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Lilleputthammer Mini Town

Category: Ramblings | Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:43 am

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Once upon a time the main street in Lillehammer (host of the Olympic Winter Games in 1994) consisted of lovely, little wooden houses. Most of them are gone now, but the main street still lives on in miniature. We visited it this week-end, and I thought I'd show some photos:




( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden )






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Ice cream factory ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden )






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Pretty, isn't it? Even I felt like a giant walking around there. :lol:

Most of the houses contain a little shop, playroom or exhibit, but you have to be willing to duck your head in order to get in.

Several of the houses held books, mainly used ones. I carried away two fair-size bags of books that I just couldn't leave behind. I'm hopeless when it comes to books, especially if they're a bargain. :D

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My Get Up And Go Got Up And Went

Category: Garden | Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 2:04 pm

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Oh, dear, what a winter we've had. :( It's been very wet, we've had a little snow and lots of snowless frost, and plants have died all over the place.

Last winter was very hard frost-wise, and we lost so many of our darlings. Several others were severely decimated but managed to squeak through.

Last year's summer was a disaster. It was wet and cold. We had a few carrots, and nothing else. The blooms were ruined almost as soon as they opened up, if they managed to open at all. The weeds had the run of the place since I feel I've gotten too old to garden in all sorts of weather. I did that in my 20's and up to mid-30's, but since then I haven't managed to get dressed in thick rain gear and go out there, bar to fertilize.

So we thought we would have a better winter this year since it started out so mild. We didn't take into account that the snow we didn't get in December, January and February decided to appear in late March, spread out through April and ended in early May, complete with frost of course.

I seriously considered giving up gardening altogether. I felt I couldn't take the heartbreak of discovering heirloom plants and rare, expensive ones that had rotted or frozen to death anymore. The feeling of not managing to keep the weeds at bay, of not getting projects finished and just being sorry for all the beauties that never managed to grow beautiful. Oh, yes, I had the blues big time!

Then, after a snowfall during the last days of March I took a stroll outside to do a body count. Again. As I walked about I thought I could hear humming. I stopped to listen, and tried to figure out which direction the humming came from.

As I drew nearer to the sound I thought I could figure out the tune. "Who's humming an Elton John hit in my garden?" I wondered. Then all of a sudden I discovered it:




Helleborus tibeticum ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden )



Poor little hellebore! Almost completely snowed under, looking very sorry for itself. The humming grew a bit stronger and I could clearly hear the words: "I'm still standing! Yeah, yeah, yeah!" *lol*

So I'm back in the garden, whining and moaning about lost plants, decimated darlings and slug-munched sprouts, and when I feel it's all getting too much I straighten up and sing a little song: "I'm still standing! Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

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