Some pics of some stuff we've done lately

Been busy with the following lately (not necessary in the correct order):

Mini-holiday in Gothenburg, Sweden visiting lovely Ida.



Dog training Retrieving:



Dog training Agility:

Changing the to the summer tyres(with some help from Dad):



Fixing nice stuff in the roof in our house (fixing not so nice but result-very nice):

Faro also had his first lake experience:


And we did some control guarding in the orienteering Finnish Championships:



While I'll try to catch up with myself you can enjoy Stefan's video of " the Orange Bullet"

http://hellsinking.blogspot.com/2010/05/faro-la-bala-naranja.html

Waiting for Vappu

Sitting in the sofa waiting for Stefan and Phillip. Phillip has just arrived from Germany, he was an exchange with Stefan, 3 years ago already! Time flies! I'm waiting to see him and relaxing for Vappu! Let's hope we get some better weather than today...

Faro met his first love today, a golden retriever. First time he was interested in girls in you-know-what-way:-D

Let's hope after Vappu I have some time and energy to upload some pics.

Faro's Silhouette

Alice, Wonderlands and other stuff

I started with Ashtanga yoga again since I found a course in the work building. After only a couple of times I can feel how good it is for my back since I sit all day at work.

We're gonna also start a puppy course with Faro soon, let's see how that goes :-) He is usually obedient but when there is other dogs around he don't really concentrate, basically we hope he will learn this is in the course. let's see how it goes. I did some fetching with him today in the forest and we lost he's toy in the wet snow. it just disappeared under the snow and neither me not Faro could find it anymore, I have no idea what happened there but it seemed it vanished. :-)

Today I had to work for reporting, even if it's a official holiday, but to compensate we went to the movies afterwards. We saw the new Tim Burton movie Alice in Wonderland. It was not exactly what I expected, maybe I had to much expectations since so many people said it was so good. Neither I could see the point of 3D that everybody was saying was fantastic. The 3D glasses also annoy me. I wish it was possible to buy them in your own size as I have to always keep pushing them up my nose during the whole movie.


pic from here

Anyway, I got a bit curios on how all the different versions of this tale differs and found a this article. It would be interesting to now see the old Disney version again, it isn't many years ago I read the book but I've managed to forget what happens in the original version. Somehow I can relate to this Alice and her being a bit distracted by her own thoughts all the time, but then again my middle name is also Alice :-P



pic from here

jo-jo-yo

The week of Joss and Florence we finished with an annual ball. It was fun, we only go once a year nowadays so better enjoy when we can :-)

After that week I got sick and now just when we thought that spring is here it got cold again :( now we could have some warmth already! My cough won't go away!

Today I listened to the radio in the morning and they played Redrama's "Vad jag vill". Such a funny song! Redrama is a Swedish-Finnish rapper and the last CD he did in Swedish, usually he raps in English. Not so often (if ever) you hear a Swedish-Finnish guy rapping in Swedish. I just enjoy so much hearing a guy rapping stuff like "han röker mer än Snusmumriken". Sorry, everyone who do not understand Swedish. Snusmumriken is a character from Moomin ( my favorite):


Get's you in a happy mood if anything :-D I want more of this :-P

Florence + the Machine

On Monday we saw lovely Joss and yesterday I saw with my workmate Florence + the Machine. Florence has also an amazing voice, totally different than Joss (which is still my number 1 ;-) ) but good. really good. And it is not every day day you see a band with a harp on the stage! A really beautiful one too.




My workmate also introduced me to Kate Nash's music, she has some really nice songs, some are not so nice, (like dickhead, who makes a song with a name like that anyway? ) but her British accent is funny.

The song "Foundations" is good, same as "we get on":

Oh Joss!

We went to lovely Joss Stone's concert yesterday. She's sooo good. She's one of those that sound even better live than what she does on her records. Such a wonderful voice, soo pretty and she seems so nice and down to earth too!



My pics are really crappy but on facebook there were really nice pics from the gig.


I even got one of the roses she threw to the crowd in the end:


and guess who were the the warming up band:-P You might remember the pic I posted from the company Christmas party? The pic with Axl Smith. Apparently he will come out with an album soon called "People Come First" so he was there playing some songs with his band. That was a funny coincidence. :-D