Sunday - February 11 - 2007

Papa goes shopping without memo, and walks to the Sea Saturday is our main shopping day. Anna does a list of what we need for the week to come.
And Papa supplies. That’s called team-work. Papa does the shopping-job, and Anna pays.
That’s fair, isn’t it? Let me add: We have more severe bills to pay, than food and other household goods.
Last Saturday I went late to bed. Slept long. Maybe, due to some blog activities, the night before and Anna’s Gala adventure. But the early afternoon was bright.
Well into the shop, I looked for the shopping list. It was not in any of my 9 pockets. Guess, who felt stupid? Papa, of course.
Picked up the Cell phone and a tired Anna answered: Just the regular we need. Not a clue.

The only thing Papa knew was: Pollock for the Cats. And some veggies – but they were more or less out of organic. We buy organic if we can get hold of it for a simple reason: The others have in average lost 60% of their minerals and vitamins (Apples 80%), and who knows what they contain of ingredients you would avoid to know. (Just look around and discover all the food products that are added with vitamins and minerals – to end up about natural + conservation ingredients and coloring. Linus Pauling stated that every desease can be tracked back to lack of minerals).

Well, well, papa shopped as good as he could. But without the list, he felt a bit free as well. After supermarket he carried on into the Veg- and Fruit Market. Two bags filled up. Yummi.

Back in the car, what did papa discover? The shopping list, of course. Going back? No. Buy the rest in the local store. Another two bags.

SUNday Feb 11-2007.
Out with the garbage and refill the Cat-litter. Oh, it’s heavy to bring out.
Went for a short tour to the beachfront. Historical, non preserved place. Today used for recreation and bathing during Summer. Once it was a Mansion here. It was build in 1765 by a very rich man, named Peder Holter. The Mansion was called Stubljan, after the owner of a much older farms situated in the same area (1630). Peder Holter was in his time among the richest persons in Norway, and some of the enterprises he ruled, still exists (Hafslund and Borregaard) In 1771 he married a woman, 26 years younger than himself, Maren Juel. Maren Juel became in 1786 Norways most wealthy widow, 37 years old, and from the on she ruled the Mansion and properties herself. Five years later, she married Ole Christopher Wessel, brother of a famous writer, Johan Hermann Wessel.
The fortune was founded on timber and waterfalls (Sawmills), which was the most important export industry, besides fishing and grewing mining activities in Norway at that time.

The Mansion burned down in 1913. Besides the ruins of the main house, only some sidebuildings left. The doormen’s houses (Art Galleries today), the Bathhouse (popular Summer café, with beautiful sunsets ) and the Main Gardner’s house (Summer kiosk). A few hundred yard away it has been timber activities until last year. Once it was more than 150 people in work her. The old hydropower station is today an auto repair shop.










Black and white pictures to the right, from top to bottom:
1) The Mansion on A Cristmas Card from 1904
2) View from seaside
3) View from behind
4) The Chief Gardners House
5) The Powerstation






Wish all my readers an exciting week.

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