Vassøy. Thursday July 17th. The day started at 09.30 am for me and the 🌡temperature was already +21°C ⛅️. I catch the first 🚍local bus 11.48 am [number 7 from Sola] down to the city centre of Stavanger. It takes approx 18min. A short busride off two stops, [with number 1], just because it goes faster than walking 😆😆. And then catching the ferry towards Vassøy island.
Ferry stop 7.
The ferry took about 15 min.
The school of Vassøy.
To get to Vassøykalven beach you just walk forward on Sørstrandveien. It takes between 10 and 15min depending on how fast you walk. It’s only 1 km. You will end up with the beach on your left side or get to a wooden bathing jetty if you walk the small path in the forest.
Vassøykalven beach. Child friendly with permanent grill facilities. Two bathing jetty’s.
The water temperature is okay today. Maybe +20°C.
A bit to much small stones for my taste in the sand while walking out in the water for a swim..
And you need to walk quite far out for the swim 😔 (at least I always needs that 😅). But it’s very Child friendly because of that.
The toilet facility on the left side and the walking path towards the suspension bridge on your right side.
Before we (me and a girlfriend) headed towards the ferry back to Stavanger ferry port we or I wanted to find the walking path for the suspension bridge over to Vassøykalven island (the calf island).
The marking to follow.
This map picture show you where it is. Vassøykalven grill (with the green dot), I didn’t walk there. We got lost 😆😆 but rhus oath led us to this… next picture.
This is Bybrua (the city bridge in Stavanger) from Vassøy island side.
If you walk from the beach towards the toilet facility and then up into the forest on your right side (see picture below) and follow the red paint you will end up at the suspension bridge. It’s no signs more than the red paint “dots”.
On the top of “the hill” before it goes down hill to the bridge.
The suspension bridge.
And on Vassøykalven island you find ruins from some kind of permanent living many (hundred?) years ago.
On the other side of this island it was like a lagoon.
Totally worth a visit! If it warmer than +20°C you can also enjoy a swim in the summer.
We have had a rough weekend 😢😢 that continue until Tuesday…
Friday July 21st; I’ve been on the phone to different veterinary clinics during the last 12 hours to get advice. And if he get werse I have to take him to a veterinary clinic. During the night or Saturday morning.
The night towads Saturday 22nd of July; I have checked him every 2nd hour this night, so now I feel like someone drove over me with a big machine 🤪😔😴😴😴.
I will try to sleep a bit.
I am laying so I can watch him from my bed. He slept in his favorite spot in the bathroom, on the top of the water tank is like a shelf and there he has his “tower bed”.
Saturday 22nd, at 1.30pm I went to the farmacia to buy pipette syringes so I could force him some water, which the veterinary told I should try. I were also looking for litter byt didn’t find any 😔.
You know the feeling (if you have a cat at home) when you really need litter and you haven’t slept as you should, you go on autopilot…
So I phoned a local grocery store and asked them if they had litter, they had plenty they said. 🤩🤩. So even if I just wanted to sleep I headed out at 4pm. Catch a bus at approxy 4.22pm. Went to this specific grocery store I’d phoned and bought 2 bags (one bag 5 liter = 1,32 gallons or 169.07 fl oz US or 175.975 fl oz UK) of 5 liter in each.
And Saturday showed us some blue sky and sunshine the first in more then a week!
So it felt so wrong to wear wool and a wind jacket. But should I do? Feeling almost sick becauce I lack sleep 🤪🤪.
The good signs from Silver started to show this afternoon 😊😊. The first sign, he met me when I got home 🤩 The second good sign, he wanted some snacks 💙💙. But that was it for some hours.
But I had to continue force him water…
We went to bed aroun 01am and he came to sleep in my bed, which he hasn’t since May this year becauce of Aslan. Aslan woke me up around 04.30am was hungry & playful. And Silver sat up and looking on me but I didn’t get it. But after I put my head on the pillow again I realized it! Silver was hungry 😊😊😍😍. So I gave gim soaked dry food so he could both drink and eat. Becauce I thought about that – during Saturday evening, it might be his teeths, that he has pain in them?!?.
Sunday 23rd was better. He showed good signs all day. He ate better, drank better and started to sleep more normal times and used the litterbox. ❤ Silver <3.
Monday 24th has been a bumpy ride for both me and Silver 😦 . He has been eaten okay, taken malt with vitamines but not drinking so well 😦 He has been awake aproxy every 4th hour as normal <3. He is still fighting <3.
But I have to say, and I have talked to him about it cause he has been with me for 7 long good years, that if he is to sick and will suffer before he gets better I rather “put him down”. I don’t want him to suffer. I can’t see him in pain. It hurts me too. I will miss him so much if I have to, but it is for him I’ll do it. Health first! It will be so empthy without him ❤ . Even if I’ll have Aslan a bit longer then I have to give Aslan away too or put him down too…I have been reacting on Aslans fur in the way I have issues to breath. Here it is again. Health first.
I phoned a vet to get an appointment for Silver (today) Monday 24th, non had an appointment before earliest Tuesday 25th 2pm. I am praying every awake moment that Silver will fight as much as he can. He has been my “boy” for 7 years… I love him so much.
Tuesday 25th, we had an appointment 2pm, got there by friends 1.55pm. The vet checked Silver and he showed pain in the stomache. So they gave Silver some sedative medicine that made him tired and nauseous, so he threw up 3 times (poor thing).
The sedative medicine has started to kick in.
They took an MR. Luckly it didn’t show any bad. Then they checked the temperatur (normal temperatur at cat’s is between 38-39°C) Silver had 39,6°C 😢😢
Here we are outside the clinic.
I were worried all the time for him, becauce he is my “boy”. I have had him since he was 1,5 y.o. I would be destroyed if I lost him now. Thank you Lord for let me have a bit longer. I have prayed so many prayers for my Silver those last five day’s 🙏 he has been fighting.
He will be on antibiotics for 7 day’s from today 💙🐈💙.
Here he is laying resting after he ate some dry cat food 4:39pm.
We were home around 3.30pm ish and say, Aslan was happy! Silver will be “a bit groggy” after the sedative medicine most all day today 😢😢 but he is alive, living, breathing 💙🐈💙.
Hi guys ,you who following my blog. This is me. Not just text from me in person but actually few shorter videos. 😉
I want to share something with you in an other way this time.
High level of frustration…
But just the fact of sharing this with you all, the frustration is almost gone. 😊
Now I am more annoyed.
How is this related to my Christian life? Well it’s the daily life experience to deal with things in the same time talk to the Lord about it. Don’t let it sink in so it’s hurting you.
You still have the chance to recive peace in your mind before you do something stupid. I can still believe the Lord will help me and take the frustration away from my soul, brain and thoughts. 🙏.
I am not aloud to post more videos 😭 so I’ll just type what I want share with you all.
I am thankful for being a Christian becauce I can then just talk out loud my thoughts to the Lord. And knowing he listening. And that freedom is huge! Knowing He will take care of my feelings no matter what I feel. 😊. And I will do my best to have a great weekend and not just ” survive ” the weekend.
I am letting Him in to my heart, brain and soul to clean it. And knowing He still loves me and that He wants the best for me is good enough.
So what my life brings on right now is bigger challenges than I thought I needed. But it’s okay becauce I trust the Lord.
I have been going through a summer full of different feelings. Issues to actually Trust the Lord about this situation. Learning it doesn’t help to try by myself. Only helps to Trust the Lord.
The front picture is my symbol for how narrow my space has felt. How narrow the Lord has been. How narrow my mind has been. Yet, I can only see Gods Love through this Summer for me.
3 hours of creativity the other Day this week. ❤
How the Lord has given me timeto becreative to not think to much. Given me time with friends or to start at the gym, to not think to much.
My prayers; ” Thank you GOD for the peace in my weard situation. Only you know what I am going through. Only you can give me what I need. Only you know what’s coming. How my future look like. Only you know how to hlp me get through this. Thank you GOD for the peace, grace, patience, love you given me in this & for this. “
I use this picture to describes my longing for a man in my life. I stand on the road far away from the mountain which for me is a symbol of my future hubby/ husband.
My prayers; ” Thank you GOD for helping me understand on the way. Thank you GOD for given me this. Thank you GOD for your blessings. Guide my steps. Guide my future hubby. “
My doubts is there, not 24/7, but close. Is this the right time? Is this what you wants for me? How can I trust? Well GOD has given me peace lots of it every day I doubt. ❤ Every time I wonder the peace gets bigger and deeper. And his love! WOW!!
My prayers; ” Thank you GOD for this day, tmrw and the coming week and weeks. Thank you for taking care of me and my thoughts, prayers and life. ✝️ Guide him, guide me. Lead us. Bless us where we are and in what we are doing. Bless the times we will have together when that time comes. ❤
My prayers; ” Surprice me by given me patince & knowlegde. “
And the Lord does!🙂😍❤✝️
God allowed me to try something I was sceptical to; Tinder. You have heard about it I know that. You can find all different types of websides or app’s to find love now day’s. So I ended up on Tinder. Where it’s a lot of weard people for sure! But it is also some, meaning few!, who are more interesting!
I’ve been chatting with few more interesting guys this Summer. I ended up with one (good!) And this guy is the one I have had doubts about. All this blog is about him and God... This guy have I prayed for since day one,and I believe God is with Him. He is still a bit of a mysterious person but GOD has given me peace about him. And I trust GOD about him. I don’t have a clue where this will go or lead but just the fact I have Peace for him and whatever happends is good enough for me. ✝️❤✝️
Our path is God’s path. He will LEAD US when WE trust Him.
I have made up my mind to start at a gym again becauce I need it so badly. My body is so out of shape and I need my muscles back!
Walking the body warm works fine. But I still can’t do the machines I love 😥 all becauce I went to the chiropractor on this Monday (July 20.) and he actually made my back werse 😭😭.
So today’s workout is all about streching my back, hips and legs.
I could sit on this ball 4ever..
I’m in my own head when I’m at the gym. I don’t care much for the others which is a good feeling! I don’t care if someone look at me and what I’m doing.
Which right now maybe could be an issue…
Boxing corner just ahead of me.
This is my second time here. 💪💪😊 As for me as probably most people, the thing to get out is the hard part. But I have to say that today I kind of woke up with the “Exercise mood”. Which made it easier!
This is my motivation.
To be in the shape, especially my back without pain. To be able to push legs around 80-90kg. Knowing I have strong legs. Being able to push my arms on 40-50kg.
Knowing that my core muscles are back where they should be & holding me. Motivation to be able to once again be able to do push-ups & sit-ups normally. Motivation to be able to go for a run in the forest & on the runing machine at the gym without any pain in the back. That is my motivation in life.
I’m gonna do my best to reach my motivation goals. And by reaching them I need to forse myself to attend the gym at least twice a week. If I’m good I’ll go three times a week. 😊
And all this wouldn’t been able to if the Lord didn’t blessed me and my life.
I can only Thank Him. For making sure my financial situation is back on good terms. That He blesses me in other areas too. ✝️
A quite efficient month when it comes to sewing and redesign.
In the beginning of this month I sewed this toilet map that I use for my medication I need to have close for all kind of reasons, I did it by night just because I can, was awake and it’s Summer. 😉 The fabric was once a rain jacket, and now re-designed. It works perfect for it’s use!
This is my tunic (below) that before was a dress, long enough for me but I didn’t like the end of it so I cut it off and hand sewed the edges but after that I bought silk-needles for sewing machine I managed to sew it better and it looks even better now. I’m happy I managed to get over my *hate off silk.
Here, below, is two sewing-projects that I nearly just started. To the left, African cotton fabric that was a tunic and that I want to become Summer pants. To the right, also a tunic before with pattern I have sewn on to become shorts. Fabric linen. we’ll see how that goes in the end.
This is an other silk top project that I started last Summer and I just had to pack it away in last August-18 not really finish. And this July I finished it, by taking up old stitches, sew again, made it fit and shorten it. Now I’m happy with it and can pick up other projects that need to be fixed before I start to work in the middle of August-19. 🙂 (picture below)
In August it will hopefully be some more projects that has been on pause for a while, I can’t wait to start. I’m so thankful for chilly days like today and I’m hoping for some more. Warm day’s means less work for me, so like today when we have +18C I would have been sewing but not today… Maybe tomorrow.
On Friday evening I got a txt msg from my neighbor and friend, if I wanted to join her to the beach on Saturday and I answered her “I have a friend visiting me I have to ask her”. So I did when my couch surfer came back home. And we figure-out that Yes, we could do that but not to early. So we sat a time, 2 pm wasn’t to late and not to early on the Day.
Saturday the 15th of July.
We woke up before 10 am. I vacuum cleaned my apartment with my Robot-rob and my couch surfer went away to buy some oil to her Ape50 (3wheeled moped). We ate some lunch and packed and went for a walk down to the beach. A 25 minutes walk down hill from me to the beach. It was warm and with some wind. We walked by a cool garage with a chapel-clock on the roof and came to the white bridge over the E18 (Europe road 18) and there, the view over the sailing-boats and the glittering water. WOW! And the wind catching us in the face. Over the bridge and walking along on the sea side to get to the beach…
This view… I can’t get enough of it! It’s just so lovely!
I didn’t think of taking pictures here..I guess I’ve walked here so many times I didn’t need it but luckily my new friend Katja did.
Eventually did we reach the beach and find my friend and neighbor who went there few hours before us and we also went back around a corner to a spot where it was less people and it felt like it was more sun and less wind.
Sollerud beach.
Katja and Olena, went into the water first.
I had to sit and rest my back after the walk so Katja and Olena went into the water first and I could enjoy the view of the beach, people and take some pictures. What a lovely day to e on the beach! This is Summer on the best. It was perfect weather, not to much wind, not to much people, not a bird as far as I saw. Blue sky with Cirrus Uncinusclouds – they appear as thin and fibrous like, except that they always have a hook or curl on the tip. Very cool clouds!
A Day to just relax and enjoy life. A day to be thankful over to have. And to be impressed of how beautiful God has created the nature, sea and everything we have around us. And how beautiful a small beach can be and how peaceful it can be to just sit there and enjoy the minutes that pastes into the future. I love to just sit and watch out over the sea, the waves, the clouds. To memorize it like a picture in my head so I can go back to that moment and pick it out and remembering it later again.
When the girls came back we all just lay down on our towels on the grass to enjoy the sun and they enjoyed the wind & sun to get dry, chat and shared food and homemade ice-tea. Took pictures of the moment and laughed of the pictures. Made moments to bring with us into the future, years ahead.
We tried to swim against the waves, we tried to float but no and we tried to stand still in the water with the help of the arms and legs in motion without reaching the bottom. We laughed so much it was hard to keep our heads over the waves and that became even more fun. We tried to talk to each other but the wind through away our words and that made it even more fun. All this in the water. Rough to do anything than swim well no swimming was also rough. After 3 hours at the beach we felt it was time go go home. Katja wanted to walk back home, me and Olena took the bus. And the funny part was that I said to Olena, “I bet Katja is home before us even if she’s walking” and she was. 😉
Back home we grilled with more laughs and lost of good burned veggies.
BBQ grapes is tasty.
During our BBQ grilling I suddenly saw two ears in the grass. First I thought it was a cat or maybe a fox but it was a deer.
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