First post

Hi all,

Welcome to our blog. We have decided to give it a shot with this blog and see how that works. We are keeping it in English, as we do have a lot of foreign visitors to our site, and most people understands English today. We hope you enjoy your stay here.

We have had great weather since Thursday. The sun’s been shining most of the day and the doggies are just loving it, staying outside for hours at a time. They find some very interesting things on the fields, not all to my joy but still very exciting for them (birds, fat rodents….oh yeah, he had been fed! and so on). But hey – as long as the doggies are happy…..

Today we had a not so very pleasant experience. We decided to burn the grass in the smallest field, to get rid of some of the high, old, dry grass. We tried in a small spot first, and as soon as the dry grass burned, the fire stopped as it was still wet on the ground. We decided to fire up a bigger part of the yard, and the wind was quiet and it looked good. Then suddenly the wind came, and the fire spread rapidly through the grass. Luckily not against our house, but against the woods……we tried to keep it down, but it got harder and harder, so we decided to call the firedepartment. After a short time, the wind stopped again and we got the fire under control, but the firedepartment decided to come anyways to make sure it went fine. And of course also the police came…..as it turned out, it is NOT ALLOWED to use open fire after April 15th…..so we are getting a ticket….. We can live with that, we are just happy everything went fine in the end, and that we got the fire under control. But of course we felt stupid….being sity slickers and all…..living in the countryside… And of course – we got a big lesson……never EVER doing that again. I ended up inhaling a lot of smoke, so the firefighters gave me some oxygen (talk about feeling stupid) and then the police decided I had to go to the hospital for a check up as I was coughing a lot. I was fine, the throat and chest was just a bit irritated by the smoke, and the doctor sent me home and told me to rest. No arguments from me there, I have been feeling quite tired afterwards. Talk about a dramatic day.  Well, that’s about it from the exciting countryside in Skogbygda. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Check back soon for more updates.