Escape from boredom

Now we are almost there. Today the plumber has been here, so tomorrow morning we are allowed to use the water in the kitchen, which in fact makes it a real kitchen. Right now we still lack the tiles above the bench and we need electricity for the dishwasher and the oven.

An advice from me to you by the way, it is no problem to buy a kitchen from IKEA, BUT – do not buy anything related with water from them. The plumber was not impressed with the plumbing made available, different sizes, he actually needed to secure it with duck tape (to be 100% safe), but as he said: “if you buy it from ORAS for instance, they fit with the correct size, at least I can get you the correct size of plumbing…from IKEA, I can’t!”

Anyhow, here are the pictures from our kitchen pr. today

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Spot the difference? http://www.hellem.org/blog/index.php/new/2007/10/20/started_renovating_again_the_kitchen

Yesterday doing some more work at Vestreng. Anders was stuck with the backhoe loader so this time I had to use the log winch to get him up the hill.

Me in the tractor handling the winch

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Anders down the hill. If you look closely you can see the wire rope.

By the way, found some interesting web pages covering the issue of Farm Tractor Logging

“SMALL-SCALE EQUIPMENT FOR LOW-IMPACT LOGGING”
http://www.rockisland.com/~tom/tools.html
“Farm Tractor Logging for Woodlot Owners”
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/420-090/420-090.html

Last Friday I dressed up for a 90’ths party. From way back in the closet I found my old leather jacket from -94. I also went to Freetex and bought the rest of the stuff, fleece (nice!), a tie (Hugo Boss, no shit!!) and a brown cord trousers. And since it was a 90’ths party, we had to drink like in the 90’ths, so I had one large bottle of Vodka and another large bottle of home made Turkish Pepper (a large bottle of Vikingfjord and Fazer Turkish Pepper). Spot on, had a lot of fun, but Saturday was not so much fun, but not as bad as several other times when drinking wine, beer and other stuff…

Me at the local pizza place next to Ingrid and Lars Tormod (Sonnys Kebab) preparing for the vorspiel

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Trond and several others

Lars Tormod seemed to have lost his trousers in the hall…