The Wild Cats

Do you remember the wild cats that showed up at my mothers house last year?

Cariñosa (the grey-white cat) has got three babies this summer. 

We think"Abuela" is dead when nobody  have seen it.

Brito gives them food three times a day or more at the moment, and they all get close to him now even when some of them were very afraid in the beginning.

We counted them to be 9 cats that visit here this summer so it´s quite a lot of food for him to prepare. And an other thing is that a Magpie bird that is living in one of the  trees in the yard has also got a lot of babies and it quickly rob the food so Brito must watch it.

Or they are actually 8 cats at the moment when the "Yellow cat" was hit by a car outside the house last week. We have not seen it since that so we think it probably died even when it run away after the accident. 

Here some photos of the cats, but many are missing.

 Gato feo, was here last summer too.

 Cariñosa, was here last year too.

 Baby.

 Cariñosa with baby.

 

Black and White baby.

Cariñosa and Gato Amarillo.

Fiesta

Brito barbecuing on the island.

It doesn´t matter if we have been out on the  island or if we have been at home on the mainland, we have made party dinners every day! So many nice dinners that I start feeling a little bit tired of eating.

I think I have gained about 3kg so far, even when we have tried to stay LCHF (Low carb) as much as possible.

But the worse bandit is for sure Tupla Chocolate bars and ice cream? As soon as I return to Tenerife I will get back to my real diet. Sugar, potatoes, rice and bread will then be banned.

If you are in Finland I recommend you to by the chocolate fondue below.

I bought it on Lidl in Vasa. So easy to use and good tasting chocolate.

You just dip different pieces of fruits and biscuit in it and have it together with a glass of cold champagne. We had it with Flexinet-Semiseco champagne that is my favorite drink when it comes to stronger waters.

The Island 2014

These photos are from my mothers island out in the achipelago of Vasa, Finland.

Fishing tour continue.... June 29, 2014

About 7 am we went out on the sea to collect the nets and the fishes.

It was nice weather and the wind was about 4 meters per second. 

What a lovely feeling being out on the sea so early in the morning!

We decided to take the fishes out from the nets first later, back on the island, when some of them were quite big and difficult to remove. 

Oh what a good fishing luck we had!!!! So lovely!!!

These are the different fishes that we got.

Id, mort, braxen, abborre and Gadda.

All together we got 25 fishes,but Brito cut and throw 12 of them to the 

seagulls later on when they seamed to be so hungry.

Lucky birds! 

In the afternoon we made a lovely meal of 4 abborre fishes+ new potatoes + a sauce called "pickavaton" and the rest of the fishes Mam put into the freezer.

Fishing Tour, Finland, June 27, 2014

We Finnish women can do almost everything ( in comparison I know women from other countries who don´t even know how to sew on a button) so yesterday we, my Mama and I, decided to go fishing.We have been out here on my Mam´s island since Thursday and we were also here during the midsummer week but it was quite cold weather then. Only +6 degrees in the night! It should be about +18-22 in the midsummer,but the weather is not longer like it used to be. Today it was sunny and about +16  degrees of Celsius.

Anyhow, Brito has never been fishing with nets so we decided he can be the film team so that you can take part of the adventure. We got this idea of going fishing about 8 o´clock yesterday in the evening and started checking out the nets to be sure they would be easy to put out. We used three nets that are about 5 meters deep and the wind was only about 5-6 meters per second when we finally, about 9.30 in the night, went out on the sea and laid them.

He,he! The life on the island is like a real fisherman life! We listen to the seaman forecast on the radio at last 3 times a day or more! It´s the weather that dictates your stay and program and if you don´t take responsibility and listen to the weather forecast you can end up being stranded for days not getting back to the mainland. It´s open sea outside here and the waves can get real big .And if they say it will get windy you, of course, do not put the nets into the sea...and if they talk about rain for many days you probably prefer to go home to her real house where you can live normal.

Everything worked out fine as you can see in the video clip below. :-)

If I just get time tomorrow I will edit the next video that is from about 7 am this morning when we went out to collect the catch.

Striking Serpent - Hoggorm

About a week ago Birgitta, my Mams neighbour, killed a dangerous snake on the road outside the boat storage at Mams house. Brito took this video clip.

These snakes are very dangerous so now we wear wellingtons if we have to visit the storage.

Good luck was that Birgitta saw it, who is brave enough to kill them, because if we had seen it on our own the three of us (Mam, Brito and me) for sure would have been screaming like crazy and nobody had killed it.
We are all very afraid of them. 

Oh I still get a lot of goose-bumpers when I watch this video clip.

Hand Luggage Check in Malaga

Marbella Playa 2014

Marbella 2014

 Me in Marbella. Nice weather!

 Brito on the beach walk.

 The playa.

 Brito having a beer.

 Tapas time. Here in restaurant Descondido.

 In the old town of Marbella.

 Casco Antigua.

 Casa de Ayuntamiento, Marbella.

 The old town.

 Marbella, playa.

Restaurante Cherenguito Faro.

 Sardinas a la Marbella.

My favourite tapas. 

It´s a big prawn hidden inside a tasty cheees that is inside a roll of bacon and

 it´s all fried. So lovely!!!!

PUERTO BANUS

Rio de Puerto Banus.

The statue in Puerto Banus.

Brito in Puerto Banus.

Sky Bar! Are we in Stockholm or in Marbella?

Expensive apartments here; 355.000 Euros for this old apartment with 

a small balcony to the port front and a bar in under!

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

We were still busy last night! I should have stopped before Easter and 

I am still on and we are in the end of May! This is a miracle! 

They say the tourism has gone down a lot and some restaurants in Los Cristianos have already closed down?

In my point of view this must be a very good year and I think the prognosis curve of the tourism must be higher than ever before?

Looks like I must continue singing during April and May every year, at least,
if it continues like this.

These months are normally the weakest of the year, so I know I should be on in June and July as well this year, when the tourism normally goes up a little bit again from the middle of June.

It feels sad to miss out all of you who will be here while I am on vacation, but I also know that I must have a vacation. At least to rest my voice. It´s not normal to sing 3 hours x 6 nights a week like I have been doing the whole winter. It´s a heavy load for my vocal cords.

You are normally at least 2 singers in the band if you
work like I do and then you hopefully can save your voice every second song so that you only sing half of the night.

My voice cords are stressed to maximum!

But I will anyhow not be quiet during my vacation. 

I must then learn the new songs for the next season. 

After I have started up again,  I can not sing and learn new songs in the daytime when I must save the voice for the nights. 

During high season I don´t even like to be out on town in the daytime, talking with friends or people I might know.
People ask a lot and it turns out to be me speaking all the time. 

If I do this my voice is not in good health in the night.
 Actually my voice can be affected for days if I start socialising too much some day, and then after that sing in the night. 

Some people don´t understand this and think that I am a shy person when I don´t like to come out and sit and talk. I think their point of view is 50% right, when I am also so tired of people asking me about my private life that I many times only because of this avoid people. 

To be honest there are not many people I can trust! But this is the backside of my work and I like so much to sing that I am still willing to pay the price even when it make you a little bit suspicious and strange.

We, Brito and me, have a  lot of projects to take care of when we get back from Finland, but I hope I will be ready to start singing from the beginning of August or earlier if I can.

But anyhow,my last night is on Sunday! I look forward seeing you all then. 

Welcome.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Vacation 2014

MY LAST NIGHT AT LEWINSKIS, BEFORE THE VACATION, WILL BE ON

SUNDAY, MAY 25, 8.30-11.30 PM.  

Before that I will sing 3 nights a week;

Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

8.30 - 11.30 pm

WELCOME.

Sunday May 4, 2014

I found this 2 weeks old video clip in my computer. 

Seams like I forgot to publish it.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

All the dancers who were in on the first of May.

Photograph; Brito.

New Agenda

I am singing at Lewinskis

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays...
8.30-11.30

(line dance nights!)

...as long as we still have many people in.

The tourism have gone down but we still have had people in so 

I will continue by singing 3 nights a week as long as we have good business.

Hopefully I can sing till the middle or end of May?

It´s depending on you folks!

Then I will be off till after the Midsummer...

Maybe I start again about June 24th?

I´ll tell you more when I know.

Welcome.

Thursday April 24, 2014

To all friends and readers of this blogg

HAPPY EASTER!

 Jesus Christ died for you and me.

Believe in Him and there will be a place in heaven for you the 

day you leave this earth.

In him is victory and a blessed life.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Ranked 10.239.191 in US ?

This is really crazy!

I searched on my own name on google and found a site telling that I am ranked 10.239.191 in the USA with my blogg. Where did they get that from? And the photo of me is about 7 years old and the look of my blogg too.I don´t even blogg much these days when I mostly say what I like to say on Facebook.

Seams like they count my visitors?
And they say that my blogg is worth  about 1.500 dollars?
I would never sell it for that price! And it will never be put up for sale!

After I said something about Israel (about 5-7 years ago) stars have started twinkling all over the world in my visitors map as soon as I publish a post. Many places in the states seam to know it directly but also in other countries. I wonder if the US government have put me "on the list" only because I told what I did in Israel some years ago? But I´m not participating in any kind of programs in Israel at the moment even when I still love Israel.

You can see what the site says here:

http://urlm.co/www.countrysusanne.blogspot.com

 I got a mail from a website one day asking me how much it would be if I would make advertising for their site on my blogg, but I did not even answer when I think it was a joke from somebody who just would like to know if I get money out from my blogg. Some people are so jealous and do this kind of things all the time. I get a lot of friend requests on the Facebook that I don´t allow and crazy messages in my mail box so at the moment I don´t trust anybody and I´m not interesting in making business out of my blogg when that would mean that I would have to make at least a couple of posts per day and I don´t have time for that.

Thursday ,Feb. 14, 2014

Saturday, February 8,2014

Looks like we had a party at Lewinskis last Saturday. :-)

My mammy, my  aunt and boyfriend, my mammy´s neighbours, some other guests from the area in Finland where I come from + many other guests visited Lewinskis.

Please, click on the small arrow if you like to watch the video clip below.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Wine Plants

Finally we now have got wine plants on the balcony.

Thanx to Juan, one of the wine producers up in Escalona. 

We had plans to do this experiment last year, but when we understood we will go to Finland in the summer we put it on hold. However we don´t know yet if we will go to Finland this summer too, or what we are going to do..., but we have got the plants and if they stay alive they must be taken care of wherever we go. That´s for sure!

Juan gave us 3 plants, but one of them is going to move to the balcony of a Swedish couple tomorrow.

Two plants are enough for our balcony so I contacted Scandibar and asked if there is somebody who like to get the third one that we don´t need.

I will take photos of our "wine yard" every now and then so that you can follow the procedure.

Imagine we will sit here on our balcony in the autumn and pick our grapes from our own plants!

Very nice! I really look forward to it!

Brito will, at time, take hints of how to take care of them from Juan, so hopefully they will not die.

Maybe we in the end will end up being wine yard farmers?

No, this is probably only a ´one summer project´ to learn a little bit about the wine production.

But if we one day get a "finca" we will for sure start making our own wine.

My New Window

Look what a beautiful window we found up in a shop in the mountains last week. And it has a mirror inside. Real antique looking! 

Maybe some of you think I would paint it white, which is on fashion now, but I have decided to keep it as it is when there could be a chance that I would change my mind in the future. 

Oh how I like it! It´s for sure the most beautiful window I have ever seen! 

Thanx to Brito who knew about this shop and brought me there to have a look at their stuff! I also bought a small wooden table for the balcony there. It was made of the same wood as my garden furnitures that I have on the balcony.

I just hope it will stay on the wall and not fall down.
It´s very heavy. 

The table.

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January 30, 2014