Friday, November 19, 2021

Chickens & Rabbits

Haven't talked about them yet. In February we bought ten chickens. They turned out to be five roosters and five hens. Now we have five hens and one rooster left, which is a good group as having more than one rooster just led to a lot of riots.




A few weeks later we bought two rabbits. Lucky and Lilly. As you can imagine very soon we had more than two rabbits. Five very cute tiny rabbits.


Monday, October 18, 2021

First Snow Hike

 Mid October and we get the first snow to stay on the ground. We decide to go for a hike on a hill nearby and enjoy the wintry landscape.








Saturday, October 16, 2021

Kronogård Naturreservat

On the second weekend of October I went with my friend Sylvia on a two day hiking trip through Kronogård nature reserve in the municipality of Jokkmokk just north of Kåbdalis.


In the beginning of our tour it was raining. It was a very good idea to take boots with us as our shoes would have been soaken wet within a few hrs time.

We went through "gammal skog" (old forest)...



...and swamps for a couple of hours until...


...we reached this little hut called Torrfurukojan.


A very cosy little hut with four beds, a table and a fireplace to keep you warm. We were very lucky to stay over night here and dry our wet clothes.


The next day the sky had cleared and we were greeted by beautiful sunshine.


We had a picnic at one of the countless lakes on our hike and even went for a short refreshing dip in one of the lakes.



That day we could switch to hiking shoes and decided to go on the hill Rahánoajvve at the end of our hiking trip from where we had a great view over the area.


We went on our hiking trip on a weekend and only met four people walking in pairs so we were pretty much on our own. This was much in contrast to my earlier hike in Muddus national park just a few weeks earlier.

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

October Day Hiking

Estimated route: ca. 20kms, 7hrs of walking 

Been a dull day weather like but that's ok when hiking as long as it doesn't pour down. Originally I had planned to walk a loop not far away from this place but then followed my intuition to hike a different trail. I like spontaneous choices and even though this one was demanding in a way that I had to find my own way through the bushes (forest) for a few kms as I wanted to skip the longer route via the road and I had to walk in the rain for a while I was happy to finish it after about seven hrs of hiking. This time I hiked alone again, well not quite, Diva went along with me. 😍

So I parked my car on a small gravel road (mostly used for hunting or forestry) and started walking.




Abraure outlet





There must have been mud... 😃


View over lake Abraure



Gangsjajaure outlet



I had my wood stove with me but it turned out to be very difficult and time consuming to make a fire as the wood was wet from all the rain that had come down earlier. But drinking a warm cup of tea is just worth all the burden. 




Thursday, September 30, 2021

September hike for myself

 


Recently, I have found the passion of hikine alone. Most of my hikes in life I have done with other people, mostly family members. I was so used to it that I didn't even consider hiking on my own. After all it's safer to hike with someone else rather than alone, isn't it? Yes, it might be. But is it less fun? No! Not for me at least. Once I decided to hike alone and I just marched on it felt better and better with every minute. I figured it gives me the chance to enjoy some time for myself, let my mind wonder while walking and even though it can be demanding physically at times it relaxes my mind to just get out and be in nature. It feels exciting to plan a route and even if it seldom goes as planned it just feels so good to have accomplished my hike in the end with all its ups and downs. To accomplish a hike means success "YES, I did it!" and even though my body is tired my mind is so peaceful afterwards. Every hike is a learning process as well.




I still do hike with friends, too but it feels different and depending on my mood I make a choice of walking with company or rather alone. When I say alone, I still am not all by myself at all times. I often do take Diva, our dog, with me.



I even found the passion of walking my own path through the woods with the help of my mobile phone. It can be demanding at times and may not to be recommended at all times but again it's a learning process as well.





 

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Fishing in Jokkmokk

It was windy September evening we decided to go fishing with net in Vajkijaur, Jokkmokk. And even though it was windy and a bit chilly, the evening sky was amazing...


Next morning we rewed out on the lake again. This time it was almost windstill and good conditions to take in the nets again.





 We even got lucky go catch some fish! :-)

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