Midsommar is one of this country’s biggest feasts. It celebrates […]
A nice surprise in the mailbox today: an article about Eva Ullerud in ’Skriva’, my favorite Swedish magazine about writing. Eva was one of our guests last year. Back then I was very proud to have a writer in the house, since I still have plans to resume writing and write a bestseller. But moreover for I would love to organize a writing workshop here at Näsets Marcusgård, together with an author. Such a writing week or weekend can be […]
The end-of-school celebration, a big thing in Sweden. Our boys just had theirs here in Ore Kyrka (church). Let the summer begin! The ingredients are: teachers in Ore-costumes (from the area), nicely dressed pupils, Astrid Lindgrens “Little Ida’s Summer Song”, and every class sings a song. At the end the pupils of the ninth class (final) get their diploma. After saying goodbye to the teachers it’s time to go home and eat strawberrycake (well, that’s what we did). It’s a […]
Spring! After months of stagnation nature suddenly explodes. The light increases too, so everything grows like crazy. Willem already enjoyed his first lawn mowing activity. We have set up the greenhouse too and made our kitchen garden bigger. Indoors, I have sown vegetables a while ago: it was finally time to move them to the greenhouse. Last year I tried some tomatoes, cucumber and zucchini. This year I’ll add chili pepper and bell pepper in the greenhouse. Outside I have sown […]
”Did the guests return from their stroll to the lake?” Asks Willem when we have dinner. It’s almost dark now, and no lights in the Fähus. O god (herregud in Swedish). Yes, I begin to worry a little. It was me who recommended to walk on the lake today. That’s what I did that yesterday morning and it felt great. But i forgot to tell them not to walk near brown parts in the middle. Imagine they fell through ice! […]
While baking waffles today we were surprised by an unexpected visit from an old inhabitant of our farm (and his friend). We showed him around and our tour brought back many memories. How interesting to hear what has changed in our house. On the ground floor used to be more walls, which created small rooms. Now they have been removed and everything looks more spacious. In the old days these rooms were small to keep it warm during the freezing […]
Today we made our first igloo and two snowmen this year. The snow has been too fluffy these months, and that usually don’t work well for snow sculpting. But today the snow packs together very well. Even the igloo’s roof sticks together easily. For the igloo we used a box to get nicely shaped blocks. The snowmen have baseball caps on. Unfortunately our dog likes them very much and tries to eat them every time she passes by.
Full house today: 16 guests from Stockholm to celebrate New Year at Näsets Marcusgård. And finally snow. Gott nytt år!
It’s three o’clock and it’s completely dark outside. After a bright summer it feels a little strange to have such few hours of daylight left. No wonder most Swedes have decorated their houses with Christmas lights and put electrical candles before their windows and lights in their garden. Christmas is approaching and magazines, television ads, Christmas fairs, shops, everything seems to get crazy to get you in a Christmas mood: there’s simply no escape. But outside it’s still too dark […]