Today the summer seems to leave southern Norway; and it was almost not here in the first place! We have had about days of 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, which is enough for Norwegians to throw off (almost) all clothing and leave work an hour early. Tomorrow will bring rain; that's our destiny here on the western coast, and while positive thinking might help us dealing with the grey and cold weather, Lisa, it sure will not bring more sun and heat.

Mai-Helen has started to climb out of her...

After today I will have one week off, and I am really looking forward to it! Although it might be a stressfull week, it will still be off from work! During the weekend, I hope to get just a little bit closer to finish the work with the last room on our top floor. On Monday we will travel to Kristiansand (about 250 kilometers~160 miles) and stay two days in a zoo/amusement park there; , hopefulle the weather will be nice, although the forecast is very uncertain. Mari will have to work the...

Today Mari went to work at 7.30. I stayed in bed until Mai-Helen started to first sing a bit to herself and then obviously getting a bit impatient waiting for dad to come and pick her up. I glanced out of the window... and everything was white...it was snowing heavily... and the temperature was close to the freezing point. And yesterday we were actually doing some barbeque in the sun...(although it was not really warm...) Crazy... So today is a typical indoor-day. Now it has started to rain...

Although the title of this blog actually pretty much says it all, I guess I'd better elaborate a little bit.

Tuesday was the last day of work for me this week, as Thursday to Monday are days off for all because of the easter holidays, and as I took wednesday off (my birthday). Luckily I have the possibility to control my own working hours, within reason and as long as it sums up to at least 7, 5 hours a day (pluss lunch), so at 11 am I went to join Mari for her ultrasound...

HI again!

I just suddenly felt the urge to comment on some part of your daily life which for a standardized European seems rather peculiar and not very logic at all. Why don't you follow the simple metric system?

First let us take your gallon which you all seem to be so upset about the price of... What IS a gallon really?... and how was it defined?...The word seems to come from the latin"galleta" meaning wine jug... I can't even start to grasp the logic of it... just read...

I am back home and just wanted to give you a small taste of winter-Norway.

We left WEdnesday, although the weatherforecast was not very good. The main valley we had to drive through on our way was open, but very windy, and a couple of places I didn't even see 10 meters because of the drifting snow. AS we arrived at the cottage, the wind was around 20 meters per second, which is at the limit of storm, and I carried all the things against the wind 100 meters up to the cottage...