Every time I return to Yxskaftkälen I get the same feeling. Time stands still, everything is peaceful and silent and you´re surrounded by darkness. One evening I got outside to enjoy the sound of silence – and realized it wasn´t silent at all. Mooing cows, dogs barking and howling – at least I hope it was dogs. But you can´t compare these sounds to those you have to live with in a town…
”kreativitet (bildning till latin creʹo ’skapa’, ’frambringa’), förmåga till nyskapande, till frigörelse från etablerade perspektiv.Kreativitet handlar om att skapa något nytt,” https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/kreativitet
I´m waiting for the summer. The snow is almost gone now and I have started preparing for a hot summer in Yxskaftkälen. After last year´s summer that never came and this horrible winter we really have deserved at least five months of sun…
I have fixed the greenhouse with plastic and duck tape, which doesn´t look so good, but I think it will work until I have the energy to repare it properly.
Kampen mot gäddhänget del.2
Prepering for next winter but staying away from the chain saw… don´t think that tool would be healthy for me, so I´m extremely grateful for all the help I got. THANKS!!!
There´s a lot more going on in the village than I expected. People come together for coffee, creative evenings or physical group training in the local ”bygdegård”. They also organize After Work and pub-nights now and then so it´s possible to have a social life.
Time to sum up my first eight months in Yxskaftkälen. In the beginning, September last year, there was nothing but darkness. On the seventh day I found bearshit on the porch which really made me wonder what the heck I was doing here…
Nature came a little too close. Anyway, this made me a bit nervous and I didn´t smoke after dusk for a while – not before I considered it safe and figured the bears had gone to sleep for the winter.
Of course it would be a much bigger problem for me if it turned out that it was a neighbour who had left that little brown gift for me, but I´m still thinking about making some kind of ”scare bear” like some kind of scare crow… Or remember to be extremely noisy when I´m outdoors. I think I´ve heard that there are about 850 brown bears in Jämtland so I probably have to get used to the thought that there might be more bears than humans in and around this village.
– Hej, det är Maggan. Jag har inte kört fast…
Norrsken, stjärnklara nätter och supermånar har förgyllt tillvaron under vintermånaderna. Annars har det mest handlat om oavbrutet snöande och det efterföljande, eviga skottandet. (Empiriska studier visar på ett statistiskt säkerställt samband mellan snödjup och gäddhäng.)
Några snöstormar har också blåst förbi.