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Weather has an interesting ability to change plans…the original plan: me, the X5 and I on a 2000km road trip to North Cape!

Goal: to enjoy the beauty of the high North and drink a beer while seeing the sun shine at 2 a.m. 😉 The disruption factor: weather forecast shows heavy clouds up North for the whole coming week… 🙁 and, the temperature will be below 10C instead of the blue skies 25+C predicted at home.

Ha, there is an easy way out…I am heading South! Never been to Kristiansand before and as said; weather will be swell, the sun will shine and that beer tastes good at 2 p.m. too! 😉

Benjamin Franklin: “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

Alexander A. Bogomoletz: “One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.”

Joan Didion: “Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs.”

The White Collar TV series, though four seasons / 62 episodes, didn’t last long and made it to my ‘watched list’; it was THAT good and got me totally hooked! 😉 So, new TV series were needed to fight my insomnia 😉 and Suits, following a concept pretty similar to White Collar, it was…uhhh, yes indeed, it *was* (!) as both two seasons are on the ‘watched list’ since yesterday, a new record! 😉 Suits Season 3 starts tonight, in the USA, so it will take months (actually into 2014) until it will make it to my living room…

So now what?? Suggestions are welcome… 😉

Tallulah Bankhead: “Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”

Catherine de Hueck Doherty: “Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.”

“Death Becomes Her” made it all the way to Norway! Well, not Micky Hoogendijk‘s infamous photo itself, yet a pretty nice alternative; a limited edition T-shirt (25), signed and numbered by Micky herself…and I happened to have number 7/25, HAPPY!!!

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey: “May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.”

Sir Walter Scott: “He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.”

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn’t it? We can’t let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!”

Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

Unknown: “Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.”

I have enjoyed the Great (or Blue) Tits flying in and out their bird house for weeks, feeding the baby Tits, but unfortunately just missed the big moment when the little ones flew out for the first time, it happened when I was in NL.

There is another bird house on the same wall and that one too got inhabitants…yayyyy, or?!? Uhh, these flying animals ain’t no birds!!

After reading Anastasia they should bees, as I planned to build a beehive to help the bee population in this world, but…it turns out to be a wasp nest! Arrgghhhh and noooooooo…I have to get rid of it, especially with Misha playing on the veranda!

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J.R.R. Tolkien: “All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”

I have been a bit lazy on the blog, I wrote my last post when we just left for a sailing weekend last Thursday. I am making up for it with a bunch of pictures! As 1 picture says more than a 1,000 words, I wonder how much 13 pictures will tell you! ;).

We cancelled the sailing trip on Friday, Misha needed more space than the not so tiny boat and got bored after one day (he too was not too happy due to what seemed to be chickenpox, but might not have been that after all).

We got back to the my friends’ family summerhouse (Spilltoppen) and enjoyed some lovely days in the sun (and, more than enough space and toys for Misha to have a blast!)…all in all a fantastic semi-sailing weekend!

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Bertrand Russell: “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Goldie Hawn: “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”

Marcus Valerius Martialis: “Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.”

Hugh Elliott: “All people want is someone to listen.”