Mother’s Got A Dot Com

Although I am slightly twisted, this wasn’t easy!

Below, sis in a twist on New Year’s Eve…

- and twist my arm no further, I’ll have the rest of that…

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A terribly late post this week, but I couldn’t resist posting a photo of the main “rosace” of the Cathedral in Strasbourg, France, the city where I spent most of my childhood.

All the windows are spectacular, but this one is in a league of its own…

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This is high, high up in the Norwegian mountains…

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Great Balls Of Fire…

A cannon from around 1700, in front of one of our fortresses - designed to keep the Swedes at bay!

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A photo of something hidden for you to find…

All right, this is my monster truck. What else?

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This stave church is from 1123, and is open for tourists, with guided tours in the summer. This guide has a different approach to welcoming them…

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We’ve had quite a few parties in this house since we moved in. Mostly family gatherings for birthdays, Christmas and such, but we’ve also had 2 christenings…

A couple of “gourmet” gatherings for 4 couples, where the guys have had the house to themselves and done the cooking…

One confirmation (actually 3, but two of them were held elsewhere)…

Both hubbys 40th birthday and mine (in reverse, I’m a year older than he is)…

We also hosted MILs 70th…

Another confirmation is coming up in May, with far too many people, so I think it’ll have to be held in our new barn. Party tents on the terrace are a possibility too, of course. Invites are going out next week…

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For wooden, it will have to be buildings. Most houses in Norway are predominantly built with wood - there’s always been so much of it!

First, the little outhouse at our cabin. This is a modern(ish) version, used as a guest house in the summer, but these buildings were found on every farm in Norway in the old days, and they were used for food storage. The pillars were designed to keep the vermin out, and the buildings were well aired, so that dried goods, salted and fresh meats and sausages would keep for as long as possible. An old-fashioned fridge…

This is a stave church - it’s from around 1100 A.D., not long after Norway was first Christened. The roof is made out of wooden slates.

This is our up- and coming barn… completely built from wood - the cladding and most of the framework comes from our own forest.

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A narrow escape…

We almost had a feeling of spring after Tuva the storm had done its thing, but look what we woke up to this morning!

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We’ve kept quite a few loads of things that have come to us through the generations - here are some:

My great grandmother’s flour container, that she had in her kitchen She was born in 1870, and died in 1967… The wooden bowl comes from the same side of the family, but is probably older. It’s a beer bowl - it was filled with beer and passed around. There’s a painted inscription along the side: “God, grant us a good year, so we may drink well and often” (or something to that effect…)

This chair was made by my great grandfather - the husband of the lady who owned the flour container. I’ve upholstered the seat, using a fabric woven by their daughter - my grandmother. The two copper kettles come from my husbands’ family - beautiful things, made for wood stoves.

All of these are not only old-fashioned - they’re downright old…

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