Holiday and lazy days

I'm enjoying my holiday!

I'm not travelling anywhere, besides every now and then up to the cabin. 

We have had such lovely weather so far. Since we are living in a little town by the sea, there are several places to go if you want to swim in the sea, or just sit in your beach chair, eating the lunch you brought, reading your book, or just talk to the people around. 

This is also an option: 

With summer comes good food. Mostly food that will take care of it selv, slow cooked in many ways. 

Our car port turns to our garden living room in the summer

The car knows it's place and stays patiently in the drive way, while we enjoy all our meals

In the open carport. 

When you live in Norway, summer can be all sorts of weather, and we still want to be outside.

At night we light candles, and sit there talking, having a laugh, or just listen to the grass hoppers.

My flowers are visited by chubby bumble bees, and they smell lovely!

And still I'm not half way through my Holiday!

Spring in a tomatoe and trifle of love

If left alone for a while

A tomato will go on with life

And start growing on it's own!

Looking inside the tomato

It is like a little spring happening!

But it is freezing outside!
Warm cooking, though,
Chicken stuffed with orange
Chicken with a belly full of sunshine!

Trifle of love
Mothers day in Norway
Pink Princess gave me a pink flower

We thought of spring and love
and enjoyed the sweet trifle!

No pressure in paradise

Our cabin is like a nest

so safe and fitting our needs perfectly

We are a family with different levels of restlessness

Some wants to go frog hunting

Some just want to quietly study the beauty of a flower

Some like the excitement of a poisonous snake

There is no clock at the cabin

There is a lot to do if you want to

and there is a lot of time to no nothing if you prefer that.

There is no pressure in paradise!

Hidden beauty

The other day I got this grass smelling little ball

I kept it in my pocket until I came home

Magic happened when I dropped it in a jug of boiling water
The shy and closed ball

opened and turned into a flower

Pretty isn't it!

Now it's time for a cup of tea.

A spring adventure

Before going on a daytrip to the cabin

I made pancake batter and put it in a bottle

It is always fun to make pancakes out doors

with our long shafted pans

over a fire

pancake with jamor what about a couple of pieces of chocolate?

Picking flowers: Hvitveis
and drinking cocoa
We met som friendly reptiles:

Stålorm
and some frogs
busy laying eggs in the water

This and that at Easter

Hepatica ( Norwegian "blåveis")

Is is one of the safe signs of spring in Norway

They were once about to go extinct around were we live

because everyone picked them to make spring bouquets.

They have been protected for years,

and we now enjoy their lovely blue faces where they appear.

Like this: at the corner of the cabin.

The lamb of leg, made a tasty stew that lasted two days

This is my first ever cornbread

Very good, and very yellow,

I will definitely make that again!