April 2007:

After work and school today, at Friday, Cecilie and Joakim were helping me digging out all of the lawn where we are going to have our new flowerbed.

 While we have been at work today, rest of the boards for the terrace, has been delivered, but today we don't have time to work with the terrace, so we'll see tomorrow instead.

It's the same weather today, as yesterday, but it's a cold wind blowing today.

We have been outdoors the entire day today too. Charles and Joakim has continued working with the terrace, and I have started to work with a new flowerbed.

Charles made us a delicious elk (moose) roast for dinner.

We still have had snow and sunshine every day. But today it's just a few clouds and sunshine.

Yesterday I drowe to my net friend, Lillian, and gave her my last two aquarium fishes, and all my aquarium plantes. Since we bought our new house, and we started to fix it, I lost interest for my aquariums. I probably have more than enough to do working with our new house and garden. It was a relief to empty the aquarium, and put it away.

Yesterday evening Charles and I eat a delicious dinner! Everyone who had been helping at a trade fair, was invited to have a free dinner, toghether with their wife/ husband. The man who cooked is very talented. He has actually made dinner for our King, several times. Yesterday he had made 11 different main courses of game. I only managed to eat two of them. I delicious soup (he told us that this soup, he have cooked for our King), and I also eat reindeer meat, that he had prepared in a wonderful way. The dessert was fruit and berries which had been marinated in whisky.

Today we went up early, and started to work outdoors. Charles and Joakim continued working with the terrace, while I have changed two flowerbed. See photos here and here.

We went indoors in the evening, and ejoyed a homemade pizza.

Since the weekend, we have had snow and sunshine every day. But, fortunately, the snow is melting at once, and we don't have any snow lying on the ground.

Yesterday I went to the ear aqupunkturer. This always gives me lots of energy, so yesterday I was doing lots of housework. But today I am not that energic, I only wish to sit by my computer.

After work today, I have been working out, together with some of my collegues, while Cecilie has been at the riding course this afternoon:

Charles and Joakim started to work with the terrace.

This day started with fog, but mild and warm weather. Later, the fog disappeared, and the sun was shining. We went out early this moring, and started to work with the stuff that we had planned for this day.

Charles finished with the carpentry on the house (outdoors), and painted it after he finished. Then he started with the terrace by our front door. He did not manage to do much. He just started to make some holes for the poles that we are going to have on the terrace.

Today I saw the first white Anemones this spring! My page about white Anemones are here.

This weekend I also heard a bird called "Spove". This is a bird that are coming to our country during Springtime. This bird is not in every place in Norway, but we used to hear it at the place I grew up, so when I hear this bird, it's Spring!

Spove

I have continued to put more of my perennials in the new flowerbed by the wall of our house. Now I have emptyed 5 cases and over 20 pots, with perennials.

After working with the flowerbed, I started to paint all the windowframes, outdoors, which is without paint. (I painted 7 windowframes and two of the corners of the house.) Now we have finished painting the house, outdoors!

I did not finish until 9 in the evening. Tired but happy with todays effort.

During the four days that has past, since Easter, we have had cold weather with lots of rain and wind.

But today it's a lovely weather! Sunny and warm, and no wind. Wonderful! Charles and I have lots of planes for this day. Charles is going to do some carpentry on the house (outdoors). We did not quite finish last fall. We have also plannes about putting up a terrace by our front door, and Charles will start working with this too, soon. Perhaps this weekend.

I am going to continue digging up the flowerbed which is full of weed and grass, and put more of my perennials there. I still have lots of perennials waiting to be moved from their cases and pots, into the flowerbeds. I also have some painting to do. We have several windowframes, outdoors, which is without paint. But it's much more fun to dig in the soil than to paint, so we'll see what I will end up doing...

It's the same lovely weather today. But, today we are going to spend most of the day in our car. (3 hours to drive, each way.) We are going to get Cecilie and Joakim who has been wisiting their father for some days.

We have much better weather today. No wind, and no snowing. (But it have been snowing a lot this last night.) We have been out for a long walk in the nice weather.

It's Easter Saturday today, but the weather is bad, with snow and wind, so we have not been much outdoors. We have just been shopping some grocery. Today I have changed from our a bit dark "winter curtains" in our livingroom, to light pale "summer curtains". It's perpaps a bit early, but I belive that it's nice to have done this, now when I am not at work, and have lots of free time, in my Easter holiday.

If you wish to see our winter curtains, I have several photos of them at this page. I also took a new photo of our guest room (this room is also the room where we have our computer).

It' not blowing that strong wind today, like we had yesterday, but it's blowing a cold wind today too. We have also had several snow showers, but between the snow showers, the sun is shining.

This morning, I have been caring for my plants in our house. I have given new pots to some of them, and one overgrown Tiger Begonia, I have divided into four plants. I probably will give away three out of the four Tiger Begonias. It's nice to share flowers with your friends.

Later this day, we went for a walk, in spite of the bad weather. See photos from our walk, here.

I also took a couple of pictures of Coltsfoot's (Norway's first spring flower), in the snow. Down at this page.

We had planned to wisit my parents today. This means a 6 hours car ride. Cecilie and Joakim were also supposed to see their father, too. But there are a very strong wind here, and it's snowing. We have been checking the conditions on the roads, and people are told not to drive, if they don't have to. We have therefore decided not to go.

Cecilie and Joakim are going to drive by plane instead. Their father will meet them at the airport. It's blowing a strong wind, but the planes are able to fly anyway.

The plane went in time, and Cecilie and Joakim arrived safely to their father.

Charles and I went to a Chinese restaurant, and enjoyed a delicious Chinese dinner after we had been at the airport.

Today we woke up to 1 centimetre with snow on the ground. That was not nice, when I have started working in our garden. But I have not put any plants in the soil, that will die. I will wait another month before I use that kind of flowers. But, now and then, the sun is shining, so I hope that the little snow, will melt during the morning.

Yesterday I started with a new project in our garden. I started to dig up a lot of soil and weed from an old flowerbed.

I have used most of this day, working with this new flowerbed. (It's actually an old flowerbed, which has been overgrown with weed. See photos here.

It's been raining this entire morning. (It's 12 AM, now.) I have been using this morning to update my web site. Check out my "What's new-page" to see my updates.