Christmas Day

So, now is it Christmas Day and here in Sweden it is a soft nice day.... the celebration for us is at Christmas Eve.... yummy food, fellowship, my sisters twinkling eyes when she sees all the gifts under the tree, reading of the Christmas Gospel.... opening parcels...

And now I have some time for myself here at the computer.... so long for now!!!

LOTR - The Return of the King

I watched it with a couple of friends the other night, WOW, I enjoyed every second of it...
It's amazing how they have managed to put so many of my own pics of what it should look like into reality...
One fun thing was also that the audience gave spontaneous applauses several times during the movie.... Legolas and the Olifant for instance...

Meatballs for Christmas

Well.... I've just tried to make meatballs from mainly elk (moose), not the traditional pork and beef ones, and what shall I say... they do taste nice but... they are too loose and falls apart very easily...
I'm sorry Mum, I hope you'll like them anyway...

Lovely weekend

I have spent my weekend in the country side, a friend of mine has rented an old 17th century cottage for some months... it is so lovely.
When we woke up saturday morning the landscape was all WHITE!!! Just perfect as it was the 13th of December which is the Lucia Celebration Day here in Sweden. (Girls in white dresses, candles in hands and hair... beautiful songs.... lighting up our dark season here). We were baking traditional Christmas Cookies (gingerbread men....) and our special Swedish Saffron Christmas Buns... in a old wood stove. They turned out just perfect... Yummy!!