During these workaway trips I’ve discovered how much I’ve enjoyed getting to be part of the rhythm of other people‘s lives, especially lives that are very different from my own. It’s now 9:45 at night (or 21:45 as they say in just about every other country in the world!) and I’m standing outside watching one of the neighbors mowing his vast circular front lawn on his ride on lawnmower. It’s cool and a little breezy and the sky is filled with clouds, but it is still light outside. This is Sweden in summer, for me the temperature is more like an early spring day. I was up at 3:30 this morning and the sky was already brightening.
I didn’t really do special today, spent the morning dusting, vacuuming, and mopping. In the afternoon I read and got some paid and volunteer work. Lunch was spent outside – leftover potato salad, arugula salad and kebabs from last night. For dinner Giorgia took the arugula pesto she made and added spaghetti and shaved cheese on the top. I am not a big pasta person but the way she cooked it with the pesto was absolutely delicious. I guess any pasta made by an Italian is going to taste yummy right? 😝
Over the course of the day several trucks filled with hay bales traveled to the farm next door before the next round of rain set in. Looking out my window in the morning I saw what I thought at first was a small deer running across the church cemetery. It seemed to be moving strangely and had very long ears, so I looked more closely and when it paused to cross the road I realized it was the largest hare I have ever seen! I wish I’d been able to get a picture of it, I still can’t get over how huge it was.
At the end of the day, I did laundry and hung it in my flat dry. For some reason Pia has both American and Swedish washing machines. Because I couldn’t figure out all of the words on her Swedish machine I used the American one – time to learn more Swedish!
