Tonight we want to have a ”dinner out” so……….
We went out to ”the Uthus” – perfect food, perfect wine – simpley perfect 😉
Only 20 steps to our little cozy place. I have prepared and chilled the Prosecco 🙂
Cozy Friday in our Outhouse…….. I Like!
Everyone wanted to be in the Outhouse this evening – Svante och ”Svennis” also!
Wish you a lovely weekend!
Lotta & Ronny
Ps. From my walk today. The forest Elk has been here just beside the ”outhouse”!
30 Januari – Still snowing……and Ronny do ”the winter woorkout” 😉
(It´s now we need the ”snow-sticks” beside the road!)
My white winter country – I like!
I like the snow. Nature becomes so bright and nice.
The nights we have moonlight, it never gets really dark.
For a few days we have a lot of snow. My little black cats, Svante and Sven-Ingvar, can’t hide so well in the white snow. They are clearly visible.
Usually, when they come in to the house, they are full of dirt. Now when we have snow and come in, they are clean and nice.
It’s not just in the outhouse we have guests – oh no…..
In our stump – ”Tomtebo” – the plots live.
Now they have come home, because it shines in the windows……
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?
Greetings from Lotta & Ronny in the forest 🙂
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”
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)
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!
This is the calendar for 2019, (today 25/11)
Wish you a lovely weekend.
Lotta & Ronny
Slamrekullen - Ullared 