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Accepting the paternity

To have the Directory of Residents register that Elin and I have joint parental responsibility for Anders it came clear to me that I had to meet up at the register office in person and accept the paternity. A bit annoying that this does not happen automatically, if we had been married it would have.

Waiting in line at the register office, Anders soon to get a legally accepted father.

http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/bld/tema/samliv/samboere/samboere-med-barn.html?id=415495

Dilatant fluids

Yesterday Bendik and Line visited us. We served dinner and dessert, when I was about to finish the dessert – home-made fruit soup I use Potato Flour. Bendik then asked if I had tried to make shear thickening fluid out of water and potato fluid. I had never done that, since I did not even know what it was. So, we had to try. So with the perfect mix of potato flour and water you get a fluid which makes the spoon goes smoothly through it if you stir slowly, but if you do it fast the spoon almost gets stuck.

Funny, but not sure how to use this in real life 🙂

Forest tending

This weekend I spent a couple of hours doing forest tending at Vestreng. I had to thin the forest, to many small trees. Gives us some fire wood as well. I actually stumbled across some old barbed wire which I also removed, or at least I collected it all and put it away under a ledge. This you can see on the upper left picture. The lower on the left shows what I have to do, upper right what I have done, and the lower right shows me taking care of a windfall. You can, if you look closely, see the wire hooked on the tree, ready to pull it down.