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Cold but Beautiful

This morning we woke up to below . It’s gotten colder and colder as the day has progressed. The official reading at 10 AM was -9.2 C/15.4 F. Which should be true for our place as well, since the is only 100 m/109 yards away. But it’s beautiful outside. At least in the short hours the is up. So I took some to show those who don’t live here what it looks like. more »

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Snowy Get Off Your Broom Update

Because of having to go on 100 % sick-leave, and being alone at home with a 4 year-old for the last four days. The week started off with me being a good girl, but I ended up being less than good. Somehow I still lost weight. Here are the numbers for this week:


Nov 22 Nov 27
Weight 81 kg/178.6 lbs 79 kg/174.1 lbs
Neck 35,5 cm/14 in 35,5 cm/14 in
Left lower arm 27,7 cm/10.9 in 27 cm/10.6 in
Left upper arm 31,8 cm/12.1 in 31.2 cm/12.3 in
Chest 119 cm/46.9 in 119 cm/46.9 in
Waist 97 cm/31.2 in 94 cm/37 in
Hips 103 cm/40.6 in 102 cm/40.2 in
Left thigh 59,5 cm/23.4 in 59,5 cm/23.4 in
Left calf 40,5 cm/15.9 in 40,5 cm/15.9 in

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A Walk to the River

We took a walk down to the this afternoon. The was pretty warm for this time of year, and sunny. It got a bit harder to walk than we initially thought. The hill was steep, the underbrush dense, and there was a lot of fallen trees and branches on the ground. I managed to snap a few shots on the way.

Our House

We started by walking along the edge of the field below our house.

Ingrown Wire

One of the grew through tree

Ingrown Wire

Well, more than one tree

 
 
   
   
 
 
 
 
 

Elf Dwelling? :)

 

Another Elf dwelling? :)

We walked up through this. Up a hill so steep you had to crawl in some places.

After that walk, I wasn’t surprised that was exhausted. I was as well, at least my feet and .

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A visit to Holsjøen

from a to a lake just 30 minutes from here, up in the mountains.

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Lucky to live in Soknedal

I thought I’d show off some taken in the area where I live. The village is called , and fit’s in a beautiful area of .
For those who want a map, there’s one here.

Now for the pictures. The following pictures were taken today, at , which is here. Most were taken from here.

We drove for less than 30 minutes to get up there, then we walked a couple of hundred meters.

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Winter is here to stay

is most definitely here to stay. Here are some of the I’ve taken lately. The last ones I took this morning when I noticed they’d started decorating for . I think it’s a bit early to start that now. But then again, the candy and the soda has been in the shops for a month already. It was a bit dark, and I used my phone, so the pictures are a bit fuzzy.

Lilith's snow angel
Something's been walking around our house at night. Probably a stray dog, although I can't say I've seen any strays here.
The mall I walk through every morning.
A turtle A very sloppy elephant.

This was meant to become a lion, but didn't get finished

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Snow and Freezing Temperatures

This we had or second real snowfall, and we got a lot more during the night towards Sunday. All in all about 12 cm/4 inches. In addition to this, we woke up today to . It was -12 degrees Celsius (10.4 F). We had some fun in the snow both on Saturday and Sunday though. I did my Alvablót on Saturday, and as soon as I’ve transferred the pics, I’ll do a post on that as well.

The Tarot Cards are coming to an end, I just have two more left. After
that I’m to do a on the interpretation of the of
the , but it might be a while before I get that started.

Here it comes!

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