Moving Day

After months of anticipation and a car packed to the breaking point, we arrived at our new home to find that ... Not everything was as we...

Moving day

When we were here two weeks ago, it was still summer. Now autumn is in full swing. The summer here was so long and relaxing, so full of...

As newcomers to the second home experience, there is definitely an excitement about returning to a place we left behind weeks or even...

The task of gardening looms large before us. There are all kinds of creatures out there, from ants to deer and everything in between....

Moving into a new house, especially one where other people have lived for a long time, requires pulling back layers to figure out how...

It's not that we are starting from scratch. There was a garden here. And I have gardened. It's just been a while. For about 15 years now,...

Another backbreaking day of moving furniture to and fro, up and down, back and forth. But look at the results! Kitchen This round table...

Scavenging around the property, which dates from the 1880s, has yielded a few surprises. Some good, some bad. One rather nice thing we...

I'm the banker's wife. I don't speak very good Swedish.

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