Green fingers - new plant in the greenhouse

Today our neighbor came over with a nice cucumber plants to the greenhouse, he had too many. He has green fingers, and are happy to share experience with Elizabeth.

A late "trimtur" along the Saltdal River, after the flood earlier.

Tonight we did one more "Trimtur", and we walked along the river, and looked for the changes after the big Flood earlier in May, and we found many changes on the river bank. The river also had made new ways for the track down the Valley. We also found new nice stones, rocks of rare sorts... A great "Trimtur". Back home again, we found that the temperature was crossing 0 degrees C and a half hour into tuesday. I have to put more heat into Elisabeth's greenhouse tonight!

Great day in Steigen - seminar; Archaeology and ancient burial mounds, Engeløya

Today was an early start for us, we were invited to a seminar in Steigen, Steigen History Society was responsible for the seminar on Archaeology and ancient burial mounds, Engeløya, Steigen. Steigen is full of historical relics, and well documented history. Engeløya has many tombstones, partly excavated, and at this seminar had the historical sosiety gained  professor Inger Storli, and a stipendiat Inga Malene Bruun, Master in Archaeology from Tromsø University to speak about the grave of memories and interpretations of the Iron Age graves in northern Norway, and afterwards we had the inspection of the Hagbart Holmen, where we physically saw the burial mounds and a good orientation of the leader of the Steigen History Society, Greta V Sollie. We also visited the excavation sites at Bø, where we had a review by Sollie. Professionals from Borg was also present and supplemented as we discovered the facts. Participants at the seminar was also well informed and able to complement. Afterwards we went on to the north side of Engeløya, and here we could see "Jøtul stones ", which is protected, but the Steigen History Society had a project in order to make an extended record of these. They had however been rejected application to carry out this project. Now they are waiting for an inspection by authorities, for may be able to get the project done. Bjørn Stemland blowing neverlur, Laskestad school had an adventurous local historical performance for us, 7 and 8 year olds performed local history at its best! More pictures here!

Trim - biking is great!

Tonight we took the bikes and headed down the road, crossed the river on Brenne, and went to Nes, from here we rode along the E6 to Drageid again, and headed down river. We could see how the flood had devastated to fill up with gravel and mud along the river system. Then we met Hilde & Per Arne along the road on their brand new 4Wheeler!

"Spring is the hardest time in the year", - Per Arne says.

It is busy day in the barn with Per Arne; he welcomes new lamb all day and night, and must constantly correct the wrong position, and ensure that the lambs are doing well, even after birth. If there are too many on a sheep, he must adopt out, if appropriate. Now it is not many left, and soon it's time to let the herd leave for the mountain pastures. Then we will meet another challenge.  Predators are very interested in young lambs, this year Per Arne leads a project which will give information about the sheep with position readable from his PC, so-called "Radiobjeller"  "It is a exciting project, and we hope it will give us more information about the reason for our lost lamb,"- Per Arne says.

The National Day and summertimes - heat and waterflow!

We visited Marielle & Marcus on National Day, and it was warm and fine weather in Bodø. National Day brings a lot of tradition, and costumes, as well as trains. Now the NSB in Norway closed in Saltdal because of flooding, so here it was only The 17.mai-trains. It started at 9:00 in the morning time, it went in rapid, with all trains, Civil train went by the time 4:00 p.m., it was full, so we just watched. Not much music where we stood. However, we had wonderful dinners and meals in between. Elisabeth had prepared lamb, so we used the opportunity in the middle of the day to get us dinner, and great dessert. Finally there was the Tivoli, and speed and excitement. Family Per Inge and Doi Liljar with Trym Henning and Kasander was invited on cake, and Emil liked his new friends! We were home in Saltdal just over 21:00, when we saw that Saltdal River was well above its banks, and several other tributaries had high water flow. It guess it will be summer this year too!

Biking to inspect the Lambs and the situation at Per Arne's Ranch #2

Emil likes to bike, mormor biked with him down to see the sheep and lambs at Per Arnes farm number 2. And then Emil could help making fence and secure the area for the sheep and the lambs. They will be out tomorrow morning, and then they have their own scene outside, it is a steel house, which will be filled up with wood chips and shavings - very cosy to rest on. There will be plenty of space, and grass for dinner. Here the herd will prepare for going into the mountain later this spring. The lambs will sure grow big enough, then some of them will wear GPS transmitters, and Per Arne can sit and follow the herd from his computer.

Emil likes the lambs

"This fence is good enough", - Emil said

Emil always like to help where he can