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NOW Elvis FINALLY has left the building.
Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the
mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. This is nothing in the Alps or in North America, but is more than enough here in subarctic Scandinavia. The cabin is very primitive with no extras, not even electricity, so we use wax candles and parafine, and lots of stored firewood. Same procedure as every Easter for me, this is, you know. We get drinking water from a hole in a nearby mountain lake, and melt snow in addition to this for washing purposes. There is not much up there except reindeer, some foxes and grouses, and the odd wolverine, but the ice fishing is great (mainly perch, mountain trout and red mountain trout). We use mainly live bait, like fly worms or maggots. I will do a little easy alpine skiing, some telemark skiing, but mainly XC (cross-country) skiing, since the conditions up there are really just like tailor-made for this type of skiing, you know. Happy Easter Holidays!! See you all in October or maybe November, then. - Inger SJ - the most powerful signature in Europe. Stop feeding Mary Malmros! Americans beware! Only John F. Kerry (JFK) can save you now! |
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"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote in message ... Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. This is nothing in the Alps or in North America, but is more than enough here in subarctic Scandinavia. The cabin is very primitive with no extras, not even electricity, so we use wax candles and parafine, and lots of stored firewood. Same procedure as every Easter for me, this is, you know. We get drinking water from a hole in a nearby mountain lake, and melt snow in addition to this for washing purposes. There is not much up there except reindeer, some foxes and grouses, and the odd wolverine, but the ice fishing is great (mainly perch, mountain trout and red mountain trout). We use mainly live bait, like fly worms or maggots. I will do a little easy alpine skiing, some telemark skiing, but mainly XC (cross-country) skiing, since the conditions up there are really just like tailor-made for this type of skiing, you know. Happy Easter Holidays!! See you all in October or maybe November, then. Do you drop the live bait in the same hole where you get your drinking water? |
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"Richard Henry" skrev i melding
news:GtAbc.22751$Q45.3865@fed1read02... Do you drop the live bait in the same hole where you get your drinking water? Oh NO, of course not. We use an axe to make the drinking water hole where we collect drinking water in buckets, and to keep it open, and we use so-called ice drills to drill the fishing holes in the ice. There is only one single, big water hole, but several smaller holes for our ice fishing. We bait the fishing holes in advance, to draw the fish closer to the holes, and to try to make them stay put around there. We fish for food only, catch&release has no tradition here. Sometimes we melt snow and boil it afterwards for making coffee or tea, but never for ordinary drinking purposes outside that. For washing, we use to melt snow. Our toilet is a so-called "little house" or "outhouse", just a few metres from the cabin itself, where we relax when necessary and nature calls with meditation and old magazines. |
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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:34:11 +0200, "Inger Skramstad Jørstad"
wrote this crap: Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. Good for you. I'll be working on my yacht, getting it ready for the yacht racing season. This winter I had a new prop installed, guaranteed to make it six seconds faster. I'm Horvath and I approve of this post. |
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Terd wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:34:11 +0200, "Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote this crap: Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. Good for you. I'll be working on my yacht, getting it ready for the yacht racing season. This winter I had a new prop installed, guaranteed to make it six seconds faster. And no doubt you'll have your handicap adjusted accordingly! g -- Alan Baker Vancouver, British Columbia "If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard." |
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:08:53 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote this crap: In article , Terd wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:34:11 +0200, "Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote this crap: Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. Good for you. I'll be working on my yacht, getting it ready for the yacht racing season. This winter I had a new prop installed, guaranteed to make it six seconds faster. And no doubt you'll have your handicap adjusted accordingly! What handicap? My arms and legs work just fine. I'm Horvath and I approve of this post. |
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In article ,
Terd wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:08:53 GMT, Alan Baker wrote this crap: In article , Terd wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:34:11 +0200, "Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote this crap: Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. Good for you. I'll be working on my yacht, getting it ready for the yacht racing season. This winter I had a new prop installed, guaranteed to make it six seconds faster. And no doubt you'll have your handicap adjusted accordingly! What handicap? My arms and legs work just fine. You mentioned "yacht racing", so unless you're talking one-design... -- Alan Baker Vancouver, British Columbia "If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard." |
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"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote:
Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, or around 4.500 feet. This is nothing in the Alps or in North America, but is more than enough here in subarctic Scandinavia. The cabin is very primitive with no extras, not even electricity, so we use wax candles and parafine, and lots of stored firewood. Same procedure as every Easter for me, this is, you know. We get drinking water from a hole in a nearby mountain lake, and melt snow in addition to this for washing purposes. There is not much up there except reindeer, some foxes and grouses, and the odd wolverine, but the ice fishing is great (mainly perch, mountain trout and red mountain trout). We use mainly live bait, like fly worms or maggots. I will do a little easy alpine skiing, some telemark skiing, but mainly XC (cross-country) skiing, since the conditions up there are really just like tailor-made for this type of skiing, you know. Happy Easter Holidays!! See you all in October or maybe November, then. Doesn't a story like this normally end with something about breaking the ice on the lake and leaping into the freezing water naked and then beating yourself about the shoulders with birch twigs? Happy summer from the decadent US anyway! -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== ============== "Everything sucks; reverse the wires and everything will blow." -- Desert Ed |
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"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" skrev i melding
... Today is Saturday before Easter, and tomorrow I will drive up in the mountains to a small mountain cabin on an altitude of around 1.500 metres, Due to extremely bad weather conditions I had to cancel my departure for the mountains today. Fog, wet snow, wind, etc. etc., you all know everything there is to know about these things already, I guess. My departure is now delayed (put on hold) until tomorrow, or maybe even Tuesday or Wednesday at the absolute latest. The weather forecast is not too promising until Tuesday night, you see. Nobody can do anything about the weather, not even me. Some funny translations for you while we wait: English "vicar" (= priest, clergyman), Norwegian "vikar" = English "substitute", or "temp" (temporary, a temporary employee). English "actor", well, you know, someone who acts or pretends, in movies, for instance. Norwegian "aktor" = English "prosecutor" or "district attorney". Happy Easter!! |
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 01:05:31 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote this crap: Good for you. I'll be working on my yacht, getting it ready for the yacht racing season. This winter I had a new prop installed, guaranteed to make it six seconds faster. And no doubt you'll have your handicap adjusted accordingly! What handicap? My arms and legs work just fine. You mentioned "yacht racing", so unless you're talking one-design... I bought the prop in Vegas. And you know what they say, "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." I'm Horvath and I approve of this post. |
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