This month there has been lots of travel for exams. I work in a regulated industry where I have to prove my skills every 3 years. That sounds reasonable but there are a lot of imperfect processes around that renew and a lot of politics. Enough for a post of its own. So I can’t […]

This month is when a lot of vegetables and fruits are harvestable. The onions in one bed were massive. They really seemed to like the conditions. We had a great crop from inside the greenhouse. Growing less made everything more manageable this year. Because we were overproducing, we queried local neighbours to see if they […]

We arrived in July 2020 so it is now our 4 year anniversary of coming to Sweden. We’ve both really glad to be here. We’ve been stretched in multiple directions and so we’ve made great progress in some areas but have a lot more to do in others. Here’s a short round-up of where we […]

June has been hot, and the start of June needed lots of garden upkeep, such as strimming, mowing, and hand-weeding. It’s hard budgeting available spare time between maintenance, planting and progressing the garden plan. The current plan is to reduce windspeed a little, increase shade, remove remains from previous projects and then think about infrastructure […]

April brought the start of the return of the birds, and the snow started to melt. It’s not possible to plant anything due to frosts, snow and the ground being frozen. Most winter sports are no longer possible but also neither are the non-snow activities, so it felt a little like waiting for May. Starting […]

This month I worked on renovating the spare bedroom and fixing a problem in the attic. In hindsight I took on too much work. I might need a new rule of no renovation projects over winter. Outside was pretty but no significant sunshine yet. Water damage fix A sewer vent pipe routed through the wall […]

I took two weeks off work and spent most of February renovating the small bedroom I use as a work from home office. The snow outside had started to harden and so the snowmobiles were all out. Work From Home The office had gypsum walls that were damaged with some large holes. Despite using background […]

November sees real snow that settles and stays, with the occasional snowploughs on the main road. All our activity shifts to indoors or to winter orientated outdoor activities. Making Planned Wood We setup the basement workshop to process rough-cut timber into planed wood, and planed our first planks. To do this we used the circlesaw […]

This month we conducted mostly earthworks. We were desperately trying to get significant changes done to the garden before the winter with the time and resources we had. Rain made it too wet to work with the digger without causing significant damage. At one point I got frustrated and used the digger anyway, and caused […]