Life – My thoughts and random rambling

Solar eclipse

Wolfie217 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:31:54 +0000

So the moon decided to get between us and the sun…

So we went for a walk to the beach to get a better view. We weren’t the only ones there.

Our contraption to see it without looking directly at the sun.

The sun at its smallest before the clouds came.

First run on GBWJ

Wolfie217 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:54:31 +0000

Today I built my summer garden railway and here is a short film of the first run.

Enjoy!

Flowers in the shrubs

Wolfie217 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:34:13 +0000

Was walking along in a town. Passing some blocks of flats. Came into some small forest just between them and some industries.

And there they were: Flowers in the shrubs.

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Wolfie217 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:51:19 +0000

Autumn sunset

Wolfie217 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:17:43 +0000

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Wolfie217 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Our new addition to the flock

One little chick was hatched this summer. Gulliguld is his name. One day this will be his flock, but he doesn’t know that yet.

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Wolfie217 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Some days are just this calm. But even calm days can hide a frightening reality. Like the high water submerging the areas around the lake. It is beautiful until you realise the calm water still is in the house. (Not our house, just our neighbours).

Falling Willow

Wolfie217 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:40:24 +0000

Falling willow

We had this Willow tree that I have been chipping away on, two of its main stems were already cut down. A couple of weeks ago it broke fairly high up. So it was definitely time to cut it down to not injure someone when it finally came down.

Now I “only” have to make firewood out of it.

A bit much water

Wolfie217 — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:19:25 +0000

As people following the news already know we have a lot of water in our part of the country.

Today we made our usual round, walking down to the lake. Some of our neighbors have water in houses on their property, (guests house and the house at the pier).

The trees are usually on dry land

The picnic table is close to where the shoreline used to be.

Picnic table pushed by ice.

The high water level is also influencing the water on the field by our house even if we aren’t in any danger for now.

Sunset from our porch.

This is a natural catastrophe in slow motion.

Winter returned

Wolfie217 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:08:14 +0000

So… we got a “white” Christmas Eve morning but then the rain came and transformed our place to a shore property.

The lake where the field was before.

Actually our lake made it to national news as there are houses on the other side of the lake that are on lower land. On our side only our walkway along the shore became a walkway through the lake.

The picnic tables are a bit far out for a nice picnic by the lake.

But then on Tuesday evening the rain turned to snow. All day yesterday it snowed, and the wind didn’t distribute it evenly.

It was so bad that the main road we take to Höör was closed for a while and just to the south of us closed for 5 hours, but that is nothing compared to the chaos on the motorway just som 20 km from here, it was closed for more than 24 hours.

It was snowing so much my footsteps blew over while I went to get more firewood

So today it was shoveling time. Susanna did a bit too. Somehow the snow had decided the best place to settle was on our driveway.

The biggest drift in front of the garage. It was 50 cm deep.

Before

After

Here it is clear how much the snow varies, to the right it’s 50 cm and on the left just about 5.

Now I’m done. That’s some good workout.

Enjoying the fire after.

So now we aren’t snowed in anymore.