Both we and the boat is ready for lovely days!

Yesterday we drowe down to the lake.

In ”Trollasjön” is a small boat……..waiting….

As we say in Sweden ”borta bra, men hemma bäst” mening ”away is good, but home is best”. We love to go on holiday, particularly to hot summer places like Florida. But two weeks is enough. Enough for calm down and relax, and enough for being homesick 😉 My little cats (Svante & Sven-Ingvar), are also on holiday, in a ”cat-guest-house”. They also think two weeks are more than enough!

But now, we are home again. Just in time to enjoy the spring. The spring flowers had blossomed and all the birds singing in every tree and working on their nests.

This weekend, we had wonderful spring days. We took the opportunity to fire up the old branches and authumn leaves. The new flag was hung on the wall and I also began to prepare for Easter. In Sweden we like to hang feathers in a bush……

I did yesterday down at the road!

On Thursday, we got new guests from Germany!

……and the cottage must be clean and nice.

When I was done, I decided to go shopping at Gekås (our famous department store). A lot of things we needed. A new dorrmat e.g. When I walked around and looked, I saw a fine bedspread and pillows in the same color – ashpink (we say). They would fit so well on the loftbed. And I was right.

Look how nice it became! ”Springlike”.

We hope for fine spring days.

Greetings from Slamrekullen 😉

Finally, the spring is here. The birds are singing and nesting in our bird houses.   

We have got some really warm and sunny spring days allready. In the pots I have planted the first spring flowes. 

We like to ‘clean away’ the winter, and give the spring a helping hand. Away with authumn leaves and grass. Under the leaves, we can find the new green spring buds. 

In two weeks, we celebrate Easter, and a week before, begin our lovely season at Slamrekullen. It will be so exciting to welcome new and old guests this year. But first we’ll be finished with our holiday.

Send our dear greetings from sunny Florida.

Lotta & Ronny

more ”tips on trips” in our information binder.

The summer is here soon (I hope) and we have noticed that many of our guests sometimes wish to go on longer day trips. Therefore, I have added some of our own favorites. Here I show some of them.

I start with my sisters favorite – Marstrand, distance 2 hours, ca 150 km.

(www.marstrand.se)

Another wonderful place is Smögen. But then you have to drive another hour 😉

Marstrand and Smögen is two wonderful places in summertime (not in wintertime).

In Småland (distance 200 km, 2,5 hours) is our ”Crystal glass kingdom”. The two famous ones, is Kosta and Orrefors. Shop and sales and glassblowing.

(www.glasriket.se)

If you want to be sure to meet a moose……..

In our forest there are elks, but they does not appear so often. Then you can visit Laganland! (Distance 120 km, 1,5 hour).

(www.laganland.se)

A trip to IKEA a rainy day? Always a good idea! Or mabye a ride with lovely island horses on the beach? (www.toltivast.se)

We have made a photobook to Uthuset!

Many of our guests, vistit us in the summer time, like to see how it looks in wintertime.

And our winter guests like to see how it looks in the summer…….

Now we have collected many pictures from all the seasons in one book.

Some days now, we got low temperatures and some snow. Not much, but enough for plowing.

We like snow at Slamrekullen. It becomes so light and bright in the forest. Then we don´t need any streetlights – anyway – there is no streetlights on our road 😉

Sunday morning, I was out in – 8° and took some pichtures until my fingers froze – brrrrrrr

New years Eve today, soon it´s a new year – 2017

We should celebrate the new year with our dear neighbors at Mossahägnad.

Now, at the last hours of the year, we would like to thank all our guests. So many nice and friendly people we have faced! Welcome back!

And to our comming guests, we will wish you a warm welcome.

Have a wonderfull New Year, and we hope to see you in 2017!

Dear greetings from Lotta & Ronny.

Merry Christmas!

Autumn is ”shopping time” in Ullared.

The big yellow store (Gekås) is crowded with shoppers every day. It´s high season now before Christmas. Millions of presents purchase there. And there´s really many things to buy.

In Slamrekullen we got shopping guests in our ”uthus” every week. It takes only 10 minutes from our peaceful place, to Gekås ”the shopping Mecca”, crowded with people.

After a long shoppingday, it´s nice to come home to Slamrekullen, light the fireplace, fix some food, drink some wine and perhaps try your purchases in the long mirror. We want our guests to feel at home, and enjoy the stay with us.

Have a wonderful autumn

Lotta & Ronny

It seems we`ll skip the autumn!

The summer will never stop! But we can see in the nature – it´s not summer anymore. And the evenings get darker and darker, and colder! Not until this week, we and our guests in the cottage start to light the fireplaces. So, therefore I say – the ”fireplace time” is here!

The warm colors in the natrue is so beautiful. I´m out and take a lot of pictures wery often. Ronny works with the woodpile, and I have start to look for fine Christmas trees in the forest 😉 Yes, I´m early, but it´s nice to know were the finest grows.

In the cottage we have guests, from Denmark, Seweden and Germany. The Danes and the Swedes want most to shop at Gekås. (Many get quite superised when they read in our information binder – there is so much else to see and do nearby.)

Welcome to Slamrekullen in the autumn and winter!

We nerver know when the winter and snow arrives. It feels pretty distant right now, with this higt temperatures we got. But soon it´s October, and after that….November and after that…..

For those who enjoy snow and skiing, there are many long ski tracks in Åkulla (10 km) from us. We also got at ski slope in Ullared (10 km). When there is minus degrees, they produces snow in ”snow cannons”.

http://www.akulla.se/      http://www.ullaredsslalomklubb.se/

At Slamrekullen we love the Christmas holiday!

We start to ”light up” the cottage in November. Just while Gekås and ”Christmas at Liseberg” lights theirs candels. (Liseberg is located in Gotheborg 100 km from us).

We look forward to a cozy and relaxing autumn at Slamrekullen.

Lotta & Ronny