The Best things

 

A weekend in the countryside

Last weekend was great - a wonderful countryside wedding, a puppy and just relaxing before very hard month of working. See you again in the beginning of August - this girl starts working now. 

Second picture by J.

Midsummer

 

 

Good tracks

Funny Dog

He just loves his teddy bear (or mine, if we are precise). He takes it into his mouth and starts crying. It's heart breaking sound. 

Empty

Mystical

 

In the forest

 

Farewell my big, hairy friends

This autumn is bringing a big change in my family's life. Our farm will stop being a milk farm and all the cows are moving. Already now most of the cows have got a new home and the rest will most likely move to their new farms by the end of this month. 

It's going to be strange to me even though I haven't lived there since ages. But it has been my home, it is still and the cows have always been there. Cows have been funny hairy friends with the big tongue. Our cows have always been like pets or almost like family members. When I was child I remember that I was counting that in our family we had something like 30+ women (my mother, sister and me plus all the cows) and two men (my father and my brother). There are so many stories with the cows - happy ones and sad ones. 

But having cows nowadays is so hard work. Especially, if you do it alone. My mother has been keeping the farm with my brother 's big help and now the time is up, there isn't much more energy left anymore. I'm going to miss the cows, but this way it's going to be easier for everyone.  

A cow is always going to be my own totem animal. 

Party

Yesterday we were celebrating my brother's and his two friends' graduations as master of science of engineering. It was a big party with their 60 closest friends on our island. Guys (and mothers) had seen so much effort to make this event perfect. Evening was filled with food, speeches, singing, drinking, sauna and happy people. We even had the toasts on the ferry in the middle of the lake. 

The guys made themselves a tent sauna and it was hot all night long after the dinner - it was a success. Today in the morning here and there woke up plenty of tired but happy people. Maybe there should be more often parties like this! 

Visiting Family Part 5

Part of the pictures by my sis.

Visiting Family Part 4