Lobster fishing or moosehunting?

My colleagues were debating during lunch hour weather the lobster season (which starts the first Monday after the 20th of September) is more extreme then the moose hunting season. I guess you can compare these two events with the week of carnival in south Limburg (the Netherlands). Suddenly nothing else matters. Shops are closed, there is only one subject on the agenda and people get totally obsessed. The lobster fishing does not happen here in Ulricehamn but along the west coast of Sweden and I have never seen it or experienced to my colleagues big surprise. We have fishing and crayfish rights at the lake where our summerhouse is located so next summer we will try to catch some crayfish. The lobster fishing will have to wait:)!

This weekend Elsa had her first lesson of horse back riding. Instead of joining the local club in Ulricehamn we went to a farm in Dalum (a few kilometers outside Ulricehamn) where the lessons are held in the forest. It was a cold but sunny Sunday morning and all kids got a pony each and off they went into the forest. The parents walked as a group a bit behind in a quiet untouched forest passing small rivers, large stones and it was a very peaceful 1 ½ hour walk. Elsa loved it and asked if she could do this every day.

It is getting colder and the changing of season is much more noticeable here then in the Netherlands (or in Lund, south of Sweden, for that matter). I like that. Suddenly one want to light the candles, drink hot chocolate and read a good book after a day of working in the garden. My parents-in-law are here now and Nell is making use of our apples and pears. Elsa’s birthday is coming up and she wants to have a baking party and will get a sewing machine for her birthday. So, during the dark afternoons and evenings to come we will be busy making pillows, blankets and other nice things.