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Talvi tulee - Winter is on it’s way

My dear English speaking friends. I still have not gotten around to creating an English section to our blog. Quite honestly, it takes too much time to figure these things out for me. Timo does it with his eyes closed and with his toes, but I’m not so clever…
Last weekend the second snow snowed down on us. It seems that this one will still not stay on the ground for more than a couple of days, but the Saturday morning was just too beautiful not to be photographed and shared with you. White, powder snow, just a few degrees on the - side and a clear sunny sky. It’s these mornings that give us strenght to go on in Finland. October and November have been very warm this year, so it’s been raining not snowing and without the snow it has been even more dark and wet all autumn. I don’t get depressed very easily, but this year the darkness of the days has been exceptional.

There is a forest right behind our houses, so we have a beautiful view in the morning from the kitchen window. As the planes to Helsinki-Vantaa airport mainly use the other runways these days, there are hardly ever planes to be seen in the mornings

Just a view towards the forest past the houses. The air smells as crisp and clear as the new snow.

By the time the “real” snow comes - the one that will stay through winter, this pile will be at least a metre high and 3-4 metres long. We try to shovel most of it to the backyard. More pictures about that, hmm… if I say January, I shouldn’t be very wrong.

Winter’s coming, Christmas is getting closer, so it is absolutely compulsory to bake some ginger bread cookies And make a big dough, because someone always eats half of it… Must be the cats. This is the one Christmas tradition that’s important to me, apart from the obvious - giving presents and making the season’s cards. And with Timo’s grandmother’s recipe, they are always so tasty. Well, it’s mainly sugar and butter with a few spices….

Well, I end this update by wishing you all a peaceful December, where ever you are.
And I make an early New Year’s resolution to update more of my news and pictures to you on this blog in English. Or you could all start learning Finnish - it is such an endangered language and if we could have all the people studying it, there would be no wars in the world, our grammar has such a calming effect on every one