This year´s New Year´s card from Slamrekullen.

We got some snow during the last days of December. It made everything atmospheric and winter crisp and bright. I have written many times about what happens when we get snow. The dark forest suddenly becomes bright. When we have moonlight, as it has been for a few nights now, it´s just bright like a late afternoon. I like snow, mostly because it will be bright and nice in the forest and that the cats come in with cleans paws 😉 The paws are clean, but very cold and they like to lie in my knee or in front of the fireplace to warm up.

Can you see, it´s lit in the hen house! The light is on, bur no one is home yet.

We celebrated the New Year with our wonderful neighbors at Mossahägnad.

2020 would be celebrated away – POFF!

On with the extra red lipstick and the same dress that I had during the first (and only) fine-dress-night on the boat (Adventure of the seas) in the Gulf of Mexico in March. It was just then that everything ”normal” stoped to be ”normal”. The virus exploded over the world. Flights stopped going between countries. Could we come home?

Yes, we came home! Lovely! Now we need to be in quarantine some weeks and not meet someone. It´s okey. We are home now. We can work in the forest. Clear forest and make fire. ”Cought – Cough!” Wow, we have made a lot of fires and smoke today, ”caugh – cough!”

”I have had a chough”, said Ronny. ”And I feel a little bit sick!” And I think I have some fever. And some more fever. And some more chough. Is it Corona? We do not know, because no one get any test. We call 1177 ”Healthcare information”. Well, it sounds like you have Corna, they said. Ronny was really bad in two weeks time, with a high fever and breathing probelms.

At the same time, a restraining order was introduces in all nursing homes through the country, which is good, but we are not allwed to visit our old father who has problem with his stomach and needs surgery. This was the worst thing. Not being able to be with him and hold his hand. The operation failed and he did not make it. Tears, cough, worries, fever and more tears. It´s my memory of spring 2020.

With one small exeption. A fantastic, lovely, cute little exeption – Wilma! My niece´s little girl who was born in May.

När lillan kom till jorden, det var i Maj när göken gol. Sa mamma att det lyste av vårgrönt och av sol. (When the little one came to earth, it was in May when the cuchoo was barking, Mother said that it was shining of spring-green and of sun).

We did not think we would get a single guest in our cottage for the whole 2020, but we did! Many new, lovely Swedish guests found us, and during the autumn, Germans and Danes also dared to return.

Like an ugly, smelly, sticky cardigan, I think of 2020.

At 00:00 on New Year´s eve, I threw it off and I burned it up in a glow of fireworks and I toasted in champagne ”Happy New Year” and – YIPPI KAY YAY ……..

Welcome 2021 🙂

Welcome spring with cultivation in the greenhouse.

Welcome small hens, and perhaps quails?

Welcome our lovely guests in the cottage.

And welcome more snow! Wendestday looks like this…….

A New Year´s promise?

The Christmas holiday is over. The Christmas presents are open. The food is fineshed. The candles have burned down. The little snow that came yesterday has melted – Everything seems to have an end……right?

Yes! That´s how it is. This horrible virus that created this horrible situation in the world, will also come to and end. No one knows when, no one knows how. But when it is over, I do not think it will be as before the virus. At least not in many years. The year 2020 will take a while to ”melt down”.

On Christmas day, my sister and her partner and little Bingo came as our guests in the cottage. We were invited to a very nice dinner with barbecue! It is healthy for stressed city dwellers to get out into the woods and feel the calm and the forest air. We ended the Christmas weekend in a very cosy way.

Today I will go out and make the cottage ready and nice for our new guests who will stay with us over New year. Hope they will get a nice stay and better weather than it is ringht now! Wish you all a happy new year!!! Welcome to us 2021.

Our booking calendar for 2021 – as it look like right now. Welcome to Slamrekullen!

The first guests of Christmas stayed with us this weekend. They got the cottage decorated for Christmas and a bed full of snow! We want snow outside and snow inside 😉

We have not received so much snow yet, just a little ”powder”.

In our greenhouse it´s also Christmas and cozy. Our guests are welcome to sit there and drink some ”glögg”.

Wish you all a happy 2; advent! Hugs from Lotta & Ronny.

………and winter. Only some weeks now until we light the Christmas candles.

It will be Christmas this year anyway, despite misery and viruses. We got the Covid infection from our trip to Florida in March. Ronny was really bad for two weeks. I just felt weird, feverish, a little cough, and a strange feeling in my chest. Some weeks ago, we tested us for antibodies for Covid – 19. And the test was positive. We have had the virus, and we can be quite safe – at least for 6 months ahead. Oh! What I long for until the disease is gone!

But we have guests in our cozy cottage anyway! We have at least two days between each guest and extra cleaning. Right now we also have ”check-in-yourself” (you open and enter yourself). It will probably be like this for some months…….

But I hope for snow, because I have bought a ”kick”!

This is a ”kick” (”spark” in swedish). I long for snowy and icy roads when I will test drive my ”kick”.

Meanwhile we wait for snow, we have had an octoberfest!

We like Germany! The last week in october, we had an german oktoberfest with our dear neighbors. It was bier, würste, sauerkraut, Brezein, ”ompa-ompa” musik, apfelstrudel, kein football 😉 Is´nt we cute !?

But good things are happening in the big world as well – Joe Biden will be President of the United States (thank God!) These are nervous days with worrying news, so…….

Now it is soon Advent, and ”tomtarna” start to move, and are awake late at night. We have noticed – it shines in the stump!

But soon……. Christmas will sneak into the cottage…….

Warm welcome to spend Christmas at Slamrekullen 🙂

Lotta & Ronny

It´s still summer during the day, but as soon as the sun disappears we notice that it is autumn now. Our moring temperature today was 7 ° C.

I pick the last flowers and tomatoes. This year we had 20 tomato plans and we got a lot of tomatoes.

It´s lovely to put a bowl of our own tomatoes in the cottage to our guests.

Now autumn coziness awaits in the cottages with fire in the stove and light candles. We are good at that here at Slamrekullen.

Wish everyone a lovely September.

Folow us on Instagram ”Slamrekullen” more pichtures and videos!

Today we welcomed our first German guests since Corona started. We really hope that everything goes so slowly towards better times. We will probably have to live with restrictions, keeping distance and be careful and take grate personal responsibility – I think it will be fine soon.

We really like our German guests. No one likes Sweden so much as Germans do. No, not even Swedes. Swedes need to travel abroad, around the world to different places to realize how nice and wonderful we have it in our country. There is a slogan ”Borta bra, men hemma bäst” (”away is good, but home is best”) We forget it all the time!!

I´m a real ”home person”. I like Slamrekullen, our perfect place on earth. But today we went to an excursion to Ätraforsdammen (ca 20 kilometer from us), in wonderful summer weather, and took a bath with picknick.

We got a tricky duck in the pond, called Anki…….

Who has a damaged wing…….

Who can not fly……

Little Anki can fly! She showed that yesterday. Flew away and came back several times. Then she flew away and did not come back. This morning she was sitting on the stone again waiting for breakfast! We serve soch good ”oats food” here 😉

This week has delivered a wonderful summer!

Hope for more!!

Love from Slamrekullen 🙂

We like to sit in front of the greenhouse and watch the birds and the fish, me and Svante. We have some goldfish and grass carp in the pond. Sometime they make a splash 🙂

Many swallows flying over the pond, trying to catch insects. And our cute little mallard ”Anki” swims around, dives and looks for food. We feed her with oatmeal, she likes that. She has been living in our pond for three weeks now. When she get close to us, Svante´s tail starts moving back and forth……….he has a bird ban!

We have many green tomatoes in our greenhouse 😉 I´m waiting for them to mature…..

But, while I wait, I can pick some blueberries! Now it´s blueberrytime in the forest 😉

Soon more birds will come to us – chickens! Today Ronny started to put up the fence around the hen house. I have painted inside and put up curtains 🙂 If the hens thrive well, then there will be good eggs – I think!

Wish you all a wonderful weekend 🙂

Fy! What a windy and rainy week we had!

What can we do?

Read detective stories adn eat ice cream, drink some wine in the greenhouse and just wait….

When we had waited for several days, real comfort was needed – we went down over the ”Hallandsåsen” to Magretetorp. Our favorite (restaurant) place. And we were not disappointed now either. We ate a lovely summer buffet.

One day, two little ducklings were sitting on a rock. The next day there was only one 😦

In the rain and wind it sat on the stone – all alone. ”it should have a small house”, I said to Ronny. Such a duck house as Mandelmans has, floating on the pond. Then the little duckling would be safe from hunting birds and hunting cats!

What did my kind Ronny do then? Jo, he start to build a small floating house for the little duckling. It turn out so well. Later we built a ramp so the duckling could get upp easier.

We have not seen her (it´s a duck girl) inside the house yet, but she sits on the ramp, in front of the house every night. Great place to sleap, it seems. Every morning and evening she gets oatmeal, corn and some salad to eat.

The little duckling seems to like living in the pond, and comes towards me when I lure her, she would like some oatmeal ; )

Summer greetings from Slmrekullen 🙂

I think it´s time to show some newly taken pichtures from inside of the cottage.

It´s so nice to welcome guests again and we have uppdated our information folder with many new ideas. I can recomend an app ”Visit Halland”.

On the small bookshelf is a nice book about Halland……. and a lot of pocket books both in swedish and in german.

Lovely summer in Halland! Strawberry ”fika” outside of my greenhouse – lovely 🙂

Okay, it´s really says England on the mugg……

We need strawberries, wild flowers and a picnic basket with champagne.

We started with the strawberries – drove to ”Vareborgs Jordgubbsodling”.

There they have a strawberry café – jammi!

We can really recommend a visit.

Now we have strawberries, now we need a midsummer wreath to my head ; )

Out and pick flowers. Yes, you have to pick the flowers yourself and it should be wild flowers in a genuine midsummer wreath.

And now to the last – pack the pickninc basket and go down to the boat : )

Our lake was like a mirror – quiet and still.

Wish you all a wonderful summer!