May started off with ice hail storms and ended with long sunny days. It’s quite a crazy month for weather. Often the nights are chilly but the long sunny days give sunburn if you’re outside. The plants need a lot of watering because new plants have only just gone in the soil and haven’t yet […]
This month I started the government SFI course while looking for work, and the weather has been warming up. Weather The first week of April had brief snowfall. It stayed cold in the second week but became sunnier with slush and snow piles remaining in the shade in hedgelines and on the roads. The weather […]
This is a laypersons guide to what is covered by the Swedish For Immigrants (“Svenska för invandrare” – SFI) course that is provided for free by the Swedish government to help immigrants ingrate. SFI has 4 levels, lettered from A to D. I want to describe the course to people that don’t study Swedish and […]
Spring Sunlight In the first week of March the sun started getting significant. I dug out the snow on the sun-facing side of the greenhouse to try and get more sun and heat into the greenhouse itself. I removed snow from the corners of the front driveway while the snow was soft. As the temperature […]
We’re tried to alter our habits to try to send more of our income towards goods and services that result in a healthier Sweden or a healthier EU. To do this we make small changes to avoid investing in aggressive regimes, and unethical companies, or unethical persons. The goal isn’t to try to be perfect […]
Snowfall This month all the overdue snow came. I dug out pathways from the front door to the garage and to the bridge, but then the wind would pickup and more snow would come. There were great big snowdrifts burying the pathways. The deepest snow was down the bottom of the garden, where it was […]
My workplace gave a Christmas bonus and so I thought it would be a good idea to have a memorable holiday to Stockholm for New Years Eve, as we don’t take many holidays. I normally only travel through Stockholm for a specific purpose so it would also be a great chance to act like tourists […]
The month started with snow like normal but became the warmest December we’ve seen here. After the first week all the snow melted. A little ice remained but temperatures went above zero. The lack of snow is a problem for the community because it means there might not be the right conditions for winter sports […]
Our latitude is about 63N which is about another length of the UK north from the UK. This makes the summer days long to the point of having a bright sky at midnight, but it also makes the winter nights especially long and dark. The weather gets overcast here in September and October with the […]
This month I took a work trip by plane, we helped paint a local community cabin in the woods, and we continued making the property ready for winter. It also got really dark and wet. Finishing the Steps For safety in the more extreme months we put the final touches on the new steps down […]
All the leaves are turning brown and starting to fall, and the temperature is dropping. This month was a lot of activity in trying to get the property prepared for winter before the ground freezes and the persistent darkness comes. Beaver Dam Through the start of August a beaver began building a dam across the […]
