I happened to glance at FB today at the right time to see a post from northernotter about the talk she will be doing on her hand-woven reproduction of the Skjoldehamn find next weekend. Clicking on the link reveals that the other speaker will be Lise Bender Jørgensen, who has published so many books on archaeological textiles. Of course I have to go ( Read more... )

Today it has gone back below freezing, and has snowed enough I actually got out the shovel. I really love shoveling snow (with today's push-shovels), I think it is my favourite form of manual labour ( Read more... )

We finally have enough snow out there to really feel like it is winter, and the world is every so much more beautiful! The year started with temperatures above freezing, but while that did lots of damage to the snow down in Umeå, where we spent New Year's, up here it only got crusty, and since then we have had lots of good weather and fresh snow, ( Read more... )

First of all, I am really delighted with the weather we have been having lately. We have had six days in a row with temperatures below 0 C, and on Friday night/Saturday morning we got a couple of decimeters of snow, which, thanks to the nice weather, is staying nice and soft and fluffy and beautiful, and I am ever so much happier. This is so much ( Read more... )

I worked from home today, so got no exercise. Therefore I went out for a walk this evening. It was a beautiful moonlit night, so when I got to the place where our road crosses the water I couldn't resist turning left and heading out onto the frozen lake, enjoying the way the thin layer of snow atop the ice glistened in the moonlight. Such a ( Read more... )

The snow we had had in mid October was long gone, the fault of the +8 C temps we were cursed with the latter part of the month. But then early November greeted us with nice temperatures dropping as cold as -10, giving the ground a chance to get a decent freeze. However, with the lack of snow, the world was looking pretty dark and dismal--grass ( Read more... )

When I woke up and looked out the window this morning at first I couldn't tell if there had been a heavy frost or a light snow, but then I saw that the snow was still falling from the sky (but couldn't have been doing so for long, given how little had landed--besides, the sky was clear and starry when we got home last night), so I got up and ( Read more... )

When I walked into our music/dance/living room tonight to do my yoga I looked out my window and saw a beautiful clear stary night with a large, bright moon causing the snow to sparkle. So I did the logical ting and bundled into,my snow pants, boots, down coat, hats and mittens and went out to enjoy it. There is something magical about doing yoga ( Read more... )

I went for a walk in the forest at midnight; the landscape transformed by the new fallen snow. Even at that hour, on a cloudy night, the fresh white blanket provides plenty of visibility for walking. I often say that one advantage to our home is that we can pretend to live in the country while still being only 4 km from our offices. Midnight on ( Read more... )

The last couple of days have been unseasonably warm. One of my friends today said that she heard that yesterday was the warmest day on record for Sweden in the last century. I believe it. When we were driving to Boliden at one point the thermometer in the car said that it was +9 C! This is not a reasonable temperature for this far north this ( Read more... )