2007

Happy New Year 2007!

Weather Diary

It has snowed a lot last night. I took this photo in the morning when I walked to the city centre to buy flowers and a cake for my dad, it's Father's Day today.

Santa Claus in pink

My favourite candy! Pink Santa Claus. Yummy!

The day after the storm

After the storm - a lot of snow in city of Lulea

Pic of the day

Usually it starts snowing in November, but this year the snow came early. It started to snow a couple of days ago, but I don't complain. The snow makes it brighter outside.

Yesterday, it was very stormy. The weather forecast had warned of very strong winds coming from Scotland, but this wasn't that bad. Here in Lulea, we are used to strong winds, because we live near the ocean. So, the yesterday's storm was manageable.

Pic of the day

It's autumn here in Lulea. Took the pic with my mobile phone.

An autumn tradition in Sweden

Last night, I have been to "Surstromming party" at our deaf club. "Surstromming" = fermented baltic herring. We eat raw herring with potatoes, tomatoes and onions, and also "tunnbrod" which is a kind of bread. You can see it on the pics here. And yes, you read it right, we eat raw herring!

Every year around August 19-30, we have Surstromming parties. It is big here in Sweden, especially in the northern parts of Sweden. I know that some, or most foreigners hate the taste of this Surstromming. But they are not used to it! It's not that bad, it just takes time to get used to this.

Autumn now

Today the children are back at school again, and I am back at work after my summer holiday. According to my calendar, autumn is here now.

This summer has been hot, 30-35 C and that's too hot!! I couldn't even walk without sweating. Now the weather's starting to cool off a little. Today was 21 C, that's more normal for a Swedish summer.

Sure, it's great with a warm summer, but it should not last too long!
Two months of hot weather is enough for me! Now it's time for autumn.

Oh, and it's time for autumn fashion! The autumn clothes are already in the shops, and I can't wait for my salary on the 25th!!! I can't wait for shopping!

Misse is fine now

Misse is taking a walk

Misse hurted her paw a few days earlier but is doing fine now.
She doesn't seems to have problem with her paw anymore.

I hope she doesn't get into more cat fights, but stay calm this time.

But you never know what she's doing when she's out at night!

A shameless cat

Last night, we had some evening tea with sandwiches.
Curry, the cat tries to grab a sandwich.
My sister stopped him.
So, this time, Curry didn't get a chance to eat from our food.
But Curry is already secretly planning his next coup for a good sandwich.

Cat accident

Misse the cat

I am back to Sweden again, now staying at mum's house near Malmo.
Will stay here during the rest of the summer.

An accident happened to mum's cat, we don't know exactly what had happened. She has a big sore on her paw and is limping.

At first we thought the cat had jumped off a roof, but the veterinarian thinks it was in a fight with an another cat. The veterinarian told my mum to give the cat medicine every day for one week.

Misse's paw in bandage

A forgotten boat

Somebody has forgotten his boat.

It's been here on the shore during all the spring.

Spring picture

An ordinary three up here in north. No leaves yet.

+ 9 C degrees and sunny today.