Ok. I´m sorry for being so slow on updating the blog. Someone asked me if we have named the house. Well...we have given it the name that´s on the gate entrance: "Tillflykten", or "The Refuge". I hope one day that it really will be a refuge for us. At the moment it might have just as well be called "Slaveship" or "Workcamp".

Any way...we are loving our little place on this planet and its even more beautiful now when snow has fallen.
Building progress has been slow since christmas, but now we are on the move again. Inside walls, floor heating, electricity, bathroom...still plenty to do.
If you have a spare weekend please let me know!!!

We haven´t decided on the colour of the house yet. Even if its still a few months before spring and time for the paint job, we need to decide! We are thinking between järnvitriol and a falu"grön"färg. Thats right.

What do you think? (Way too few friends and family have posted anything on this blog. Is anyone actually reading this????)
See you soon!!
/Karli

Mixed pictures...mixed feelings

A year or two ago when we decided to build our own house I imagined myself walking around tile shops and choosing colours and fabric....very romantic. Reality is somewhat different. It took us a good portion of the fall to dig and build the system for the sewage system. Storholmen is a smal island with quite a few houses. There is no publilc sewage system so every one has to take care of there own shit. Quite litterally. Here my friends Petrus & Benny digging the trench and longing for summer.

The first picture from inside the house! This is the kitchen window. Notice the sea-view! (But don´t tell our taxoffice, because that will raise the tax value or our house.)







Global warming has also hit Storholmen. Water level has reached an all-time-high. This is our pub and pier. A place to get seriously wet.


We cant tow our boat at our pier. Its all under water.



My darling sis Steph getting dirty helping out.