Christmas day, the 25th. This morning started with rain and plus degrees and very slippery walk to the church service 😆😆
1pm, Priest – my brother and a local brass band and a solo violinist.
The Christmas crib in Haltdalen church.
After the service we went over to my sister in law’s mother for some Christmas brunch that lasted to afternoon 😆😆.
When we got home, there where Tusse in the couch 😊 😻.
The house cat, Tusse.
Later on I sat down with the jigsaw. A jigsaw with 2000 pieces. A good challenge! A Christmas tradition I like.
2nd Christmas day, the 26th.
I started where I left the jigsaw the evening before, now having late breakfast and Coffee with the jigsaw while my brother and sister in law went to the gym. A good one and a half hour alone in the house. Only Tusse was at home sleeping somewhere…
The first boarding went well and I arrived in Oslo, Gardermoen 09:30am as planned, December 23rd.
Gardermoen airport [Oslo].
And because I had a transit flight I didn’t need to stress about other things 😊. I was also blessed with the fact that the first flight and the second flight left from the same gate 😊😊.
Værnes airport Trondheim.
Express bus in to Trondheim city and “fatch some food ” at Burger King.
Here could I finally relax and enjoy being in Trondheim (even though I lost more than 12 hours and a night at a hotel).
Trondheim Winter time.
Went for “the walk” to fond the bus stop, I kind of remembered where it was but not totally 😆😆. Walked past a Coffee and Tea shop. Went in and bought two cup’s as a pre Christmas gift to my brother and sister in law.
And offcourse was I early to the bus 🤪 so I had to stand and wait… and when I arrived Trondheim it was 🌡 +2 but when I was waiting on the bus it was already minus degrees 😆 and I didn’t have warm enough shoes 😆😆
Winter wonderland.
I arrived my families place (village) 5:40pm) dark and colder with lot’s of sn❄️w 😍😍😍.
The moment I arrived in the cold part of Norway.
We had some typical Norwegian Christmas food – risengrynsgrøt (white rice porridge) with cinnamon and suger (and if you are Norwegian with butter also)
I haven’t got that far yet,yet I’ve lived in Norway for 17 years.
After the risengrynsgrøt we started to decorate the Christmas tree with ornaments.
That was the plan at least. I got nervous already at 2pm when I heard flights were cancelled at Heathrow, London UK and hoped it wouldn’t be the same here. I arrived to the airport in good time (8pm) and got my bagage checked in and past the safety control without a problem. Walking towards the gate, (8:30pm ish) I overheard other passengers also going to Trondheim, saying ” we have to find an other flight ” and I realised the flight was cancelled.
I went to pick up my suitcase and txted friends. I called one friend because my adhd brain needed to calm down. I realised quickly that it wouldn’t help to go home and try to sleep and call a taxi to be back at the airport around 7am. So I’m still at the airport.
Bought night snacks/ food and a espresso.
[Boring info, I ate and drank my coffee] Because the flight was cancelled by the airline they also got meca new ticket and a new time for departure.
New boarding time is 08:35am the 23rd, towards Oslo [one of few airports I hate]. Hopefully it will go well for my adhd [that’s why I hate big airports]. I am on my way up north, towards my brother and sister in law at #haltdalen south of Trondheim but north of Røros.
Walked to the arriving board to check if my new flight had got there with information. Walked past a good couch where I’m laying right now (23:40/11:40pm) I have set the alarm for “working alarm” at 06:30am and hoping I’ll manage to rest maybe sleep some. But the lights in the ceiling are quite bright… but I am tired!
11:40pm Sola airport, 22nd of December 24.
I woke up 04:30am from passangers walking past where I tried to sleep. Manage to rest 30 min more b4 I really needed the wc. I have maybe ‘slept’ 4 hours at the airport,
…already checked in my suitcase and got my double espresso. 06:30am and soon breakfast….
I’ll boarding in an hour (08:05am).
My pray now is to I stay awake when needed and can relax or eat at Gardermoen/ osl airport and that I don’t get migraine.
Age difference in a relationship, how important is that really? Are “we” to much into that because of the society thinking? Or is it just the “way we grow up thinking “?
How are you thinking? Are you in a relationship where you are younger or older than your partner?
Why am I writing about this? Well I have started to ask myself the question. Am I still single because I thought “I always wanted a younger man in my life” or “have I failed so many times because I only looked for a younger man because I look younger than my actually age?” I know I shouldn’t think like this. I should be able to focus on chemistry and common interests. But I am reacting on my self’s thinking about age.
What “benefits” is it with an older vs younger man in a relationship?
I have forced myself to try to “look” for someone in my own agerange and above when it comes to go on a date – yes there it was… 😆🤪 and I would love to here from you whom follow my blog, how do you think about this “issue I have”?
Can I trust the matching test most dating app’s has (for a reason) or will I continue to be skeptical to them? Do they work? And how much will be right? I have so many questions about this 🙈🙈🙈 . But it is something that occupy my thoughts.
Super tired brain, on Friday 8th of November also second day back at work and still on sickleave but only 50%. Spinning brain and dizzyness is my common feeling when I get tired from all the noises at work [I mean it would be kind of wierd if the kids didn’t make noises, I do work in a school]. But with fatigue symptoms and spinning brain, my brain can’t cope with high noises, which it’s a lot of in this generation of kids. And the only thing that really works as medicin is sewing 🧵😊.
So, after work on Friday the 8th, I got home 1.30 pm and made my coffee and had a need of sewing but didn’t really know what to sew. Two weeks ago I got a huge bag of second hand clothes from a friend, maybe I could upcycling something from that bag? So I looked through and I knew I had hot several pairs of old jeans. Maybe I could upcycle a pair of jeans into a warmer skirt? That became my goal. 😊.
I didn’t know how long – how many hours I needed to sew to get my brain ” back to non spinning situation “. So I just did what I always do when I sew. I make it on the way – how it will look like. My main focus was to use as much wool fabric as possible but I also wanted colours. And if I could, colours closer to the nature.
I was sewing 🧵 for 6,5 hours on Friday 🤩.
Saturday 9th, I started where I left it. Need to unpick a back pocket, because I wanted to used it an other place on the skirt.
Here is the skirt after 7 hours of sewing on Saturday 😉.
Sunday morning the 10th, trying it on, I realised I need more colours in the front. I found some ocra yellow wool fabric 🤩, and I don’t like things symetric as most people 😆😆 so I made it very me 😆😆😊.
I have just been listening to my favourite online Church, Elevation Church, and the title of the service; God can use this too.
Here are some things I got from the preaching;
Creativity is not defined by how many ideas you have, Creativity is defined by how you implement the ideas you have.
As Christians, what distinguishes our Christian faith from those who do not have faith is not necessarily the things that happen to us. it’s not necessarily even the things we hear in Church. It is our ability to take those things that happen to us and do something with them that will be fruitful and productive.
One way to be creative.
The more painful the event is, the greater the opportunity for God to show his creative power. See, God is not creative; he is creator. Creative people can take something and make it into something. God can create something from nothing.
” God can use this too “.
The Creator God lives in you.
God’s creation.
God prefer that you use wisdom as you’re living your life, but if you don’t use wisdom, God is so big and so good and so amazing that when you don’t use wisdom, God will use stupid. (That’s a place to praise him right there.)
Stop and think.
What have God done in your life, from what you think on in a stupid decision?
Use wisdom.
When you don’t use wisdom, God uses stupid. When God use the wrong way.
Act 28:1
“Just because you didn’t choose it, doesn’t mean He won’t use it.”
The creative you are, the more constrictions will try to keep you from creating.
How God can use the situation you are in, into something you don’t see.
God knows how to use you in a certain way. “The snake bites because snakes bite, but God knows how to turn a snake into a sign.” The enemy always bites you, where God has blessed you. But, the biggest breakthrough happens after a bite. When I get bit,it is God working that hand he wants to use. (Act 28).
God likes to use snakes to heal Islands. The God that used Paul’s words also Paul’s wounds. Don’t be so quick to categorize the things in your life. You can never really understand what it is until you see how God sees it. There are some snakes that need to go back in the fire today. There is some beliefs… There is some things you have allowed to latch on to your life, that you just need to let go of in the presence of God.
If you stand there and fight about it, if you stand there and blame about it, if you stand there and hurt about it and hurt about it and hurt about it… Your hands were not made for hurting; they were made for healing.
I have been upcycling a sweater (that had spots that didn’t go away in the laundry). I have used woven wool and decoration. Decorations from jogging shoes and flames from an old cap 😉. Here us the process…
Here I had to figure out how high up the skirt needed to sit.
Needed tools during sewing.
Sewing pockets
Where shall the decorations sit?
Sewing the stitches on the sides.
Decoration band.
Tiny pockets are just on with pins. Trying to figure out where the best place for them are.
It took me approx 4 weeks from start to finish. Now I just have to wait on the Winter temperature 🤪😆🙈.
Re:jesus – The Word [what my church’s plan for two years from last August].
The Word provides nourishment. (Mattew 4:1-4)
The Word shape us. (Luke 6:46-49)
Jesus also pointing on the (Mattew 5:18) [Roman 8:15 – in this verse did today’s preacher, get his motivation and what was the start to find his identity in Jesus]
The Word is Living. (Hebrew ) The word give us everything no matter if we feel anything. The word isn’t dependant on what or how we react or feel. The word isn’t just for me alone.
“Do’s and Don’t’s “
Don’t do to much.
Don’t read just alone. (Very important to share and get word’s from other Christians)
It’s once again a new month! The first winter month. Today (October 2nd) is bright and chill with wind from the east.
07:40 am.
October is here 🤩 my second favourite month. Since last week I have had once again a need to just listen to encouraging and good music to or from work. It comes in waves for me. It feels like it is a bit to much going on around me. So for me ” to find back to myself ” I listen to instrumental heavy metal or worship. They are actually not to far away from each other music vice.
07:45 am waiting on the 2nd bus.
Then, when I get home I listen to audio book in an kind of other theme – cozy crime. Have my coffee and mostly (as you know) sew. Yesterday (Tuesday) was different. I took time to just sit in the couch and updated & deleted things, out here that can not be here.
It will be an other change in here something with more depth of creativity. How it will express itself I can not say. Because this is as new for me as it is for you to follow. ” A new era ”
I went to a workshop with two guest’s from US to IMI Church, yesterday evening (Monday September 30st). About creativityand being a Christian. A really interesting workshop! The Lord confirmed things for me and has started something new inside me.
I am curious on what HE has for me from now on. How to express my creativity. How to do what is me, my designe & calling God has put inside me.
I will do some changes, again. All good!
I just want to be able to write or sew, whatever the Lord put on my heart to do and share. I am curious on my new path in creativity. How the Lord can and will lead me how to use my gift’s.
I have withdrawn few posts as you might see if you following my blog. It’s all in the hands of the Lord ✝️.
It’s Sunday and this weekend is the Open Sky (Åpen Himmel) . My first since I moved back in 2021. The weekend where we have toput Jesus in an other focus.
To get more encourage to search.
Psalm 42 :
Testimony from different people in Church that has been here this weekend;
How can we feel the longing of more of the Lord?
The scary part of not longing is the fact of ” that we rather following the society’s fashion and selfhelp ” and that is the opposite of what the Lord wants for us. The Lord want us to read or listen more to the word. He wants us to search different, to search with a longing for something new.
How can we as a Church stay awake in this time? Live close in prayer!
A picture of when the air around you isn’t good enough: A tent for one or two persons and it’s more than those persons. The air in the tent is too bad! You just want to open the zipper. And when you do,get out of the tent, you can breath the heavenly air.
➡️For me this uncommon service got to me through the theme they had as the decorations, the umbrellas in the ceiling, in combination of to search different and how we can use our creative gifts both for searching and exploring more of the Lord.
What I have in my head now on my way home (in the bus) is how can I be longing for more in my life? How can I whom already struggle to read the bible longing for more? And how can I implement that in my life? This is my questions. What are yours?
How can we improve more of God in our life so that our lifes get an other meaning? How can we improve our already so hectic life, that society forces us to have, and yet feel more from our Lord. This is something I am curious to try to have focus on.
I have started again to workouts at home and adding an app, the same app I had two years ago 😊. My goal is to build up my core muscles and be in a better shape to both have the strength and energy to actually go to a gym and do what I like, get a positive kick off and can afford now and that finally works for my coxxy after 1,5 years after the accident 😊.
I am so thankful that after 1,5 years of resting my coxxy I have got to the point where I can start exercising again. That is happiness for me. 😊
Saturday the 21st became an other really good day both with energy and with the weather. I woke up to a temperature of +13 degrees Celsius just before 9 am with a sun that was on the way up. No alarm clock that wanted my attention either 😊. The radio was sat on 09:15 am 😆, how could I know the night before that I wouldn’t sleep more than just the normal amount 😆 but I did. Six and a half hours that’s me, almost every night except if I am sick.
I had coffee and oats for breakfast, and was wondering while eating if I should rent a car or just check with a friend who lives nearby. I did call her and we helped each other.
Visiting 2ndhand stores to give away things we just needed to give away.
We drove to Sandnes, even though my though was to borrowing a car, so I could buy what I have been needed since I started my work this August. And plants for my terrace and household stuff that just become to much to bring back home alone 🤪😅!
Shopping in Sandnes.
After my efficiency in Sandnes we drove to Våland suburb in Stavanger, to a flea market in Våland school. Where I found and bought 3 paper collectors in wood, 2ndhand, 3 for 15 nok = bargain! And we met up with an other friend we have in common 😊.
I got home around 3 pm and the first thing I did after just putting everything I bought just inside my front door, was to plant the flowers in the empty pots 😊.
I sowed the seeds in july, they started to come up in mid august but still haven’t flowered.
Then I made a good strong cup of coffee 😊 and whileI I was waiting on it to finish I took a ice cold head shower to cool down my head 😊😆. And started to paint the paper collectors while I made dinner and a friend texted me.
Painting in the couch, with dinner in the oven. So I just had to turn on my fan and sit out on my terrace chill down 😆😆😅. Out there I finished painting my bargain ( of the 3 paper collectors ) and because we ha +20 ° Celsius at 7 pm, the paint dried fast 😊 and I could even paint-write the text for each collector.
… and all 3 for my sewingroom…
Some more resting in the couch (dizzyness and a light heatstroke 🤪) watching some telly before I had to go to the grocery store. And when I did, it was suddenlyfoggy!
And it wasn’t better when I walked back home 30 min later 😆😅 but cozy!
I literally didn’t see more than 20 meters ahead of me while walking 😆😅.
I tryed to take a picture of the Moon, a bit hard!It’s the same moon in different places along the way home. Past 10pm.
SILVER; My Birthday boy would have been 10 years today 💙🐈⬛🎉🎉🎉💙. And it’s been 5,5 months since I let him fall asleep and never wake up again 💙💞💔🐈⬛. Always loved. Always with me.
So thankful for the time I got with him 😍💞🐈⬛💙
Today’s pictures.
After work I managed to both do some grocery shopping and sew a bit while I made dinner 😊. Yet my brain is heavy and have a hard time to relax right now 😔.
On top of this I started my day with a doctor appointment 😊 for increased hotflushes and side effects 😔…
Luke 8, vers 22-39, two stories. Jesus do big things in those stories and in this text that he tell us about.
Where is your faith?
Proverbs 8, vers 13 – about what fear.
Thoughts from the text, Have you had the type of fear where you don’t know how to handle in a intense situation? Have you experienced something where you have had fear for Jesus? Have you hated Jesus any time?
Is this text the type of text that we need to melt on us? To understand the depth of it?
John 15 vers 9
What did this story hive me / you? Did you get more questions? Well you are not alone. Three questions to keep with you this coming week;
What relationship do I have with the fear of God?
Who in these stories do I recognize myself in?
How do these narratives best influence the choices I make and how I prioritize?
I woke up around 08.00am, had breakfast and Coffee, had packed to evening before after church. 10 am had we said we should leave from my house. Well, my friend Olav was late… not with much maybe 11 minutes.
We headed towards Ålgård a 30 minutes drive (28 km). Made a stop for some snacks for our hike. And then headed towards Kjeragbolten and Sirdal. 111 km and 2 hours of driving.
As closer we got as more sheep 🐑🐑🐑 we saw along, beside and on the road.
SIRDAL COUNTY.
At the parkinglot at Kjerag, I saw what kind of mountain I had in front of me. We started 1 pm.
The parkinglot. 1pm.
As I am I had to try at least, quite sure I would not make it all the way if this was the path all the way. Not with my knee (the right knee I had a surgery on in 2013 and still isn’t good after the blood cloth I had 9 weeks after). but I am stubborn and wanted to try. So I did.
Halfway on the first mountain 😊. Maybe 1:30 pm.
Halfway on the first mountain, took me actually not to much time 😊 to walk. I had to stop and breath maybe every 10 minutes. I am not in good shape! After the first mountain with stairs to help us up where it look like it was to hard to walk on the mountain itself . For me those stairs gave me more pain than actually walk on the mountain itself.
Still on the way up up up.
A try to show you some of the stairs.
I literally had to find my own path and walk on the side of those stairs and it was quite many of them 🤪😔.
But I did enjoy the view!
The fauna.
More fauna.
I past this sign with 1 km 😊.
At 1,2 km I stopped (14:17 o’clock ) and Olav continued to the goal.
I stopped at 1,2 km, walked down to the stream. Washed away some sweat in my face, cooling down my boiling head and ate some before I headed back towards the parkinglot.
On my way to the stream.
My place totally 😊😊.
This is what I had in front of me…
This was the path I used.
And this was after the top 🤪
This is how steep the mountain was to walk up or down 🤪. You could follow the chain but after so many turists walked that path it was almost slippery it was easier to find your own path to walk down.
More sheep’s among us people…
I had so much pain in both my knees that it took me one hour to walk back. But I did it 🤩🤩. I walked in total 2,4 km with pain 🤪😆😔🤩 a mixed feeling. But I do know that if I am gonna walk there again I have to build up my knees and body in a gym with combination of easier hikes.
We both managed to walk here. Here is Olav coming back around 17 pm.
He did it. And even if he said he would not climb up on the stone (Kjeragbolten itself) he did. I am proud of him, because he is scared of heights!
I found a spot to sit and watch all the people going up or coming down and the cute sheep’s for a good hour or more.
Happy being down 😊.
I really enjoyed to sit down and rest my body. This isn’t a hike for people with #badknees !
This stone (Kjeragbolten) is still a goal!
We left Kjeragbolten parkinglot 18:30 I think. Olav drove the first 304 km (40 minutes) because it was so many winding, with many sharp turns where there was literally no room for more than one car!
We even met to big trailers / lorries long and heavy going up the hill road while we drove down hill and in just one bend (!). Scary! I would not been able to be calm there!
Siridalen 1 – home to my place, 115 km.
He let me drive from Siridalen 1 all the way back home to my place, 115 km. That was nice of him. (But he did comment more than both my driving school teacher and the men I had private driving with before I got my license 😔.)
Luke 7:36-50 – about the sin and things that have a false or true value.
In Romans 3:19-20
Romans 3:19 NIV
[19] Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Romans 3:20 NIV
[20] Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
Many Christians talkes behind other Christians, sadly, but it happens. We need to build each other not the opposite! Are you willing to look in the mirror and see who you are before you criticizing other Christians?
Can you see in the text, that this woman is clean and forgiven?
Earlier in this text, we know she met with Jesus and was forgiven (we can read it and understand it through the text).
Vers 48: [48] Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
We are both sinners and been forgiven. We need to understand that we are free with Jesus.
Everything we been given from the Lord is grace. When we forgive those who has hurt us, Jesus wil help you and me to forgive myself and yourself. We will not be able to forgive and feel forgiveness if we don’t forgive ourselves. 💜✝️.
I don’t know if this notes gives any of you any meaning, but I am going to share it anyway.
Exploring the suburb Lervig with my friend, ex.college and kind of a bonus mother. We have wanted to go for a walk before. We tryed just before my holidays, that day the sky open up for rain 😆. Today we were more lucky! ⛅️ some sunshine and wind +19°C perfect! We walked a short version, a 40 min walk in the suburb of Lervig. Next to the seaside 😊. A suburb that before all new buildings wasn’t nice and didn’t have a good rumor 😔.
Love the architecture.
A suburb for me is a area that is growing and this area has really grown!! And it has started to grow on me 😊.
The first half is the path we walked and the second half back I walked from the grocery store Kiwi.
It’s nearly been a week since I got back from my holiday (July 22nd today).
After I’ve been home for two days I realised I really want to have a family around me. A husband with family. If it’s his growen kids or his siblings it doesn’t really matter as long as its family (person’s). It also means I litterly need to meet people every day, especially when I have a school break. Because when I work I always have people around me and my quote for the social part gets quite high but than when I don’t have a work to go to because it’s Summer, my quote goes down to fast 😔.
Anyway, I have been a bit creative yet not been sewing 😬🤪🙈.
On Saturday (20th) me and my 74 years old neighbour went to a plant store. I bought soil, orchid peat and basicpon to my flowers and 4 new plant pot’s in two sizes. Gave my outdoor plants and my aloe vera basicpon. And new seed soil and clay balls to my indoor flowers. And it looks like they liked it.
Painting a drawer which I’ll use as flower shelf.
Sunday 21st I finally managed to go to Church 😊 on my way I walked on my favourite bridge which also is a roundabout for traffic under. The weather forecast said rain from morning to evening, but we were lucky to not have the rain until during the service. Met a close friend from Oslo after the service, I haven’t seen since I moved three years ago. (It feels like this summer is the summer for meeting up with friends I haven’t seen in too many years.)
My favourite bridge in Stavanger. Because of the colours!
It was raining after Church.
Painting…
This door haven’t I done much with for the past year.
Now I paint it with acrylic turquoise colour to figure out if this is the colour I want. And I think so. So until I can afford the reel paint this stays.
I still haven’t decided if I will have black or white edges 🤔. I guess it has to grow on me as everything else I do 😆.
I chose to paint this too. The furniture I don’t know what you call, but it’s mostly used as a writing table back in the day’s both with drawers and cupboards. And the turquoise colour pop’s more to the black than the red colour did.
Today, Monday 22nd, I haven’t done much 🙈. I have cleaning my mother’s sewing machine and I found a bulb that fit 😍 and giving the machine some oil. I have the luxury to own two sewing machines now. My mother’s sewing machine was made in 1953 and I think mu mother bought it in the 1960’s. So it’s been along quite long time! A good but heavy machine.
The best part with this machine is the sewing table 😍
I haven’t been sewing yet 🙈😆 but I will 😉.
Faith and Trusting the Lord. I still don’t know what or where I will work in August yet I have peace inside me for this autumn. I am Trusting the Lord and have faith he will guide my steps. He has already blessed me to be able pay a bit less next time I have to pay the rent 😍🙏✝️. I gave money to the missionary work my church, yesterday, they are doing in Thailand and trust that God will bless my money for how I will live and pay bills in August.
Thoughts for the future… one of them are if I should save up for a used car (becoming an adult in an other level). I know I need a job to be able to save up money – to realistic brain to think otherwise. I have been looking at job’s but nothing so far fit’s me 🙈😔.
Finally on the 🚆 night train with the end station Stavanger 😍 tomorrow morning July 18th. A distance of 550 km along the coast.
I hope I’ll be able to sleep more on this train then I did going on holiday. 🤞.
00:18 am good night for now.
Tired!
Somewhere along the way (trail)
A waterfall in the mountains.
I woke up because it was light outside, 05:27 am. But managed to sleep more.
Just woke up, 06:55 am, good morning!
Stavanger 07:14 am 😍.
Got home approxy 07:55 am the 18th.
For some reason I can’t just walk into my appointment when I arrive 😆😆 , I always check my flowers.
Now coffee and breakfast… 😆
And unpacking, watering my indoor flowers, do laundry and relax. It’s so nice to be back home!
Those two days of traveling was and became shorter in time, more direct even though I was blessed with space between the stop. I think I used 16,6 hours compared to when I went to Sweden when it took more than 21 hours.
My goal with those posts from my holiday is to inspire you who read to explore places/ a country you kind of know but travel different to how you normally do it 😉. Have faith in the Lord that he will open up the right doors for you along the way you travel.
My day started 08.00 am when I couldn’t sleep more. Made coffee and placed the clean kitchen things from the dishwasher where it belonging. Had breakfast outside while it was raining 😊, very cozy!
Got packed into the car and a 25 min drive,by my brother, to Borlänge. Where I had to try my bank again while my brother and my nephew got on the train towards Danmark.
Finally done with the bank, yet not totally finished with them 🤪🤬. Walked fast to catch up with my sister-in-law and my backpacker (600 meters).
Had some waiting at the train station in Borlänge (an hour). 14:06 pm I found a seat in the train (the train departure time 14:40 pm). Took the elevator the coolest I’ve seen in a long time! )
On the train it started to rain after one train stop.
We will arrive Kristinehamn 17:05 pm and then the next train departure 17:51 pm.
The train station.
Dinner from a gas station.
Bye bye Kristinehamn for this time.
The first travel way…
Next stop Oslo, Norway. Arriving time shall be 21:24 pm lucky me we arrived 22:15 pm 😍😍😍 happy happy happy! And even more lucky that the train arrived on track 15 so I didn’t need to stress walk through the train station 😊😅.
Waiting on the bus-for-train, 21:33 pm. 🌡+19°C totally okay.
Platform 30 and 31 is for bus-for-train.
Have managed it so far only 550 km left to drag the sewing machine with me 🤪.
On the bus-for-train 22:00 pm – 23:11 pm and 23:43 pm is the departure time for the night train home to Stavanger.
Dala hästen/ the Dala horse is original orange with a special flower design & the symbol of Dalarna county.
The goal for today was four things.
The first thing was to try to fix my Swedish bank account, it went kind of good but not totally 🤪🤐🤬.
Thesecond was to try to open up a new account in an other bank. That didn’t go as planned 🤬. Back to square one 🤬.
The third thing was to meet my childhood best friend Annica and spend time with her. Catch up the last & past ten years. That went well 😊.
We have been friends since I was 9 y.o. and she was 7 y.o. And even if we now live here (she in Dalarna) & there (me in Rogaland, Norway) we are best friends.
After the coffee and before the walk I had to find a backpacker for my trip back home. My suitcase was a bit broken even before I started 😆 and now I leave it behind and hoping it will be through away.
I am happy with a new backpacker, it’s an 65 liter and the one I have at home is 60 liter. (1 liter = 0,26 gal (U.S.)
Walking in streets I’ve walked many times before…
Barbrosgränd. A tipical street in Falun. A street with mixed styles on the houses. I love this area and suburb.
Faluån.
The north side of Falun city.
Faluån.
Just beautiful flowers!
After the walk and because the temperature got warmer we went for Ice cream together 😋. I chose Safron and Annica went for Pear and vanilla.
Got back to my families house and it felt like I was sweated, but I can’t. So resting my foot a bit and then took I my very last dip and short swim in Runn (the lake here).
Time for packing and making dinner with my niece 😊.
The suitcase will be through’d away.
I had to re-pack it twice (the second time was 01am) to fit every thing I brought here & bought to bring back home.
Is it possible to live like Jesus wanted, today and alone?
Romans 12:4-10 – how we are breches to work with each other in this tree (verse 5)
If someone asks to hlp you and you respond “no I don’t need your help ” – this is a mirror of our society. A sad picture but in so many ways the hard truth.
If we take football as an example (mostly because it’s right now are football games) those who play football play as a team and work together and practice on what they all already are good at – we all need each other to be able to how we live as Christians and if we can follow Jesus and live alone.
We were made for something bigger than to earn a lot of money! What is the goal for the Churches?
First Peter 4:10-11 – The love we receive from the lord.
(John 16:7 – about the Holy Spirit. Our guide, our helper when we pray, )
Say Yes to help from those you have around you, where you live.
This morning started with the normal coffee and breakfast. And to drive with a rental car (spaceship) from Falun
09:40 am.
Between Rättvik and Mora went it slow! But forward.
I took a small break in a village called Garsås.
With the view over Siljan, the biggest lake in Dalarna country.
Continued to Mora and Orsa, drove the old road also called the turist road to be able to take a picture of the stunning view, but it was to much tree’s in the way to see anything 😔. And then towards to my father in Våmhus.
Våmhus.
In this area live my old father.
My only reason for this trip was to pick up my mother’s sewing machine 😆😊. Which is heavier than I remember 😆😅🤪. ( And this sewing machine will bring back to Norway 🤪 craziness!! )
My conclusion from this trip is that, it’s boring to drive alone! Even if I had the radio on.
It’s approxy 105 km one way from Falun to Våmhus, Mora.
Church of Våmhus.
Mora & Österdalälven or East Dalecarlia river.
Garsås, on the way back to Falun an other stop. 510km left to Falun.
When I arrived in the Bojsenburg suburb the sky opened up and the rain bounced off the asphalt.
Then I had about 35 minutes to leave the sewing machine with my brother and then drive and return the rental car.
Arriving from the North, left corner of this picture, on road 69.
I was back in Falun 4.31 pm and drove back the rental car and parked it and handed in the key 4:57 pm 😅. And then was the rain over 😊.
It feels like I have been driving much longer and much more than I actually have 😅😆. But I’m pleased with the day and even more I now ca breath normal 😆 .
Today I woke up 08.45 am was out of the place I mostly just sleep 10.10 am. Catch a citybus. Bought a protein shake with the taste of childhood ice cream 😆 pear and vanilla.
The temperature was now already +22 °C. Catched the next citybus towards my family.
Swimming with my niece. I would say the water temperature was around +20°C (the same lake as the day before).
Lake Runn July 13th, 12 pm.
Around 2.30 pm a friend of mine Ferdinand (that I got to know back in the time I lived here in 2002 – 2005) picked me up. We drove into the city centre to pick up an other friend before we drove to a place called Djurås – also a place I’ve lived. But we went to Ferdinand summer house.
Djurås, Överbacka.
5 pm, water temp around +21°C.
BBQ and swimming in a smaller lake, here was the water temp maybe +21 in the evening. Really nice!
Mattias and Ferdinand, my two friends from the time I lived in Falun 2002 – 2005.
To be able to enjoy visiting a city I have lived in, even if it’s more than twenty-three years ago (gosh is it that long time ago?!)? The time runs too fast!
Local city bus stop in Falun.
I went down to the city only to see if I could find a bikini top because I lost one already 🤪. I found two on sale 😍😍 in about 30 minutes.
Needed food b4 doing anything else 1.30 pm. Walked to MAX burger a Swedish burger brandsince 1968.
Ate and walked back to the bus hub.
Signs nearby the busstop near my brothers home, Falun.
Today’s temperature 🥵🤪, but perfect for swimming in the lake! Which was one of the first things I did when I got to my families house. And it was much warmer than yesterday (the 11th).
Water, coffee and fruit.
Between 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm I went down to the lake twice 😍. After dinner my oldest brother challenged me to learn the sup. So hard! And I am stubborn and I don’t give up easily! I did fall off and landed in the water 😆😆😆 but I didn’t give up!
Here 2nd try 😊
Gets better and better…
And I did it 😊.
I even managed to get around the “floating island” for the first time on a sup 😊😊 it’sapproxy 100 meters away from the beach. After I went for my third swim today.
It’s Wednesday the 10th. I enjoy it’s my first day of my holiday.
It’s 11:40ish and the temperature is +19°C some sun most clouds. Just perfect! My friends I am visiting are at work and I enjoying there house and garden 😊
My bonus-bonus babysister and me.
My bonus-bonus baby sister came visiting me while I was in Frövi. We haven’t seen each since 2018 because of corona and closed borders.
We did everything we could to spend time together 😊❤️.
My sister under the water😆😆.
Me in the water 😊
Coffee outside on the porch waiting on the thunderstorm 😊.
Table games – ticket to ride.
We spent approxy nine hours together, coffee, swimming, dinner and table games with my friends, before she had to drive back home.
July 11th;
I woke up 06:30 am just couldn’t sleep more. Coffee alone in the kitchen 😊 and a bit later breakfast and bought my tickets for today’s journey.
I didn’t have the peace in my body to sit and wait in my friends home … walked down to the train station and waited there instead.
Frövi train station. 10am.
This train is very nice and fresh!
10:43am, train railway issues… waiting on a station to go forward to the next station. I don’t mind I have a ticket for the bus but the bus departure time is not until 12:25 pm which I really hope I make. This train arrival time was expected to be 12:09 pm. Let’s hope we make it 🤞🙏. We arrived 12:40 pm still good time to catch a bus towards Falun 😊 after a short walk from the train station to the bus hub.
Geografic museum in Borlänge, Dalarna.
Walked 5 minutes from the train station in Borlänge to the bus hub and waited on bus 152 towards Falun 1:10 pm
In Falun it’s a tiny walk, straight ahead from the bus hub to the pedestrian street. I arrived 1:35 pm.
The start of the pedestrian street in Falun.
pedestrian street and the square nearest the bus hub.
Approxy 1:40 – 1:50 pm. In this square, in one one the shopping mall it’s a farmacy and there I was going to meet my friend (this friend, I got to know when I was living here back in 2001 – 2004). I am staying in her place despite the fact that she won’t be home this weekend 😆😆, approxy 1:50 pm I was picked up by my oldest brother and heading towards their home.
This is Lake Runn.
It was +18,9°C in the water/lake 😊. Swimming temperature 😊.
This view is Summer for me! I have spent many Summer holidays here when the kids (my niece and nephews) were small 💜😍. Now two of them are young adults and the third is a teenager. It’s here I love to swim and hang out 😍. And today it was them, a family of five, and my 2nd brother and his wife there too (they live in Trøndelag Norway). And later on this evening friends of one of my nephew came. On top of that my head started to ‘boil’ and spinning – to much impressions for me 😔🤪. The positive side is that I know I will sleep heavy tonight 😊
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