My great grandfather lived through world wars and lean times, and so, he knew of hunger and starvation. He knew what it felt like to go without, and when good times of plenty and abundance came back around, he would still not bat an eye at getting your own dinner where you may. Shooting and trapping birds, looking for wild eggs, teaching the boys how to catch their own dinner; all part of the daily life. My father remembers. He likes to tell me sometimes about how they would check the starling(?) nests for eggs and bring some back to him. We are no longer allowed to shoot starlings, and they are a pest to our garden. They didn’t get the currants or plums this summer, but they are still circling over the apple trees. One hour is all they need to ruin a whole crop – tons of apples.
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Catch your own.
Posted in From my iPhone, iText, srsly not rly srs stuff, Story Time on September 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
18.07.31
Posted in Everyday, From other places, iPicture on August 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Today is officially my first day of moving! I am terrified. My packrat/hoarder tendencies make for a lot of junk to go through, and even more stuff. This heat isn’t making it any easier. Starting is always the hardest part, so I am starting by clearing out some of the stuff where I’m moving, which is not mine, and thus much easier to handle. Hopefully the wind outside keeps up, as anything above 25C is death to me without a stiff breeze right in my face.
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Just as I punctuated that last part and was about to hit ‘send’, a giant airplane cruised over the house. Like, right over. Looked like a war-era transporter, doing a sharp turn right over the hill. I got a couple of pictures as it sped away, but I wish I could have gotten one of the view from where I was sitting, it was eerily close.
18.07.29
Posted in Everyday, From my iPhone, iPicture on July 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Managed to drag myself onto the floating dock, even without any stairs. (They fell off yesterday). Have only been on one of those a couple times before, when I was a kid.
Seems odd that I should manage to swim out there on such a windy day, when the waves were taller than I am.
Sushi night
Posted in Everyday, From other places, iCook / iEat, iPicture, Stuff, UnderAppreciated Stuff, tagged Cooking, Food, food experiment, homemade, kitchen, rice, sushi, sushi rolls, vegetarian on June 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Made myself some delicious veggie sushi rolls! I’ve never made anything with nori seaweed before, so the whole experiment was really all about figuring that out.
I used lots of carrot, paprika, some green onion stalks, fried eggs, and various green herbs from the garden.
What the first roll lacks: Soy sauce, celery, radish (from the garden) and maybe some white onion.
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Note for the future:
Do not prepare rolls when the rice is still hot. The smell gets a bit strong.
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The second roll has less rice in it, but also a bit more of everything else. Plus the radishes and soy sauce. I also added some sausage on the side to taste. It was all quite delicious, but I still wish I had any kind of celery, and could fit even more carrot into the rolls.
I wonder if portobello mushrooms would be too much at once. Or if I could roll the whole thing without using rice, and rather have that on the side. To be honest, maybe the whole thing should just be made into bite-sized side-dishes with rice. Or just a salad.
2017.01.18
Posted in From other places, Hverdag, iCook / iEat, In Norwegian on January 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Jeg har ihjel-stekt noen grønnsaker av typen “ymse kål”, kombinert med bittelitt kjøttdeig jeg hadde liggende, chili-powder for days, og brukt denne som basis for tre dagers måltid. Først som pizza-fyll (med masse ost, og tomat- + paprikapure), idag som det samme, men med knekkebrød istedenfor pizzabunn. Tror også jeg lagde litt makaroni igår, og blanda tomat- og paprikasausen med dem. Grønt på toppen. Det så ærlig talt ganske fult ut, men smakte jättegott.
Posted in From my iPhone, iPicture on January 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Trysil & Røros
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Ctrl+V Update
Posted in Everyday, From other places, iPicture on November 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I am doing well enough.
Just got back inside from my morning sunrise picture escapade with fingers so frozen I used hot water to warm them AND BOY SHOULD I HAVE NOT DONE THAT. Sometimes I tend to forget the hard lessons learned in childhood. Pro tip: When you’re really cold, be careful with warming up too quick. It is incredibly painful, and can be harmful in extreme cases. The pain is usually enough of a deterrent, tbh.
I am very hungry. Decided that I would try to make oatmeal for breakfast today… if I can remember how, beyond the very basics.
Day 1: Daisy
Posted in From other places, iPicture, Possibly Not Taken By Me, srsly not rly srs stuff, Stuff on August 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Instagram, iPicture, tagged Art, Arts, dark, flower, instaflower, Instagram, la vie en rose, photograph, Photography, picture, pink, Rose, rose picture on August 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »
April 19. 2015 sunrise
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April 7. 2015 sunrise
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11.06.14
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Solnedgang 10.02.15
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Solnedgang 08.02.15
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Dawn – Soloppgang 18.01.15
Posted in From my iPhone, iPicture, tagged cloudpainting, dawn, Pictures, skypainting, Sunrise on January 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The 13.01.15 sunset in two parts
Posted in From my iPhone, iPicture, tagged colors, norway, Photography, picture, Sunset, sunset pictures on January 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
One of these pics were taken with a cat purring on my shoulders.
Green is the color of goo.
Posted in Facebook, iKnit, iPicture on January 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Mesdames et Messieurs, today I knitted something goo-colored.
Strikke-strikke…
Posted in From my iPhone, Hverdag, iKnit, In Norwegian, iPicture, tagged eternity scarf, evighetsskjerf, knitting, scarf, skjerf, strikking on January 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Jeg prøver bare å holde skrivingen gående. Never mind at det tar ca. en uke mellom hver gang jeg får kladda ned en setning av gangen. Det går fortere å skrive enn å strikke, men allikevel er det sistnevnte jeg foretrekker å bruke tid på. Det er en smule mer monotont å strikke rundt og rundt, og selv om det gjør veldig vondt i høyre skulder noen ganger så er det også svært avslappende.
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Dagens prosjekt er det samme gule evighetsskjerfet som jeg starta på uka før jul; Det har liggi på vent siden da, til fordel for to andre skjerf som hadde jule-prioritet. Jeg ble eeendelig ferdig med det siste blå igår kveld. Det neste i rekka blir sannsynligvis mørkt grønt, muligens i dobbel tråd (Mohair + Alpakka).
Monsterplums
Posted in Everyday, iCook / iEat, iPicture on October 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Last time I checked, plums were not supposed to be larger than peaches.
And these things are the size of APPLES.