Super skiing weather

I took these snaps with my phone while out on my cross-country skis.

I went out on Christmas Eve morning, when most of the Swedish population was at home preparing for the big annual feed-up.

The temperature was about -3, and the tracks were in perfect condition. The pictures were taken when I went out again last Tuesday. It was considerably colder on that occasion with about -13. I managed 10km each time.

As you can see from the picture of me the frost builds up on the beard and moustache very well.

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Ruth, Johnnie and Victor have now been living with us for a few weeks now, and their house renovation is progressing.


Since I haven't written here for a while I can inform you that I had a very nice Christmas Eve at Maggan's and Kjell's while Magie had to work. In exchange for that shift she was able to be free for the following three days. We enjoyed Boxing Day having an English Christmas at Edward's and Julia's, staying that night in a hotel.

Christmas is coming, and so are Ruth and Family!

Christmas is coming, and in this part of the world it usually actually waits until about the beginning of December to really make its presence known. In most windows suddenly appear seven little lights arranged in an inverted V. Very pretty!



Ruth, Johnnie and Victor are coming to stay with us again. This time for a longer stay while their house is uninhabitable. The above picture was taken upstairs, and soon a similar process will transform downstairs! I think that a house becomes uninhabitable when the water is turned off, there's no usable kitchen, and the air is full of dust!

Victor's started to lick his fingers to turn over the pages when he's 'reading' the paper. It looked so funny when we visited the other day. I wonder what other mannerisms he'll pick up, this one is straight from Johnnie.