Loaded the car last Friday and headed off to Rømskog to visit Haukenestårnet. From where we parked the car it was just about 15-20 minutes walk (or run, the boys ran all the way both to and from). The tower is always open.
Heading home, I had to speed up or else the boys would outrun me totally
The drainage is not up to date, so my father in-law is doing what he knows best – digging using the backhoe. Actually, the foundation has no protection against the groundwater and soil, so we need to add that along with new drainage pipes.
And the old birch tree had to go. As we know it was planted back in 1892 when the local sheriff (? – lensmann) moved to the house we know live in. The tree was actually rotten inside, along with the leaves, branches and birch juice tearing on the roof, so we had to remove it. Securing using the winch it was pretty easy to
The boys having fun, climbing in the “jungle”
Yesterday morning, a deer eating our red currant. Pictures taken from our living room.
Our neighborhood
Cleaning up the camera, found some pictures from when in Sweden.
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Nice weather and plenty of time, got up early and headed for work on my bike. When at Gan I decided to go where I never had been before. Assuming that there should be gravel roads/tracks/single tracks between Gan and Hvalstjern I turned right and headed of into the woods. As usual, at some point I should have turned right but I did not, therefore the gravel road which shrunk into a single track later shrunk into almost no track, see pictures below. But no problem due to the dry conditions.
Must explore the tracks there at a later point.
All in all a very good morning, 56 kilometers and almost two and a half hour on the bike, like everyday should have been (but can’t)
Going to work really early this week, spending the first hour in the gym. Today I did not feel for the spinning cycle so I decided to try the “Total body crossramp”-thing. Strange kinda device, but it does not give me pain in the legs so once in a while it can be ok. Anyhow, spent the time listening to the new album Hypnotic Eye by Tom Petty. A bit to easy listening while doing exercise, but I might be listening to it several times.
Yesterday afternoon there was a thunderstorm and one of the lightning caused a fire to start just about one kilometer from where we live. Together with the local fire department the neighbors headed of to extinguish the forest fire. Luckily it was just a small fire, the lightning had struck a pine tree and the fire had started at the end of the roots. After this experience we now have a plastic container with almost 1000 liters of water standing ready until the dry period has ended.
Behind Jens Erik you can see the pine tree where the lightning struck.
And yes, the title of the post is a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
