Category Archives: Norway – the New Adventure

Norway is an inconvenient country.  Very, very beautiful, but they have rules…… rules that seem to be cast in stone… those very old stones that you see in fields and mountains.  And here, rules are made to be followed to … Continue reading →

if we should be building an ark. This morning, I emptied 38 mm of water  out of my rain gauge – it was still raining when I did it.  It’s still raining now, although there have been patches of sun … Continue reading →

August 31 – 5:30 pm…. I thought it would never come.  Actually, the traffic was so terrible as we drove home from Tananger to catch the train, I was afraid that it would come to soon, and we wouldn’t make … Continue reading →

On Saturday, we went in search of salmon.  No, not to the local grocery store, or to the fish market.  To a river – they are flocking up stream now for the spawn. Figgjoelva, to be exact.  The river that … Continue reading →

This morning at Hanne’s, I finished sewing the binding and hanging sleeve on my Three Ladies. It is so nice to finally have something done.This is a copy of a painting by the Indian painter, B. Prabha.  My friend, Paramjeet … Continue reading →

I’ve always been fascinated with water – I think most of us are.  After all, that’s where we begin our lives.  And we are made up of mainly water.  Without it, we will perish, physically.  I think some of us … Continue reading →

While we were back in Canada in July, I got the chance to attend to a quilt show in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan with two friends.  They have a lovely old park, and beside the library they had hung quilts on … Continue reading →

Today is a funny, drizzly day.  Bad day to do laundry, but… you have to do what you have to do.  There is more sun than rain, so things are drying in the breeze – I just have to catch … Continue reading →

Sunday we cycled into Stavanger in the afternoon.  I’m not sure just how strong the wind was, but it sure felt like a gale in our faces the whole way. Enough said – I promised myself I wouldn’t whine about … Continue reading →