Its been awhile I know!!

Its almost Christmas!! Unbelievable!!

I haven't written any bloggs for awhile,,

 just haven't had the energy to! Long story!!

Have a cold again,,

Here I go complaining again!!

NOPE not going there!!

Just wanted to let everyone know I am alive and doing pretty good!!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2013

already!!

HUGS!!!



Walpurgis Night

This is a big holiday here in Sweden!! I'm lucky this year I am off from work!! May 1 is a big day too for everyone that is working o has worked!! May Day or international workersday!!  No help for me I have to work!! But am gong to enjoy my day off today!! Maybe start the grill and do something  yummy for dinner? and celebrate Walpurgis,, hehe

All is well after the weekend!! Slept it away mostly!! Hubby washed the boat and waxed it so its all ready to be put in the water tomorrow,, Weather seems to be very nice all week so I will be enjoying my days off!! tomorrow night is a work night for me and then friday and saturday!! But thats life!!

 Heres alittle info from Wikipedia about how May 1st is celebrated here!!

May 1 has been an important part of Swedish history since the late 19th century. The day was made a public holiday in 1938 but had been celebrated by the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the left since 1890. The first May Day celebration gathered more than 50.000 people in central Stockholm. The crowd went to hear speeches by the leading figures in the Swedish labour movement such as Hjalmar Branting (later prime minister), August Palm and Hinke Bergegren. During World War I the demonstrations mainly had a peace message and the Liberal Party also joined the demonstrations. The 8-hour working day and women's suffrage were the principal themes during the troubled times after World War I. When the Social Democratic Party won the election in 1932 they started an era of social democratic rule that wasn't broken until the election in 1976, when a centre-right coalition came to power after nearly 50 years in opposition.
The May Day demonstrations are still an important part of Swedish politics and the leaders of the social democratic and left-wing parties use May Day to discuss their politics. In Stockholm the Social Democratic Party always marches towards Norra Bantorget, the centre of the Swedish labour movement, to hold speeches in front of the headquarters of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.

And Walpugis night! Info also from Wikipedia!

Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht) is a traditional spring festival on 30 April or 1 May in large parts of Central and Northern Europe. It is often celebrated with dancing and with bonfires. It is exactly six months from All Hallows' Eve.
The current festival is, in most countries that celebrate it, named after the English missionary Saint Walpurga (ca. 710–777/9). As Walburga was canonized on 1st of May (ca. 870), she became associated with May Day, especially in the Finnish and Swedish calendars.^[1][2] The eve of May day, traditionally celebrated with dancing, came to be known as Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"). The name of the holiday is Walpurgisnacht in German and Dutch, Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish, Vappu in Finnish, Volbriöö, (Walpurgi öö) in Estonian, Valpurgijos naktis in Lithuanian, Valpurģu nakts or Valpurģi in Latvian, čarodějnice or Valpuržina noc in Czech, chódotypalenje Lower Sorbian and chodojtypalenje in Upper Sorbian.

SO ALL Have a good week and I shall return,, hehe with motorcycle adventures I am sure!!

BUG HUGS!!!!

Long time ni hear!! SORRY!!!

Been busy! and loosing weight!! and bouncing back and loosing weight!! YAYA!!
Right now I'm in to green tea!!! WOW!! detoxing with it !! BELIEVE it or not!!
I bought ginger and lemon tea!! YUM!! (I'm fine believe me!!! Not gone crazy but think i am sometimes!! hehe Hope all of you are well!!)

and dring tapwater with grated ginger and lemon and mint leaves!! YUM!!
Found this great webpage!! Teas and things that seems interesting,,

I will try and try to come back for a visit,,, am on  Viktvaktarna.se and bloggg there too but in Swedish hehe!!

Will be in touch Lots of luv!!

Things have happened since the last time,,,,

GODMORNING!!!

Since I last wrote,,,

I have had a car accident and must the car up,,,

and got myself some Bruises

(which are almost gone now!!)

I'm fine,,

I was on my way home from work and

it was a bit slippery and when the back

of a Volvowagon starts sliding around there is

NO STOPPING IT!!!

Like I said I am fine,

 abit shaken but Not Broken in anyway!!

Just waiting for the Insurance company to finish

and Pay out so we can start thinking about a new Car!

A Volvo probably but not as big!

No need for it now,, we'll see what Santa brings me!!

Otherwise I am off all Christmas and new years!!

Just relaxing!!
The Best way to spend the Holidays!!!

Much love and ¨

MERRYCHRISTMAS!!

And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I*M BACK for now anyway! hehe

I know its been a while!!!

BAD ME!!!

Whats been going on...well A trip to the states(in Sept)

  and visiting with mom and the gang!!

Got to see a few of my old classmates too!!

JIPEE!!

That was fun!! Really!!

Lots of good food and lots of 

laughs!!

Since we got back

 I have a new Schedule at work and

I do love working nights and sleeping during the day

hehe

That is the good stuff  oh ya one more thing,,,

I have been going to weight watchers for about a year,,(no hurry)

and have lost about 18 pounds(ca 10 kg)

Luv it and have been a member for what almost17 years!!

But haven't  been going until last fall,,

New program and Points,,Luv it!! its great!!

The best thing is we can eat everything in the

right amount!!

I feel great that is the most important thing!! RIGHT!!

Getting ready for Christmas,,

We have become the UnChristmasy type of people

Only because we have no one but the kids to celebrate with!! and they aren't big Christmas people either,,

They want presents but aren't the present buying type,, so what do ya do??

make a regular meal and exchange presents,,,

On another note,,,

My aches and pains are back and apparently to stay!!

My right shoulder has been bothering me for a while

Called the Physiotherapist and got a FROZEN SHOULDER diagnosis,,, 

along with my Fibromyalgia,,

OUCH!! Not fun!

And that will take about a year before it goes away!!

Pain in the arse to be truthful!

But as stubborn as I am...

I never give up!!

Going in to work tonight  and work 2 nights in a row,, them I'm off sunday,,

going to a Christmas fair out at Eriksberg 

Its a very nice place,, a world of wildlife and the realworld,,

www.eriksberg.nu

 Just push the translation flagg!!

I'm off to do bigger and better things HAHA!!

BIG HUGS!!

OK PEOPLE!!!

Here they come!! Pictures that I promised ages ago!!

Took me a while things down loaded sooo slow!!! GRRR!!!

                                      
                                   Lars-tomta bed and breakfast
                                                    in Värmland
                                       ( way up north in Sweden)


                                         

Me at the first little rental,, Lousy but liveable for one night

                                                         Trollveggen in the fog!!

                                                                   Better living!!

                                                                            ME

                                                              Behind the cottage

                                                       The mountains around us!!

                                                                    Pretty huh???

                                                                AHHHHHH!!!

                                                     Way down below is a fjord!!

 My troll buddy

                                         Picking a troll nose on a rainy day
                                             ( my birthday)!! hehe

These are just a few,, have quite a few only about 119!!

Not in any real order but you get the point!!

Enjoy!!

 BIG HUGS!!!

DON*T WORRY BEEE HAPPY,,,

OKAY I Know you are all waiting for pictures from Norway!! 

 I'm getting there,,

 gotta get all the pictures sorted and set and we'll be fine!!

Only have about 150 pictures to choose from!!!

Beautiful pictures and a couple of videos taken from the bike ridin along the curvy roads!!

The mountains and the hills are amazing,, undescribable to tell ya the truth!!

Alot of the roads are like this one!!

Just wanted to let ya know we are alive and doing well besides cleaning out closets and throwing alot of stuff away!!

WHERE DOES ALL THE JUNK COME FROM?????

6 Huge garbage bags went to the dumpster today and I have to get on the ball and start cleaning the sauna room out!! I seem to have alot of stuff that need cleaning and sorting!!

Old dishes and blankets and stuff that someone may need??

Well thats all for now!! Will be in touch,,

Going back to work in Friday night

work my 9 nights and a few days off and then we are off the THE US OF A!!

HUGS!!!!

Been a long time I KNOW!!

I just haven't had the umph to write anything!!

We have been out riding some,,

 and making plans for our vacation and our trip this fall too!!!

  This is a gathering we were at last week!!

Summer came all at once and we have had some HOT days and

some rain too,,

Got worried last week when we got news that there were floods in Norway,,

the winter snows were melting and it was raining and there was nowhere for it to go,,,

so it looks like we have to take another route,,,

we have booked rooms for the 6 of us at the border.

Hubby and I went to Eriksberg wildlife park the other day,, we didn't see alot of animals but i did get to see my favorite,,,

 Cousin Bison,,, the European Bison

Handsome Huh??

and the beautiful lily pads

and the wee Lil wild bores!!

So now ya know we are alive here and ther will be further reports!!!

and pictures from Norway I promise!!

Big hugs!!

I have received some help from a friend, Maya to update my page with some tabs and other fun stuff! So please look around!

What is new is About me, and recipes!

Enjoy!

Wednesday already???

Well the rain decided to go away for today anyway!!

The sun is shining!!!

For now anyway!!

No promises!!

Plan for today is taking dotter to doctor and food shopping,,,

and then home and do some gardening!

Hopefully!

Have this one flower bed that is beautiful but there are som many flowers that have now flowers left and need to be cleaned out to make room for others!!!

Besides the weeds!!!

Dinner is to be made and maybe a ride on the Harley for a couple of hrs tonight,,

Some of us in the gang are going for a ride today and then go to that little cafe i told ya about yesterday!

for a nice cup of coffee and a munchy!!

NOT ME!!

Coffee yes but i have my own munchy!!

Så I think I'll make skedi and meatballs for dinner and that will be all set

when its time to eat!

will make this short,,

Hope to see a good friend and her family there tonight!!

Hope the weather is ok!!

Hmmm

its getting cloudy now,,,GRRRR

HUGS to all!!!

Have a good one!!

GOOD TUESDAY!!!

To even think I still have almost a week left to stay at home and rest!!!

Hate to say it but my arms are killing me again!!
My Fibromyalgia is giving me a heck of a time,,

Hard time getting into my Motorcycle jacket, if I don't take my meds first

SOOO

it looks like I will be taking my meds again whether I like it or not!

and seeing I have been pretty okay Over a year now,, its time,,,,

Otherwise Life goes on!!

We had a nice ride Sunday,got home just before the thunderstorm

(not us)

caught up with us!! Had enough time to ride for a couple of hrs and even had time for an icecream! Got into the garage just as it started to rain!

Hopefully the weather will get better so we can go fer a ride tomorrow

and on Thursday, tomorrows ride goes to Villa utsikten Teeny tiny caféthat is as old as the hills in Karlshamn , isn't it cute???
and Thursdays to a little cafe way out in the in the woods,,

called the Wild marks cafe!

Internet is sooo slow today,,, Looking at different sites,, the Bike clubs we belong to see what they have planned,,, There I got it goin!!

Must be the weather!

When something doesn't work right
blame it on the weather or hehe,,, men.(love em to death)

Its dark and pouring rain!! Good thing cuz hubby put Grass fertilizer down last night when it was sprinkling, so it will get nice and thick and greeeeen!!!

I should go out and put some on my geraniums!!

They haven't started to grow yet,,it still is pretty chilly out at night,,,

So i'll be on my way!!!!

HUGS!!! And LUV of course!!!

the story of thunder and lightning!

I found this story on line this

morning,, after a night of Rain and thunder an lightning!!! Thunder and Lightning
Thunderstorms often occur at the end of hot, sticky summer days. At this time, warm moist air rises quickly and forms large cumulonimbus clouds. Inside these tall dark clouds, air currents create strong updraughts and water droplets and ice particles rub against each other. As they bang together like this, it causes a build-up of static electricity. Lighter, positive charges gather at the top of the cloud and heavier, negatively-charged pieces of ice and water accumulate at the base. The ground below is also positively charged. Electricity flows between the charges and the difference between them increases. When the differences get big enough, they are neutralised and electricity is released as a flash of lightning.
This can occur in two ways: within the cloud (sheet lightning)
between the cloud and the ground (fork lightning)
Heat...
As the lightning strikes, it heats the air around it. Lightning bolts can heat the air to as much as five times as hot as the surface of the sun – approximately 30,000 °C (54,000 °F). This heat causes the air around to expand explosively, resulting in the loud crash called thunder.
Speed...
Although the two happen together, you always see a flash of lightning before you hear the crash of thunder. Do you know why this happens? It is because light travels faster than sound.

Strikes...

Strikes – lightning always takes the quickest path to the ground and usually strikes tall isolated objects such as trees or tall buildings. This is why it is dangerous to shelter under trees during a storm.
Lightning fact: the Empire State building is struck by lightning approximately 8 times each year!
Forks...

Each fork of lightning is actually two strikes travelling quickly up and down the same path. The first bolt (the "leader stroke") zig-zags downwards and completes the circuit between cloud and ground. This is followed a split second later by a huge surge (the "return stroke") that shoots back up the path just created.
Distance...

How close is it?
You can work out approximately how far away a storm is by counting the number of seconds between seeing a flash of lightning and hearing the thunderclap. Because light travels faster than sound, the sound of the thunder will take about 2 seconds to travel 1 km. Therefore for every 2 seconds you count, the storm is 1 km away. If it is close, the thunder will sound like a loud crack, whereas if it is further away, it will sound more like a low rumble.
Myths...

Thunder lore
Thunder has always been an awe-inspiring fact of nature, although it hasn’t always been as well understood as it is today:


American Indians believed that thunder and lightning was caused by the sacred thunderbird. The thunder resulted from the flapping of its wings and the lightning flashed from its beak.

The Norse god of thunder is known as Thor. He is always drawn in pictures wielding a heavy hammer. This hammer represents the "thunderbolt" that was once thought to fall from the clouds.
Noise...

Make thunder. You can actually make thunder yourselves. To do this, blow up a small paper bag and then pop it. What happens? It makes a loud bang because the air inside has expanded quickly, just as it does when it is heated by lightning.

Now that we've had a look at clouds and some of the weather features they create, we can move on to another form of moisture in the air for the next section. This time it's mist and fog.

Pretty cool story huh??

I have always loved thunder and lightning,,

Used to go outside and walk when it was raining and thundering,,

Pretty cool!!!

Have a grrreat day!!!

HUGS!!!