Some shopping!

Today we went shopping. Jakob needed a tv to his x-box and I found some nice stuff. Pens, tape and headphones with Hello Kitty print on them. (Yes I´m really mature)

It was raining heavily earlier when I was out for a walk, with my dog.
Isn´t she beautiful? ;)

Growing on the balcony!

As some of you know, one of my hobbies is growing plants on my balcony. Many peolpe in Sweden does it and. We Swed´s do love nature and plants a lot.
Here are some pictures from my balcony:

Some kind of clover. My hubby found it when he was walking home from his job.

We sweds are obsessed with strawberries. We eat them all summer and everybody has an opinion about strawberries.

On Friday we celebrate midsummer in Sweden (and yes I´ll take some pictures for you), and a huge part of the midsummer tradition is to eat Swedish strawberries. Sometimes they are really expensive (depending on how warm the spring has been), but we buy them anyway.

My sunflower plants. they are all kinds of sunflowers and i can´t wait for them to blossom.

I took some seeds from a bell pepper (i had for cooking) and planted. I was a bit surprised to see them grow.

Maja wanted to plant some Marigold seeds, here are the results!

We all choose one pany to grow on the balcony. They are so nice and they are in bloom all summer.
This was my choice!

Maja choose the orange ones and Jakob the ones that are almost black.

My mom gave me some tomato plants (one with black and one with yellow tomatoes)

Ambushed in the forest

This is Maja, my ten year old daughter!

We were out in the forest, walking the dog and playing.
I think she was trying to sneak up on me with her bow.

Scary!
(Not many highwaymen use pink Dolly shoes these days)



But not as scary as all the mosquitos!
We had to abandon the forest and run.

Sonja, the shih-tzu

Then we decided to do some crafting instead. Maja made a house and I wrote some letters

We are both huge crafting fans! =)

Lapland /Gällivare /Dundret

Many years ago, I lived in the north of Sweden (above the arctic circle) for a couple of months. The town I lived in is called Gällivare and it´s situated in Swedish Lapland.
It´s not very popular in Sweden to visit the northern parts of the country, and I have never understood why.
In this Picture, you can see the fell (mountain) Dundret and it´s one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited.

This is the view from the top of Dundret. In this picture you can see Malmberget in the background: It´s famous for it´s iron mine.

In this picture we have Gällivare in the background.

I can just sit here for hours and hours and just enjoying the view and the fresh air.

This is from Aitik, another iron mine in Gällivare. Many people in this area of Sweden work in the steel industry.

Vassara river, runs through Gällivare. In the north of Sweden there are many rivers and we use them for hydropower. 46% of all electricity produced in Sweden comes from hydroelectricity.

On a clear day, you can see very far from the top of Dundret. This is a picture of the Scandes, the mountain range between Sweden and Norway.

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Walking the dog yesterday

Our local supermarket.

The church we had last day in school in

It was a hard winter so the roads cracked

A woodland strawberry

Harebell

Jehovah´s witnesses (a kingdom hall) and a swedish police car.

Rikets sal (kingdom hall) läs bibeln varje dag (study the bible every day)

A European Magpie

Max 40 km/h (speed limit)

School for grade 1-5

The are building new environmental friendly houses

This is our "kiosk"

My lovely Canadian penpal Tracy sent me som really nice stickers, and I used them to make some FB´s! (Tnx Tracy)

Last day in school (before summer break)

Yesterday was last day in school, before summer break!
It´s common to have the last day in school in church (its only about 1 hour long)
Here are some pictures from church and my walk with the dog!

Rhododendron growing outside my building

My house!

The elevator in my building. The signs says "please do not smoke"
(some people actually do smoke in the elevator!)

Fern, it´s very common in Sweden!

Nordic walking, many people do it over here!

Rose hip, we use it for soup (it´s like a dessert)

My shih-tzu Sonja

A cute little girl playing with some lego (in church)

The priest talking about the importance of taking care of the earth

Maja (my daughter) and the other students in grade 3, playing the recorder.

A dad, taking some pictures!

The teachers singing a song they wrote ( to the students)

And it was really popular amongst the students

After church they get together for some last words before summer break starts