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Sweden, Christmas 2011
Last Updated on Monday, 02 January 2012 11:17 Written by Duncan Foster Monday, 02 January 2012 11:10
Last time we were in Sweden I looked at a couple houses to buy. While I love the cabin, it is limited to being only able to visit it in summer, so I decided to buy a house, as well. It came with beds, heating, running water and inside toilets; so everything the cabin lacks. It also means if we ever decide to try living over there some time in the future, we can.
We had a fair bit of cleaning and organising to do, but also made time for a walk or two every day. It was warm for the time of year, not getting below -18 C while we were there, but averaging more around the -1 to -8 C range. No matter what the weather, though, it was a pleasure to get out for a walk, either through the town, looking at the Christmas lights in the houses, or through the woods and along the river.
We made it up to the cabin a couple of time. Thanks go to Tony for lending us a snow mobile to make the trip up our drive so much more fun.
To see the photos, click below to see more.
2 Weeks at My Cottage, August 2011
Last Updated on Friday, 02 September 2011 11:55 Written by Duncan Foster Tuesday, 30 August 2011 05:23
We only made it once to my cabin this year, but some friends came (Ginny and Neil) to give us a hand.
We finished off filling in the hole under the kitchen floor, put in most of the new joists for the kitchen, sorted out most of the barn, ripped off some of the cladding, and dealt with another ants nest.
There were a lot less mosquitoes this year, but the area was having a plague of mice, instead.
Thanks go to Ginny, Neil and Karen for some of the photos (and a lot of help) and to Neil for introducing us to the healthy kebab: kebab meat on Ryvita.
July 2010
Written by Duncan Foster Saturday, 14 August 2010 16:05
Karen and I managed to spend two weeks at the cabin in July. We got quite a bit done: Karen finished ripping off the cladding from the inside walls downstairs, and we did the same to the upstairs room. We also got the hole under the kitchen floor filled in with the help of some VERY generous neighbours (how many of your neighbours would volunteer to spend a day helping you move 10 cubic metres of sand using their car, trailer and labour when they have just met you) and got the rotten floor joists pulled out. We also tracked down where we think the remaining hästmyra are living, so a job for next year is to try to deal with them.
May, 2010
Last Updated on Monday, 16 January 2012 19:40 Written by Duncan Foster Saturday, 14 August 2010 10:28
Old Photos from My Cabin
Last Updated on Saturday, 14 August 2010 10:27 Written by Duncan Foster Saturday, 14 August 2010 10:23
While clearing out my cabin in March, we came across some old photos. Some are of the cabin a few decades ago, and some, we must presume, are the family who lived there themselves.
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