We are not made for this! Our houses is not built for tropical tempertures above 30 degrees Celcius. They are built to withstand rain, wind and snow!
Therefore, it gets very hot in the summer when the heat gets in under the roof.
In the cottage, the sleeping loft is on the second floor, it is the hottest place in the cabin. Off course you can open the loft door and the window so the wind can come in, but when the wind is over 20 degrees in the night…….
Now we have placed a portable ari condition downstairs. It´s lovely! It cools down the entire cottage and it becomes a comfortable temperature.
August it is.
All flowers bloom, we harvest vegetables in the green house, tomatoes, cucumbers and chilli. The summer is still ”ON”, but…….the bright summer nights are about to fade.
Yesterday, we were on a party with our dear neighbors, and we noticed that after 9, it was almost dark! The summer is not over, but when the bright summer nights are gone, we know that soon………
Oh…….I just regret this pichture…….. Right now, this image seems like another coundry and a different world!
I try another one….
Last year we hade 2 fish in the pond, but sadly they died. The summer was to hot, no rain. Because of that, we put a small fountain in the pond, only for our 12 gold fish, to oxygenate the water. They are alert and sometimes we can see them swim just under the fontain in the cascade of bubbles.
I have found some chantarelles in the forest, not so many, but if we can get some rain, there will ve many more.
In our ”forest garden” we have often visit – deers. One morning, just behind the pond, there was this two….. The moose are there too, but you have to be very lucky to see them.
Last week I was out – together wit my lovely cats – (they always want to come out in the forest with me). We went down to our fir planting. Last year we plant almost 2000 fir plants. Now the grow in the gras. Some of them – perhaps – will be Christmas trees 😉
Drive to Gothenburg and Liseberg takes 1 hour and 15 minutes from Slamrekullen. I think Liseberg is a Disney world in miniature. We have been to Disney World – ” Magic kingdom” in Orlando, and I can see many similarities.A beautiful park, nice streets reminding of a old city. There are small shops in the houses. There are no Mickey Mouse or Donald Trump ….. oh, sorry, I mean Donald Duck…..walking around. No, we got the green Liseberg rabbit. There are many ”terror rides” on different attractions – rollercosters, carousels, water rides…..
Spinning – play on – a chocolate wheel can mean that you have to carry several kilos of chocolate around in the park, we saw many who did that!
We have a favorite restaurant at Liseberg – Hamnkrogen.It´s afish- and seafood restaurant. We were not disappointed yesterday either. As a starter – Toast Skagen, (classic Swedish starter). As the main dish – baked cod. The best I have eaten so far this summer.There are many resturants, pubs, cafe´and a lot of good things to eat……jammi!
It´s not only summertime you can visit Liseberg. Oh no, my favorite is ”Christmas at Liseberg” open in middle of November.A lovely place you can visit to get Christmas mood – absolutley wonderful!
But now it´s summer!!! Summer greetings from Lotta & Ronny at Liseberg
Day one bubbles and day two bubbels…… now I will tell you about my bubbels 🙂Monday – new guests arrive in the afternoon. The house must be clean and nice. I like to fix and make it nice for our guests. Our guests should just go in, unpack and then start their holiday without a lot of things to fix.
So I pack my basket and make some bubbles.
Coffee, danc music on Spotify, I found an old list of Wisex songs from the 80s, and I knew them all! and the broom handle can work as a mic……. I´m on the go!
Three hours later.
Slamrekullen is ready to welcome a family from Germany. Hope they will enjoy their stay with us.Now to the next day, and to another kind of bubbels – we went to Gothenburg and Liseberg 🙂
GEKÅS IN Ullared! I must write a blogg about Gekås. Some of our guest visiting us just because we are close to Gekås – others have never heard of Gekås – ”It´s the Happy ones” according to Ronny 😉 World famous? Yes almost! We live close by,(10 km) visiting ”the big yellow department store” about once a month. It has become a little more frequent during spring and summer when we would have bedding, towels and a whole lot of other things for our ”Uthus”. There is almost everything there – everything that you can fit in a car …… that’s what I have heard. They do not sell anything that does not fit in a car …….
Every summer it became a sales record, last time it happend – peope shop for over 45 MILLION SWE KRONES !!!! ON A DAY!!!! CRAZY!!!! Every authumn (before Christmas) it´s a shopping Mecca! You can´t go there in the weekends, it´s SO crowded with people. It´s nice to have it close, so you can just go home agian if you like 🙂
Here are some fascinating figures about this department store: 1700 people work during high season. The shop area is 35,000 square meters. There are 69 outlets. 12 000 customers can shop at the same time. 12000 shopping carts. 8000 customer baskets. 4500 parking spaces. For one year, 150 million goods pass through the cash registers. The visitor record was beaten on July 21, 2019, when 31500 customers traded. The longest line outside the department store was measured on October 30, 2010. The sex was 1.4 km long. In 2014, 4.8 million people visited the department store, which makes it Sweden’s largest excursion / visitor destination! For a week, the department store is emptied of goods 3 times! Each customer picks up goods for 15: – in minutes! 700,000 pairs of jeans are sold per year. 13 million pairs of socks / year. 320 000 bags Ahlgrens cars (candy) / year. 100,000 packages of freezer bags / day. 25,000 yellow plastic bags / day. 100 million bullforms / year. 1 700 000 bottles of shampoo / year.
Yesterday it was football! (Sweden – Germany)
On with the yellow ”winner” sweater!
Inportant match – win or go…home..it was Germany
who had to say ”goodbye” and go home.
It was so exciting and I screamed loudly when Sweden made goals…..
so it was probably heard in to our
German guest in the cottage 😉
Summer in Sweden, it´s also football.
Many restaurants and pubs in the city have
large screen tv.s and its a real action in there.
(Last year we saw football (also Sweden – Germany)
with our dear guests from Munich…..then Sweden lost.
But that was special….not often you have the
opposing team in the same sofa!
Now I will hang up my yellow sweater to the
next match against
the Netherlands on Wendesday.
Wish you all a lovely Sunday.
This summer we got lovely weather, not to hot, not to cold – unusual! Everyone wants to sit ourside at long tables and eat, but it usually always rain, if not, we are chased away by knobs and mosquitoes! NOT this year! Because the weather was ok (only a quick shower in the afternoon), and we have a perfect solution to the problem mosquitoes and knots – THERMACELL. (When we turn it on, it creates a knob and mosquito-free zone of 20 m2). So now we can enjoy our lovely summer evenings outside! I think the invention almost qualifies for the Nobel Prize……for peace…..in the forest. We got one for our guests in the cottage, and one for us.
Everything is so green and lovely in the forest. This year it
rains now and then – just as it should. On midsummer we harvest our own
strawberries.
Slamrekullen is our favorite place in the hole world – it is our paradise! In our paradise is a new green house where I grow tomatoes and much more – there you will find me this summer.
Today, we celebrate the day of SWEDEN, and lifts all flags and celebrate in yellow and blue – and the nature do the same 😉
The sun shines on us and it is almost thirty degrees celcius – hot summer!
Last week we got 12 small goldfish in the pond. Every evening we feed them with bread, then they come and eat. We had two carps last summer, but unfortunately they died. The summer last year was incredibly hot, it didn´t rain and the quality of the water was bad.
We are planing for a small fountain that can oxygenate the water. We must take care of our little ones. It´s so fun to sit on the bench and watch the goldfish swim around – better than tv 🙂
The nature is full of animal children. I saw this little cute child´s butt in a forest ditch this week!
Off course, our garden is for our guests as well. It´s wonderful to sit on the bench in the sunset with a nice glass of wine and watch fish and swallows flying around.
News for this month!
Now you can find us on ”airbnb”
Why? Because our ”HomeAway” is not so famous. It´s so many more people talking and looking on ”airbnb”, but we still got ”Homeaway”, we just want to try both for a while.
Now, I will go and invite Ronny for a drink – my favorite – ”Greyhound” (Just ice, vodka and grape juice.)
When it is rainy outside, it is nice to light a fire in the stove.Many towels for you, hair dryer, shampoo if you forgot…..toilet paper, first aid kit, laundry detergent, soap……you don´t need to bring much.Take a look in the drawers in the kitchen.We got new blue chair cushiins this summer, but I will take a pichture of them another day.
Today it´s rain, but soon the sun is back 🙂
Our calendar for 2019 and 2020
We have already get received several bookings for 2020! The summer weeks are popular, so don´t wait too long to book us 😉
This year, the summer began during the Easter weekend!
Since then thera has been sun, sun and sun again. Spring needs rain to start sprouting. It has been so dry in the forest. In several places in Sweden we have alreasy had forest fires. ”Should it begin already” I have thought. (Last year we were without rain for two months and the forest fires ravaged). Not fun! BUT! Yesterday, at noon it started to rain ant it has been raining since then. I often write blogs and take pichtures on sunny days, but not today. Today it will be a rainy blog!
Strawberry bloom - love the rain!
Infront of the house this year, thousands of little violets bloom, they also like the rain.
It is also time to get the boat in to the lake. Ronny washes it, then it will be painted by me – white is the color. Then, during the week, we drive it down to our nearest little lake – Trollasjön. Lovely summer evenings await.
Fishing trip in Trollasjön last year.
Now, I´m going out to make the house ready for new guests coming tomorrow from Germany. The glasses must be shiny and clean, so I always machine wash them between each guest. A fun thin in the cabinet is all these spices that become more and more. In the beginning I put salt, pepper and sugar in the cabinet. The spices multiply beforehand. Now there is a large collection.
For almost a week we have had summer temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius. (But the nights are cold, almost frost!) In nature it´s very dry, so we should not light any Easter bonfire (it is also prohibited in large parts of Sweden, because it is so dry.) We don´t hope for a summer like last year – without rain! But we like this sunny Easter holiday!
Eggs, eggs, eggs…….on Easter.
We like eggs, the best eggs is my own ”Bounty eggs”. Our guests – who stay with us over Easter, always got a small bag with my Bounty eggs. If you like to try my eggs…..
Mix: 50 grams of melted butter, 1/2 cup of cream, 1 egg white, 2 tablespoons of light syrup, 5 dl of coconut flakes, 2,5 dl of icing sugar and 1 tbsp of vanilla sugar. Let the mass svell for a few hours, or until the next day. Shape eggs, balls or something else. Dip them in melted choclate. I like sprinkles too 😉
The sun shines on us and it is almost thirty degrees celcius – hot summer!
It´s little Ben, almost 2 years old who arriving this afternoon. We have prepared his little bed where the puppy is waitning.
Slamrekullen - Ullared 