Time to move on...

My life has changed.

Almost a year ago I quit my job.

And there is only hubby and I living in our house.

Everything is fine.

But I don't feel like this person, who wrote this blog, anymore,

I won't be closing this, neither I won't close Motoristin Mutsi.

But I will go on writing my diary in Motoristin Mutsi - retooled.

Not sure. Anything.

I am not sure,

what I want to do.

With this blog.

With our house.

With my work.

With my life.

With anything.

Conservation area Lemmenlaakso

On Thursday night we finally managed to get ourselves to Lemmenlaakso.

It lies quite close to us,

and we have talked often,

that we should go there.

Until now it has only been talk.

Ordinary landscape

I don't need to walk long,

to see very typical landscape.

Around here we have a lot of fields

 - and thickets.

I don't know how else narrate those mixed forests around here. 

Tangle, perhaps?

But when I slosh around,

I try to find something else.

Evening by Rapids of Nukari

There is something intriguing with water.

When it stays still,

it calms you down.

And when it cascases with it's all force,

it also scares - and enchants.

By the rapids in spring it is easy to believe in the spirit of water.

And how it lures you to join in.

I, however, stayed on banks.

One picture per month

I wanted to remember something else from last year than worries -

I knew there were also good moments:

some were very small,

some were bigger.

Here are one per month.

 Hietaniemi in January, Cyclo cross race.

Cold of course, it was January.

A flu

I have a flu.

Nasty, tiring flu.

Not bad enough to stay in bed,

but nasty enough to get you sneeze and cough all the time.

Thanks for the grandchildren, I guess.

A year ago and now

Around this time of year, 

a year ago,

 I wrote about the thing,

which bothered me alot.

It still does.

Little thoughts

My grandparents got married in August 1917.

They were married 40 years, had 6 children.

I never met my grandfather,

he passed away 1958.

Short notes long

After five long months 

Lithuan insurance company and Motor insurers' centre done their agreement,

and we were able to get Chrysler home.

Still not sure,

if it is wise or not.

Probably not.

Sound of silence

We spent a day in nature.

Hubby, our eldest son and I.

Hard work...perhaps

Writing things down seems to be hard work.

Physically work:

take laptop, open it,

take phone,

connect sd-card to laptop…

and pick up kitten down from table (and laptop)…

and pick up kitten down from table (and laptop)…

I might get some muscles.

It rains again

On 19th of July I wrote:

"I have nothing to say.

I spend my days at work.

Come home,

make dinner.

Or serve leftovers.

June

It is almost summer solstice.

In my world days have blended like pearls -

one after the other,

and then,

runned around when the chain has broken.

The Dog tests: Beyond Simply 9

As a Hopottaja,

I get time a time different kind of products for test.

This time I got dog food.

Not for us, but for The Dog, who lives at our house.

Waiting for...

I am waiting for...

Anything. Everything.

By the Beach

I spent half of yesterday by the sea.

Actually by the one of the best beach in Helsinki,

in Hietaniemi.

Not sunbathing, though.

But following cyclocross race.

Bicycle riding has become a part of our life,

but I haven't paid much of attention of it yet.

And I am not the one,

who is having a new hobby.

Our son's girlfriend drives.

So I want to understand it, too.

Hietaniemi was the one of the beach I spent a lot of time,

when I was a child.

Mostly in summers, of course, 

but time to time I visited there also in winter,

when I was older.

When I moved away from Helsinki,

visits over there came more and more rare,

until they practically stop.

So it is a "happening" for me,

when I travel there.

Shore itself haven't chance much.

There is still that small island front of it,

now the electricity pylon is more showy with it's blue color.

When the water was low,

it was possible to get there without swimming.

I wonder if it is possible nowadays?

The rocks on the left are not so high,

as they looked at child's eyes, 

but I could see they are still smooth.

Didn't climb up, though.

Not because of ice and snow.

 There is a new building, cafe, I think, 

We used the old one. The pavilion.

The one with wooden floors,

where sand rustled under the feet.

Time makes memories golden...

Next to beach there is cemetery.

My father, two of his brothers,

and of his sisters is buried there.

Old fashioned family grave.

Visited there, too.

When I was watching ice fisher on the bay,

I realized,

that I haven't ever been ice fishing.

Should try it at least once.

Early Christmas for me

I finally got a new laptop.

Some learning with it, though.

But I am so happy, happy, happy,

that I am now able to get photos from camera -

not to mention I don't need to try to write with mobile all the time.

A real Christmas gift!

How I almost failed in testing a product

Several years ago I had peritonitis after my appendix burst.

It all started with weird symptons: 

my belly made noises - very loud noises -

like I would be hungry.

Noise was so loud that my collegue could hear it to her workplace

- and we really don't sit very close to each other.

My belly was hurting time a time, but not badly.

And it also swoll up.

Happy and not so happy moments

Last weeks have been ups and downs.

Some days has gone fluently - but fast - 

and some not.

Today is one of those days,

when things are not going on very fluently.