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...



long lazy winter

Every winter I got really lazy. Just reading books and other smaller things. But in the beginning of february, when the days are getting longer my mind wakes up and suddenly I want to do things again.

Today we got our first order of our beekeeper stuff. We orderd some cloths and other things. We also orderd a cupple of behives. Hopefulle we also got some bees, but they will arrive when we are back from Svalbard.

We spended this winter with teoretic studies of the small insects, and how to be a god beekeeper. I have already made some stuff to the be behives such as frames and so.

This winter seems to be the longest, and one of the coldest I can remember. Since nov 7 we got cold wether every day, except two days in the middle of january. Worst was in december.

Yesterday we got a blizzard, and this morning we got about 60 cm snow on our road. And too cold to get the tractor started. Guess who got som exercise with the snow shovel a 5.30 pm.

If it´s thrue what the older pepole says, that winter always ends in easter I will be a bear next autumn, just go to sleep and be in that condition until the end of april