A farm by the lake

This farm is for sale.

William and I went to look at it last weekend.

It was beautiful up there, just too far to commute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweden won

Yeah,

Sweden just won

the World Mastership in ice hockey.

Visiting Västerås

Thursday evening I took the night train to Västerås

to attend an introduction class for new employees, Friday.

Before taking the train back home in the afternoon

I took a stroll in the nice weather

and noticed that fall was almost there.

Malmö Festival - Crafts

The town was decorated with crafts

during the Festival.

Home knitted signs showed us where to go

 

 

The statues were dressed up

 

and even the old King and his horse were decorated.

Malmö Festival - Goodies

One of the main things at the Malmö Festival

is the food.

There are lots of goodies

and food from different countries.

All kinds of colorful candy

Cotton Candy

Fried bananas

We bought donuts

But there was some healthy food too.

Arla (a Dairy) gave out milk and cinnamon rolls.

Malmö Festival - Hair

The polar bear was part of the Malmö Festival

and I saw some other hairy people too.

Polar bears in the streets

I guess it is true

there are polar bears in the streets in Sweden.

Even though it was the hottest day this year in Malmö

I met this bear yesterday when I was downtown.

Haunted

Dallas is haunting me.

Since I came to Malmö I see these ads

everywhere I go,

and yesterday I watched the first episode

of this season

of the old TV series that I used to follow many years ago.

My first day at work

My first day at the office
I didn’t do much more than visit with old friends,
unpack my computer and phone.

The challenge of the day was
to get the tiny SIM card into the iPhone.

I tested the phone camera while waiting for the bus
to take me home in the evening.

The 2012 Swedish Derby

I got here in time for the Swedish Derby

that was run Sunday.

My long lens was very useful.

The final turn

and two horses fighting for the victory

but Bomar won comfortably.

Bomar and Fredrik Johansson are coming back to be celebrated
as the winners of the 2012 Swedish Derby.

Fredrik now has eight victories in this race

and a total of thirteen Derby victories.

Recycling

Swedes are very good at recycling.

This is the recycling area at our apartment.

Everything is separated into different containers,

not like in Dallas where you dump all your recycables
into one big container.