Winter… and winter sports fans

First about the weather again… Winter weather continues, and here, where I’m living, we’ve had snow on the ground for over 10 weeks now! Lately we had a couple of warmer days with the temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius, but now it’s been colder again – around -5 degrees and -10 degrees Celsius and even colder. And it’s been snowing and the sun’s been shining, too…

And today it was -20 degrees Celsius just before 8 am when I took these first two pictures in this blog post:

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My morning coffee… You can go outside without your mittens at -20 degrees Celsius if you have a warm winter coat and a mug of warm coffee to warm your hands, naturally. 🙂

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So much light already before 8 am!

Winter Olympics 2018

I love to watch winter sports. Now I’m addicted to the Winter Olympics… I’ve been watching the Olympic Winter Games every day now, and I start watching them in the morning, with headphones, of course… There was curling on when I took this picture this morning. Curling is one of my great favourites, another one of my great favourites is… everything done with snowboards, yay! 🙂

And I’ve been watching the Olympics surrounded by these guys:

So we’ve been very active here… Well, indeed, watching the Winter Olympics has been fun and inspiring – I’ve been doing all kinds of things while watching winter sports – I watch the Olympics for a while and then I do something and then I watch winter sports again and after a moment I do something again… This has been effective for me, perhaps with the increasing daylight, naturally… 🙂

-Leena

Winter goes on forever ;) – a proper winter this season so far

Lately… it’s been winter. And here where I’m living, we’ve had snow on the ground for nine weeks now. First it was snowing, and then it was snowing and after that it was snowing… And we’ve had a couple of heavy snowfalls, too. The temperatures were between -8 degrees Celsius and -16 degrees Celsius for several days, the sun’s been shining, too, and the stars have been bright in the sky as well. And now the temperatures have been around -5 degrees Celsius for some days again. So, we’ve had a proper winter this season so far. And I really do appreciate it! 🙂 Marvellous, sparkling winter days…

First a few pictures that I took in our garden this week.

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Were they hares or cats? – Sometimes you can’t tell the difference, really. 🙂 – I think that they were cats…

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And two pictures that I took today just before publishing this blog post:

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It is snowing… the birds are chirping…

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“Need a hug? Come here!”

-Leena