I wish You all a Good Yule!

So the important parts of Christmas, or Jul as we call it, is over. I’ve baked gingerbread and failed something spectacular πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Β It’s like eating hard bread and at first they don’t taste much but after a while the mouth is burning, I think there’s just to much ginger in them πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Still they go down with lots of cold milk πŸ™‚ After that I grilled the ham and had the first slices on a couple of vΓΆrtbrΓΆd sandwiches πŸ™‚

After that I went out with the catch of the night and guess who had returned for a fourth time? Yes the mouse with the short tail. This time however it was in a bad shape and it didn’t make the trip to where I now let them out again. I guess it takes just too much energy for a small yellow-necked mouse to do those long trips, especially in snow and cold weather. I went back for the dogs so we could have our morning walk.

More snow had fallen during the night and it continued to do so until at least noon. Small tiny flakes so it didn’t add that much to be honest, just enough to cover our tracks from yesterday. Snowy days makes the world very quiet, especially since no one was out driving tractors or cars. We did hear a few birds tweeting and a couple of ravens as well. So when one suddenly hear three big moose running in the forest it will be a bit stressing πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The best thing is just to stop and hope they don’t run over you πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ We didn’t see them this time but running moose in a dense forest do make a lot of sound πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I had a christmas lunch around 1 pm ad it feels like I won’t have to eat anything more this week πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ I didn’t think it was that much but christmas food is anything but light πŸ™‚ I napped in my recliner for a while before Donald Duck and his friends celebrates Christmas (The Wonderful World of Disney). We’ve seen this hour long program at 3 pm every year since 1960 and we know most of it by heart now. It is actually one of the most popular reprograms we have here in Sweden and even though they sometimes makes changes in it we don’t care, not as long as they don’t touch Ferdinand the Bull. Last time they tried to do that and show the ugly duckling instead the complaints were so many that they showed him after the original program and is back again since then πŸ™‚ We Swedes can tolerate a lot but not that πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

I’ve had a few of my gingerbreads with lots and lots of cold milk and now I’ll skip the tv and read some book instead and I doubt I’ll have anything more to eat. I will however have that last cup of tea but that’s it.

I wish You all a Good Yule!

7 thoughts on “I wish You all a Good Yule!

  1. Christer, we send our good wishes to you, also Alma, Malkolm and Sara, for a wonderful Christmas. Thanks for sharing the beautiful snow scenes, even though you admittedly are not a huge fan of this weather. We have a little snow on the ground from a brief snow earlier this week. But, your snow is much nicer! Thanks for sharing your photos and Patrick and I wish you a good 2026.

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    1. Hi Beatrice!

      It will most likely be gone soon, it’ll b come warmer for a few days and then we’ll go back to freezing temperatures again. I can only hope that the cold weather won’t stay for long πŸ™‚

      I wish You the same πŸ™‚

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  2. We had some Christmas rain early this morning, and temperature is supposed to be near 60F, so no white Christmas in Virginia.

    Ginger tastes like soap to me, so if I could eat your gingerbread, it would be like washing my mouth out. But still, it’s always nice to have some treats of the season in the house. A friend of mine who is a great baker gave me an assortment of cookies she made (none with ginger), and I let myself have one a day.

    Sorry to hear about the little mouse, even though it was a pest.

    I hope you, Alma, Malkolm, and Sarah have peaceful and warm holidays, and thank you for your lovely photos that make me forget for at least a little while what’s going on around me.

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    1. Hi catsworking!

      Is it just the dried version or the fresh as well? I was quite old when I tried fresh ginger the first time and wow was I surprised how different it tasted πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So I’m not a fan of dried ginger but really likes fresh πŸ™‚ I do Sundstrand though, it is like me and cilantro, I just can’t stand it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

      It had walked a long way each time to get back so I’m not surprised that it just didn’t have any energy left.

      I wish You the same and I’m glad You like them πŸ™‚

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