Month: July 2024

Midweek and half of my vacation left to look forward to. Time in our paradise goes by so very quickly and so far it’s been great. Time to relax but also time to get some work done in a comfortable pace. Today I have hung two paintings and removed an antenna cord. Lol.

A lot of fun sports to watch on TV in the Olympics. Swedish wins and losses – both expected and unexpected ones. We have bought tickets for the soccer on Sunday – I’m going together with my parents. Fun!

Tonight we are having smoked pork sausages (a local speciality) served with creamed potatoes with dill. Mmm..

First Swedish gold medal this Olympics – Sarah Sjöström won the 100m freestyle swimming. Yeah!

Our local windmill up in Sandvik has been without its arms for several years but this year they have finally been able to put new ones up again (or restored the old ones, I don’t know). Finally the mill looks great again and not under construction anymore. Yeah! 

A sunny day with 19C in the ocean this morning and all the way up to 22.3C in the afternoon. Some algae again though but not too bad. We’ve been doing more laundry and bought more groceries – the days are quite similar but I don’t mind. It’s a great way to relax. 

New week and a windy morning with a lot of waves in the ocean. Fun. 20.1C so quite warm too. Nice. 

Me, hubby and our oldest son took a 3k walk this afternoon. It’s been a lovely sunny day so we have washed several loads today – since we hang everything outside we are depending on good weather for doing laundry. 

We bbq salmon tonight and after dinner four of us drove down to Halltorps Hage for a long evening walk and an attempt to spot some big beetles. We were hoping to find a stag beetle, but no such luck. We did find a large longhorn beetle though (on the photo) – success! The beetle is about 2 inches long so quite large. 

Another medal in the olympics today – a silver to Victor Lindgren in 10m air rifle. Yeah! Congratulations! 

Sunday and a warm but grey day so we have been busy bees working in the garden most of the day. Also watched some sports, that goes without saying. Lol.

Another bronze medal today – Jenny Rissveds achieved it in the 30k crosscountry mountainbike. Yeah!

Now we are cheering on our team – and we managed to win 3-0 towards Mjällby! Yeah! So nice. Fingers crossed this winning streak will continue a while longer.

This morning after breakfast me, my sis, mother and niece went to Kalmar for a day of shopping together. We had a great time and I found what I was looking for. Perfect. We had a delicious shrimp-sandwich for lunch. 

Our guest this week took the bus back home today so now we are down to eight again. We could sit outside tonight and enjoy a bolognese prepared by my sister. Mmmm. 

Today Sweden received our first medal in this olympics – Tara Babulfath won a bronze in Judo for women, 48 kg. Our first medal ever in judo for women. Extra yeah! Well done! 

A sunny day and this morning there were not at all the amount of algae as yesterday so we could enjoy our morning dip. BUT during the day the ocean turned into this green pea soup mess… uäck! Tonight the green algae were gone again, thank God, so maybe we can swim again tomorrow.

Tonight me and my sis attended the yearly local road association meeting. As owner of a property here you are automatically a member and need to pay a membership fee that funds the maintenance of the local road network. At the annual meeting the board goes thru what has happened since the last annual meeting. Not terribly exciting but I guess it is good to be aware of these things.

My names day today. Shared with my oldest niece and late grandma. We have for my whole life celebrated this day with a strawberry cake (unless the strawberry season was over). This year we added some raspberries on top. Me and my niece made the cake as a joint effort and it turned out very yummy.

It was a lot of algae’s in the ocean this morning so I skipped my morning dip for the first time this summer. Bummer. It’s been sunny and rainy off and on so no meals outside. My aunt went back to the city today and tonight my parents and our guest went down to Kalmar for dinner and to watch a city-orientation competition. Fun. The rest of us are enjoying a quiet evening at home.

It was raining a lot during the night but this morning it had stopped so we could enjoy our morning dip in the ocean, 18.1C in the water. 

After lunch, me and my parents and our guest took a nice hour-long walk in the sunny weather over to Grönvik and back. We were all sweaty after the walk so we went for a swim when we got back home. Lovely. 

Tonight we have bbq sausages of different sorts, served with a warm potato salad and veggies. We could sit outside again which was nice. Since it is Tuesday we have our “tisdagsmys” while watching “Allsång på Skansen”. Love traditions. 

New week – second week of our vacation. This week we have two family members working from a distance so we will save the fun for the late afternoons and evenings. 

This afternoon my sis, me and K went into Borgholm for some shopping. I actually found something that I bought – yeah.
We picked up some take away on our way back that we had pre-ordered. “Kroppkakor” – a local speciality which is a potato dumpling filled with smoked pork, onions and seasoned with allspice. Served with lingonberry jam. Mmmm. 

Today we welcomed a new guest so tonight we were nine around the table again. L is practically family – we have even nick-named our guest room after him. Lol. Always nice when he wants to spend some time with us. 

It has been raining a lot all evening and will continue thru the night. But, the forecast promises sunshine again tomorrow. Fingers crossed!