I have been keeping an eye on the weather forecast for Norway around the mountains around Eikesdalen. There was an open window with okay weather for both saturday (20/7) and sunday. I took the chance and left Tina and Copenhagen every early (3 am) saturday and began the 11 hour long drive north. After Göteborg I took a power nap for 2 hours and then drove on. I took a detour east around Rondane national park. I arrived in the late afternoon and found a good camping spot. My plan was to sleep on the backseat - I am just to old for tent and so on bla. bla. But the back seat was horrible. I woke like a million times and around 2 am I change to the front passenger seat which could be lowered much. That was much better and I kind of slept.

The weather and temperature was perfect sunday morning and I drove a bit back on the gravel road where I could park and went for the walk I had planed. I had a very light backpack with almost nothing except a first aid kit, GPS, A bit water, food and biscuits. I am not in the same shape as like 4 years ago - that was very clear. But it was a nice long all day walk. Afterward I went back to the previously parking spot and finished the day with a very cold bath in the mountain lake with melt water from the mountains. I woke up early monday to much different weather. It was raining and just over 10 degrees. The weather forecast had indicated this would happen and it would be like this for the next three days. So I took the long 11 hour drive home again. I was back in Copenhagen around early evening.

1 / 12 The parking/camping spot 2 / 12 The parking/camping spot 3 / 12 Sun down in Norway 4 / 12 On the walk 5 / 12 When the weather is good - it is good 6 / 12 A selfie of cause 7 / 12 Walk on the mountain to the mountain 8 / 12 Over rubble and water 9 / 12 Mountain lake 10 / 12 A view back 11 / 12 On my way back 12 / 12 The valley below ❮ ❯

However now the weather forecast for Lolland was extremely good - some on tuesday morning I again left Tina and Copenhagen and drove down to our summerhouse on Lolland and continued my one week of vacation. On friday I picked up Tina at the station and she joined me for the weekend.

In the garden we have this walnut tree. I have been saving a bottle of Zubrowka bison grass vodka for this occasion. Now it has to settle for 4 months before mixing up and drinking. Home made walnut schnapps! It is not how bad could it be - it is how good will it be!

I also began dismantling the garage even more - removing almost the hole roof and driving the trash to the recycling station.

On saturday with Tina in the house we agreed on a "how hard is it to change the toilet project". I began checking if the old one could be loosen and freed. Then we drove to Jem & Fix and bought the model we wanted. It was the same brand as the old one. It turn out to be a pull, plug and play job. All the important holes matched up. It was a kind of an easy quick win. Now we don't have to worry about a leaking toilet anymore.

I was back a work on monday. It was still very quite because of the many coworkers on vacation. But somehow someone might have brought something back. On tuesday I fell not sick but that something might be on the way. Some pills helped and I stilled went to work. Later I had a session at the climbing gym. I don't know if I got a double tap at the gym or if I just was out of power - but I was tired. We all had to work fro home wednesday to friday because of a re interior design at work. Because I didn't wanted to pass anything on to Tina I drove down to our summerhouse very early on wednesday morning. My health has been a bit up and down wednesday up to today.

Wednesday evening I made a stew with ground beef, home grown beetroot and carrots. I served it with fresh pasta. On thursday I saw, that Red Cross at Nakskov had a used workstation table for sale. Our old table was just a portable party table. It took more than an hour to install all the wires and devices right and to pack all the wires below the table  in the cable cover. The new table is super nice and it can be elevated up and down to the high I like.

I haven't done much heavy work because I still feel just a bit offset. The farmers have started harvesting the fields around us which leave a lot of dust in the air. This night I coughed and coughed. Hopeful it will be better tomorrow. 

Next week I will be back in Copenhagen working. I then might take a three weeks offline with no updates.

Last saturday Tina and her twin sister held their birthday at our apartment here in Copenhagen / Amager. It was very relaxed – 14 people came for coffee and cake around 2 pm. Tina made all the cakes and I did all the dishes afterward.

On friday we used my shareholder card and went to Tivoli for dinner at Paafuglen. The card gave free entrance for two but then full price afterward. It good Danish food but the bill ended just under 200 Euro!

We agreed that I would drive to Lolland sunday to look after the garden and water the plants in the greenhouse. Somehow I woke up at 2 am in the middle of the night. It fell like “I can lay here for hours before I sleep” so I packed and left on cat toes and drove down to our summerhouse. With almost no traffic it only took around 1 hour and 45 minutes. On sunday I cleaned the driveway from weed. Afterward I cut the hedge toward the fields and it was time to relax just a bit. I worked from down there both monday and tuesday.

I began monday with a 40 minutes long run after the clock woke me up at 6 am. On tuesday I spoiled myself by sleeping to 6:30 am.

I had a climbing deal at the gym thursday but he canceled on wednesday. But I still went for the gym and pretty much fucked up my fingers on my own. Nothing I haven’t tried before but man I am tired now.

It will probably be two weeks before next update. Work is like a ghost town with most on vacation.

Last week I climbed with a new temporary buddy. It’s a guy who has student job during the summer. We teamed up both tuesday and thursday. After more than a three hour long session thursday my fingers simply gave up. They would not work as I told them to – what a betray that was! But understandable when you take account, how many routes we climbed. I am looking forward to thursday this week where we team up again. All friday my fingers were kind of numb.

I spend the weekend down at Lolland alone. Tina had to stay I Copenhagen because of work. For a change I slept long on saturday like just after 8. I packed the trailer so I could empty it at the recycling station. After that I drove to Demfranordlunde to buy roof corners for the roof when the rest of the garage comes down. I thought it would be nice to have them ready went the time comes.

I spend the rest of saturday working on the first floor. I removed a section of plastered wall. It was way old with straws to keep it together. It was insane dusty and afterward I was super happy for our newish workshop vacuum cleaner. So now I can fill up the trailer again! I had to wash the floors to get rid of all the fine dust. After dinner I continued and cut down a section of the wall itself. That was much less messy. I think the changes made the room much larger and brighter that before. Next step is the wall to the other side. Then maybe we will begin on the roof or something else. We hope to make some kind of TV room or something – maybe with a bar!

I started Sunday by mowing the lawn. I saw the wood construction under one of the big water drums was almost collapsing because of rot. I saved some of the big wood beams from the take down of the garage and used one of them to construct a new support construction. Unfortunately the water tap broke because the drum fell around a couple of times – and I didn’t take care. So I had to do a temporary hack until I have the correct things that fit together.

1 / 13 The wall section before I began 2 / 13 I might no look as much - but what a mess and dust 3 / 13 Almost all the way down to the floor 4 / 13 Straws n' dust 5 / 13 After some cleaning 6 / 13 Some of the wall just had to go 7 / 13 We still have to decide, what to do about the roof 8 / 13 Much brighter 9 / 13 It is tipping and gravity is a bitch 10 / 13 Just a bit more solid 11 / 13 No rot proof, but should last some years 12 / 13 Me in the morning 13 / 13 My happy place in the afternoon ❮ ❯

I have been down on energy lately. I guess you can tell on the later posts and them not being so enthusiastic. As it often is, the causes are many and the solutions are few.

On tuesday last week I went alone down to our summerhouse and work from down there the rest of the week. The weather was pretty awesome and the plan was to quit early all three days. That plan didn’t work on wednesday, where I got stock in a work related problem that took most of the afternoon. But on thursday I pulled the plug early and went out swimming at the beach. The swimming was very interesting because of lots of small Lion's mane jellyfish.  I really hate them just because they are so sticky discussing. So it became a short swim but it was a fun trip on the bike. Afterward I took a shower in the garden instead.

On friday late afternoon I picked Tina up at the station as she came down to Lolland by train. We spend all of saturday dismantling the first section of the garage. I was pretty hard work removing all the nails from the joints and lift down the heavy wood beams. All in all it went perfectly. However it is clear, that we have to do some work on the roof on the outhouse afterward to keep the roof water proof.

Sunday became a kind of an off day. My body hurt from all the work on saturday and I feel just a bit off set. I left the bed after 10 am. After lunch I did a fucking 3 hour powernap where I woke myself up by snore so much that I could not breathe.

I might take a solo trip to Norway again after all those years. I have an unfinished project that I want to sort out and also to try and regain some of my old energy. I am not sure it is a good idea because the weather mostly is awful in the mountains in Norway. My knees also might give me problems – but it would be nice to go native just for a little week or so.

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