The very last day at office this year. No one cried. I will after this day "coach" my youngest daughter or maybe she will coach me until end of this year. Then I will be back at office again.
Photo: Photo from the floor at office. I will not take anymore steps here this year, but I will come and visit.
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Work at office and did all the washes. Just a not so interesting day.
Photo: A sticky plant on my way to work.
I cleaned the home and made some work on the paintings.
Photo: Part of a painting.
I found strange search words in the history when searching with Google. When I wrote "b" the strange word "bulabital" came up, and then I wrote "a" and "American Airlines" came up. I got little confused, I and Anne-Li would never have written those search words. Maybe it is a hacker or maybe Al Qaida that have used my computer?? But then I searched on "bulabital", thought it was som kind of explosive substance and connected with "American Airlines", yeah, it must be Al Qaida. But the word is an substance used as medicine. And then I think who can have written this. It must be Anne-Lis sister Anna that visited us in beginning of June. Anna is a veterinary. But I dont know why she has searched on "American Airlines", I will ask.
Photo: Do you see what it is? (move the mouse over the photo)
Rain rain again. But suddenly the sun came through for some minutes. The birds at home were singing like crazy, that is good because it is very quiet when family have left. I read about the Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri that have made the detailed painting Warlugulong. The theme for the painting Warlugulong is a bush fire and the painting is like a map showing were the fire was. I have been working with real maps, maybe I will do an abstract art map sometime?
Photo: Rune stone from year 1000 on my way to work.
Family went to Sundsvall visiting grandfather. I will go there next week. Now I'm only at home and will do my last days at work before I start my new work this autumn. Oooh, very tired now when nobody are at home. To calm and quiet.
Photo: The summer house that we saw yesterday at Bastberget.
Dark in the morning and some rain now and then. Me and Anne-Li went to Bastberget in Dalarna looking for a summer house, a chalet. It was a lovely place, but maybe not for us. There were curious sheeps running around the house. Some musicians played folk music in the middle of the forest. But we didn´t stay long. We went back the 2-3 hours to Stockholm. It was a car crash on the road, three ambulances and two fire engines were there. Also a big long-distance lorry almost crashed in front of us. Luckely we were not so close behind when it almost made a dead stop.
Photo: The curious sheeps at Bastberget.
Rain again. The murder snails are back with full power.
Photo: The murder snail killed and crashed the friendly snail.
Rain, rain, rain. Strange, it use to be sun this week. We went to a friends birthday party and met a lot of friends with new and bigger children. Strange, suddenly new children pop up from nowhere.
Photo: A friendly snail out in the rain.
In the playground with the children. Edith hunted cats and a rabbit. Anne-Li came back from a party 2 hours from Stockholm. After the party she gave lift to a multi-artist and the he forgot wood sculptures and etchings in the car. The forgotten art were going to be shown at an art exhibition, and Anne-Li didn't thought about that he left material in the car.
In the afternoon we celebrated grandmothers birthday.
Photo: Edith falling down at the playground.
Sun and summer weather. I was outside the house with the children. I got very tired running with the children. It came to my mind that I am almost only indoors all days. I think I have to change that and also activate my body, it is in little bad shape. But I'm lucky I can bike to work 20 minutes most of the weekdays, so I'm not totally inactivated.
Photo: Edith picking flowers outside the house.
A car crashed in the night, some youths must have "found" a car and didn't know better than to crash it. Then bad day at work, nothing worked good. Now Edith is crying and don't want to sleep.
Photo: The crashed car on the street at home.
Rainy in the morning. The murder snails* have waked up and are everywhere on the streets. I wonder where they come from. I thought about eating them and with horror I later read in the newspaper that one chef were cooking and eating them.
Work at empty office. Then biking home again in the sunshine. I got a small safari back home. First a saw a small tiny fox running around the cows. Then later I saw a happy cow running outside the fence. Happy for seeing new views. Then came the Highland Cattle buffalos. Today I also saw the big ravens, nice big blank black birds. They are often seen now. The horses where close to the ravens. On the small road I saw some snakes that had been killed by the cars. I found a happy caterpillar that manage to cross the road without any wounds. At last I saw small bird chasing away a big bird.
* The murder snails eats up the green gardens and are quite ugly and slimy. They do not have the "house" as the friendly snails.
Photo: Edith riding on a concrete lion in the city and below animal from my safari trip home from work.
Windy and warm today. At office at usual and very empty. Not much happend today, one small thing was that I almost biked over a small snake. And grandmother came and visit with blueberries.
Photo: Our troll at home, made of concrete and wool.
Cleaned up my workplace at office. It is summer vacation time and it is almost empty at office. I had to sing for myself for not falling asleep. These last weeks in July will be my last weeks at office for a long time. I will be at home with Vigdis, she is almost 1,5 years, from August until January 2008. It will be interesting this new temporary job.
Photo: Empy office at the marketing department. Photo taken from my desk.
At office all day and took care of the very last material for the Outdoor Show.
Photo: Lunch outside the office.
Back to dark cloudy warm Stockholm. Almost no cars were driving today, it is Sunday early morning and also summer vacation for the most in Sweden. Today only rest, almost not outside the apartment, even thought the weather got shiny.
Photo: Art gallery in Nådendal, Finland, with paintings on the house wall.
All day at the Muumin-world. Run around in the fairy-tale world about the Muumin trolls. Perfect weather. The children were very tired after a long day with the big white trolls. We also went to the old small town of Nådendal. We visited some nice Finnish art galleries there. In the evening we took the ship back to Stockholm. We slept good in the small dark cabin.
Photo: Johanna, cousine to Edith and Vigdis, is escaping from the big white Moomin troll.
We were early up in the morning and went to the ferie for Finland and the Moomin-world, mostly for children. Vigdis took her first walking steps in the big boat. The boat trip took all day and we slept at a hotel in the city of Turku. We also slept in the middle of the day in the totally dark cabin, it was wonderful.
Photo: Vigdis in the ocean of balls in the boat.
I dreamed about our birds. The flew out of the cage, but they didn't have much strength to fly far. And very soon they came back to the opened window and stopped there. I tryed to catch them, but they escaped and flew away again. But the birds came back again and this time I was offensive and caught them back to the cage. When I was at work family came back home again after their short trip to Dalarna. Vigdis was tired, but Edith stay up late. She can't sleep and she is doing paintings instead.
Photo: View over the playground from our balcony.
Only work today. Nothing happend at all.
Photo: On my way back home from office with bike.
Today cleaning day at home after work. On my way home from work I saw the Highland cattle buffalos running wild, they use to be very calm. Also a very big truck were driving like crazy. He almost crashed, I think. I gave fresh water to the birds and the yellow one, Moko, tried to fly out of the cage. The white is called Choko. But at their last home their names were Pipen and Pipan, but Edith change their names to Choko and Moko. But Anne-Li says that their names are Chokomoko and Jarlmin. Jarlmin is a name or something else that Edith use to say, but we do not know what she means with that.
Photo: A big calm Highland cattle buffalo viewd from my way home from work.
Family left for a short trip to Dalarna for meeting Ediths school friend Gabriella. I will be alone at home for some days. Will only work and clean the home.
Photo: Outside my office.
The computer is crazy, sounds like an aeroplane, I have to grease the CPU fan. Out there it has been a rainy day. Watched "Trazan and Banarne" in the summer morning children programme on TV.
Photo: Edit and Vigdis in the rain working with mud.
Free day with the children, Anne-Li at course. We were slow in the morning. After early lunch we went to the supermarket and bought food. Then we stayed outside the house and ate red currant berries. Weather was calm, warm and cloudy. Live Earth on the TV. I had quite good energy for the children even though my body is in some pain.
Photo: Vidgis eating red cranberries and doing some magic.
Total mess at work. The printer crashed totally, when we need the machine as the most for making hard copies for the show and the conference with the dealers. Anne-Li left today for a course this weekend. I will be alone with the children, it will be fun. The children are sleeping now, the time is 21.30 and I have some free time. Some strange sounds from the kitchen, something falled down, but I couldn't find anything. The trolls are doing some work or mess? (Things use to disappear at our home). Vigdis screamed high once in the nigth with the pacifier in her mouth, is that possible?
Photo: A spectator watching my bike trip home from work.
Only a ordinary working day today. Very warm at the office and sun outside. We are lucky that can eat the lunch outside at the companys lawn. Our color printer didn't work so good, it will need service and the cd-burner crashed as usuall when we're making a lot of material for the shows.
Photo: Vidgis is painting.
Rainy weather but warm today. Nice day for work at office. This evening Vigdis started to take more walking steps. She laugh a lot when tickeling her. Edith is little tired because of a cold. She didn't want to sleep. Late in the evening she made a painting and then she went to bed by herself.
Photo: Edith is painting green.
Only work today.
Photo: Start place at home for the short bike trip to work.
Today back at office from one one week of vacation. Read through the mail and sent images and more to customers. Worked with some new packagings and some for the Outdoor Show in Germany. It was nice to come home after work and meet the happy family and the two new family members, the birds. They sounded happy.
Photo: On my way home from work.
Visit to Wadköping in Örebro. Suddenly we have 2 birds, budgies, with us in the car when we were going to travel home to Stockholm. Can we take care of these two new family members?
Photo: The two budgies Chokomoko and Jarlmin.
