looong time ago

Havent got the time to blog for a long time. Just been working and working and working almost all days and nights since Svalbard.

Havent got the time to fix the hey for the sheeps, so I have sold almost all of them. Next winter we will have only a cupple. Sad but necessary.

On this pic Niklas (Marits son) Marie and Wiggo their son. I am almost a grandpa (I am Karlsson on the roof

Me and this little fellow  will have a good time in a year or two. Have already bought him a tractor and a baler and next summer there will be a quad and a motorcykle (-:

Wish I got the same energy as this little fellows

 At least a got a new tractor. IH 84H. Much easyer to trive than the old one, and heat in the cab. Will be good next winter

Time for the lawn again

Så var det dax att göra nåt åt gräsmattan som vi grävde sönder i vintras. Köpte den här jordfräsen förra veckan. Mesta av jobbet gör jag naturligtvis med traktorn, men den här lilla manicken är bra att ha på dom svåråtkomliga ställena. Delar av marken är fortfarande väldigt blöta så jag får dela upp jobbet i etapper så det hinner torka efterhand.

Vi har mycket vi ska hinna med innan vi åker till Svalbard, så kvällarna blir fyllda med arbete. Tillsammans med gräsmattan har vi flyttat fåren till sommarbetet, planterat buskar och blommor och planterat tomater och gurka i växthuset. Nu återstår bara trägårdslandet med morötter, potatis och annat gott. Tur att vädret är bra.

what to do in a beutiful easter

If you dont now what to do in easter I can give you some examples.

Digging mud is pretty funnie so I did it twice

At the firs time I got it up again, but not the second. Just to wait for my friend with the backhoe. Pretty funny in easter.

Just tried to fix the lawn after our geothermal digging in mars. Maybe I would be waiting until the ground was dry  :-)

If you dont think digging mud is funny you can help your motherinlaw with her firewood. At least she is glad .

But the best is spending some time with these little bugs

Spended a cupple of ours with our bee teacher looking in a hive. They just woken up from their wintersleep, and started to work at once.

After midsummer we got our own bees, and that will be exciting.

Marit was taking the photos (and laughed  a lot to my stupidness)

Time for springtime work

Att våren är här har väl inte undgått någon. men bara 10 km från vårt hus är det fortfarande väldigt mycket snö kvar. Här uppe på höjderna kommer alltid våren några veckor senare 

Vägen var väldigt lerig och jag var glad att jag inte hade sommardäcken på

Som vanligt är fårklippning en av vårens sysslor. Våra får blev inte klippta i höstas, jag tyckte att det var alldeles för kallt när det var dax

Så nu hade dom ordentligt tjock päls och var dubbelt så jobbiga att klippa. Dom kommer i vanlig ordning att se för djäkliga ut några veckor framöver.

Vi har haft nåt mystiskt främmande hos hönsen. Något djur har varit in och stulit alla våra 17 kycklingar. Satte ut fällor i förrgår och fick en stor råtta i en av dom i går. Troligen den som har orsakat förödelsen. men vi har flera kycklingar på gång och jag hoppas att jag har fångat fler råttor innan dom släpps ut.

this day, a lifetime

Both Marit and me likes like surprices, and oftenly we dont planning so well for things.

Life will go like it goes.
Today it was open house, and we expected 10 maybe 15 persons. We have decided to offer them some coffe and lemonade after their tour on our farm.
I went to the car parking to show them the way to the sheeps pasture, but I never understood how many there was.



Marit realized when she saw the crowd...

There was more than 60 pepole arrived at 11!!!!

 Well, there was nothing to do, except boiling some more coffe.
A little bit difficult to explain sheepfarming for everybody, but the kids get a good time, and thats the main thing.
It´s sad that kids grown up today thinking milk comes from the refridgerator in the store, and meet is the flat thick thing on a Mac Donalds burger.

As many as possible got the opportunity to cuddle with a lambs and eves.
After a half our or so, most of the eves thought it was boring with all the pepole and went in to the barn,lay down starting to ruminate. Show was over in ther point of viev

 And we made more coffe

 Then it was showtime for the chickens. Most of the kids (and adults) have never se a chicken, not even on tv.
Think it was a great day for all of us

After the show, we went to the hospital 1 our away to welcome our new familymember. Marit is a proud grandma and was realy exited to meet her first grandchild



Marits mum , Marie the proud mother and Marit



3 generations, Niklas, Marit and the small one who got no name yet (or more truly, he got at least 5 )



Off curse the little boy would like to test my arms also.
Will sing lullabys and telling fairytales for this one for at least 10 years

in sweden there is a famous story about a little boy and "The best Karlsson in the world"

Karlsson is a "moderat fat man in his prime" and he does a lot of fun (he thinks)

That will be me.....

My new favorite

Just found out my new favorite beer. The name in english is "RAM BEER".

 Just a product in my way (-:

Today it´s "open house" on our little farm.

We will show farming in the "small way" and think our new born lambs and chickens will be a succes

We made a program toghether with our local tourist agency and we hope there will be a lot of kids and their parents coming visit us..

Last evening Marit become a grandma. Her son Niklas and his girlfriend Marie got a son.

never thougt I will spend my life with a grandma...

I am getting old..

Busy weekend

This weekend it was time for the plumber to do his job. This is the old equipment. I am really glad to get rid of it. Have spended too much time bucking wood.Took us the whole saturday to move the old one outside and get the new inside

 
 
 
 
 
 
And here is the new. Get plenty of room here. Maybe we will move our laundry to this room

The plumber filling alcohol/water in the 500 m tubes.

And off curse we got a lot of lambs, just when I dont have the time to take care of them. Lucky me who got Marit. She spended the weekend with the eves and lambs. Think we got 13 in a cupple of days. Here are some unique pictures who Marit take. It´s not often we have the oppurtunity to see when they get their lambs. This one is just a cupple of minutes old, and if you look closely to the grey eve can you se se will get one any second.You can se more of it in her own blog
Still have 6 eves who got no lambs yet.

Last smoke in our chimnery

This is probobly the last smoke in our chimery for a long while. In the end of the week there will be geothermal heating of the house. Pretty expensive but it feels good not be able to woodbucking this year. Off curse I will have some wood for the big waterboiler and some barbercue, but thats not the same way.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Our garden house is waiting for summer. Guess Marit will have some tomatoes and cucumber there. It´s our first season with gardenhouse so it will be exciting

Today is the last day of digging the pipes. Wounder if there will be a lawn here again.
Have to plow and harrow this summer so we will se next year how it works out.

As you can see it´s still a lot of snow. Hope we get rid of it in the beginning of april so we can start our springtime work early



 The eves ruminate in the sunshine. Even it´s stormy weather out there

 This is the one born a week ago in -32. Seems to be strong and helthy except the ears. Elin named him Froste

 Yesterday we got a new one. The eve only got one lamb so she (or he) will grow with now concurrens.

The eves seems take ther time this year. No hurry getting any lambs.

Roj is the protector and prefect of the heard.
Every day he try to get the sheeps to the feed table, witch is his opinion where they will be standing calm and nice. If they dont he barks as .. to them

Diggiloo diggiley

Så var det äntligen dax för vårt lilla jordvärme projekt.

Bertil Karlberg fick snurr på grävmaskinen och satte skopan i backen.

Han ska gräva 250 meter långt dike, 2 meter brett och 1 meter djupt, så innan det är färdigt har vi grävt upp halva gräsmattan. Här är den första delen, som hittills är ca 130 meter

500 m slang ska ner i diket, på var sin sida. Som tur är så är det mycket vatten i marken. Det ska vara bra för funktionen av jordvärmeanläggningen



En tur upp mot hygget blir det också för att få plats


Vi får väl se om vi har lyckats räkna ut rätt längd på diket så att slangen räcker fram till huset...


Stövlarna räcker nästan inte till..

Nu ska jag bara jaga rörmockaren så han får ändan ur vagnen och beställer utrustningen..
Kämpigt att vara byggledare

The first one

This is the little fellow who surviverd 30 below

His proud father, Ullrik

And the family

Springtime, (even if you dont belive)

This week we got cold, 30 below almost every night and wounderful sunshine every day. 

Yesterday morning when I was feeding the sheeps, one of the ewes just stopped outside the door to the barn and looked backwards. I understood there was a lamb inside.

So I jumped over the fence to go inside and take a look.

There was 3 lambs!!! never got so many from the same ewe before.

But just this morning it was -32 degrees and cold as....

One of the lambs was already ded, and one was just between ded or alive. The third was lively and was already jumping around.

So I started to try keep the second little fellow alive, giving it some extra food, and get it up on her feets.

For a while during the afternoon it semed to be a success, but late in the evening it was ded.

Thats life being a farmer. You cant always be sucessed in your fight with the nature

 Off curse there is time for some chickens. Put some eggs in the incubator and in 21 days we will see the result.

Some job to preparing the behives. Seems to be a busy springtime this year...