Last weekend, August 29th and 30th, I had a lot of fun outside because it had been raining a lot the previous days. On Saturday, Per invited me to go fishing with him and some of his friends at the same place we were last weekend. There were 7 of us including David, a university student from France, a university student from China, Sara, a fellow trumpet player and her brother and sister. We fished from the raft you can see in the picture where David is getting off and Sara and her sister are in the background. The raft is fully equipped with patio furniture, port-a-potty, anchor and steering wheel connected to the boat engine. It's an ingenious little craft perfect for fishing from. I caught 3 fish but the first of which was too small and I threw it back. Together we caught 20 or so fish which we brought to the island to cook. We cooked them on a grill or on sticks and had them with salt, potato salad, hot dogs and pop. Then we headed back to Per's house on the main land.
At Per's house, we had the option to go swimming in the lake but his mom was setting out cake, pie and cookies so only me, Per and Sara's brother opted for a swim. The water was freezing so it didn't take long for us to get cold and wet and head back to the house. When we got there, we found everyone in a little gazebo sitting around a table full of food and it all looked so cut that I had to take a picture! You can see in the middle of the table there is a sandwich cake, a most delicious invention; layers of flat bread with tuna past filling and cottage cheese on top with marinated fish, shrimp, caviar, fruits and vegetables. It was a very nice day indeed!
That evening, as the last Saturday in August, it was the Evening of Lights where we recognise the end of summer and the coming of winter by putting candles along the shore, around islands and lakes and outside houses. We took a drive around town to see all the flickering little lights in the night.
Sunday we went mushrooms picking, which is something my family here do this time every year. We were looking for the yellow kanterell mushrooms that look like little yellow trumpets, and even though they are brightly coloured, they're not that easy to find. We were also looking for mushrooms that had pores under the cap instead of gills and a fungus that looks like little yellow fingers. The forest is full of mushrooms and I had a lot of fun tramping through bushed with a basket of mushrooms and a book on identifying them. The biggest mushroom I picked had a cap the size of my hand span and a stem 8 inches tall. The look almost surreal, like from a fantasy land, but the most interesting ones are poisonous. This is a picture of a red fly-mushroom which is very poisonous but the vikings used to eat it in small amounts to get high! By the end of the day we had enough mushrooms that, when fried, shrunk down to
fill 2 large frying pans. Here's a picture of me in the forest with my basket of mushrooms, holding a large kanterell mushroom. That nigh, we had a very nice dinner of baked ribs and mushrooms.
Last weekend, August 29th and 30th, I had a lot of fun outside because it had been raining a lot the previous days. On Saturday, Per invited me to go fishing with him and some of his friends at the same place we were last weekend. There were 7 of us including David, a university student from France, a university student from China, Sara, a fellow trumpet player and her brother and sister. We fished from the raft you can see in the picture where David is getting off and Sara and her sister are in the background. The raft is fully equipped with patio furniture, port-a-potty, anchor and steering wheel connected to the boat engine. It's an ingenious little craft perfect for fishing from. I caught 3 fish but the first of which was too small and I threw it back. Together we caught 20 or so fish which we brought to the island to cook. We cooked them on a grill or on sticks and had them with salt, potato salad, hot dogs and pop. Then we headed back to Per's house on the main land.
At Per's house, we had the option to go swimming in the lake but his mom was setting out cake, pie and cookies so only me, Per and Sara's brother opted for a swim. The water was freezing so it didn't take long for us to get cold and wet and head back to the house. When we got there, we found everyone in a little gazebo sitting around a table full of food and it all looked so cut that I had to take a picture! You can see in the middle of the table there is a sandwich cake, a most delicious invention; layers of flat bread with tuna past filling and cottage cheese on top with marinated fish, shrimp, caviar, fruits and vegetables. It was a very nice day indeed!
That evening, as the last Saturday in August, it was the Evening of Lights where we recognise the end of summer and the coming of winter by putting candles along the shore, around islands and lakes and outside houses. We took a drive around town to see all the flickering little lights in the night.
Sunday we went mushrooms picking, which is something my family here do this time every year. We were looking for the yellow kanterell mushrooms that look like little yellow trumpets, and even though they are brightly coloured, they're not that easy to find. We were also looking for mushrooms that had pores under the cap instead of gills and a fungus that looks like little yellow fingers. The forest is full of mushrooms and I had a lot of fun tramping through bushed with a basket of mushrooms and a book on identifying them. The biggest mushroom I picked had a cap the size of my hand span and a stem 8 inches tall. The look almost surreal, like from a fantasy land, but the most interesting ones are poisonous. This is a picture of a red fly-mushroom which is very poisonous but the vikings used to eat it in small amounts to get high! By the end of the day we had enough mushrooms that, when fried, shrunk down to
fill 2 large frying pans. Here's a picture of me in the forest with my basket of mushrooms, holding a large kanterell mushroom. That nigh, we had a very nice dinner of baked ribs and mushrooms.
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