Keeping warm

Alpaca slipover for niece. Warm pink like 80% magenta, 20% yellow - difficult to catch with the camera, at least for an amateur. I tried outside, but it didn't help. Anyway it goes well with the white winter.

Yarn: Drops alpaca (2922) - very soft.
Pattern: All you knit is love, Susie Haumann.

In a crack

Something disturbed the nutcracker..

Knitting mikado

New tools.

I have been looking for wooden double pointed needles for some time. 

These are a little rough to begin with, but knitting soon makes them smooth - and darker. (You can see which needles have all ready been used for a pair of fingerless mittens).

Organic wood, comes in 10, 15 and 20 cm lenghts - (mine 15 cm) - found here.

Glimpses of summer 2012..

We had a cold july followed by a warmer august - almost no mosquitoes (due to the cold?) - enjoyed the best strawberry harvest ever - saw family and friends - travelled north to Sogn and Telemark - saw a raven at close range - ate wafflers with cloudberries - celebrated a golden anniversary couple and some birthday people - took a few beach swims - had "some" ice cream - and made a late summer trip to Aarhus - (beside the usual household and everyday survival stuff).

So many good days to be grateful for.

- and then, at the end of summer the best thing happened, this tiny and very sweet niece arrived! ♥♥♥ 

Hidden in the darkness

It was around midnight, we were on our way home and in a sharp turn just south of our village the badger passed us. Maybe on her way to forage for food, meeting friends in the meadow nearby?

I know they are supposed to be here, but this meeting makes me think of them. Good to know someone is actually living a badger-life in the dark nights around here.

Badger of honor? Given for outstanding nightlife? ;O) Badger pillow looks soft,
and a famous badger - have been read to "bits-and-pieces" in this house.

The Mill and The Golden Grey

At the moment the old mill is being restored. The other day we saw thatchers on the roof and many more things are going on inside. I think they are done in a couple of months. (This photo is a before-picture).

In Denmark, as in most western countries, the large generation born around 1940 is getting old now. The marketing industry like to see them as "the grey gold" because they are believed to be strong byers.. well here you can see a perhaps more unnoticed reason for a golden nickname - so many of them are doing a full time volunteer job in many corners of society today.

Marie - the last Miller of Tadre - was indeed "a golden grey" of her time - as she fought to preserve Tadre Mill for the next generations. She made it possible by selling the Mill to the danish government for a much smaller amount than she could have achieved from other byers. Furthermore she used the money to make a Tadre-foundation (scroll down to the blue area to find english text).


The films linked in this post are made by Ole Malling, a maker of many fine productions for Danish Ministry of Environment, Danish Television a.o. Malling Film.

Indispensable things..

So, this Saturday it was time for a cozy plant market again. Sunny and windy Septemberday, about 25 sellers, coffee in the old mill.

I found a new Pelargonium with very delicate leaves - and it goes so well with the one from last year. They are both covered with tiny tiny hairs - "velvet-leaves".

Other fine things I couldn't resist: Local honey - some produced 50 m from the market :O) - and a Mint Nepeta plant (hedebjergmynte) bought from a garden blogger - inspiring blog.

Autumn bliss

First harvest - we planted some raspberry bushes last year. Seems quite a few berries will follow in the next weeks. Uhm!

Sunny Slow Motion

Low evening sun and crochet experiments at the terrace.
I hope you have some lazy summer days too.