Tag: garden
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Changes, changes
Ever since the beginning of this year, I knew there will be a lot of changes in my life. Some of those I was expecting to happen, as my children have got older and they are finishing their schools one after another. Then there were the decisions that I made in order to change my…
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I’m feeling hot
Finally it’s warm! Finally we are having a summer in here. And like I thought before, we kind of skipped over spring and landed straight into summer. It means that it’s time to set our house into summer mode. Open the windows, get fans working, get water into the pool and start having less clothes…
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Mowing the grass
The grass has become a debated subject. I can remember, how the lawns used to be small areas between roads, paths, buildings, flower benches, trees and shrubs, only parks had larger areas. Nowadays there can even an hectare of lawn next to a large house to indicate power, success and discipline. What makes the lawn…
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Pouring rain
Today I want to talk about weather. It is always a safe topic, right? We all have it and we all are affected by it. It is the same for everybody next to us, and everybody can say something about it. But there is a but. It is one the key elements in farming and…
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Sunshine
Hurray!!! The sun is here. For those who don’t live so close to arctic circle may wonder why it’s news. But I can tell that it makes a huge difference. I have described our winter as a giant freezer and somebody even switched the lights off. There’s only about 6 hours of daylight, cold, snow…
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Wor(l)d is changing
One of these things, that i’ve been considering recently, is the pace of change. The way how www world has changed the way we find information, stay connected, entertain us and how we even behave. I’m not telling that people have become too lazy or too arrogant, but it’s so easy to get lost within…
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Botania
I had such a lovely day in the city! It turned out to be my day off, relaxing day. First I went to public library of Joensuu, and took some pictures there, and after that I visited Botania, former botanic garden, that nowadays is more about cultural site. There have been several visual exhibitions, and…
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