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Bike ride together with my mother

Sport

Today me and my mother have been out trying the route for Vesterfjellrittet. We took the shout route, but note, we did still get 450 meters of elevation, but my mother managed! We had luck, since we waited a while before we started the sun started to shine, and in fact we got clear blue sky, nice! Hopefully I will be able to participate in the race, maybe next year.

Full speed ahead, but still able to take a picture of my mother leading the way close to Kvalforssætra.

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928 kilometers in one leg

Anything but the other

Yesterday at 19:00 me and Anders started from home in Oslo and headed towards Mosjøen. We drove via Trysil and Røros, saw a lot of reindeers, two hares running just in front of my car, a fox that also tried to run in front of the car but failed. Anders was a very good boy, giving me no stress until it was only 15 kilometers left…then he puked, just my luck.

The picture in the middle from Brekken. Others from various places from Stjørdal and on the way north to Mosjøen.

Nice weather all the way except for local fog all the way from Tydal to Mosjøen.

Vestmarkrittet – fun to ride

Sport

On Saturday I participated in Vestmarkrittet, 45 kilometers of fun in Asker. A good combination of gravel roads and tracks. Mostly uphill on gravel roads, then downhill on tracks. Since my starting position was calculated based on Fredagsbirken last year, I started in group 6. I soon realized that biking to work had done good for me, and I was able to push hard from the start. On the trials I ruled compared to most of the guys I started together with, so I quite often had to yell “Keep to the riiiiight!!!”. All in all very much fun, and be sure that I will participate next year as well. Finished on a total position of 192 of all in all 850 participants. Very pleased with that!

My bike after two hours and five minutes of gravel and mud

And to support Einar and Frode, working for Tine, I enjoyed my Yt when finished 🙂

Towing a tractor

Anything but the other

On Tuesday evening Erik and I towed the old Ford 4000 from Vestreng and for more than 20 kilometers to the garage. The transmission is broken, and towing it in neutral was the easiest and fastest way to get it to the garage. It was a bit challenging I must admit, the rope could have been a bit longer. Since it was relatively short I had to watch the brakes and steer (off course). Much like riding the bike together with a team, close to the wheel of the guy in front of you.

Here is a video clip as well

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Love me, love my doll

Leisure

If you enjoyed “The King of Kong” you really should spend some time watching “Love me, Love My Doll“:

Love Me, Love My Doll focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called “Real Dolls.” For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. Find out what makes these men tick, as they give you a peek at life with their synthetic dreamgirls.

Small scale logging and panorama pictures

Anything but the other

Last weekend I did some small scale logging with an element of high precision at home. A birch was about to grow way to large, and we could risk that it could fall and cut down the tv cabel or worse fall down on one of the houses if a day strong wind combined with heavy rain would occur. Was a bit nervous since the tree had to be cut down and fall very precise between two fences. If it would fall left or right it would hit one of the houses, and if falling completely the wrong way it would cut down the tv cabel. But, with the help of a rope and me doing it by the book everything went according to plan – no one got hurt…

Documented before and after using my cell phone camera and its panorama function. Pretty amazing how it works, but I guess using legs or something would be the best choice in order to create the best result.

Before

and after

Had to shrink the picture width, just click on them to view them in normal width