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Rödluvan's Christmas
part 3 |
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| 2008-12-09. Me petting the polar bears in front of the electric outfitter's shop. The store is named Elkedjan and it's one of my favourite shops. | |
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| 2008-12-09. They are selling the light that we need so much in the darkness. | |
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| 2008-12-09. I bought this house for Lennart. That day it was still a secret. That's why I did not put it on the web before Christmas. :) | |
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| 2008-12-09. In a shop I saw some new baked Lussekatter. | |
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| 2008-12-09. I'm looking at a ham that is the main dish on the Swedish Christmas table. | |
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| 2008-12-10. I missed the Christmas party at work because of I had another party at home at the same day. That was more important. I was so disappointed. But then the boss had put my present in my office. I was so happy and said: "Thank you to the boss. All at work had got such a present. But I did not open it. It should be a secret until it was Christmas Eve. | |
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| 2008-12-10. I found a crazy pear at work. LOL :-) | |
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| Back to en earlier date. 2008-12-04. A gingerbread house in the restaurant at campus. | |
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| 2008-12-04. A Santa in the restaurant at campus told me there should be Christmas table soon. But later I went sick and could never go to that Christmas table. Another disappointment :-( | |
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| 2008-12-04. The tree in town. There are heaters under the ground and bare ground. And then the ice was meltin and it was not slippery there. | |
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| 2008-12-05. The advent candle in my office. | |
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| 2008-12-05. The Christmas star in the coffee room at work. | |
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| 2008-12-05. A red star at home. | |
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| 2008-12-05. Squirrels in the woods by work. | |
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| 2008-12-05. Lamps in the trees by the hospital. | |
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| 2008-12-05. I gave this chocolate box to Ove for his name day. | |
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| 2008-12-06. I walked to the Christmas market at the open air museum. The road wasa icy that day but they had sprinkled out a lot of sand on the path. | |
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| 2008-12-06. It was fun to go on the market. | |
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2008-12-06. Christmas goats. The goats use to be made of straw, but these were made of fir tree twigs. |
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2008-12-06. Santa made of wood stem. |
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| 2008-12-06. Chocolate and candies. I bought some chocolate. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Funny animals with candies. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Christmas decoration, most Santa and gingerbread houses. In the middle candies in a cornet. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Glass works. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Food from Finland. In Finland they use to eat rutabaga made in a dish in the oven for Christmas. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Handicraft chees slicers and spoons. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Gloves made of wool. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Home made candle lights. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Lanterns. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Christmas goats mad of straw. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Cardigans made of wool. | |
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| 2008-12-06. View over the market place. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Caps made of tangled wool. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Hooks. And plates for a pan. | |
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| 2008-12-06. A decoration Santa. | |
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| 2008-12-06.Aw! A real Santa! | |
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| 2008-12-06. Santa was talking to the children. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Rag-rugs, knitted Santas, gloves and table cloth. all is handicraft. | |
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| 2008-12-06. Doughnuts (donuts) | |
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| 2008-12-06. Glassworks | |
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| 2008-12-06. Handicraft reindeer and moose. They were magnets. I bought a reindeer and then send it to a friend in Spain ;) | |
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| 2008-12-06. Gammlia in the snow. In summer the cows are here. | |
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| 2008-12-06. The goat Enok use to be here in summer. I felt melancholy when I was thinking about Gammlia at summer. I was longing so much for summer. | |
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| 2008-12-06. They had put lamps in a tree. It was gorgeous. | |
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| 2008-12-06. I called it "The golden tree". | |
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| 2008-12-06. On old house used as a restaurant and the golden tree. | |
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| 2008-12-06. I could see the tree every morning from the bus. | |
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| 2008-12-11. Christmas at the office shop at campus. Fortunately I could go there and was not sick yet. | |
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| 2008-12-11. In Sweden it's common that you eat these kind of candies. They are pink and white and called: "skumtomtar" . I can't find the word in English. But it's like Marsh mellows | |
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| 2008-12-11. An old fashioned decoration Santa in the office shop. | |
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| 2008-12-11. An old fashioned decoration Santa in the office shop. | |
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| 2008-12-11. A lamp Santa in town, made of glass. | |
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| 2008-12-11. Christmas decoration Santa in a shop window. | |
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| 2008-12-11. Christmas decoration Santa in a shop window. | |
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| 2008-12-12. It started to snow and was snowing like crazy. :-) I was happy in winter wonderland. | |
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2008-12-13.
Iwas sick in virus and fever. The whole world was crashing for
me. Many things I should have done were cancelled.
And should it be i real Christmas for me this year? I was
rather sick. She had to be home from work a whole week. I missed the ducks and squirrels so much. |
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Photo: Ove Schedin. 2008-12-16. In front of the house they were digging and made a big hole with a excavator. I was still in bed but could hear the excavator. Ove was out and took pictures. So I could see how it looked. |
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Photo: Ove Schedin. 2008-12-16. Here you can se how big the hole was. |
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| Slowly I recovered and I could go to work again. Then God showed me gorgeous winter nature. Such a comfort this was after all the things that were cancelled when I was sick. | |
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Christmas Eve 2008-12-24 |
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| Me standing by the tree. | |
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| It was a white Christmas. This picture is so beautiful. This house is standing cross the street there I live. And this Christmas I had jokes about houses. :-) | |
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| Our son came to celebrate Christmas. Here he is standing beside me in his grey hooded jacket. (this picture taken 2008-12-09) | |
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| First we had dinner and had the typical Swedish Christmas table. | |
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| Lennart had put all the packages under the tree. And took this picture while I was caring for the table. | |
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| Lennart took this picture too. Santa and at the left a new red glass Christmas ball. | |
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| After the dinner we opened the presents. This year I had wrapped the presents for Lennnart in house advertising newspaper. I collected small empty boxes in the basement for this occasion. | |
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| I bought this penguin calendar for Lennart. | |
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| And a pengiun bag. I use to buy a penguin present for Lennart every year. Because his computer is named: "The Penguin. I gave his computer that name because Lennart installed Linux on it. | |
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| Here I was joking and wrapped that stone to Lennart. And wrote. "Here you get the first stone to your future house." | |
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| I bought this soap for Lennart. | |
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| Lennart should open this present at the end. (last) There was a wrapping paper around it with pictures of houses. | |
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| Lennart taking away the wrapping paper. | |
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| And the present was........ A HOUSE ! :-) | |
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| It was a house with a lamp inside. Lennart liked it very much. | |
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| The day I bought it I test it. Here you can se how cute the house is. | |
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| Ove and Lennart after the wrapping. Ove playing with his laptop. | |
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| Ove got this present from me. It seems to be an electric water kettle. | |
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| But out cam an old dusty flower pot. I had put in that thing so it should feel heavy and like a real kettle. | |
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But what was the real
present? I gave him money for a dance trip to the boat
Cinderella. Every year they mention in Sweden a thing for the Christmas present of the year. One year it was a cap, another year a radio (and so on). But this year the Christmas present of the year was an experience present. For example: To give away a trip, or giving a visit to a theatre. Then I gave Ove an experience present for dancing. |
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| I got a present card for a CD from Lennart. He had wrapped it in the wonderful glistening bag. | |
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| I bought a CD with all kind of Swedish dance bands. The CD is a collection of a dance band competition on TV. | |
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| I got a present card from Ove too. | |
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| I wished small thing this year. From Ove I got a calendar with fireman and cats, deodorant, Norwegian Helly Hansen socks, and 2 small ducks and one goose. And the CD (picture above). | |
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| The ducks and goose are made of plastic . They have the German trade mark Schleich. But unfortunately they only had one goose left in the shop. That's why Ove only could buy one goose. I got the other goose later. | |
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| This is an USB flashlight that Ove bought for me. You load it on your computer. | |
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| I got this wonderful bird made of glass from a friend in Great Britain. | |
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| I got these ornaments, a goose and an owl, from two different friends. They were bought in Germany. German speaking birds :) | |
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| I got the squirrel magnet book mark from a friend in the USA | |
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| I got this snowman duck and the angels from a friend in the USA. | |
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| Lennart tried to let the duck float on the water. But his hat was to high so the duck tipped over. Here Lennart is holding the duck. | |
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| Here Lennart and Ove were looking at soap flakes that I got and how you should open the plastic jar. They were rather amused. | |
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| I got this music box, a ceramic tiger and soap and powder and a heart candle light from a friend in the USA. When the music box was playing, the two Santa went "skating" on the rink. | |
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| The white tiger. At Christmas for many years ago I got a brown ceramic tiger from the same friend. And now they are a nice couple :-) | |
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| I got this from a neighbour. | |
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| The package contained Cinnamon tea. It tasted delicious. | |
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| I got this from work. A thermos made of steel and 2 cups in a bag. | |
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| I got this from the Office shop. At the left a kind of puzzle and at the rignt a sponge that can take away dirty spots from things. | |
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| Lennart bought these beautiful Christmas cards for me. | |
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| Me ( in soft hooded cardigan) looking at her presents. | |
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| And the two frogs, the squirrels the fox and the two Santa were smiling. :-) | |
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| 2008-12-30. I saw the bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) in the woods by work again. On the left picture in the left corner you also can see a grey bird. That's the female bullfinch. | |
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| 2008-12-30. In the afternoon the new moon was going down. Then I also saw the evening star. | |
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| 2008-12-31. The angels I got for Christmas could glow in the dark. It looks real cool :-) | |
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| 2008-12-31. I made pizza to New years supper. And had candles on the table. But the candles on the table near the flower are candles on battery operation. The others are real. | |
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| 2008-12-31. Fireworks on the yard. The one on the right did light up the whole street. | |
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| 2008-12-31. Also this morning there was a beautiful sunrise. | |
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| 2008-12-31. It's real gorgeous. | |
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| 2008-01-01. In the afternoon the crescent moon and the evening star were going up. The little white spot is the evening star. | |
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Here I was
looking up to the wishing star that was shining so bright in the sky. (But
this star is made in Photo shop). She felt thankful for the
wonderful Christmas that I could celebrate with my family. But still
I may wish upon a star. And I wished. |
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| 2009-01-04. There was a late Christmas present in hte mialbox for me from the USA. These cute ducks :-) | |
| Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-10 2016-03-10 | |
