Cold Sunny Day

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Actually way too cold for photographing. Minus 15 Celsius + a very, very cold wind. After just some 20 minutes my fingers were numb. Had to go back home. Today is an other beautiful winter day. Sunshine, minus 18 Celsius. If the wind’s not cold I may take my cam and make a walk.

Keksin eilen että mennään välillä jonnekin muualle kävelemään kun tätä “meidän” rantatietä. Joten kamerat mukaan ja suuntana Tarvaspää, Gallen-Kallelantie. Auto museon parkkikselle ja kävelemään ekan sillan yli. Kauhia kylmä tuuli ! Ehdin ottaa joitakin kuvia ennenkuin sormet olivat aivan jäässä ja kohmeessa. Siihen jäi minun sen päivän kuvaukset.  Lahdella seilailivat muutamat innostuneet tuulisurffaajat. Ihmettelin miten he eivät jäätyneet pystyyn !

Happy Birthday Quam !

Our wonderful, sweet, adorable Quam is turning 9 today.

Congratulations ! 

Here we are at the vet at 8:00 AM for the Fel-O-Vax IV Vet and  heart, teeth, ear check ups.  Probably not exactly Quam’s idea of birthday celebrating. Well, he’s OK as soon as we are there but he / they both hate the drive there. Luckily it’s only a less than 10 minute drive. The vet was very kind to let me shoot some pics and allowing me to have them on my blog.

At The Dog Park

Our Dog Canelo

Our Spanish Water Dog. Yes in the summer he is.  Now he is a different breed. A Finnish Snow Dog 🙂

In the summer time we go down to the lake. For as long as we throw a tennis ball into the water he swim and fetch. In the winter he loves to hide the tennis ball in the snow. Of course he would love us to find it for him. When we don’t he digs it up himself and hide it again. Digging it up and down for as long as we’re shoveling snow.

Kaffe

Det är inte bara smöret som skjutit upp i pris till värden av guld och diamanter. Tur är att vi inte använder smör !

Även kaffet är nu svindyrt ! Gårdagens kaffepaket kostade 4,45 euro ! ! ! Normalt håller vi oss till billigare sorter än t.ex. den på bilden ovan. Inköpt närmast i tankarna av gammal vana. Det är inte bara Jublileumskaffet som gått upp i pris. Det gäller nog allt kaffe.   Visst, man kan på specialerbjudanden få Jubileumskaffe lite billigare och även andra  Men gårdagens pris är definitivt för mycket. Jag hotade med att sluta dricka kaffe helt. Men då tog det eld i den kära maken som fräste ilsket att: ” sluta du bara jag tänker åtminstone fortsätta dricka kaffe så mycket jag vill”.  Får väl se hur det blir med mitt kaffedrickande. Möjligen kan jag inte hålla mig när gubben kokar morgonkaffe och jag känner doften. Men jag kan ju alltid minska från två koppar till en kopp 🙂 🙂 🙂

Dyrt och dyrt. Det finns säkert dom som inte ens lägger märke till att kaffet stigit i pris med ca 50%. Men vi med våra pyttesmå inkomster känner nog av alla förhöjningar. Bensin-, diesel- och elpriserna  har också stigit så pass att jag personligen skulle kunna tänka mig att ge upp både personbilen och husbilen. Det är säkert inte svårt att gissa vem som inte vill avstå från vare sig det ena eller det andra.

Jaha, det var kaffe á 4,45 som orsakade denna svada !

Little bit of snow

Pitkään aikaan, ehkä pariin viikkoon, en ole ottanut yhtään kuvia. Eilen ja yöllä sataneet uudet lumet tekivät maisemista aivan lumovan kauniita. Canelon kanssa päivälenkillä olikin sitten kamera mukana. Muutaman kuvan jälkeen patterit olivat tyhjät ! On kieltämättä sattunut liiankin usein viime aikoina. Eiku opiksi ja lataukseen useammin tai sitten hankkimaan ihan uudet. Tässä päivän kuvasaldo 🙂

For same days there already has been a some snow. Yesterday was snowing some more. The nature is beautiful now. Haven’t been shooting any pictures for a while now so today when walking Canelo I grabbed the camera with me. After a couple of pictures the batteries run empty.  I unfortunately do forget charging them often now a days 😦

I say this amount of snow is the perfect amount. Last year and the year before there was crazy much snow here.

Åååh va skönt att det äntligen är vinter. Efter gårdagens och nattens snöfall är hela “världen” underbart vacker. Här är väl ca 10 cm snö nu vilket för min del räcker mer än väl efter förra årenas helt galna mängder. Ute med Canelo i dag skulle jag fota några bilder av trädena som är sååå sagolikt vackra. Efter bara några bilder tog batteriet slut vilket tyvärr hänt mig alltför ofta den senaste tiden. Jag får skärpa mig och komma ihåg att ladda dem oftare.  Så det blev bara några bilder på strån denna gång 🙂

Revised 2011 In Review

Look I received a revised review. Thank you  WordPress.com helper monkeys 🙂

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Merino Wool Pillow

From time to time I suffer from neck and shoulder pain. Have been a bit stiff in my neck for some days so yesterday I bought a ‘Sleepy Sheepy Merino Wool Neck Pillow’. I had wanted one already for a long time. Only I always thought of the them as a  bit expensive.  Now the pillows were only half of the original price.

BUT, I’m in trouble now ! Canelo is fully convinced it’s a toy that we bought for him. He was sooo happy when he saw it and so, so, so disappointed when I told him it’s not for him. He just can’t understand why he can’t have it. I hate to look at him, to see his sad eyes telling his feelings are deeply hurt.

No matter how well I hide it he is able to sniff it up. Should I give it to him ? Should I buy one more ? I don’t know. I probably will end up giving him the sheep.

It’s crazy. I also have merino wool booties. He’s never wanted them for a toy ! Is it the shape of the pillow that attracts him.

Hmmm . . . actually the pillow very much look like Canelo. Maybe that’s why he likes it so much. 🙂

Hey Macarena . . .

We were visiting our goddaughter today. As soon as we arrived her youngest, Minea, asked us to come and dance. DANCE ! ? ! Well Santa had brought the kids Playstation move dancestar. I said I can’t dance. Minea said, don’t worry. I’ll show you. Oh, ok, yeah, looked nice and not at all difficult. After a while we all were dancing to Hey Macarena.  Our god-daughter’s parents were there too. After two or three dances I actually won over her father 😉  Unbelievable eh !  It was sooo much fun. We were laughing a lot. Thanks kids for showing us how to do it.

 

Canelo was watching. He’s in the picture to the left down in the corner. When I began dancing he though I had gone absolutely crazy.  No wonder he was confused. I afterwards saw “my dance” on the tape. I know, I looked pretty much insane.

 

Our wonderful goddaughter and her daughter Sandra doing the Macarena. Sandra was the champion, the dancing queen.

Great afternoon. Thanks guys 🙂

LUX Helsinki ~ The Olympic Stadium Tower

The tower looked so nice in the evening yesterday. The colours changed beautifully. My husband Leif said I should have had my video cam to catch the changes. I now do agree.

I ran an errand down town Helsinki today in the afternoon. I wanted to try shoot some more pictures. I waited to shoot till the colours were the same as last night.  About thirty minutes later it was snowing so hard you could barely see the tower.