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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.”

A premier for Misha today; it is his first time on a sailing boat!!

Me and Misha were invited to join our friends Per & Ingrid for a three days trip through the Blindleia area, a 20-kilometre long inland waterway in the municipality of Lillesand. We left this morning, unfortunately no sailing yet (to gain some time against the wind), that should come tomorrow, yay! The first day was a success, Misha loves to be on a boat, there is soooo much to see!

It will be Misha’s first night to sleep ‘on the water’ (in a boat though 😉 )…as you can see below, sailing makes you tired so it should not be a problem. 😉

Douglas Adams: “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

I already knew it was supposed to be a hectic day today; flying back home with Misha (*and* 3 suitcases, 3 pieces of hand luggage plus a stroller, pretty packed 😉 ), coming home late afternoon having about an hour to unpack and repack for a 4 days sailing trip, then driving 3.5h to the cottage…oh well, slight change of plans; the X5 got jealous on the electric powered LEAF next to it and used a cruel tactic to show it: it emptied its battery so I couldn’t start its engine when I was about to leave, darn!!

I am currently charging the battery via the engine heater (which comes with a battery charger), so both cars are happily enjoying the AC juice in the garage…a diesel car turns electric, huh?!?

Michel de Montaigne: “Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”

Lee Iacocca: “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”