Happy new year!

The first blog post this year will be about the forest.
Always in January and February we work a lot in the forest. In the last few weeks, Ronny has sawn down many trees because they grow too tight. It called to ”gallra”. And at the same time he remove bushes and small trees.

Today I was out and took care of a small area with trees. I would definitely not cut them down, oh no, I just cut off the bottom branches, so light comes down to the ground, and we can walk among the trees without getting caught in branches.
Soon the moss will begin to grow there again.

I like to take ”before” and ”after” pichtures. This is ”before”…….

…….and this is ”after”.

Now we can see the nice ”stone fence yard” (gärdsgård in swedish). The whole nature is full of both large and small stones. These stone fences are built to make fields, but also for animals – heavy work! And I think they are so beautiful.
It’s great to be out in the woods and work.
When there is a big pile of twigs and branches, I fire them up. Sometimes it will be grilled hot dogs over the fire, but not today. Our small cats (Svante & Sven-Ingvar) also like to be out in the forest. It´s so exciting. They never go out in the forest alone, always with us. And if they come too far away, or if they can´t see us, we hear anxious mewing………Mjauuuuuu…..were are you!!!!?????

We also work with a path towards our own small (…..or small and small) attraction, so our guests can go and visit him  😉

He is called Mr Grankwist (meaning ”spruce twig” in Swedish). When we were close to the big tree (330 cm in circumference) I found a deer trail just behind the tree. We followed the path a little bit into the forest. This path, the deer has done and uses it often, we could see.

Hug!

The deer path……can you see it?

We hope for a wonderful 2019!

Greetings from Lotta & Ronny in the forest 🙂

Merry Christmas from Slamrekullen!

The days pass quickly now. This week we celebrate Lucia!

In every school we practice Lucia songs and make pepparkakor and lussekatter for the special day – 13 December. Swedish ”fika” at Christmastime 😉

The Lucia song:

”Dark is the night in midwinter time, but see, then Lucia arrives.

She come with the light to us, she come with a greeting about Christmas spirit,

She come with light in her crown”

The Christmas lights are on at Slamrekullen.

We have start to look forward to year 2019, and a lots of booking we got already!

(Off course you can also book for 2020)

Welcome to Slamrekullen!

From our German guests who left us last weekend we got these nice pictures.

You can see that we live in the middle of the forest 😉

We are always a bit early with the Christmas decorations in the ”Uthuset”.

But we think our guests will get ”the cozy pre-christmastime” with us, and enjoy the coming big holiday in peace and quiet.

If they don´t whant peace and quiet, they can just drive 10 minits to Ullared……..

to our BIG shoppingstore, especially now when the holiday is comming, there are ”big action” in the store – Gekås!

We have light up the stars in the window and the wood-christmasthree on the wall.

We wish you a lovely weekend.

Love from Slamrekullen 😉

The past weekend it was:

The first snow fell down on us – we like!

The first ”morining-ice” on the pond.

AND I plant my first fir!

Two years ago, we had a deforestation in the forest. Within two years, we need to plant new trees. 2000 small fir plants going down into the ground.

Nice rows of plants, two meters between them. The ground is rocky and full of twigs and stubs. But it´s very nice to plant new forest. They will grow there for many, many years (50 – 70 years). It´s not we who will harverest them.

I have read somewhere, that planting a tree is sending a greeting into the future. It´s nice. I have sent many greetings now – planting approx 100 trees 😉

Soon it´s november…….and Christmas start to sneak in……

Love from Slamrekullen.

We don´t  have so many days left – year 2018. It´s fantastic!!

Soon we change our ”anniversary 3 years” to 4 years! Lovely years!

If you like to book us – come back to us – ask some questions – send us a e-mail!

slamrekullen@gmail.com

This is the calendar for 2019, (today 25/11)

Wish you a lovely weekend.

Lotta & Ronny

t’s not warm anymore ……..

It’s raining, it’s windy and it’s cold, and I’ve started using my hat!

Autumn is here, and with it comes the time of the cozy fires.

”The cozy fire time” I usually call it.

In the out-house we also have a fire – cozy to light dark autumn nights.

My ”cozy factors” are: light the stove, good cup of coffee and my little cat in the knee. Sometimes I have all three! 🙂

In the ”outhouse” I can offer you two or three, the cats are a bit shy, otherwise you could have borrowed them too ;

Our add on ”HomeAway”:

https://www.homeaway.se/semesterhus/p1611928

The autumn is ”shopping-time” here in Ullared.

Wish you a lovely October….comes tomorrow.

Love form Lotta & Ronny.

The sun is shining, and it is 25 celcius!

We have had some rainy weeks now, so both the lawn and the pond have received a lot of water. Some of the flowers has begun to bloom again. Like the violets in the grass.

I have just been on a long walk in the forest and took some pichtures…….

I love autumn. The air is so clear and beautiful. I found a lot of muchrooms, but not many of them was edible……

I like this one best 😉

Now, finally, we have a new couch in the house!

The old one was not so nice anymore. The leather (which was no leather, has begun to fall off!) The new one is in fabric and we hope our guests will like it.

Wish everyone a wonderful September 🙂