Help Spring Remember

SOUNDTRACK: Du gör mig rädd - Vera Vinter 

Let’s be real for a moment.

It’s Friday afternoon and the sun is only barely shining.We’ve had one sickeningly long winter. It’s been dark, it’s been cold, and it’s been one heck of a journey to get to spring. And still, it may not be entirely here. But for our own good can we at least work real hard at pretending?

Don your colorful coat, even though you think it makes you stick out too much. Order drinks with fruit in them (the mini parasol is optional). Treat your boots to a little polish now that the gravel is cleaned off the streets of the city. Wear a flower in your hair. And it’s totally ok to wear sunglasses in the kind-of-but-not-really-presence of the sun.

It’s time to face reality with a little dreaming and make believe.

Help spring remember how to move forward.

Wild Chives

I was out walking with Miriam during the weekend when I happened to see some mysterious looking grass. Curious as I was, I picked up a leaf of "grass" to smell it, only to notice it smelled distinctly of Midsummer. Chives! That delightful leek that goes so well with sour cream and pickled herring! Well, this was great I thought and I planned to harvest some chive-bulbs to have on my balcony. Today I did it!

I had to dig deep so as to not just cut off the stems from the bulb, which proved difficult as there were a lot of pine roots to dig around and the earth was very heavy and clay like. But eventually I got the little bulbies:

They're already spreading a lot of roots so I don't know if they'll survive the move, but one can always hope, yes?

 More digging and in the background your can see our house! The Holmair Residence is on the floor one below the top floor! The view is In-cre-di-ble!

 

Have you ever harvested wild bulbs? Have any tips? Ever cooked with wild chives? Let me know in the comment section!

See you around!

Treatyourself!

I treat myself from time to time. Usually with megasized portions of black, salty licorice. But since I am on a strictly no candy diet my favorite means of treating myself are not available to me.

Hence the great joy discovering a new favorite herbal tea flavor: Pukka Peppermint & Licorice!

Organic, fair trade, and disturbingly delicious!