We arrived to Aspö as planned on May Day, Wednesday the first. The good news is that our shipment arrived into Stockholm as planned on the Monday. To our surprise, though, the delivery boat jumped the gun and took our stuff to the dock on Tuesday. And of course it was raining that day!
Thankfully, Ronnie covered up everything with a big tarp so we avoided any water damage. Wednesday was a tough day for me, schlepping all our boxes to our house without Olle and Annika's planned weekend help, but thankfully it all ended well. We spent the next few days unpacking and finding places to put all of this new stuff!
The weather for the rest of May was fairly dry. It was a lot of fun seeing the island become green over those warming weeks.
Sooz is working with Olle and Annika to plant a bunch of vegetables. We'll keep an eye on the crop during the week since we're "residents". Sooz has planted radishes, carrots, zucchini, rocket, lettuce, and cucumber. We can learn from Olle as he has a green thumb! Soon, we hope to be able to add some of our crop to our dinner table.
Sooz is working with Olle and Annika to plant a bunch of vegetables. We'll keep an eye on the crop during the week since we're "residents". Sooz has planted radishes, carrots, zucchini, rocket, lettuce, and cucumber. We can learn from Olle as he has a green thumb! Soon, we hope to be able to add some of our crop to our dinner table.
My most urgent project was to clear up the two big fallen trees. Rutger and Olle helped me with the main trunks and I spent a few days cutting up the trees and hauling them downhill. I spent a more few days cleaning up the rootlumps as well, cutting back the big disks of earth and roots that the fallen trees pulled up.
Sooz and I found a decent rhythm for groceries and errand-running: we take a 7AM boat to Stavsnäs and a noon boat back. This gives us a couple of hours for grocery shopping in Gustavsberg. Sooz gets groceries and I hit the building stores. The busses aren’t too full mid-week so we can take all our stuff back without too much drama.
I have to say the first month has moved by really quickly. We’ve had decent weather and have kept pretty busy. June will be busy, too!
I’ve moved to Instagram for posting photos, using the hashtag #huslangford on all of our house-related photos. Clicking on this link should show them online; I keep these updated on a regular basis.
