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Good bye to this blog - say hello to picasa! ;D

Since I mostly share my pictures on this blog, and I use picasa to upload my pictures, I have decided to move over to only using picasa. So for you who like to follow Elin up in the cold North (this year it could not be a better description - and I LOVE it! wink

Just now I put out pictures from my first trip this year, and soon there will be many nice pictures from my week close to Røros (middle Norway), where I went with horse and slegde for a full day from Dalsbygda to Røros. Very, very nice! ;D

You find my picasapage here: http://picasaweb.google.no/sikkeland


Hope to hear from you there! ;-D

Pictures from new years eve... smile

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A bit delayed maybe, but now it was time for this kind of things again... smile

I spendt the New years weekend, in Åsmarka, close to Lillehammer, with a good friend of mine, Ingebjørg and her boyfriend, Asbjørn. It was a great time, including donkeys, skiing, a funny building game, sauna, good food and drinks.

A little photographic review comes below, some of the pictures are taken by Ingebjørg or Asbjørn as well.

We started out at Stange, visiting a two floor straw house. Interesting

Photo: Asbjørn

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Happy, happy, merry Christmas!

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A little blogpost on Christmas Eve, I just want to wish you all

God jul og godt nytt år!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes Neues Jahr!


I hope the new year brings a lot of joy, laughter and happiness!
Take care, both of yourself and especially for the environment, and do not forget the child inside you.

Together with the wishes I add some pictures from the last months.




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Femundsmarka with Anne Helga

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Around a month a go Anne Helga and I left for Femundsmarka. We had marked our calendars with "autumn colours", and we did not return disappointed.

The first day we met at Hamar, and then drove off to Elgå where we stayed at a camping site. Wine and maps is a good combination.




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The new summer activity: long distance biking

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By some unknown reason, Elin Marie and I found out this spring that we wanted to go visiting Liv in Fresvik this summer. And so we did.

Karoline and I are ready to go!



The first obstacle met us in the middle of nowhere in Nordmarka... Happily he finished after 30 min!

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Tre uker på loffen - Three weeks on the bum - part III

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From Vinjerock I drow 500 km together with Nils Einar, and on Sunday evening I finally reached Skogn where I was met by a smiling Camilla, Torbjørn and sweet, little Selma. I helped Torbjørn getting in the cows before we had a wonderful dinner. In the end it looked like this:



I traveled further north the next day, to Namsos where I checked one of my master fields with oat and barley. Then I turned south, and traveled to my grandmother at Drogsetmoen where I stayed for one week.


Else Marte and I tried to climb Snota (the mountain between us in the picture) in Trollheimen,

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Tre uker på loffen - Three weeks on the bum - part II

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From Vågå I went to Romedal to visit Anne Helga. The first two days we spent painting her kitchen, but on the second day Marte, a friend of Anne Helga got a nice idea: why not go and see Peer Gynt at Gålå? We got tickets, and the next day we headed for Gålå. It turned out to be both 20 years anniversary and premiere, not bad! bigsmile


Happy girls waiting for Peer.



The play is played outdoor with an amazing stage and surroundings, and a very good chamber orchestra.

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Tre uker på loffen - Three weeks on the bum - part I

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This summers I had three weeks of holiday in July, and those was used to visit good friends and family over more or less the whole south and middle Norway.
First I went to Liv and Geoff in Fresvik. There I spent one week, enjoying a very nice summer party, eating a lot of good food, helping with different things to their organic guesthouse, Frøys Hus (Go visit them, I can promise that you wont regret!), hiking in the mountains and laughing!


Liv and Elin and the blueberries!



Just like I like it! bigsmile

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Summer in Ås

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This summer I have worked at Vollebekk, the research farm of my institute. I have been doing a lot of different things during my weeks there like; following spike shooting, irrigation of vegetables, weeding, hand threshing, following plants in green house (raspberries who grow 40 (!) cm a week, wheat and barley), picking, weighing and counting strawberries and raspberries, measure light, cutting with a scissor in the soil, acting as a oat hair dresser, picking grain from wheat with tweezers and putting it on Nitrogen and so on... Working on a research farm is very good when it comes to fringe benefits, I have taken quite a lot of fruit and vegetables back home!

Like this nice citron basil and thyme.



And a lot of tomato plants, our terrace looks like a jungle right now! :D
The small ones are calles redcurrant tomatoes, and are small as redcurrant! :D


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Acting as a wedding photographer

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In the beginning of July Iris and Tor Jacob got married, and I was asked to take the pictures during the day (except the wedding-card-pictures, that's all too scary!). The wedding was cheerful, smiling and informal all the way through, just as Iris and Tor-Jacob is normally.

Iris having fun up there!



A happy couple who just received a horse shoe from above.

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