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 picnic table is close to where the shoreline used to be.
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.
This is a natural catastrophe in slow motion.
So… we got a “white” Christmas Eve morning but then the rain came and transformed our place to a shore property.
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.
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.
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.
Now I’m done. That’s some good workout.
So now we aren’t snowed in anymore.
Now I’ve been home for one month. Time has gone really fast. It’s already October. And the weather has been on my side. Plenty of days with sunshine and some kind of warm feeling in the air. So much that my daughter has asked me if we could go swimming a few times. Today I was actually contemplating it after my digging up the garden session. Didn’t happen though. We did go for a walk as family in the afternoon. It is really nice doing that. In Norway they call it “gå på tur” (walk a “tour”) and it’s all about getting out in the nature. Today we went west from our place along the shore of Ringsjön. It was a bit tricky the last bit.
Here are some pictures from the walk:
This was as the path we chose. No, it’s not really a visible path. Didn’t get much further than this.
Due to the low water level the shore was further out (behind the reed) leaving us fairly dry on our walk.
A view of western Ringsjön, most of these rocks are below water normally.
I have been doing a few projects around the house. I mentioned the digging of the garden before, but there is pruning of trees too, fixing some shelfs for our books and ground painting the playhouse. Pruning the bushes in front of the house was very satisfying. The result is clearly visible.
Not all projects went the way I wanted them to: I wanted to take care of some rust on our car, but as I started up the grinding tool it died on me. And it was brand new. So no fixing of car was possible and that frustrated me a bit. So I “grabbed” my family and we dragged our canoe to the lake and we made our first (very short) canoe trip. It was a bit windy and our son was tired so we didn’t get that far out.
The canoe after the trip. I have to remember to take a picture with us in it next time we do this.
We only stayed inside the rocks visible in the picture; the waves were a bit high for us canoeing amateurs.
