<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938</id><updated>2012-05-21T21:17:07.334+03:00</updated><category term='country style'/><category term='Old windows'/><category term='kivi'/><category term='petunia ruukut Ikea Juhannus Midsummer  flower pots'/><category term='DIY'/><category term='ylämaankarja'/><category term='kevat ruoka chili kurki koivupino pelto kengat pinaatti valkosipuli Nikon Biolan maanviljely'/><category term='posti'/><category term='kevat keittio sisustus arabia yrtit valokuvaus varpaat'/><category term='vaaleanpunainen ruusu omenapuun oksa Nikon siemenet kuume  suru kankaat'/><category term='found texture'/><category term='white'/><category term='Ranska'/><category term='Naantali'/><category term='ecoliving'/><category term='ylämaan karja'/><category term='summer'/><category term='terapia'/><category term='frames'/><category term='maalaiselämää'/><category term='Sunday'/><category term='farmlife'/><category term='thoughts'/><category term='washing'/><category term='kids'/><category term='countryside'/><category term='white interiors'/><category term='Valokuvatorstai ruusu rose pink'/><category term='Green Gate'/><category term='syntymäpäivä'/><category term='garden flower insects white red blue purple'/><category term='lahja'/><category term='shamppanja'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='vauva'/><category term='green vihreä'/><category term='ulkoilmaelämä'/><category term='eläimet'/><category term='Valtra'/><category term='feeder'/><category term='letter'/><category term='lumi'/><category term='Tanglewood conservatory lasikuisti Jeanne D&apos;arc Living haaveet unelmat pionit ompelunurkka lasikuisti'/><category term='Roses Ruusut dew kaste'/><category term='problems'/><category term='lyhty'/><category term='JeanneD&apos;Arc Amy Butler family  perhe'/><category term='cowhouse'/><category term='glass'/><category term='postman'/><category term='heinähäkki'/><category term='tuikku'/><category term='tree'/><category term='love'/><category term='kylpylä'/><category term='lasi'/><category term='vanhat ikkunat'/><category term='highland cattle'/><category term='lyhty lantern candles kynttilät Highland garden puutarha'/><category term='haaste'/><category term='auringonkukka'/><category term='sea'/><category term='From the Distance'/><category term='ruokasooda'/><category term='haave'/><category term='moottorisaha'/><category term='Yankee Candle'/><category term='farm life'/><category term='Scavenger Hunt Sunday'/><category term='rustic'/><category term='builders'/><category term='forest therapy'/><category term='navetta maalaiselama Porin Olut vanhat tavarat kalastusvalineet sinkkiampari ruoka viikonloppu matkat suunnitelmia'/><category term='perhe'/><category term='siivousvinkki'/><category term='paper'/><category term='vaha'/><category term='sunflower'/><category term='kesä'/><category term='Värikollaasi'/><category term='valitus'/><category term='old doors'/><category term='vanha ovi'/><category term='Karen Blixen'/><category term='maalaiseläma'/><category term='Yrtit Herbs Roses Arabia Ruusut'/><category term='wax tart'/><category term='present'/><category term='rakennusmiehet'/><category term='Laundry'/><category term='Emmi-Sofia'/><category term='B and W'/><category term='lupaus'/><category term='gardening'/><category term='Indiska'/><category term='ekologista elämää'/><category term='remonttihommat'/><category term='tea'/><category term='mental illness'/><category term='saippua'/><category term='puutarha'/><category term='organic food'/><category term='laatikot'/><category term='omenapuu kukka appletree flowers meri saunailta sea sauna helle vihreys'/><category term='synttärit'/><category term='luomuruoka'/><category term='champagne'/><category term='garden'/><category term='shower'/><category term='lapset'/><category term='Liberon'/><category term='hens'/><category term='home'/><category term='gardening. flowers. Finland'/><category term='kivinavetta'/><category term='metsätyöt'/><category term='spa'/><category term='suunnitelmia'/><category term='Nikon'/><category term='Finland'/><category term='storm'/><category term='journal'/><category term='family'/><category term='harvest'/><category term='valokoinen'/><category term='clothes pyykki'/><category term='macro'/><category term='lantern'/><category term='mustavalkomaanantai'/><category term='rose'/><category term='GreenGate Dom Perignon'/><category term='Kukat kauneus rakkaus love family perhe Nikon'/><category term='promise'/><category term='sisustus'/><category term='musta black farm highland'/><category term='saviruukut clay pots lumimyrsky siemenet'/><category term='roses'/><category term='baking soda'/><category term='frugal'/><category term='koira'/><category term='maalaiselämä'/><category term='rustiikki'/><category term='kana'/><category term='valkoinen'/><category term='photo challenge'/><category term='puinti'/><category term='Titonia taimet koira lapsi kevat perhe blogiarvonta suklaakakku'/><category term='varikollaasi sininen'/><category term='Irish'/><category term='kehykset'/><category term='ongelmat'/><category term='joulu'/><category term='junk journal'/><category term='cleaning tip'/><category term='kasityot kasintehty tyyny Amy Butler Nikon mummo pillow handmade countrystyle'/><category term='tealight candle'/><category term='French'/><category term='rakkaus'/><category term='chainsaw'/><category term='kirje'/><category term='craft'/><category term='baby'/><category term='outdoor life'/><category term='stone'/><category term='Dom Perignon &quot;Lilium Regale&quot; Lily Champagne Dinner'/><category term='flowers'/><category term='hyacinth'/><category term='mokki jarvi lake cottage sunset auringonlasku HomesGardens Natural'/><category term='collage'/><category term='Highland'/><category term='interior'/><category term='rakennustyötä'/><category term='cover'/><category term='sauna'/><category term='maa-artisokka'/><category term='peili taimet raivaussaha moottorisaha Nikon'/><category term='Onni'/><category term='Nikon raparperi talo maalausurakka talkoot krookus narsissi mehitahti puutarha sairaus laakkeet kevat pioni paasiainen'/><category term='winter'/><category term='countrylife'/><category term='ruusut'/><category term='EU byrokratia Nikon puutarha kasvimaa kukat sammakko seksi Massey'/><category term='kukka'/><category term='blackboard paint'/><category term='boxes'/><category term='tee'/><category term='forest'/><category term='Makroviikot omatunto omenat Clematis apples'/><category term='päiväkirja'/><category term='party greyfish pony poni rapu rapujuhlat kattaus highland cattle ylämaankarja'/><category term='Nikon tulppaani puutarha valkohantapeura sampyla Jamie Oliver korvapuusti vauva'/><category term='Street Photography'/><category term='metsä'/><category term='children'/><category term='kasvimaa'/><category term='birthday'/><category term='soap'/><category term='Behind'/><category term='liitutaulumaali'/><category term='ruusu'/><category term='ajatuksia'/><category term='myrsky'/><category term='Wordless Wednesday'/><category term='Amy Butler Nikon arvonta paasiainen munat flunssa laake'/><category term='dog'/><category term='Liquid'/><category term='roses pink white ruusu valkoinen vaaleanpunainen hortensia'/><category term='Kermakakku KodinKuvalehti Nikon Onni Stihl tyohuone'/><category term='valokuvatorstai'/><category term='Makroviikot'/><category term='kaura'/><category term='skräppäys'/><category term='metsäretki'/><category term='Nespresso'/><category term='talvi'/><category term='vanhat ovet'/><category term='beach house seaside Yyteri summer beachlife'/><category term='Laura Ashely nojatuoli perhoskangas haaveet sisustus'/><category term='farmwork'/><category term='snow'/><category term='partyjuhlat'/><title type='text'>Countrylife in Finland</title><subtitle type='html'>...and little bit everything else, too!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>135</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-6550038559275082201</id><published>2012-02-03T14:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T14:06:03.378+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valokuvatorstai'/><title type='text'>Tilapäistä</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Temporary....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3tnMMl8cR4w/TyvNSSmjM5I/AAAAAAAABnU/3M1j_P9XqyA/s1600/Tilapa%CC%88ista%CC%88.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="291" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3tnMMl8cR4w/TyvNSSmjM5I/AAAAAAAABnU/3M1j_P9XqyA/s400/Tilapa%CC%88ista%CC%88.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/blog/3141635"&gt;Valokuvatorstaita&lt;/a&gt; perjantaina!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-6550038559275082201?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/6550038559275082201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/02/tilapaista.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6550038559275082201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6550038559275082201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/02/tilapaista.html' title='Tilapäistä'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3tnMMl8cR4w/TyvNSSmjM5I/AAAAAAAABnU/3M1j_P9XqyA/s72-c/Tilapa%CC%88ista%CC%88.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5765300241875126031</id><published>2012-01-31T22:24:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T22:24:53.017+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lapset'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><title type='text'>The Last Day of January</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Today made me think how fast time goes by.... This month has just been fast like a lightning and I'm that one and only person who got struck by it and is now wondering, what the hell just happened!? And then -since I'm in this deep thinking state after the gym and glass of wine- I started to think how fast the whole year has gone. And how much has happened....And went through some photos and kids, they have changed soooo much. Emmi-Sofia from a little girl to bit bigger girl who can cook pasta and make puzzles and loves Postman Pat and speaks two languages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZf_RwlImuE/TyhMBaCls_I/AAAAAAAABnE/Gp4Cn6utCao/s1600/Mimmi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="336" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZf_RwlImuE/TyhMBaCls_I/AAAAAAAABnE/Gp4Cn6utCao/s400/Mimmi.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Onni was just a baby a year ago. He was already walking, since he started so early, but just a baby!! Now he drives his toy tractor, speaks two languages, has a REALLY strong mind, eats and sleeps so well. Oh my... &amp;nbsp;I might need to shed some tears now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tWBCYY2NNO4/TyhMEj7XATI/AAAAAAAABnM/p4hYyqMreAA/s1600/Onni1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tWBCYY2NNO4/TyhMEj7XATI/AAAAAAAABnM/p4hYyqMreAA/s400/Onni1.jpg" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5765300241875126031?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5765300241875126031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-day-of-january.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5765300241875126031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5765300241875126031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-day-of-january.html' title='The Last Day of January'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZf_RwlImuE/TyhMBaCls_I/AAAAAAAABnE/Gp4Cn6utCao/s72-c/Mimmi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-4189995496159845344</id><published>2012-01-30T22:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T22:37:05.894+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='päiväkirja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='junk journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='craft'/><title type='text'>My Junk Journal</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I saw the idea of "junk journal" (completely new term for me at that time) in Pinterest -my Big Addiction at the moment. And it really clicked to me, that is something that is so ME! Using bits and pieces that I already have or havent' even thought about using and at the same time document our everyday life. Feel the paper, write with my hands...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;On top of that I went through my old flickr-pages where I had tried (three time bloody hell!!!) 365 days -project, and realized, that 2 years from now, and all nice everyday stuff is forgotten if I dont document them somehow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XEdfqqe2w9k/Tyb65Eq6nqI/AAAAAAAABmU/rqAs8AhHaoA/s1600/Journal1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XEdfqqe2w9k/Tyb65Eq6nqI/AAAAAAAABmU/rqAs8AhHaoA/s400/Journal1.jpg" width="373" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Cover pages were off the old book, which had suffered quite a lot. I covered them with tiny pieces of fabric and used rings to bind everything together, so I can add or remove pages if needed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Inside (all the techniques were through Pinterest - oh how I looove Pinterest!!!) SO Iused some old pages of that same old book where the covers were taken off and used gesso and sometimes acrylic paints to make them ready. That way I have ready pages for every day if I don't have time to do the "base" work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Then my very hidden -and very bad- artist is let free on some pages. It is so nice to draw, although I'm so bad....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M5KY7uVLo9E/Tyb6-d-juRI/AAAAAAAABmc/pP2aK6ESVP4/s1600/Journal2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="253" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M5KY7uVLo9E/Tyb6-d-juRI/AAAAAAAABmc/pP2aK6ESVP4/s400/Journal2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;...some pages I covered with old paint samples, stitched envelopes to hold card, photos whatever, and for my B-day I even used this "ONNEA=CONGRATS" paper I got from mail order company. Wee flips and pockets add interest and give more room to write if I feel like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pYkShEsPDzw/Tyb7D_nBOfI/AAAAAAAABmk/rfmkmIh7_YI/s1600/Journal3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pYkShEsPDzw/Tyb7D_nBOfI/AAAAAAAABmk/rfmkmIh7_YI/s400/Journal3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magazines are a great source... Lots of nice pics and words and sentences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vi_8JHggfvQ/Tyb7KiOBJFI/AAAAAAAABms/rFA4CSlAkYk/s1600/Journal4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vi_8JHggfvQ/Tyb7KiOBJFI/AAAAAAAABms/rFA4CSlAkYk/s400/Journal4.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;I got so hooked after seeing some reeeeally nice journals, that I bought some tags (they were -70% on sale is my excuse...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mSZTK2mbl1g/Tyb7RG_amxI/AAAAAAAABm0/WAuvWrYRw0Y/s1600/Journal5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mSZTK2mbl1g/Tyb7RG_amxI/AAAAAAAABm0/WAuvWrYRw0Y/s400/Journal5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;And yesterday's page, with free printable tag, clip of a magazine and a tag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cOFuVtbHCZw/Tyb7Xd40RaI/AAAAAAAABm8/MeRaN-Ythpg/s1600/Journal6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cOFuVtbHCZw/Tyb7Xd40RaI/AAAAAAAABm8/MeRaN-Ythpg/s400/Journal6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I will add photos too -once they are developed. I bet the old paper is super acidic so let's see how long the photos last...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Journalling is sooo therapeutic and so relaxing! Journalling and sports should be mandatory to everyone!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-4189995496159845344?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/4189995496159845344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-junk-journal.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/4189995496159845344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/4189995496159845344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-junk-journal.html' title='My Junk Journal'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XEdfqqe2w9k/Tyb65Eq6nqI/AAAAAAAABmU/rqAs8AhHaoA/s72-c/Journal1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5993896864933520234</id><published>2012-01-27T22:21:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T23:02:36.004+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='puutarha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frugal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='organic food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luomuruoka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haave'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunflower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='auringonkukka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kasvimaa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>Garden in my mind</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The seed catalogue has made my mind a wee bit unstable.... You know, I'm in Finland, it is January and that equals to a loooooong wait until it is gardening time!&lt;br /&gt;Couple pics from time before the kids&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 0.8em;"&gt; (it means I had time to go to the hairdressers and actually harvest...) &lt;/span&gt;when I had just cleared this plot and the garden was just a tiny opening in the middle of a "jungle"&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 0.8em;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eevatuulia/1245932929/" title="45/365"&gt;&lt;img alt="45/365 by Miss Twiga" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1088/1245932929_a618c19d47.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;But we ate like kings, all organic and all from our own garden!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eevatuulia/1068200009/" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="30/365 Hunting for dinner..."&gt;&lt;img alt="30/365 Hunting for dinner... by Miss Twiga" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1184/1068200009_1d1340804f.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Then some things I really REALLY want &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 0.8em;"&gt;(through&amp;nbsp;http://gardeninginheels.tumblr.com)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Hens, these brown, cool hens! We had some, couple years back, but there was hawks and foxes who ate them all during couple nights... So proper hen house and locking them in every night!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0cI8j3Z4f6I/TyMIoYVp-bI/AAAAAAAABkU/xffIWPDa8fE/s1600/kanat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0cI8j3Z4f6I/TyMIoYVp-bI/AAAAAAAABkU/xffIWPDa8fE/s400/kanat.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;2. Driftwood fences&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfKvgAfd9nY/TyMIwdp00YI/AAAAAAAABkc/MAITPdaJjts/s1600/plan1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="312" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfKvgAfd9nY/TyMIwdp00YI/AAAAAAAABkc/MAITPdaJjts/s400/plan1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;3. Create time to rest and enjoy the views (hahahahaha, like that will EVER happen!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EB4prFhfYvY/TyMIw3qsICI/AAAAAAAABkk/7DFk8pMR7wY/s1600/plan2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EB4prFhfYvY/TyMIw3qsICI/AAAAAAAABkk/7DFk8pMR7wY/s400/plan2.jpg" width="307" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;4. Nice paths along in the garden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L51l1wJmMSo/TyMIxlNH6SI/AAAAAAAABks/OcTD65HazZU/s1600/plan5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L51l1wJmMSo/TyMIxlNH6SI/AAAAAAAABks/OcTD65HazZU/s400/plan5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;5. See the first one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z1HOzUMzOA/TyMI0yDz7eI/AAAAAAAABk0/aT7LSH0v90I/s1600/plan6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="278" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z1HOzUMzOA/TyMI0yDz7eI/AAAAAAAABk0/aT7LSH0v90I/s400/plan6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;6. Lots of different perennials&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG8QcQhlh6o/TyMI1f0b7DI/AAAAAAAABk8/B-oOEdnsdww/s1600/plan7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG8QcQhlh6o/TyMI1f0b7DI/AAAAAAAABk8/B-oOEdnsdww/s400/plan7.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;7. Great use of cement wires&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3RFX1bz_Xe8/TyMI25YhpRI/AAAAAAAABlE/MIXZH56We10/s1600/plan8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3RFX1bz_Xe8/TyMI25YhpRI/AAAAAAAABlE/MIXZH56We10/s400/plan8.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;8. P E O N I E S!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6OyE24q9BrU/TyMI3hM2vLI/AAAAAAAABlM/62iZ-vC_oLg/s1600/plan9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6OyE24q9BrU/TyMI3hM2vLI/AAAAAAAABlM/62iZ-vC_oLg/s400/plan9.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;9. Sunflowers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KBAysiDZqek/TyMI4tcjdBI/AAAAAAAABlU/ngmYBmkoCNc/s1600/plan10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KBAysiDZqek/TyMI4tcjdBI/AAAAAAAABlU/ngmYBmkoCNc/s400/plan10.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;10. and hydrangeas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YrepSJkHv7c/TyMI5Ii3BUI/AAAAAAAABlY/ucljtwJ7RrI/s1600/plan11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YrepSJkHv7c/TyMI5Ii3BUI/AAAAAAAABlY/ucljtwJ7RrI/s400/plan11.jpg" width="306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;11. Fence and gate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bN8TqgH8mp0/TyMI59rXqLI/AAAAAAAABlk/tP3O3Q4yHrQ/s1600/plan12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bN8TqgH8mp0/TyMI59rXqLI/AAAAAAAABlk/tP3O3Q4yHrQ/s400/plan12.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;12. Nothing too structual, this sort of cottage garden feel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORtfkH2ync8/TyMI6hIX3jI/AAAAAAAABlo/bn9CCk02vwE/s1600/plan13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORtfkH2ync8/TyMI6hIX3jI/AAAAAAAABlo/bn9CCk02vwE/s400/plan13.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;13. and more hens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sqZ9F8BRyxo/TyMI7PchVSI/AAAAAAAABlw/5y6LOPzwC8I/s1600/plan14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sqZ9F8BRyxo/TyMI7PchVSI/AAAAAAAABlw/5y6LOPzwC8I/s400/plan14.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;14. Get proper path running through the apple orchard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JD9TK17Q6s0/TyMI7lMHxLI/AAAAAAAABl8/5LdqJpoQABo/s1600/plan15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JD9TK17Q6s0/TyMI7lMHxLI/AAAAAAAABl8/5LdqJpoQABo/s400/plan15.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;15. and by the road&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H04bFexRnU4/TyMI8tHlRmI/AAAAAAAABmE/BIAocBYsAf4/s1600/plan17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H04bFexRnU4/TyMI8tHlRmI/AAAAAAAABmE/BIAocBYsAf4/s400/plan17.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;16. Get my own wee garden shed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibSVvs2zDf0/TyMI9cVXgiI/AAAAAAAABmM/JhZKp3FGMmY/s1600/plan18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibSVvs2zDf0/TyMI9cVXgiI/AAAAAAAABmM/JhZKp3FGMmY/s400/plan18.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And so....with another old pic of me, I go to bed and go on f´dreaming....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eevatuulia/1372391217/" title="64/365"&gt;&lt;img alt="64/365 by Miss Twiga" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1172/1372391217_1b5401594d.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5993896864933520234?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5993896864933520234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/45365.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5993896864933520234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5993896864933520234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/45365.html' title='Garden in my mind'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0cI8j3Z4f6I/TyMIoYVp-bI/AAAAAAAABkU/xffIWPDa8fE/s72-c/kanat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5511264838041583648</id><published>2012-01-26T08:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T08:40:11.966+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kivi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kivinavetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cowhouse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valokuvatorstai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photo challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='haaste'/><title type='text'>Stones and stones</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/blog/3135748"&gt;Valokuvatorstain&lt;/a&gt; haaste lähti tästä kuvasta:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/blog/3135748"&gt;The photo challenge&lt;/a&gt; this week started from this picture:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PWCO7LKoKRs/TyD1Qcdfa4I/AAAAAAAABkM/fus6z9liS9I/s1600/232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PWCO7LKoKRs/TyD1Qcdfa4I/AAAAAAAABkM/fus6z9liS9I/s400/232.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ja minulle kivistä tulee heti mieleeni tuo meidän murheenkryynimme ja ikuisten haaveiden aihe: KIVINAVETTA (joka juuri mustavalkomaanantaissa pääsi esille...Todellinen julkkis siis!!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And when I even hear the word "stone" and start thinking the sorrow of our lives; the old stone cowshed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haave nro 1&lt;/b&gt;: Toivottavasti se ei jonain päivänä (&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;todennäköisesti räntäsateisena,märän loskan päivänä&lt;/span&gt;) romahda. Tai jos romahtaa, toivottavasti se ei romahda lasten päälle. Tai Irlantilaisen. Tai minun, kun sieltä henkeni kaupalla haen vanhoja ovia ja saranoita...Aika hyvä toive, sanoisin!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dream no 1&lt;/b&gt;: I hope it doesn't collapse totally. If it DOES collapse, I hope it doesn't collapse on top of my children. Or on top of Irish. Or myself.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haave nro2&lt;/b&gt;: Saisipa sen korjattua (&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;alustava kustannusarvio, salaojineen, lämpimine sisätiloineen, jne "Omakotitalon verran" Thanks, juurikin sen verran tuossa sattuu olemaan ylimääräistä!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dream no2:&lt;/b&gt; I wish it could be fixed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; (the first price estimation was "Price of a house". Thanks, that's exactly how much extra money I happen to have lying around!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Haave 3: &lt;/b&gt;Jos sen saisi korjattua, saisipa sinne jotain tuottoisaa toimintaa &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(ideoina tähän asti mm. B&amp;amp;B, luomuvihannesten suoramyynti (tosin niitä vihanneksiakaan ei vielä ole edes luomusuunnitelmassa...hups!), Irlantilaisen miljoonat maahantuontiideat. Olisiko lisää?Tuottoisampia??) &lt;/span&gt;ettei vaan tarvitsisi palata hyväpalkkaisiin sisätöihin!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dream no &amp;nbsp;3:&lt;/b&gt;if it could be fixed, I wish some profitable business in it. (&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The ideas so far have been B&amp;amp;B, selling organic veggies (which haven't even been written into the organic farming plan...OOPS!) Irish's million different export plans. Anything else, anybody??) &lt;/span&gt;I really do not want to return my well paid indoor job!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oZer0n5BCvw/TyDuvstu7SI/AAAAAAAABkE/4tshG3BuQ2Q/s1600/navetta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="499" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oZer0n5BCvw/TyDuvstu7SI/AAAAAAAABkE/4tshG3BuQ2Q/s640/navetta.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ja viimeinen ihmetyksen aihe, miksemme tehneet tuosta kotiamme, kun nyt JO vingumme lisää tilaa taloomme?!?!Ei tarvitsis miettiä, että mitä sille tehdään, ja tilaa, sitä kyllä olisi!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And the last thing I keep on wondering; why on earth did we not fix that to be our home???Since already now we are dreaming of more space!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ja &lt;u&gt;IHAN VIHOVIIMEINEN TOIVE; osaisinpa photoshopata nuo sähköjohdot pois kuvista!!!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;And THE VERY LAST WISH: I wish I could photoshop the electric wires away!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5511264838041583648?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5511264838041583648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/stones-and-stones.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5511264838041583648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5511264838041583648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/stones-and-stones.html' title='Stones and stones'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PWCO7LKoKRs/TyD1Qcdfa4I/AAAAAAAABkM/fus6z9liS9I/s72-c/232.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5891424292516816421</id><published>2012-01-24T08:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T08:40:27.010+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='syntymäpäivä'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Naantali'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talvi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kylpylä'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spa'/><title type='text'>Country people in the spa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Minulla oli synttärit tammikuun alussa. Irlantilainen tiesi siihen päivään kohdistuvan valtaisan mustan masennuksen riskin, ja oli (joskus) niin viisaana miehenä päättänyt eliminoida koko perheeseen vaikuttavan synkeän päivän pois lasten ulottuvilta. Yllätyslahjana oli yksi yö Naantalin kylpylässä, ihan kaksin. Vakavasti rakastunut Ranskalainen kotiorja, joka ei enää ole kotiorja, koska on vain harjoittamassa ranskalaista rakkautta, oli luvannut tulla lasten ja karjan kaitsijaksi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I had my b-day in the beginning of January. Irish knew the huge risk of massive depression taking over the hold household, maybe lasting for days, and eliminated the risk of the kids being affected. The solution was a surprise trip to Naantali Spa. French Houselave, being Very Seriously In Love, hasn't been slaving around lately, had promised to babysit the kids and cattle over night.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Näin hiljaista oli kotikylä tiellä kun lähdimme....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This quiet was our wee village when we left...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuWilZlVLns/TxURmgzLBwI/AAAAAAAABeM/c07Wj2T0cI0/s1600/DSC_1424.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuWilZlVLns/TxURmgzLBwI/AAAAAAAABeM/c07Wj2T0cI0/s400/DSC_1424.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ja näin hiljaista oli Naantalissa, kun sinne pari tuntia myöhemmin saavuimme. Reissu vaati lukuisia pysähdyksiä, koska milloin iski suolaisen himo, sitten taas jo makean, kahvillekin piti poiketa. Kuinkahan kauan meiltä kestäisi aja USAN mantereen halki??!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;And this quiet was Naantali when we got there couple hours later. Our road trip required several stops for salt nuts, for choco, for drinks, for coffee...I was wondering HOW LONG would it take us to cross the U.S?? 5 Years is my wild guess...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aSR_9xlaOpY/TxURuD9LrjI/AAAAAAAABeU/hsO33W5KeIg/s1600/DSC_1431.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aSR_9xlaOpY/TxURuD9LrjI/AAAAAAAABeU/hsO33W5KeIg/s400/DSC_1431.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-49AjymBoZDw/TxUSDD8_UzI/AAAAAAAABes/aq2GVTQBFsw/s1600/DSC_1439.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-49AjymBoZDw/TxUSDD8_UzI/AAAAAAAABes/aq2GVTQBFsw/s400/DSC_1439.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tuosta sillan yli kipittelimme valkoisilla kylpylätoheveleilla uiskentelemaan ja saunomaan ja pulikoimaan (ja pakko myöntää, ihmisiä tuijottelemaan....Kun kerrankin me maalaiset pääsimme ihan &amp;nbsp;ihmiseten ilmoille...;D. Irlantilainen on oppinut ihan mahdottomaksi tuon asian suhteen, ja tunnistaa jo ruotsalaiset ja venäläiset ja virolaiset,omasta mielestään myös selkeästi ihmiset Helsingistä, tai Itä-Suomesta tai Pohjanmaalta...What ever...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We thumped over that bridge sooo many times in our white spa slippers to swim and to have sauna and to float around( and have to admit, to stare at the people. Country people released into the public! Irish is sooo bad nowadays. He is convinced he can tell straight away who is from Russia, or Sweden or Estonia,. Even he can tell people from HElsinki, or Eastern Finland..What ever!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CXlQc8bFhnM/TxUSIkVM_AI/AAAAAAAABe0/iDAvVbnWieI/s1600/DSC_1440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CXlQc8bFhnM/TxUSIkVM_AI/AAAAAAAABe0/iDAvVbnWieI/s400/DSC_1440.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JxGta8ppOcE/TxUSR2TDCGI/AAAAAAAABe8/W1Fj_-RtF3A/s1600/DSC_1441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JxGta8ppOcE/TxUSR2TDCGI/AAAAAAAABe8/W1Fj_-RtF3A/s400/DSC_1441.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ja tuolla ulkoaltaassa oli huisia polskutella kymmenen asteen pakkasessa! (unohdin ekologisen omatuntoni kotiin, ihan vaan yhdeksi yöksi!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;There is an outdoor pool, and maaan what an experience to float in the hot water in the -10 degree temperature(I left my ecological consciousness at home for one night!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3dWrx3MD_F0/TxUUUpbM6UI/AAAAAAAABfE/S2AYw_LUjmM/s1600/DSC_1447.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3dWrx3MD_F0/TxUUUpbM6UI/AAAAAAAABfE/S2AYw_LUjmM/s400/DSC_1447.jpg" width="283" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5gl_jEkCgGI/TxUUdfBzriI/AAAAAAAABfM/1u2b3uvNBcY/s1600/DSC_1451.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5gl_jEkCgGI/TxUUdfBzriI/AAAAAAAABfM/1u2b3uvNBcY/s400/DSC_1451.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Laivassa nukuimme, ihan tuollaisessa parvekkeellisessa sviitissä Irlantilainen hemmotteli minua viimeisen päälle. Ennen nukkumista söin yhden elämäni parhaimmista aterioista...! Kampasimpukoita thaimaalaisittain, kanaa chilikastikkeessa ja TUOREITA vihanneksia thailaisittain, pelkkä alkuleipä, tuoreena kylpylän leipomosta oliiviölyn ja balsamiviinietikan kanssa oli jotain taivaallista. Ja viini! Ja tarjoilija, nuori intialainen mies, jaksoi selostaa ruuasta ja raaka-aineista, vielä oman työaikansa päätyttyäkin. Ihana illallinen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We slept in that cruise ship, Irish had even booked the room with balcony on it. That was luxury, to go there and stare at the sea (frozen sea though).But before sleeping we had the Most Amazing Meal almost ever. Goes into my top 5 easily. Scallops made in thai style, chicken in the thai-chili sauce, fresh veggies, even just the bread in the beginning of the meal, baked in the spa bakery, was soooo tasty with olive oil and balsamico. And the wine! And the young Indian waiter,who was so patient explaining about the food and ingredients, even after his shift was over.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H7glVCq9d5U/TxUUi92MRmI/AAAAAAAABfU/WrbS2T1FF8s/s1600/DSC_1457.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H7glVCq9d5U/TxUUi92MRmI/AAAAAAAABfU/WrbS2T1FF8s/s400/DSC_1457.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evXQyt-uvh8/TxUUop5CNuI/AAAAAAAABfc/PeMfzT0eDXI/s1600/DSC_1459.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evXQyt-uvh8/TxUUop5CNuI/AAAAAAAABfc/PeMfzT0eDXI/s400/DSC_1459.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--rlnYOqa9ek/TxUUtLWrkBI/AAAAAAAABfk/uPNJomcDxWA/s1600/DSC_1461.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--rlnYOqa9ek/TxUUtLWrkBI/AAAAAAAABfk/uPNJomcDxWA/s400/DSC_1461.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3GBp5PuS-Ac/TxUUyD_oKVI/AAAAAAAABfs/Owz2gWzXKuw/s1600/DSC_1462.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3GBp5PuS-Ac/TxUUyD_oKVI/AAAAAAAABfs/Owz2gWzXKuw/s400/DSC_1462.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uWx2gnN8zzw/TxUU39Me8_I/AAAAAAAABf0/Rn73jp5l_-Q/s1600/DSC_1466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uWx2gnN8zzw/TxUU39Me8_I/AAAAAAAABf0/Rn73jp5l_-Q/s400/DSC_1466.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Kuvia piti napsia enemmänkin, mutta jotenkin varustukseni ei ollut talvikeleille suunnattua. TENNARIT?!? ja kymmenen pakkasastetta??? Sisällä oli kuiteskin villasukat...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was going to take more pics, but c'moon what a winter gear... TRAINERS??!? and minus ten degrees?? I was wearing woolly socks inside them though...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvGEQxBIvfc/TxUU-ZVNyYI/AAAAAAAABf8/yj3Z5Rofb1w/s1600/DSC_1470.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvGEQxBIvfc/TxUU-ZVNyYI/AAAAAAAABf8/yj3Z5Rofb1w/s400/DSC_1470.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PaSbxyos9RU/TxUVD4XYAHI/AAAAAAAABgE/CgUYitLEvRI/s1600/DSC_1473.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PaSbxyos9RU/TxUVD4XYAHI/AAAAAAAABgE/CgUYitLEvRI/s400/DSC_1473.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Koko kotimatkan napsin kuvia talvisista maisemista -ja Irlantilaisesta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;All the way home I kept on snapping pics of the landscape and Irish&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XTDiEc9xFAk/TxUVIbSfuDI/AAAAAAAABgM/5z2HuR1Pgc0/s1600/DSC_1493.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XTDiEc9xFAk/TxUVIbSfuDI/AAAAAAAABgM/5z2HuR1Pgc0/s400/DSC_1493.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Vaikka jo Raision kohdalla sain tällaisia katseita...Oh Dear, how he loooooooves me! ("Put &amp;nbsp;that fcking camera away!!CLICKCLICKCLIKC CONSTANTLY!!!")&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Although just 15 kms outside the spa I got looks like this....Oh Dear, how he looooves me!&amp;nbsp;("Put &amp;nbsp;that fcking camera away!!CLICKCLICKCLIKC CONSTANTLY!!!")&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zKka3M5YPkk/TxUVMdafQzI/AAAAAAAABgU/zrwMYruOY3g/s1600/DSC_1506.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zKka3M5YPkk/TxUVMdafQzI/AAAAAAAABgU/zrwMYruOY3g/s400/DSC_1506.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5891424292516816421?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5891424292516816421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/country-people-in-spa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5891424292516816421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5891424292516816421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/country-people-in-spa.html' title='Country people in the spa'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuWilZlVLns/TxURmgzLBwI/AAAAAAAABeM/c07Wj2T0cI0/s72-c/DSC_1424.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-7574437732855729106</id><published>2012-01-22T13:31:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T13:31:45.667+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Scavenger Hunt Sunday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;1.Sunset&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FcGo1mEfeX4/TxvvLJ_TdUI/AAAAAAAABjU/DfV09uG07q4/s1600/DSC_1594.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FcGo1mEfeX4/TxvvLJ_TdUI/AAAAAAAABjU/DfV09uG07q4/s400/DSC_1594.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;One evening there was that Blue Moment...Oh so beautiful! Yet I had dinner (slightly burning already, but things had to be put in the right order. In this case photos came first, starving children clearly second...) on the stove, so this is taken through the window. On top of that, it was the coldest night this year, and I'm known to be super cold all the time despite the sexy long john's (Irish's old ones) and even sexier woolly socks (my Dad's old ones, come up to my knees, so lovely and warm!) so I had no big intentions running outside!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Black and White&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-veOL3CI0cEk/TxvvRu-LJtI/AAAAAAAABjc/eNIODzjdmls/s1600/DSC_1789.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-veOL3CI0cEk/TxvvRu-LJtI/AAAAAAAABjc/eNIODzjdmls/s400/DSC_1789.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;We had sauna together and oh my she went crazy! I haven't seen any other child of her age bearing that much heath. Like her Mom.... After sauna, we had evening porridge and kids got to watch some Postman Pat (I bet even when I'm old and senile, I'll recall the lyrics of Postman Pat and nothing else but Postman Pat!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. A Day in My Life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C93UUVNWPEE/TxvvlezotYI/AAAAAAAABjs/hsMEP9DhthI/s1600/DSC_1466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C93UUVNWPEE/TxvvlezotYI/AAAAAAAABjs/hsMEP9DhthI/s400/DSC_1466.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;I had my b-day on the 7th. Irish had booked a night out in the spa and French Houseslave had promised to stay with the kids. This was all a Big Surprise for me until the evening of the 6th, when Irish decided that so much shaving is required before I'm accepted into the spa and he told me the surprise. We had a fantastic weekend in the spa situated by the sea. The seaview, even if it is frozen, makes me happy. Every Day in My life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Four&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v8HAcMa3AWs/TxvwAE7lkcI/AAAAAAAABj0/Bk4HbF9wWUk/s1600/DSC_1803.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v8HAcMa3AWs/TxvwAE7lkcI/AAAAAAAABj0/Bk4HbF9wWUk/s320/DSC_1803.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Four of the huge cattle of mine. They are son like family pets. When I walk out of the house door and they see me, these four bravest ones come straight away to the gate to "MOOOOO" and beg for some treats. I think this farm will never produce meat... Would anyone pay to come and pet these little monsters, huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Colourful&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7z5BhVMm0UQ/TxvwcKVCxlI/AAAAAAAABj8/b8GpB2SnYsE/s1600/DSC_1865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7z5BhVMm0UQ/TxvwcKVCxlI/AAAAAAAABj8/b8GpB2SnYsE/s400/DSC_1865.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Only couple months ago that was a blooming lavender. *BIG SIGH* . Basically nothing is colorful in the nature at the moment. I can not wait for the spring and colors to be back....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ashleysisk.com/2012/01/scavenger-hunt-sunday_22.html"&gt;Scavenger Hunt Sunday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-7574437732855729106?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/7574437732855729106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/scavenger-hunt-sunday.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7574437732855729106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7574437732855729106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/scavenger-hunt-sunday.html' title='Scavenger Hunt Sunday'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FcGo1mEfeX4/TxvvLJ_TdUI/AAAAAAAABjU/DfV09uG07q4/s72-c/DSC_1594.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-978184534094597622</id><published>2012-01-21T06:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T06:36:05.918+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rakkaus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='highland cattle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='perhe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ylämaankarja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Love</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Lots and lots of loooove in this household and farm yard.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlpZV5DUG7g/Txo_SsEw7nI/AAAAAAAABik/5KgvkM0rQL8/s1600/Loove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlpZV5DUG7g/Txo_SsEw7nI/AAAAAAAABik/5KgvkM0rQL8/s400/Loove.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_yPULU8gLAI/Txo_k647LPI/AAAAAAAABis/UGkKI2lRd_0/s1600/DSC_1774.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_yPULU8gLAI/Txo_k647LPI/AAAAAAAABis/UGkKI2lRd_0/s400/DSC_1774.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wo13b0yMtYg/TxpABM3xuGI/AAAAAAAABi0/mHM-mApOKTQ/s1600/Onni+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wo13b0yMtYg/TxpABM3xuGI/AAAAAAAABi0/mHM-mApOKTQ/s400/Onni+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QCHZ75Axjv4/TxpAERDlH4I/AAAAAAAABi8/1Ytb4SMuCu0/s1600/DSC_1564+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QCHZ75Axjv4/TxpAERDlH4I/AAAAAAAABi8/1Ytb4SMuCu0/s400/DSC_1564+copy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vx7RPPnvSCo/TxpASHkHCII/AAAAAAAABjM/qI1tghqtvIo/s1600/DSC_1830.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vx7RPPnvSCo/TxpASHkHCII/AAAAAAAABjM/qI1tghqtvIo/s400/DSC_1830.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-978184534094597622?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/978184534094597622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/love.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/978184534094597622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/978184534094597622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/love.html' title='Love'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlpZV5DUG7g/Txo_SsEw7nI/AAAAAAAABik/5KgvkM0rQL8/s72-c/Loove.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-7306318244800849715</id><published>2012-01-19T14:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T14:54:10.593+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mustavalkomaanantai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kivinavetta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cowhouse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vauva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='summer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kukka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='B and W'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kesä'/><title type='text'>Haave -Dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mustavalkomaanantain sadas haaste (huomasin sen näin torstaina....) on haave. Tässä ei vain yksi vaan kolme haavetta (ahneella on pssskanen loppu....!), jotka kyllä ovat aikalailla epärealistisia (nrot 1 ja 2) ja toisensa poissulkevia(nrot 1 ja 3). Mutta haaveilla täytyy....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;B&amp;amp;W challenge is DREAM. I am so bloody greedy that I have 3 dreams instead of just one. They are quite unrealistic (n:os 1 and 2 and quite contradicting (N:os 1 and 3), but one is allowed to dream.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;1. Jos tuon kivinavetan saisi korjattua. Vaikka B&amp;amp;B-typpieksi majataloksi. Ei maksais paljoakaan, ja rahaa on muutama satatonnia takataskussa juurikin nyt!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;1. Fixing up the old cowhouse. Like a B&amp;amp;B type of &amp;nbsp;place. Wouldnt require much money, just hundreds of thousands of euros. Which I of course have -in my back pocket right now.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--T_Fxdkg9hg/TxgOmKfm8oI/AAAAAAAABiE/3d6G3RZi1vA/s1600/DSC_1842.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--T_Fxdkg9hg/TxgOmKfm8oI/AAAAAAAABiE/3d6G3RZi1vA/s400/DSC_1842.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;2. Siemenkuvastojen tultua, niin toivon, että tuo lumi häviäisi ja Suomeen saataisiin 7 kuukauden kesä. Ihan noin joka vuosi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;2. Seed catalogues arrived and I dream of summer and gardening. Dream of 7 month summer here in Finland. Every year.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XaAJ_3DMx-I/TxgQNHIG2UI/AAAAAAAABiU/MK4hb96JMtg/s1600/DSC_7087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XaAJ_3DMx-I/TxgQNHIG2UI/AAAAAAAABiU/MK4hb96JMtg/s400/DSC_7087.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;3. Haaveilen edelleen kolmannesta lapsesta....Pieni, terve tyttövauva (no miksei poikakin, onhan tuo Onni kauhean ihana!)!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;3. I still also dream of third child...Crazy I know, but one healthy little girl would still be so nice (or a boy...)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K4pCnziC7YE/TxgP1c-19LI/AAAAAAAABiM/849273xsi48/s1600/IMG_6627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K4pCnziC7YE/TxgP1c-19LI/AAAAAAAABiM/849273xsi48/s400/IMG_6627.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-7306318244800849715?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/7306318244800849715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/haave-dream.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7306318244800849715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7306318244800849715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/haave-dream.html' title='Haave -Dream'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--T_Fxdkg9hg/TxgOmKfm8oI/AAAAAAAABiE/3d6G3RZi1vA/s72-c/DSC_1842.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-2964041805645078642</id><published>2012-01-17T22:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T22:08:19.036+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='countryside'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><title type='text'>Countryside on a winter day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I'm not a winter person, but countryside can be so very beautiful also on abright winter day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HrPHLe_RBlg/TxXTDOX5NXI/AAAAAAAABgk/naWYSuKTbbE/s1600/DSC_1420.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HrPHLe_RBlg/TxXTDOX5NXI/AAAAAAAABgk/naWYSuKTbbE/s400/DSC_1420.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aYfwKCVwcCo/TxXTNPyS-xI/AAAAAAAABgs/kT-4zaoc77I/s1600/DSC_1422.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aYfwKCVwcCo/TxXTNPyS-xI/AAAAAAAABgs/kT-4zaoc77I/s400/DSC_1422.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;All the ones below were taken through the car window(Yes to Nikon!!), Irish driving like a mad man an every now and then commenting: "The noise of the camera drives me CRAZY!!!" Then drove wee bit faster...And I just went on snapping...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NlDo2X9Fub8/TxXTUKa9ZII/AAAAAAAABg0/2ugY6Sm4J_w/s1600/DSC_1509.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NlDo2X9Fub8/TxXTUKa9ZII/AAAAAAAABg0/2ugY6Sm4J_w/s400/DSC_1509.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DnLUBPo2X1o/TxXTdUICLmI/AAAAAAAABg8/Q1gLFJu_kk8/s1600/DSC_1511.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DnLUBPo2X1o/TxXTdUICLmI/AAAAAAAABg8/Q1gLFJu_kk8/s400/DSC_1511.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6x2n-dV9qEs/TxXTkJx76gI/AAAAAAAABhE/hdsq516amUU/s1600/DSC_1516.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5U4OmFfIGKc/TxXUM4zS5GI/AAAAAAAABhs/rD1ny-892YM/s400/DSC_1544.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-2964041805645078642?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/2964041805645078642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/countryside-on-winter-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/2964041805645078642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/2964041805645078642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/countryside-on-winter-day.html' title='Countryside on a winter day'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HrPHLe_RBlg/TxXTDOX5NXI/AAAAAAAABgk/naWYSuKTbbE/s72-c/DSC_1420.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-1987418266909645475</id><published>2012-01-12T14:30:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T22:36:18.542+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lapset'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lupaus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lumi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farmlife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maalaiselämää'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valokuvatorstai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photo challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promise'/><title type='text'>Lupaus - Resolution</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/blog/3124765"&gt;Valokuvatorstain&lt;/a&gt; haaste on lupaus. Vuoden vaihtuessa en sellaista tehynyt, mutta eilen sydän oli pakahtua, kun omat lapset olivat niin kertakaikkisen ihania ja lupaukseni on koittaa olla kärsivällisempi äiti...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/blog/3124765"&gt;The Photo challenge&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; and &lt;a href="http://www.mcpactions.com/blog/2012/01/02/mcp-project-12-month-one/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; this week was &amp;nbsp;"Resolution". Yesterday I was about to burst my heart with love, because the kids were so wonderful, and I promised to try to be more patient mother for them...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QuqBNtSrdK4/Tw7JGlvPKpI/AAAAAAAABbw/gTzD-0yMFUY/s1600/hali1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QuqBNtSrdK4/Tw7JGlvPKpI/AAAAAAAABbw/gTzD-0yMFUY/s400/hali1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;We went outside to save all the mats that had bee out there for 2,5 days (yes DAYS!!), because couple first one were cold ones, about -13 degrees. But then the half one turn out to be almost 0 and snow and I did not want all my mats and rugs stink like a wet dog, so kids were standing like two snowmen watching their mother running about insanely.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ehkä 2,5 päivää mattojen tuuletusta haikkujen aidan päällä on tarpeeksi, tuumasi Vuoden Äiti ja iski lapset lumisateeseen ja alkoi tampata ja kantaa mattoja hullun lailla. -13 astetta olikin yhtäkkkiä nollakeli, enkä tahtonut märän koiran hajuisia mattoja sisälle puhtaille alttioille.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5xuzuF5KI7o/Tw7J5p8Mt2I/AAAAAAAABb4/Rp-Km_Pl_5Q/s1600/DSC_1614.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5xuzuF5KI7o/Tw7J5p8Mt2I/AAAAAAAABb4/Rp-Km_Pl_5Q/s400/DSC_1614.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mother of The Year kept on ignoring kids(except taking pics every now and then...Oh my, oh my!!) so they carried their "sun chairs" outside where they were able to keep eye on their crazy mom and decided to have a picnic. Extreme outdoor experience started and the picnic consisted of REEEEALLLY dry pieces of bread, meant for the Highlanders. But I guess melting snow made them wee bit softer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Maalaislapset ja extremeulkoilu osa 1: Piknik. Vuoden Äiti vain tamppasi mattoja ja valokuvasi, vaikka lapsilla ilmeisesti nälkä kurni vatsaa. Ratkaisu; leikkimökistä kannettiin äidin tarkkailuetäisyydelle tuolit, highlandeille tarkoitetut kuivat käntyt hanskoihin, ja ei kun piknikille.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e-qCaZDOouc/Tw7J_T1gLiI/AAAAAAAABcA/zqityDSP6os/s1600/DSC_1617.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e-qCaZDOouc/Tw7J_T1gLiI/AAAAAAAABcA/zqityDSP6os/s400/DSC_1617.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Everything is "CHEERS" these days, so "CHEERS" it was with the dry bread as well.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3AgeAG-4PYU/Tw7KFairU5I/AAAAAAAABcI/cInZNiD-shY/s1600/DSC_1618.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3AgeAG-4PYU/Tw7KFairU5I/AAAAAAAABcI/cInZNiD-shY/s400/DSC_1618.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Then the expected happened. One of them was bound to be falling. And of course it was Onni, still holding his super dry piece of rye bread. Mother of the Year lift him up, and so the picnic went on again, and carrying mats went on again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vuoden Äiti antoi yhden varoituksen, ette sitten kaadu-tyyppisen, ja jatkoi hommiaan. Mottona "Siperia opettaa". Ja tietysti Onni putosi. Vuoden Äiti nosti lapsensa ylös ja jatkoi mattojen kanniskelua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UWPmt9EG_Y/Tw7KKlni-7I/AAAAAAAABcQ/hGRAxZvf1Es/s1600/DSC_1648.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UWPmt9EG_Y/Tw7KKlni-7I/AAAAAAAABcQ/hGRAxZvf1Es/s400/DSC_1648.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Buuut since they have to do, get, speak, eat, drink exactly same way, Emmi-Sofia had to make a joke fall again. Mother of the Year lifted her up and then the picnic went on and carrying mats went on again. Sometimes I lose my patience with things like this, especially if it includes fake crying and tantrums, but with my promise, we all just laughed!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emmi-Sofia tietysti perässä hankeen oranssilla aurinkotuolillaan, koska nykyisin JOKA IKINEN asia pitää tehdä samalla lailla kuin veli (tai sisko, kun on Onnista kyse), mutta enpäs menettänyt malttiani. En varsinkaan, kun tällä kertaa toimi ei aiheuttanut valeitkua tai kiukkua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PzB0hIkksPI/Tw7KO20XMcI/AAAAAAAABcY/5jLy8tbT-x4/s1600/DSC_1655.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PzB0hIkksPI/Tw7KO20XMcI/AAAAAAAABcY/5jLy8tbT-x4/s400/DSC_1655.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;I heard "lets go and see Anselmi." and "JOO" as an aswer. Mother of the Year decided to warn once and only once about the electric fence, and then the Extreme Outdoor Experience continued.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Maalaislapset ja extremeulkoilu osa 2:Tuleeko sähköisku vai ei. Vuoden Äidin kasvatusteemana oli edelleen "Siperia opettaa" ja niinpä Vuoden Äiti vain valokuvasi ja odotti jysähtääkö vai ei. No ei jysähtänyt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cuhFw4Qu2H4/Tw7KSZHnUNI/AAAAAAAABcg/j5iG8iq0hcY/s1600/DSC_1670.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cuhFw4Qu2H4/Tw7KSZHnUNI/AAAAAAAABcg/j5iG8iq0hcY/s400/DSC_1670.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Do you wanna try?" "JOO" and they both put one hand on the wire....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pvONG3Z2lyw/Tw7KWfpR0XI/AAAAAAAABco/2n2O-SeQciM/s1600/DSC_1673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pvONG3Z2lyw/Tw7KWfpR0XI/AAAAAAAABco/2n2O-SeQciM/s400/DSC_1673.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;That wasn't enough, so the Extreme Outdoor Experience continued by climbing on top of the pile of pallets. Mother of the Year &amp;nbsp;warned once and only once about falling down. And up they climbed. Mother of the Year had now changed her task into pushing the snow of the drive way, since we were expecting a sales boy for the terrace glasses. And somehow the city sales boys are usually bit taken aback by 10 cm of wet snow meeting their fancy leather shoes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Maalaislapset ja extremeulkoilu osa 3; kiipeilyä kuormalavojen päällä. Kasvatusteema "Siperia opettaa" jatkui, ja kerran putoamisvaroituksen jälkeen Vuoden Äiti keskittyi vain valokuvaukseen ja odotti putoaako vai ei. No kerran putosi. Onni. Tietty! Yhä sama rutikuiva ruisleivän palanen märissä hanskoissaan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BekODZS1ifI/Tw7Kbgp5mTI/AAAAAAAABcw/fWLnj5-D3Ng/s1600/DSC_1679.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BekODZS1ifI/Tw7Kbgp5mTI/AAAAAAAABcw/fWLnj5-D3Ng/s400/DSC_1679.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Look Mummy, Andelmi jumped AGAIN inside the feeder! Go and LIFT HIM OUT!!""&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6UsnD8E2Uw/Tw7KhhK3IuI/AAAAAAAABc4/SnZQgzONeUk/s1600/DSC_1693.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6UsnD8E2Uw/Tw7KhhK3IuI/AAAAAAAABc4/SnZQgzONeUk/s400/DSC_1693.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Lots of worrying, lots of hassle, but I was patient, and then the expected happened. Onni fell. Still holding his piece of super dry rye bread. No crying, and up he climbed again.... And I did not lose my patience.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QeYhP5uknA4/Tw7KoMpmjjI/AAAAAAAABdA/XWFdfzoTjgE/s1600/DSC_1694.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QeYhP5uknA4/Tw7KoMpmjjI/AAAAAAAABdA/XWFdfzoTjgE/s400/DSC_1694.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ijVflwB0ImQ/Tw7KuZyaZRI/AAAAAAAABdI/DLQQ_Qmyrx8/s1600/DSC_1697.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ijVflwB0ImQ/Tw7KuZyaZRI/AAAAAAAABdI/DLQQ_Qmyrx8/s400/DSC_1697.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Do you wanna roll down?" "JOO" and then Mother of the Year ran and stopped this game from happening. Some limits even to the Extreme Outdoor Experience.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Kieritäänkö alas?" "JOOO!" ja siinä vaiheessa jopa vuoden äidin piti lopettaa hommat ja puuttua asiaan. Jotain rajaa jopa Exremeulkoiluun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JseFcrHMf4k/Tw7K1HoGwKI/AAAAAAAABdQ/3HiHkKnMsXU/s1600/DSC_1698.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JseFcrHMf4k/Tw7K1HoGwKI/AAAAAAAABdQ/3HiHkKnMsXU/s400/DSC_1698.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OjSB4fDSmY0/Tw7K8YxjvyI/AAAAAAAABdY/JBgGypl6mic/s1600/DSC_1700.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OjSB4fDSmY0/Tw7K8YxjvyI/AAAAAAAABdY/JBgGypl6mic/s400/DSC_1700.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;So after these are you surprised, that I have no idea how he has gotten a black eye and scratches on his cheek.... That's how it goes in this farm family despite the huge amount of love we have for one another! I promise not to lose my mind over small things. They are great, FANTASTIC KIDS!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nämä seikat huomioonottaen, ei ole ihme, ettei Vuoden Äidillä ole hajuakaan, mistä johtuvat Onnin musta silmä ja naarmut kasvoilla.... Sellaista se on välillä maalaisperheessä, vaikka rakkautta riittää, niin jatkuvaan huolehtimiseen ei ole aikaa. Siperia opettaa.... Toivottavasti myös minulle kärsivällisyyttä!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuJkEeVwRoo/Tw7LFjCridI/AAAAAAAABdo/Zxbsa38V_-E/s1600/Onnikylpee2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuJkEeVwRoo/Tw7LFjCridI/AAAAAAAABdo/Zxbsa38V_-E/s400/Onnikylpee2.jpg" width="296" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-1987418266909645475?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/1987418266909645475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/lupaus-promise.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/1987418266909645475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/1987418266909645475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/lupaus-promise.html' title='Lupaus - Resolution'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QuqBNtSrdK4/Tw7JGlvPKpI/AAAAAAAABbw/gTzD-0yMFUY/s72-c/hali1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-6524207947885456442</id><published>2012-01-09T08:34:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T08:35:05.939+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='posti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='letter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emmi-Sofia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='postman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mustavalkomaanantai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kirje'/><title type='text'>Postman for B&amp;W Monday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://mustavalkomaanantai.blogspot.com/2012/01/mustavalkomaanantai-99.html"&gt;Mustavalkomaanantain&lt;/a&gt; haaste on musiikkia The Beatlesilta, Mr.Postman. Kuva on viime helmikuulta, kylmääkin kylmempi päivä (toim.huom. tästä johtuu hiusten tila, ei tietenkään Vuoden Äidin en-jaksa-tapella-harjauksesta -olosta!), kun Emmi-Sofian kanssa mentiin postilaatikolle ja siellä oli Emskulle Oma Kirje. Voi ylpeyden määrää! Tiliote, 3-vuotias tietysti ymmärsi heti mistä on kyse!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://mustavalkomaanantai.blogspot.com/2012/01/mustavalkomaanantai-99.html"&gt;The challenge &lt;/a&gt;was music by The Beatles, Mr. Postman. The photo was taken last February, when the weather was unbelievably cold. Emmi-Sofia and me went to get some air and the post and oh the joy, when there was The Letter for her! Bank statement, so it was crystal clear for a 3 year old!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TZOUZBcqYoQ/TwqJrh6-u1I/AAAAAAAABbo/rIFYbWT12BA/s1600/Postman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TZOUZBcqYoQ/TwqJrh6-u1I/AAAAAAAABbo/rIFYbWT12BA/s400/Postman.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-6524207947885456442?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/6524207947885456442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/postman-for-b-monday.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6524207947885456442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6524207947885456442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/postman-for-b-monday.html' title='Postman for B&amp;W Monday'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TZOUZBcqYoQ/TwqJrh6-u1I/AAAAAAAABbo/rIFYbWT12BA/s72-c/Postman.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5028713778944666830</id><published>2012-01-06T20:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T23:25:28.106+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maalaiseläma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='puutarha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farm life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valitus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening. flowers. Finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kukka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='talvi'/><title type='text'>Winter whining</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;You have been warned... Whining, whining....The first seed catalogue came on Thursday and oh boy, gardening thoughts have been taking majority of my very limited spare brain capacity. And it seems so far away, since we now have the "coldest" weather this winter -14 degrees (last year it was -34 at this same time, so I know I should not even call this "winter" but what can one do....).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Korpikangas ehti ensimmäisenä lähettämään siemenluettelonsa ja jopas irtosi inho talvea kohtaan täysin liekein! Rajoitettu vapaa aivokapasitettiini on nyt kuormitettu puutarhasuunnitelmilla. Värimaailma on menneiden parin kesän jatkoa. Muutamaa uutta kukkalajiketta tekisi mieleni kokeilla, mutta näillä (kai) jatketaan:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The color scheme has been already decided and planted too in past two summers:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEzXnDgCoHk/Twn_7DlldCI/AAAAAAAABbA/y2uMHROjX3c/s1600/pink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEzXnDgCoHk/Twn_7DlldCI/AAAAAAAABbA/y2uMHROjX3c/s640/pink.jpg" width="472" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y990x9kj4I/TwoAMtpVjgI/AAAAAAAABbI/y8drwN7hIHw/s1600/white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y990x9kj4I/TwoAMtpVjgI/AAAAAAAABbI/y8drwN7hIHw/s640/white.jpg" width="520" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g2QqOR7ePmE/TwoCCqw1kKI/AAAAAAAABbQ/fyDYd15twIo/s1600/violet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g2QqOR7ePmE/TwoCCqw1kKI/AAAAAAAABbQ/fyDYd15twIo/s640/violet.jpg" width="494" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just couple new one I would like to try...And of course have to see the damages caused by winter months and moles!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh, and the vegetables... Everytime I go to do the the grocery shopping I'm having secret heart attack with the vegetable prices; tiny bunch of lettuce 1.49!!! Kilo of tomatoes 4.98!!!! Organic carrots 4.99 per kilo!!!! &lt;b&gt;OMG!!! &lt;/b&gt;It is so incredible to be able to walk (with bare, black and dirty feet preferably) into the greenhouse or vegetable garden (which now in the winter time in my dreams are just pure clean of weeds -for sure!!) collect what you want to eat or cook from, all organic, all OH SO TASTY and all grown by me! So for sure, lots of different tomatoes, massive amount of lettuces of all possible kinds, herbs (fresh basil...fresh dill...I'm drooling here!), peppers, cucumbers...List goes on and on, and I get this mental images of Irish shaking his head when the seed packages keep on appearing with every single post delivery...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No sitten; joka ikinen kerta kun Prisman heviosastolle astun iskee pienimuotoinen sydäri. Hinnat ovat jotain USKOMATONTA, varsinkin jos luomua halajaa. (Ihan nytkin hengitys salpautuu...Varsinkin kun ajattelen kurppaisia lehtisalaatteja; 1.49 se pieni nahistunut puska!!!) Saati että vaihtoehtona on kävellä mieluusti varsin mustin ja paskaisin varpain kasvihuoneeseen tai kasvimaalle ja itse kerätä, mitä mieli juuri silloin haljaapi. (Ja tietysti nyt talvella ei missään näy yhtään rikkaruohoa, tai ylipäätään muutakaan tuhoa...;D) Ja miten hyvälle kaikki itsekasvattama maistuukaan, ja kotona kasvatettu jos jokin on varmasti luomua, kun tasan tarkkaan tiedän, mitä olen maahan mustin tynkäkynsisin sormini lykännyt! Joten tomaateja sen sataa lajiketta, erilaisia lehtisalaatteja pitää kokeilla, ja yrttejä, yrttejä, yrttejä!Listähön jatkuu loputtoiin, ja niin näen mielessäni Irlantilaisen pudistelemassa kiharaa päätään, kun siemenlähetyksiä on joka ikisen päivän postissa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Another thing; NO NEED TO DRESS THE KIDS WHEN GOING OUTSIDE!! I'm so SO fed up getting two little ones dressed for outside. Normal clothes, ok, then layer of fleece clothes, then outside winter over all, then this winter layer of waterproof overalls, then woolly socks, boots, woolly gloves, top gloves (water proofed), hat... Emmi-Sofia is ok partly getting herself dressed, but it still takes if I'm fast and they both are co-operating (does NOT happen 99% of the time) 15 &amp;nbsp;minutes. Then I'm all sweaty and when I'm getting my clothes on, I put too little and I'm about to freeze after 2 minutes outside. Instead; open the door, let naked kids run about(and preferably do the same yourself)!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ja hei, ei tarvetta lasten pukemiseen. Ovi auki ja ulos! No ehkä ne kengät voi juurikin jalkoihinsa saada, jos Vuoden Äiti oikein innostuu. Tuo talvivaaterumba on niin karseaa!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jaSQUH690Ic/Twbjp7Kt7LI/AAAAAAAABZo/eYucWSE4mQw/s1600/DSC_6426.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="186" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jaSQUH690Ic/Twbjp7Kt7LI/AAAAAAAABZo/eYucWSE4mQw/s400/DSC_6426.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZGLeEmsaak/Twbk7k3LfAI/AAAAAAAABa4/F559f9UpKqk/s1600/DSC_7007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZGLeEmsaak/Twbk7k3LfAI/AAAAAAAABa4/F559f9UpKqk/s400/DSC_7007.JPG" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n97voXGpfdc/TwoGOl1HC9I/AAAAAAAABbg/9sMAhWjrMzw/s1600/DSC_6983.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="263" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n97voXGpfdc/TwoGOl1HC9I/AAAAAAAABbg/9sMAhWjrMzw/s400/DSC_6983.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ja ihan oma tarinansa on sitten lehmien ruokinta, mutta siitä lisää myöhemmin. Nyt loppui valitus!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And this requires a whole new story, but no need for frozen tractors to feed the cows! That story will be told later, since no whining is over for one night!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3n0r8ob6j3E/TwbjyVykjwI/AAAAAAAABZw/W_4OqBAW6Nc/s1600/DSC_6185.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="183" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3n0r8ob6j3E/TwbjyVykjwI/AAAAAAAABZw/W_4OqBAW6Nc/s400/DSC_6185.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5028713778944666830?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5028713778944666830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-whining.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5028713778944666830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5028713778944666830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-whining.html' title='Winter whining'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEzXnDgCoHk/Twn_7DlldCI/AAAAAAAABbA/y2uMHROjX3c/s72-c/pink.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5505806584765134881</id><published>2012-01-04T08:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T08:24:24.863+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='highland cattle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='heinähäkki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ongelmat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ylämaankarja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='countrylife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feeder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maalaiselämä'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eläimet'/><title type='text'>Problem - Ongelma</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Anselmi The Bull had somehow jumped (I can not understand HOW??! He is so slow and clumsy, that it must have looked like a real slow motion movie...!) into the feeder and was stuck there.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Eräänä aamuna huomasin Anselmin hypänneen heinähäkkiin. Miten, oli suuri kysymys, sillä sen on täytynyt näyttää hidastetulta flmilta, sen verran rauhallisia ja harkittuja ovat herran liikkeet! Siellä se kökötti jumissa ja katseli apua anoen kohti keittiön ikkunoita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__FyUj6cSOA/TwPtxJlvyEI/AAAAAAAABYQ/Zh43KIR2Ym8/s1600/DSC_1392.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__FyUj6cSOA/TwPtxJlvyEI/AAAAAAAABYQ/Zh43KIR2Ym8/s400/DSC_1392.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;He was giving hurt looks to the only lady, Napero aka Shy Little Brown staying near by and eating the last straws of hay. He tried to turn inside the feeder and sat on the sidebar and the whole thing sank deep into the muddy field.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Napero aka Ujo Pikkuruskea sai hyvinkin loukkaantuneita katseita syödessään viimeiä heinänkorsia samaan aikaan kun Anselmi oli nälkäkuoleman partaalla sisällä häkissä. (Siltä se ainakin näytti -kärsivältä ja hylätyltä!) Anselmi koitti kääntyä ja istahti samalla sivuraudan päälle, niin että koko systeemi vajosi syvälle mutaiseen peltoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EvM6QFKRYhE/TwPt-hDuOdI/AAAAAAAABYg/eecKOJirllQ/s1600/DSC_1405.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EvM6QFKRYhE/TwPt-hDuOdI/AAAAAAAABYg/eecKOJirllQ/s400/DSC_1405.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Solution according to Emmi-Sofia: "Mommy, go and &lt;b&gt;LIFT &lt;/b&gt;him out!!" Surely I am strong, but I guess my limits are right about there!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RATKAISU Emmi-Sofian mukaan: "Äiti, mene NOSTAMAAN Anselmi pois!!" Jepjep, olen tietysti tosi vahva, mutta ehkäpä juurikin tuossa menee sitten minunkin rajani!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JpshkboBpfk/TwPuFy5hTUI/AAAAAAAABYo/Tc_Tmo1OZRU/s1600/DSC_1411.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JpshkboBpfk/TwPuFy5hTUI/AAAAAAAABYo/Tc_Tmo1OZRU/s400/DSC_1411.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The real solution -FOOD! New bail out and ta-daa! Mr. Clumsy jumped out like a ballerina in the Nutcracker!'&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oikea ratkaisu - RUOKA! Uusi paali pellolle ja sieltä Anselmi hyppäsi kuin Pähkinänsärkijän ballerina sulosti pois heinähäkistä.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5505806584765134881?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5505806584765134881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/problem-ongelma.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5505806584765134881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5505806584765134881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/problem-ongelma.html' title='Problem - Ongelma'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__FyUj6cSOA/TwPtxJlvyEI/AAAAAAAABYQ/Zh43KIR2Ym8/s72-c/DSC_1392.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-6453237535688297487</id><published>2012-01-03T23:48:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T23:48:13.163+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valtra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sauna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='present'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joulu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myrsky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lahja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storm'/><title type='text'>New Year....</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;and a new beginning...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uusi vuosi ja uudet kujeet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Here's couple shots from the holiday period, which was busy but went -fortunately- really well. I was so scared for my sis, but everything went sort of well.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muutama otos (onneksi) erittäin rauhallisesti menneeltä joululta. Pelkäsin pahinta siskon taholta, mutta kaikki sujui hyvin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qlYuYdsN700/TwNznqITgUI/AAAAAAAABXM/0g_jf40r5bE/s1600/joulu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qlYuYdsN700/TwNznqITgUI/AAAAAAAABXM/0g_jf40r5bE/s400/joulu.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Santa brought Onni a HUUUGE present and he was using his favourite phrase "MIKÄ TÄMÄ ON??!" (WHAT IS THIS) over and over again until Irish put the package together. I thought Onni had gotten some sort of brain damage out of excitement, but he seems to be normal (-ish) again....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Onnin paketti oli joulun isoin ja luulin lapsen jotenkin vaurioituneen innostuksesta, koska niiiin tajuttoman monta kertaa kuultiin lause "MIKÄ TÄMÄ ON??!!" ettei se enää vaikuttanut meidän onniltamme. Onneksi Irlantilainen sai kuin saikin mini-Valtran kasaan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Then we were hit by a Tapani storm....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sitten iski Tapani-myrsky...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bqHR-U2tpQk/TwNz05AQrLI/AAAAAAAABXU/NpPICH9OWJ0/s1600/DSC_1334.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bqHR-U2tpQk/TwNz05AQrLI/AAAAAAAABXU/NpPICH9OWJ0/s400/DSC_1334.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;...ja rikkoi perkules yhden aidan! Unoton oli myöskin yö, sillä koko talo huojui ja tärisi myrskyn kourissa, kun se mereltä peltoaukean yli iski!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lygbwacgZbg/TwNz7JSOsaI/AAAAAAAABXc/tEBoKAtOakc/s1600/DSC_1336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lygbwacgZbg/TwNz7JSOsaI/AAAAAAAABXc/tEBoKAtOakc/s400/DSC_1336.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ynO7KYf8mMg/TwN0Bcct-rI/AAAAAAAABXk/5BlJO0yAHF4/s1600/DSC_1337.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ynO7KYf8mMg/TwN0Bcct-rI/AAAAAAAABXk/5BlJO0yAHF4/s400/DSC_1337.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Two days witout electricity. Oh so romantic (since it wasn't -30 degrees, and we did have excess amounts of candles and firewood) until I went to the gym to teach 2 classes, and had some sort of weird idea, that the electricity FOR SURE is back by the time I get home, so I can have sauna and shower at home. WELLLLL...no ! So I ended up heating water on the wooden stove and washed myself in the kids basin.... I'm 180 cm tall, so it was not a pretty sight!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xBQIe0O7TNY/TwN0FfFArwI/AAAAAAAABXs/ycjrxHtfXNs/s1600/DSC_1353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xBQIe0O7TNY/TwN0FfFArwI/AAAAAAAABXs/ycjrxHtfXNs/s400/DSC_1353.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Todellakin romanttista -ja rentouttavaa. Ei telkkaria, ei netiä, ei mitään ylimääräistä kahteen päivään, kun sähköt olivat poissa. Onneksi ei ollut viime talven kaltaisi pakkasia, vaan ihan kepeästi pärjättiin takalla ja puuhellalla. Tuli vähän liiankin kuuma, kun keittelin pesuvesiä itselleni puuhellalla. Nimittäinkin Tapsuna vedin kaksi kinkunsulatusjumppaa ja positiivisesti ajattelin kotona saunaan ja suihkuun pääseväni (ja sitten voi vetää vanhat kalsarit jalkaan ja avata kahdeksannen juhlapöydän konvehti -rasian...) MUTTA EI!!! Joten lasten ammeessa, puuhellalla lämmitetyllä vedellä sitten kylvin. Ei mikään kaunis näky, sillä olen 180 senttiä pitkä....:D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vJo4hnRj1dw/TwN0J_ouwTI/AAAAAAAABX0/78XSeXOjKtM/s1600/DSC_1355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vJo4hnRj1dw/TwN0J_ouwTI/AAAAAAAABX0/78XSeXOjKtM/s400/DSC_1355.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8v_fAIMwRm8/TwN0Nz4FWDI/AAAAAAAABX8/Miq58Jz5xeQ/s1600/DSC_1361.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8v_fAIMwRm8/TwN0Nz4FWDI/AAAAAAAABX8/Miq58Jz5xeQ/s400/DSC_1361.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2sZnbhvopuQ/TwN0SJ1cJEI/AAAAAAAABYE/dccNmeamEjM/s1600/DSC_1362.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2sZnbhvopuQ/TwN0SJ1cJEI/AAAAAAAABYE/dccNmeamEjM/s400/DSC_1362.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-6453237535688297487?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/6453237535688297487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6453237535688297487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6453237535688297487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year.html' title='New Year....'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qlYuYdsN700/TwNznqITgUI/AAAAAAAABXM/0g_jf40r5bE/s72-c/joulu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-7990158201395890387</id><published>2011-12-22T09:25:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T09:25:14.970+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mental illness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hyacinth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>WHAT NEXT?</title><content type='html'>Less than a week from my last post and too much has been going on... Good new or bad new? Maybe chronological order is the best!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finally started x-mas decoration. Cultural differences kicked in again; Irish was already shocked on Independence Day, Dec 6th, that we don't have Christmas tree up!!!! Panick!! I tried gently remind him, that last year, when he got to decided, by actual X-mas, all the needles were all over the house and the tree was basically bare. Onni was crawling back then and even the tiniest touch on the shiny decorations, and baby was covered with needles. (the crying, the cleaning, touchingcryingcleaning.....ARGHH!!). I just decided, that if I don't go and get the tree, it is possible to get it postponed as far as possible. But to make his spirits up, I did this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LV3Ui2B6EwQ/TvLUYcoQcII/AAAAAAAABTo/SOkCodn9wlI/s1600/DSC_1074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LV3Ui2B6EwQ/TvLUYcoQcII/AAAAAAAABTo/SOkCodn9wlI/s400/DSC_1074.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qcn9chMSejg/TvLUeTbHh1I/AAAAAAAABTw/hxPnAWie_PQ/s1600/DSC_1076.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qcn9chMSejg/TvLUeTbHh1I/AAAAAAAABTw/hxPnAWie_PQ/s400/DSC_1076.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bn2NeSy4Hw4/TvLUjmt2m-I/AAAAAAAABT4/gVfsCPbfhvA/s1600/DSC_1077.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bn2NeSy4Hw4/TvLUjmt2m-I/AAAAAAAABT4/gVfsCPbfhvA/s400/DSC_1077.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;And this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DAFiKp9DduQ/TvLUrDuze1I/AAAAAAAABUA/GQYhSxVr-8o/s1600/DSC_1079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DAFiKp9DduQ/TvLUrDuze1I/AAAAAAAABUA/GQYhSxVr-8o/s400/DSC_1079.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8RYvtHkqngg/TvLUykNIziI/AAAAAAAABUI/qPiOAKaniII/s1600/DSC_1081.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8RYvtHkqngg/TvLUykNIziI/AAAAAAAABUI/qPiOAKaniII/s400/DSC_1081.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;And elfs' clothes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6R8DHis3wPM/TvLU7cmS47I/AAAAAAAABUQ/nDTZlpqYKKQ/s1600/DSC_1087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6R8DHis3wPM/TvLU7cmS47I/AAAAAAAABUQ/nDTZlpqYKKQ/s400/DSC_1087.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;And left my chilies still hanging, since they are very X-massy red:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_c5YtSNliiM/TvLVByPJ62I/AAAAAAAABUY/QLOECbsOUkI/s1600/DSC_1090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_c5YtSNliiM/TvLVByPJ62I/AAAAAAAABUY/QLOECbsOUkI/s400/DSC_1090.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Weekend came and there was no way to postpone the tree. Whole family was packed into the tractor and we drove to our forest. Well, moose/elk /deer hunters had just decided to hunt there that day, so we probably ruined their days fun (and our own chances to get some moose meat....). They look like Santas with their red rain hoods on and the kids were mesmerized! WOW!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkREiTBp2Iw/TvLWGip_vtI/AAAAAAAABUk/STN0A-lE4p0/s1600/DSC_1048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkREiTBp2Iw/TvLWGip_vtI/AAAAAAAABUk/STN0A-lE4p0/s400/DSC_1048.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;This tree has nothing to do with our x-mas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WmBhj8FWesI/TvLWO7D2olI/AAAAAAAABUs/Q5dk6rxj5Us/s1600/DSC_1049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WmBhj8FWesI/TvLWO7D2olI/AAAAAAAABUs/Q5dk6rxj5Us/s400/DSC_1049.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;We had hot chocolate and Moomin cookies with us, since this trip included huge 500 m hike on a very demanding forest surface... ;D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQ1wfkYEztA/TvLWXdwAd6I/AAAAAAAABU0/QIPLch__HZY/s1600/DSC_1051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQ1wfkYEztA/TvLWXdwAd6I/AAAAAAAABU0/QIPLch__HZY/s400/DSC_1051.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Dunno what this face is about. The hot chocolate WAS good!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vkFCOjTqJNY/TvLWemweZtI/AAAAAAAABU8/t4n3RCIYNcE/s1600/DSC_1058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vkFCOjTqJNY/TvLWemweZtI/AAAAAAAABU8/t4n3RCIYNcE/s400/DSC_1058.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Accidentally GREAT bokeh....If I may say so myself. It was SOOOOO dark in the forest, that I thought nothing will turn out even semi-decent, but I like this one!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TSs9ZH9ObFg/TvLWmMESmxI/AAAAAAAABVE/tLYxVpUImuQ/s1600/DSC_1061.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TSs9ZH9ObFg/TvLWmMESmxI/AAAAAAAABVE/tLYxVpUImuQ/s400/DSC_1061.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eJiRDufOV3U/TvLWshtw84I/AAAAAAAABVM/RW4r0UFtnCk/s1600/DSC_1063.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eJiRDufOV3U/TvLWshtw84I/AAAAAAAABVM/RW4r0UFtnCk/s400/DSC_1063.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;We were fairly soaked....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6jAVLzRLEqc/TvLWzyNMxeI/AAAAAAAABVU/zznJczY0cBw/s1600/DSC_1067.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6jAVLzRLEqc/TvLWzyNMxeI/AAAAAAAABVU/zznJczY0cBw/s400/DSC_1067.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Then bad season begun; Onni had to go to the dentist check-up and heart check up on the same day. Holy Mary, I was thinking, since he can get these MASSIVE tantrums that only 1,5 year old is able to get. The heart check up was in the early afternoon, so I had to wake him up for that, so I had sleepless night thinking my survival skills on the following day. Well, my son knows hoe to surprise; before leaving for the dental place he was screaming with eyes rolled inside out and legs completely stiff, so getting him dressed was like running 10 kms. But once we got to the dentist's I had an angel with me. "Thank You. Merry Christmas" Bye-bye" and these sweet smiles, opening his mouth when asked and the ladies were charmed. "What a perfect child you have...." Hell, yes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heart check up was requiring bit more driving, so I was listening this mad screaming for 35 minutes, but once at the hospital the angel appeared again. The doctor was doing his work with nothing but quiet "yesss" and "okei" comments from Onni. Oh the amount of praises again. The result of the check up was anyway quite good; he does have extra noises coming from his heart, but from the right side, which should not be serious. We will have an ultrasound some time next week, but the doctor told not to worry AT ALL. (He def does NOT know me!!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way back home, my younger sister called, and told that my older sister has gotten seriously mental. Mixing alcohol and medicines. Insulting her husband in every possible way. Saying things like "I will kill you. With a knife..." I know things have gone worse slowly, but this was a shock. I did not know she was drinking so much. I did not know she was turning violent. I did not know she is actually mentally sick. We are really REALLY scared for the holidays. I'm really scared for my Dad...Poor Dad!I'm scared for her children and husband. I'm scared that she does something to herself. Mental care in Finland is so overloaded at the moment, that it is really difficult to get help. This is so horrible, maybe the most horrible thing that can happen to someone close to you. Whole personality has changed,she used to be the most caring and loving person, and now this violent monster is inside her. And she is blaming the hubby for everything. In her sick head his death would solve her problems... I told the husband to call an ambulance and take her to mental hospital if anything like that happens again. These things are not meant to take lightly. So that's shadowing the spirits here....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to try, for my own family's sake to push that aside. There is only certain amount I can do to help.And if I dont stop thinking and worrying about that, I'll end up next to her in the same hospital . We were joking with the younger sister, that it would make Dad's life easier, he could visit two of us in the same place....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now off to feed the cows and then grocery shopping.... Life has to go on!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-7990158201395890387?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/7990158201395890387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-next.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7990158201395890387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7990158201395890387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-next.html' title='WHAT NEXT?'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LV3Ui2B6EwQ/TvLUYcoQcII/AAAAAAAABTo/SOkCodn9wlI/s72-c/DSC_1074.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-4953236666664970020</id><published>2011-12-16T22:39:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T22:39:42.300+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lapset'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metsä'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metsäretki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forest therapy'/><title type='text'>Forest Therapy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;All the snow is gone, all of it. Our farm &amp;nbsp;yard is super muddy and dirty, and not much kids can do (well, they DO love playing in the mud, but then there is mom's side of things, too....) so I took them to relax into the forest. That is really Finnish thing (at least for country people) to go into the forest as a mad, bad person and come back as clear thinking, completely relaxed and better person. Free, efficient, fun -what else can you ask for!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V8p-nkf4McQ/Tuul33ABIII/AAAAAAAABRs/lTtFofGsIGY/s1600/DSC_0839.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V8p-nkf4McQ/Tuul33ABIII/AAAAAAAABRs/lTtFofGsIGY/s400/DSC_0839.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Since there is the Irish side as well, we had to take some tea with us. And "pulla", sort of cinnamon bread.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HHYEWNpPp4Q/TuunQ9FpdfI/AAAAAAAABR0/MX7bHSfkEXY/s1600/DSC_0831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HHYEWNpPp4Q/TuunQ9FpdfI/AAAAAAAABR0/MX7bHSfkEXY/s400/DSC_0831.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7GR5NSOBUbk/TuunYQIFKAI/AAAAAAAABR8/GdGBTTRyZGs/s1600/DSC_0832.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7GR5NSOBUbk/TuunYQIFKAI/AAAAAAAABR8/GdGBTTRyZGs/s400/DSC_0832.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7VB-QeBO9l0/TuungKHju-I/AAAAAAAABSE/UDyLAMAZR0c/s1600/DSC_0833.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7VB-QeBO9l0/TuungKHju-I/AAAAAAAABSE/UDyLAMAZR0c/s400/DSC_0833.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Since it is our own forest, I had some tools with me to get small spruces and branches to decorate (my) front porch (Irish's back porch -these cultural differences....)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTdJW5XkT2A/Tuunn_aZ6CI/AAAAAAAABSM/nHXwX61zc60/s1600/DSC_0834.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTdJW5XkT2A/Tuunn_aZ6CI/AAAAAAAABSM/nHXwX61zc60/s400/DSC_0834.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GwdFMbaTv1Y/TuunvBVYy6I/AAAAAAAABSU/Hzso2rRMqGc/s1600/DSC_0837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GwdFMbaTv1Y/TuunvBVYy6I/AAAAAAAABSU/Hzso2rRMqGc/s400/DSC_0837.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrEmA3Abd-Y/Tuun3nlFEII/AAAAAAAABSc/VSkwuk73Upo/s1600/DSC_0842.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrEmA3Abd-Y/Tuun3nlFEII/AAAAAAAABSc/VSkwuk73Upo/s400/DSC_0842.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m_u1-jQNP8c/Tuun_T05r4I/AAAAAAAABSk/TRzc5_aXQDk/s1600/DSC_0843.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m_u1-jQNP8c/Tuun_T05r4I/AAAAAAAABSk/TRzc5_aXQDk/s400/DSC_0843.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Emmi-Sofia went to give foxes some pulla....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ho8UbJ8gn0k/TuuoH0HD2hI/AAAAAAAABSs/-MCDCA2_Buc/s1600/DSC_0846.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ho8UbJ8gn0k/TuuoH0HD2hI/AAAAAAAABSs/-MCDCA2_Buc/s400/DSC_0846.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gh-kKO0WLD8/TuuoQ_p42aI/AAAAAAAABS0/zmQ3BNT75g0/s1600/DSC_0847.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gh-kKO0WLD8/TuuoQ_p42aI/AAAAAAAABS0/zmQ3BNT75g0/s400/DSC_0847.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;... and disappeared!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q4rKuMJDRVM/TuuoZMFndSI/AAAAAAAABS8/QK8zXfp_3YU/s1600/DSC_0848.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q4rKuMJDRVM/TuuoZMFndSI/AAAAAAAABS8/QK8zXfp_3YU/s400/DSC_0848.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_p1M6E4MDZ4/Tuuoevxd1HI/AAAAAAAABTE/WqAhLJONF5A/s1600/DSC_0851.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_p1M6E4MDZ4/Tuuoevxd1HI/AAAAAAAABTE/WqAhLJONF5A/s400/DSC_0851.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbUkSvfwF8A/TuuomHjAqqI/AAAAAAAABTM/ZUDS2hudRbA/s1600/DSC_0857.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbUkSvfwF8A/TuuomHjAqqI/AAAAAAAABTM/ZUDS2hudRbA/s400/DSC_0857.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y_r90DYFx68/TuuouIbEPII/AAAAAAAABTU/7Pn4zokSxBw/s1600/DSC_0858.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y_r90DYFx68/TuuouIbEPII/AAAAAAAABTU/7Pn4zokSxBw/s400/DSC_0858.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;At the end of the therapy trip, we had one very happy daughter, one semi-happy Mother and one really upset young son, who was too small to stay on his feet on such uneven ground!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-irRUxTIB61A/Tuuo2LKPw3I/AAAAAAAABTc/LRWdSqu372o/s1600/DSC_0861.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-irRUxTIB61A/Tuuo2LKPw3I/AAAAAAAABTc/LRWdSqu372o/s400/DSC_0861.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-4953236666664970020?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/4953236666664970020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/forest-therapy.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/4953236666664970020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/4953236666664970020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/forest-therapy.html' title='Forest Therapy'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V8p-nkf4McQ/Tuul33ABIII/AAAAAAAABRs/lTtFofGsIGY/s72-c/DSC_0839.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-6253372582019568803</id><published>2011-12-15T08:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T08:46:52.239+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rakennusmiehet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maalaiseläma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chainsaw'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='builders'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terapia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metsätyöt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='countrylife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moottorisaha'/><title type='text'>Moottorisahaterapia...</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Chainsaw therapy was needed yesterday -badly!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ax0r4F-RzG4/TumS5galt4I/AAAAAAAABRM/t9mf4IzQBaI/s1600/DSC_0865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ax0r4F-RzG4/TumS5galt4I/AAAAAAAABRM/t9mf4IzQBaI/s400/DSC_0865.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...tuli eilen niin tarpeeseen! Kun naisen mitta täyttyy, niin ainoa, mikä voi auttaa on Stihl-moottorisaha! Eilen piti tulla kuivurista varastoksi-projektin viimeinen silaus, kylmän osan lattiavalu. Saatiin ihan päivän varoitusajalla liippausmiehet, kun herrojen joku toinen työkeikka oli peruuntunut. Ja betonikin järjestyi samanfirman kautta. Uskomatonta, mutta niinhän se olikin, liian sujuvaa sujuakseen sitten kuitenkaan....&lt;br /&gt;Aamu seitsemältä piti aloittaa, ja minä olin sytytellyt työvalot ja vetänyt voimavirtajohdot valmiiksi, Irlantilainen vielä iltayhdeltätoista hiekoitti meidän jyrkkää mäkeämme, että betoniauto varmasti pääsee perille.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;When woman has had enough, the only thing able to help is a Stihl chainsaw! We were supposed to nail the project "Transformation from old drier into a shed" by concreting the floor of the cold storage. I manage to get builders to smooth the floor, since their other work was cancelled and they got a good deal for concrete as well. Sounded too good to be true and so it turn out to be.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We were supposed to start 7 am and I had turn on all the working lights, took 16 A cables ready for them and Irish was spreading gravel on our hill so the concrete lorry definitely would be able to drive up.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KxWN29fy5iE/TumTHStFLaI/AAAAAAAABRU/L6Z4DSj0W4s/s1600/DSC_0867.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KxWN29fy5iE/TumTHStFLaI/AAAAAAAABRU/L6Z4DSj0W4s/s400/DSC_0867.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puoli kahdeksalta soi puhelin, ja työmiehet ovat rekallaan ojassa, betoniauton tulo peruutettu, koska oli epävarmaa, missä kunnossa rekka on. Kaksikymmentä vailla kahdeksan soi taas puhelin, työmiesten pomohan se siellä: "SE O SITTE SAATANAN ISO LASKU TULOSSA SIIHEN SUUNTAA: MÄ VAAN SANON ETTEI TÄSTÄ PIENELLÄ SELVITÄ!!!HINAUSAUTO, POIKIEN PALKAT, YKSI KUORMA PILALLE MENNYTTÄ BETONIA JA&lt;b&gt; SINÄ MAKSAT&lt;/b&gt;!!!!!" Olin niin hämmentynyt, etten kyennyt kuin piipittämään takaisin, että eihän se nyt mun tieni ole, eikä minun vikani, jos eivät pojat osaa ajaa liukkaalla tiellä, mutta sehän vain lisäsi vettä myllyyn. "OTA SAATANA SITTEN SELVILLE; KENEN VASTUULLA TUO TIE ON!!!!!!!" . Kun on herkkä niin on herkkä,joten naapurin Markon valot syttyivät perllon takana juurikin sopivasti, ja aamukäheä mies jotui vastaamaan erittäinkin hysteeriseen puheluun. Naapurin Marko vain nauroi, ja sanoi, että anna nyt sen miehen puhelinnumero, ja minuutin päästä tuli jo soitto takaisin; "Ei sieltä mitään laskua tule, rauhoitu nyt vaan!" Mutta eipä tule myöskään varaston lattia kuntoon, ja seuraavat huudot tulivatkin Irlantilaiselta: "Et sopinut seuraavaa työaikaa??!!" Voihan miehen logiikka; jos joku huuttaa minulle noin, en TODELLAKAAN ole enää tekemisissä ko. firman kanssa! Irlantilainen aina sanoo minulle, kun pyydän neuvomaan jonkun koneen kytkemisessä traktoriin,että mene ja opettele, joten nyt iskin kyllä ihan suoraan munuaisiin ja sanoin kuivasti opettele sinä puhumaan suomea ja järjestä hommat rakennusmiesten kanssa, minun kohdallani ne hommat ovat nyt ohi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;7.30 I got a phone call, the builder boys were sideways on the ditch, in the beginning of the public road along which our farm is situated. 7.40 I got another phone call, the Boss of the builder boys: " YOU WILL GET ONE FUCKING HUGE BILL, AND I MEAN A HUGE ONE!!!! TOWING LORRY, THE SALARIED FOR THE BOYS, ONE LOAD OF CONCRETE WASTED AND &lt;b&gt;YOU PAY!!!!"&lt;/b&gt;I was so struck by all this information, that all I could do was to semi-whisper back, that it is not my road and it is not my responsibility if the boys do not stay on the road. Butthat was a BIIIIIG mistake: "THEN YOU FUCKING FIND OUT WHO TAKES CARE OF THAT ROAD!!!!!!!" I'm super-sensitive to bad and good things happening around e, so when I saw light turning on acroos the field, our Neighbour Marko got this madly hysterical phone call. Marko just asked the number of the Boss and after a minute I got a call back saying there is no bill coming. But there is also no floor coming, so next really upset call came from Irish: "WHAAAT? You did not agree their next free time???" WHAAAT, so also my reply; what a logic men have, OF COURSE NOT, if I'm treated like that, they can work somewhere else! Irish always tells me "Go and learn" when I ask him to show me how to do some machinery involved work, so I hit him on his kidneys and told him to go and learn Finnish and he can deal with the builders from now on!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GBnTP6aUNuU/TumTWERCX7I/AAAAAAAABRc/yW8vMs44jzg/s1600/DSC_0869.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GBnTP6aUNuU/TumTWERCX7I/AAAAAAAABRc/yW8vMs44jzg/s400/DSC_0869.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olen niin huono kestämään minulle huutavia ihmisiä, kuten Jäääkaappipakastin-episodikin todisti, joten päivä meni itkutellessa, kunnes päätin terapioida itseni kuntoon, ja pakkasin traktorin etukuormaajaan moottorisahan, bensaa, teräketjuöljyä ja viilan ja ajelin metsätielle. 5 isoa tuulen kaatamaan kuusta siellä pistelin palasiksi ja kasasin, eikä sen jälkeen enää mikään jaksanut harmittaa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I'm so bad taking any sort of shouting from fellow people so I decided to do some self therapy and went to the forest to clear some huge trees fallen in storms. I packed a chainsaw, petrol, chain oil and a file into the tractor and went to the forest. After clearing and piling 5 huge spruces, nothing was bad in this world anymore!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WqTrHAIg4F4/TumTwzP5ULI/AAAAAAAABRk/4GJomMKYeR8/s1600/DSC_0868.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WqTrHAIg4F4/TumTwzP5ULI/AAAAAAAABRk/4GJomMKYeR8/s400/DSC_0868.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ilta päättyi kuitenkin positiivisissa merkeissä; Ranskalainen Kotiorja on viimeistä iltaa suomessa ennen joululomaansa, ja päätti tulla ja kokata aikas makoisaa kana-rakuuna-sinappikastiketta ja se syötiin shamppanjan kera (tavallisena keskiviikkoiltana, me olemme hiukan hulluja!!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We had a farewell dinner with French Houseslave; he is going back to France for X-mas. He cooked chicken-tarragon-mustardsauce with rice and tat was ate along with a bottle of champagne. (On a Wednesday night, we are mental!!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tein myös elämäni ensimmäisen lanttulaatikon. Lopputulos on maistamista vaille valmis!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-6253372582019568803?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/6253372582019568803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/moottorisahaterapia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6253372582019568803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6253372582019568803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/moottorisahaterapia.html' title='Moottorisahaterapia...'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ax0r4F-RzG4/TumS5galt4I/AAAAAAAABRM/t9mf4IzQBaI/s72-c/DSC_0865.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-6249439005377027841</id><published>2011-12-12T14:48:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T14:48:31.558+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interior'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vanha ovi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sisustus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='old doors'/><title type='text'>If one really wants something...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;..one is willing to risk her life for it! That's right; I finally got the old doors I have wanted for so long! There was no money involved, oh no, all I needed to do was to climb up into the old cowshed, which is about to collapse. That's all, but why was I about to pee myself while doing it!!?!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Jos tosissaan jotain haluaa, pitää laittaa vaikka koko elämä kehiin! Ja niin minä tyttö tein. KAikesta ei rahalla selviä, vaan joskus tarvitaan huomattava määrä hullumaista rohkeutta.Kiipesin vihdoin ja viimein romahtavassa olevan kivinavetan ylisille ja hain himoitsemani vanhat ovet siälle koristeiksi. Nyt myös tiedän sen tunteen, kun melkein, muttei ihan pissii housuihinsa pelosta!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SpEurChXBWk/TuXqk8KRCZI/AAAAAAAABQE/AMgqPNpeUtk/s1600/DSC_0878.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SpEurChXBWk/TuXqk8KRCZI/AAAAAAAABQE/AMgqPNpeUtk/s400/DSC_0878.jpg" width="247" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;One narrow one was screaming to me "Take me into to the living room!!" and so I did. And yes, it fits so perfectly there. Thank goodness it was a narrow one, these old doors are so SO heavy. And I knew there would be no help from Irish - it would take him 5 months to get that this is a brilliant idea!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ja tämä kapoinen ovi sieltä huusi tahtovansa olohuoneeseemme, ja sinne minä sen raahasin. Pesin vuosikymmenien pölyt ja hiirenpaskat pois ja kannoin sisään. Onneksi se oli tämä kapea ovi, joka minulle huuteli, nämä ovat enemmän kuin RASKAITA!! Ja ihan turha olisi ollut Irlantilaiselta apua kerjätä -kaiken uuden myyminen kestää sille miehelle niiiin kauan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5RxaSfanV2Q/TuXqtONLJNI/AAAAAAAABQM/sCHc0IoWh2A/s1600/DSC_0879.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5RxaSfanV2Q/TuXqtONLJNI/AAAAAAAABQM/sCHc0IoWh2A/s400/DSC_0879.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;And since one trip was successful aka I was still alive, I went for the second narrow one. At this point it was VERY clear, I'm only bringing the narrow ones. The wide ones are probably the same weight than me! And voila, one came into our bedroom.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ja koska yhden reissun jäljiltä olin edelleen hengissä, ja verkkokalvoilla istui sitkeästi kuva TOISESTA kapeasta ovesta, se oli vähän niin kuin pakko taas lähteä! Ja todellakin tässä vaiheessa täysin ylenkatson leveämpiä ovia...Painavat varmaan saman verran kuin minä itse! Mutta voila, yksi kapea meidän makkariimme!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UGFJW6Yol8E/TuXqxiezdYI/AAAAAAAABQU/v0hQKOOf37o/s1600/DSC_0906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UGFJW6Yol8E/TuXqxiezdYI/AAAAAAAABQU/v0hQKOOf37o/s400/DSC_0906.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I DID clean the doors, which is hard to believe, but I let myself believe that this patina (or dirt) add to the charm! Onni was desperately trying to open the door and see where it leads to, and Emsku asking me why is this door here?!? Irish heard that one, and with extremely dry voice commented just: "I would like to know the same!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Kyllä, kyllä, minä PUTSASIN ovet, ja nyt uskottelen itselleni, että tuo patina (eilkkäs siis paska), joka ei pois lähtenyt, vain lisää ovien charmia. Onni ihmetteli kovasti ovia, ja koitta availla niitä päästäkseen katsomaan, mitä takaa löytyy. Emsku puolestaan ihmetteli että MIKSI on ovia sisällä, ja Irlantilainen tuon kysymyksen kuullessaan totesi varsin kuivakkaan sävyn tahtovansa tietää juurikin saman....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EgFd4wmG_nA/TuXrGq8gOHI/AAAAAAAABQs/wKoPMsgduTg/s1600/DSC_0911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EgFd4wmG_nA/TuXrGq8gOHI/AAAAAAAABQs/wKoPMsgduTg/s400/DSC_0911.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TYbvqjuCLD4/TuXrM2mZeNI/AAAAAAAABQ0/icpeqX8WZUk/s1600/DSC_0913.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TYbvqjuCLD4/TuXrM2mZeNI/AAAAAAAABQ0/icpeqX8WZUk/s400/DSC_0913.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;I do not know for sure, but I assume the chair and table were meant to be together. The table was made for my Granny's Granny. I would like to bring these ld chairs into the dining room too, but Irish needs to be convinced first! What a task for the future!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;J&lt;/i&gt;a eikös niin, että näyttäisivät tuoli ja pöytä kuuluvan samaans arjaan? Pöydästä tiedän,e ttä mummuni isoäiti sen on aikoinaan kalusteekseen saanut. Hyvin on pöytä säilynyt, tuoli on viettänyt vauhdikkaampaa elämää! Tahtoisin noita vanhoja tuoleja ruokapöydän ympärille, mutta Irlantilaisen naama, kun sellaiste menin ehdottelemaan... Oh ja NO! Himppusen haastetta tulevaisuuteen, että saan ideani läpi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_dTVSY2_n6s/TuXrUZQsDsI/AAAAAAAABQ8/GG-oa-MpXKE/s1600/DSC_0914.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_dTVSY2_n6s/TuXrUZQsDsI/AAAAAAAABQ8/GG-oa-MpXKE/s400/DSC_0914.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;See how I'm not a interior blogger at all...All the cables and laptops showing and if you look close enough, probably also some dust... ;D&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Enkä todellakaan ole mikään sisustusbloggaaja; kaikki nuo johdot ja läppärit ja ei tunnelmavalaistusta...Jos tarkasti katsoo, niin näkee varmasti myös pölyä... ;D&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-upqmjqrvViU/TuXrbKxUiJI/AAAAAAAABRE/Ej0N6iZn8eI/s1600/DSC_0915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-upqmjqrvViU/TuXrbKxUiJI/AAAAAAAABRE/Ej0N6iZn8eI/s400/DSC_0915.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-6249439005377027841?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/6249439005377027841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-one-really-wants-something.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6249439005377027841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/6249439005377027841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-one-really-wants-something.html' title='If one really wants something...'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SpEurChXBWk/TuXqk8KRCZI/AAAAAAAABQE/AMgqPNpeUtk/s72-c/DSC_0878.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-4294620115606005527</id><published>2011-12-07T23:03:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T23:11:45.572+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lumi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='highland cattle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ylämaankarja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><title type='text'>Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....</title><content type='html'>Tänään sitä tuli. Taivaan täydeltä lunta, nimittäin. Nyt tosin jo plussan puolella mennään taas. Ja hyvä niin. Kaivinkonetta ei kuulu eikä näy, lehmien vesitilanne on siis edelleen huolestuttava, jos kovat pakkaset iskee päälle!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Today we had lots of it! Now we are back on the positive side of the temperatures, and that is good at the moment. We are waiting for the digger to solve the water problem for the cattle and if there is heavy frost, things will get difficult...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uSGm08QV0B4/Tt_VTV7A2PI/AAAAAAAABO8/zNkuURUoouo/s1600/DSC_0950.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uSGm08QV0B4/Tt_VTV7A2PI/AAAAAAAABO8/zNkuURUoouo/s400/DSC_0950.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa4P1fLoMm8/Tt_VaBwWVlI/AAAAAAAABPE/PK99RORVRco/s1600/DSC_0952.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa4P1fLoMm8/Tt_VaBwWVlI/AAAAAAAABPE/PK99RORVRco/s400/DSC_0952.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Vaikka perheemme onkin vain nelihenkinen(tai no viisi, kun Ranskalainen kotiorja nyt on lähes päivittäin täällä) kuluu saippuaa paljon käsipesuissa. Maatalon töitä, ulkotöitä, Emsku rakastaa käsien pesua, Onnin pyllypyykin jälkeistä pesua...Sitä kuluu! Nyt on taas säästöä luvassa ja rikkauksia pankkitilille:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I found it through Pinterest (who would have guessed...) and yes, it works!! &amp;nbsp;Although there is only four od us (well, five, since the French Houseslave is here almost on daily basis) we use lots of liquid soap to wash hands with. Dirty work outdoors, Emsku loooves washing her hands...We use lots of it!So now, we will save soooo much money and will be so well off:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wumlTfE8oHQ/Tt0x2y9oAmI/AAAAAAAABOs/MTzJtFFTjCc/s1600/DSC_0829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wumlTfE8oHQ/Tt0x2y9oAmI/AAAAAAAABOs/MTzJtFFTjCc/s400/DSC_0829.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;So easy to make:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;1) grate a soap bar, I used Palmolive and I used the whole bar, since it was quite small. Cheap and nice smelling. The amount of ingredients seem to depend on the bar used.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;2) I added 1,5 table spoons of glycerin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;3) I added 8 and1/2 cups of water.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;4) Mixed in a big pot and stirred on hot stove until soap flakes were melted. &amp;nbsp;Then it had to cool down and it thickened. And I got loooooads out of that one bar!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-whuyCMd6h0M/Tt0x8z2k-ZI/AAAAAAAABO0/9KwKouqI70s/s1600/DSC_0830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-whuyCMd6h0M/Tt0x8z2k-ZI/AAAAAAAABO0/9KwKouqI70s/s400/DSC_0830.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Mitä tapahtui:&lt;br /&gt;1) raastoin ihan tavis-Palmolive palasaippuan ihan normi keittiöraastimella hiutaleiksi. Käytin koko palan, koska se oli aika pieni. Muiden raaka-aineiden määrä näyttää riippuvan käytetystä palasaippuast.&lt;br /&gt;2) Lisäsin 1,5 ruokalusikallista glyseriiniä&lt;br /&gt;3) Lisäsin 8,5 cups vettä (en jaksa tarkistaa, mitä se olisi deseissä...)&lt;br /&gt;4) Kaikki isoon kattilaan ja lämmittämistä, kunnes kaikki hiutaleet olivat sulaneet. Sitten piti malttaa odottaa keitoksen jäähtymistä ja voila,hurja satsi nestesaippuaa!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miten ekologinen omatuntoni hurrasi, kun pystyin käyttämään samat vanhat nestesaippuapulloni, ainoa jäte oli yksi palasaippuan paperi, ei isoja muovipulloja! Alkuperäinen ohje hiukan eri määrillä löytyy &lt;a href="http://www.savvyhousekeeping.com/how-to-turn-a-bar-of-soap-into-liquid-hand-soap/"&gt;täältä.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;My eco consciousness was cheering; I was able to use the old plastic liquid soap bottles, no other waste than a paper wrap of the soap bar, no big plastic bottles! The original post with little bit different amounts of stuff, can be found &lt;a href="http://www.savvyhousekeeping.com/how-to-turn-a-bar-of-soap-into-liquid-hand-soap/"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;LOVE IT!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-3908080065462810191?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/3908080065462810191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/diy-4.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/3908080065462810191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/3908080065462810191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/diy-4.html' title='DIY 4'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wumlTfE8oHQ/Tt0x2y9oAmI/AAAAAAAABOs/MTzJtFFTjCc/s72-c/DSC_0829.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-8522122679832415047</id><published>2011-12-01T21:58:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T22:38:24.023+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skräppäys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='junk journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remonttihommat'/><title type='text'>Niin koukussa...</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;No niin, olen taas koukkuuntunut pahan kerran! Blogit ovat jääneet vähemmälle, kun olen -tietysti Pinterestin kautta- tutustunut ilmiöön nimeltä "junk journal". Se tuntui heti niin omalta, että ensimmäinen on nyt täyttöä vaille valmis, ja kolme muuta on pohjustusvaiheessa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Well, I'm more than hooked! I've found through Pinterest (who would have guessed...?!) a thing called junk journals. It felt so me straight away, that now the first one is ready to be filled and three others are on a preparing state.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkM6kTltKbY/TtfdDcsQ0ZI/AAAAAAAABOM/1efQ4kjsV-8/s1600/DSC_0826.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkM6kTltKbY/TtfdDcsQ0ZI/AAAAAAAABOM/1efQ4kjsV-8/s400/DSC_0826.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Eli periaatteessa käytän vain materiaaleja, jotka muuten päätyisivät kierrätykseen tai roskiin (lukuun ottamatta muutamia kauniita papereita ja tägejä). Suurin osa paperista on isäni vanhasta "Maailman ihmeet"-kirjasta, joka oli niin pahasti hajoamassa käsiin, että uhrasin sen tähän. Paperi on kaunista, vanhaa ja aika paksuakin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;So the principle is that I use only materials, that would otherwise end into recycling bin or trash(except couple beautiful papers and tags to decorate). Most of the "Base" papers are off the book of my dad.It was falling apart so badly, that I decided to reuse it.Paper in it is old and &amp;nbsp;pretty and quite thick.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OcqxlYGb6ao/Ttfc8IyawWI/AAAAAAAABOE/d4KvNhjDbd8/s1600/DSC_0825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OcqxlYGb6ao/Ttfc8IyawWI/AAAAAAAABOE/d4KvNhjDbd8/s400/DSC_0825.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Tarkoituksenani on tehdä siitä positiivinen kirja. 365 positiivista asiaa -vähintään- seuraavan vuoden aikana &amp;nbsp;Yksi joka päivä. Haastetta itselle,mutt myös oppimisprosessi sekä itseeni, että louvaan värkkäilyyn, jota en ole harrastanut sitten teinivuosien!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My goal is to make it a positive diary; 365 day, 365 positive notes -at least! So one each day. A big challenge for me, but also a learning process both into myself and to creativity.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LO7wmmuCJ0k/TtfkpvI9lQI/AAAAAAAABOk/_nviAD8ALLM/s1600/DSC_0827.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LO7wmmuCJ0k/TtfkpvI9lQI/AAAAAAAABOk/_nviAD8ALLM/s400/DSC_0827.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Pikkuisen aloittelin joulukoristeiden tekoakin. Nythän niitä jo melkein voisi alkaa ripustelemaan - jotain ei niin kovin jouluista vielä!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I started sowing some x-mas decoration. Could start hanging them up now, nothing not too Christmassy yet though!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raksamiehet ovat aloittaneet vesivahinkoremontin. Hyvä, vaikka mutkia tulee matkaan koko ajan. Seuraavan kerran päästään hommiin vasta torstaina, kun kaupungin rakennusinsinööri lomailee... Myrskytuuli repii suojapressuja, ja mulla on kauhukuva, että koko telinerakennelma kaatuu aamuun mennessa taloon sisälle...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Builders have finally started fixing the water damage area There are constant flows of delays; now next step will be on Thursday, the city engineer is on vacation and we can not continue without his "YES". The storm is shaking the scaffolding. My fear is that the whole thing will be indoors tomorrow morning...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-8522122679832415047?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/8522122679832415047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/niin-koukussa-ja-d.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/8522122679832415047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/8522122679832415047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/niin-koukussa-ja-d.html' title='Niin koukussa...'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkM6kTltKbY/TtfdDcsQ0ZI/AAAAAAAABOM/1efQ4kjsV-8/s72-c/DSC_0826.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-2484550364153871109</id><published>2011-12-01T13:10:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T13:16:05.912+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Odotus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/"&gt;Valokuvatorstain&lt;/a&gt; tekstihaasteesta tuli mieleeni elämäni tärkein odotus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://inspis.vuodatus.net/"&gt;Thursdays photo challenge&lt;/a&gt; reminded me of the most important "WAIT" of my life&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P3lLTanhzQw/Ttdg0FIx04I/AAAAAAAABN8/5j-vCIj0Lro/s1600/IMG_4764.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P3lLTanhzQw/Ttdg0FIx04I/AAAAAAAABN8/5j-vCIj0Lro/s400/IMG_4764.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Emmi-Sofia in my tummy for the last few days. I was so enjoying being pregnant -both times- and the feeling that I will never be this close to my child ever again. The dog swimming next to me was my doberman Emppu, his last day alive. He had really bad cancer and before taking him to the vet, we took him for a swim. It was a bittersweet day, happy but sad.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emmi-Sofia vatsassani viimeisiä päiviä. Molemmat raskausajat olivat ihania, varsinkin nuo loppuajan, kun vauva liikkui masussa ja mitättömän rasvaprosenttini vuoksi oli mahdollista nähdä varpaat ja kyynärpäät ihon läpi. Koitin ottaa kaiken irti tunteesta, että enää koskaan tämän jälkeen, en ole näin lähellä lastani. Vieressä polskiva koira oli Emppu-dobermanni, jonka viimeinen päivä tässä elämässä oli tuo kuvauspäivä. Uintiretken jälkeen veimme syöpäpotilaan piikille, ja sanoimme jäähyväiset. Katkeransuloinen kesäkuun alku.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-2484550364153871109?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/2484550364153871109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/odotus.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/2484550364153871109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/2484550364153871109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/12/odotus.html' title='Odotus'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P3lLTanhzQw/Ttdg0FIx04I/AAAAAAAABN8/5j-vCIj0Lro/s72-c/IMG_4764.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-5791989834100826465</id><published>2011-11-28T09:33:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T09:36:06.599+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mustavalkomaanantai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='glass'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lasi'/><title type='text'>Lasi - Glass</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://mustavalkomaanantai.blogspot.com/2011/11/mustavalkomaanantai-94.html"&gt;Mustavalkomaanantain&lt;/a&gt; haaste:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;B&amp;amp;W challenge was glass:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lz9tTdMMr9U/TtM5mpHgEHI/AAAAAAAABN0/ZttTM1xEiok/s1600/DSC_3660.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lz9tTdMMr9U/TtM5mpHgEHI/AAAAAAAABN0/ZttTM1xEiok/s400/DSC_3660.JPG" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vanhaa, kaunista Karhulan lasia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-5791989834100826465?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/5791989834100826465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/11/lasi-glass.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5791989834100826465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/5791989834100826465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/11/lasi-glass.html' title='Lasi - Glass'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lz9tTdMMr9U/TtM5mpHgEHI/AAAAAAAABN0/ZttTM1xEiok/s72-c/DSC_3660.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225574040408940938.post-7331189800034682139</id><published>2011-11-25T21:14:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T21:34:24.045+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Myrsky repii puita....</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;It was dark and stormy night...Second in a row. Today at last we had two men putting up scaffolding and there is hope of gettin the water damage finally fixed!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Sataa ihan sairaasti ja tuulee ihan helevetisti! Tänään ilmestyi kaksi miestä telineitä pystyttämään, toiveitä vesivahinkojen korjauksesta siis luvassa, ja jos ei niitä vahinkoja ennen ollut, niin toissapäiväinen hiukset päästä repinyt myrsky kyllä sitten viimeistään iski vettä seinään!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Dz2aOw8G90/Ts_pvoZgQmI/AAAAAAAABNE/mHGb8PL-lYE/s1600/DSC_0776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Dz2aOw8G90/Ts_pvoZgQmI/AAAAAAAABNE/mHGb8PL-lYE/s400/DSC_0776.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;We have a common addiction at the moment; crafts. I'm all about making junk journals and she is all bout drawing and cutting! I do NOT want another addiction; photography, blog, Pinterest, sports, junk journalling.... When do I sleep???&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Meillä on nyt yhteinen addiktio; askartelu! Emsku on ihan huluna piirtämiseen ja sitten saksilla pieniksi silpuiksi leikkelyyn, min olen &amp;nbsp;-ikävä kyllä- löytänyt "Junk Journal"-maailman. Ihan niin kuin tarvitsisin lisää ajanvietettä; valokuvaus, blogit, Pinterest (jota on syyttäminen tästäkin...), urheilu... Milloin oikein ehdin nukkua???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vJt9eB0yDD0/Ts_qhNyF5qI/AAAAAAAABNM/CUb4SxHD4OA/s1600/IMG_6736.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vJt9eB0yDD0/Ts_qhNyF5qI/AAAAAAAABNM/CUb4SxHD4OA/s400/IMG_6736.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Eilen pilkahti aurinko. Hyvin nopsasti. Ihan vain kiusatakseen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yesterday the sun decided to give us a teaser about hoe the light looks like....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZUBJorycUps/Ts_rBLjqZbI/AAAAAAAABNU/FrmQ5thq990/s1600/DSC_9698.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZUBJorycUps/Ts_rBLjqZbI/AAAAAAAABNU/FrmQ5thq990/s400/DSC_9698.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ihmetyksen aihe nro 1: Highlandit, jotka edelleen nukkuvat sateessa, vaikka katoskin olisi. Tai no- Anselmi tosi gentlemannina tietysti nukkuu katoksen alla, mutta nuo "pikkuruskeat" ovat ulkona metsikön siimeksessä. Kaameassa kaatosateessa, pikkupakkasella... Ja joka paikka on niin markana, että luulisi niitä kiinnostavan edes osittainen kuivuus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wonder n:o 1: the Highlanders, who still are sleeping outside despite the rain. Well, real gentleman, Anselmi, is sleeping under the shelter, but these little brown ones are outside, in a wee forest, no mater how stormy it is!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cunWFK_lQoQ/Ts_rFJNauoI/AAAAAAAABNc/-h8fuKse65g/s1600/DSC_9772.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cunWFK_lQoQ/Ts_rFJNauoI/AAAAAAAABNc/-h8fuKse65g/s320/DSC_9772.jpg" width="212" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wonder n:o2 the promise of the spring. (Only positive thinking allowed; the frost will NOT kill any of my plants!!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ihmetyksen aihe nro 2: Miten jo nyt kasveissa näkee lupauksen uudesta keväästä. IHANAA!!! (ja huom; pakkanen ei tapa yhtäkään kasveistani tänä talvena, positiivinen ajattelu kunniaan!!!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6sFOQIz8G0c/Ts_rJUM_hoI/AAAAAAAABNk/RHRoSfhEqHI/s1600/DSC_9787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6sFOQIz8G0c/Ts_rJUM_hoI/AAAAAAAABNk/RHRoSfhEqHI/s320/DSC_9787.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J3kCTnTQY00/Ts_rN7KA_MI/AAAAAAAABNs/TiyshAQ-kXg/s1600/DSC_9791.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J3kCTnTQY00/Ts_rN7KA_MI/AAAAAAAABNs/TiyshAQ-kXg/s320/DSC_9791.jpg" width="212" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8225574040408940938-7331189800034682139?l=countrylifefinland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/feeds/7331189800034682139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/11/myrsky-repii-puita.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7331189800034682139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8225574040408940938/posts/default/7331189800034682139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://countrylifefinland.blogspot.com/2011/11/myrsky-repii-puita.html' title='Myrsky repii puita....'/><author><name>Eeva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17658582149009111577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Dz2aOw8G90/Ts_pvoZgQmI/AAAAAAAABNE/mHGb8PL-lYE/s72-c/DSC_0776.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
