June 2012 - kitchens, logs & Murphy!

Well folks I feel that I must apologise to my readers for not posting - I could say I've been busy but that would imply I've been working hard!!!!

June saw us in Sweden again with Murphy this time & lots of work to do following a winter storm. We were joined by my Mum & Dad for a fortnight & they helped us with our chores & of course Dad sign-wrote Daniel's vans!

 

 

Not long after we arrived we visited Nordvik agricultural college where Daniel learnt his craft as a farrier

 

 

and we also helped him driving a prom!

 

 

Our first job was to install Sarah's new kitchen - with lots of help from Tommy & Ewa who performed the opening ceremony

 

 

we also jacked up a corner of the cabin to try & level it a bit!

 

 

The big job of the summer was to clear a number of trees that had been felled by the wind in a storm the previous winter. Sarah bought me a chainsaw

 

  

& with Dad's help stacking & tending the fire for the brashings
 

we were able to get everything ready for the "horsepower"!

 

And here's Sarah moving logs with Lilleman!!!!

 

 

Ewa, Tommy & Daniel invited us to join them for Grillekorv at a local lake

 

 

& they took us all out for an evening to try & spot bears - as you can see we did see one!

 

 

 Ewa & Daniel also took us to Faboden, a summer farm that opens it's gates to the public

Mum, Dad, Sarah & me had a day at the coast. We stopped for a picnic at a shelter in the forest on the way but didn't stay long - the insects were eating us alive!

Daniel decorated the carriage for Midsummer & took us for a trip around the village although first Sarah had to wash Fia in our garden!

 

One of the things I did with the some of the timber that blew down in the storm was to make some log seats to go around our camp-fire. We got some foam mats (there are some places you DON'T want splinters) & invited Ewa, Tommy & Daniel to a "cowboy cook-out" to christen them!

Sarah started to get Murphy used to "Nice Beaver", I had to push & steady the canoe. I think next year he'll be OK & we'll be off for some overnight trips in the canoe!

I did get one afternoon's fishing at Simmesjon on my own - no fish but a gratuitous pic of my tricked out Sparton float tube!