Hello again, dear folks!
It has been some months since I last made an update, and I´m sorry about that, but believe me, folks, it wasn´t my fault!
I would have been making updates every single day, but my host Henna went kukkuu or lost her rocker or maybe lost some Moomins from the Valley, because how else would it be explained that she told me she needed a holiday from toyvoyaging, I just ask!?
Unless it is a case rather for an exorcist than for a psychiatrist, like my sister Zoe was suggesting.
Just in case we drew some pentagrams onto the floor, and clearly they worked because as soon as Henna saw them she suddenly became very energetic indeed and run after us some kilometers shouting horrible curses, and we run like there had been some demons after us!
So, we got her on the move again, and she is ready to take us to see things again, hooray!
After some more months in Portugal we came back to Finland, where the little old cottage was waiting for us, messy and chaotic as ever!
Outside the nature was waking up after the long winter, and the crocuses were the first plants which hustled themselves from the black earth towards the sun.
Soon on the heels of the crocuses came the white anemones and covered the yard with with a white, cloudy -looking bedspread.
After the anemones it was like the nature´s big bag had broken, and all the spring plants had fallen down - everything was suddenly growing with such a hurry we hardly had time to greet everyone!
The rhubarbs we were greeting with a double joy, because we know that they can be turned into a wonderful soup, which is specially delicious when it is served over vanilla ice cream!
Yep! They certainly look ripe enough! I´ll coax Henna to make us soup! She is actually pretty easy to coax, and if it doesn´t work there always is the blackmailing.
When we had settled properly down again and had started to feel like home, we were ready to go a bit farther away from the yard and its wonders.
We have been following Henna on some interesting geocaching trips!
I don´t know how many of you are geocachers - I know some are - but anyway, I´m sure you understand the excitement of searching for the caches according to hints, and solving riddles!
But even more exciting is that we never know beforehand in what kind of place we will get into in search for the cache!
They can be hidden for example on the premises of an old manor house, like in this case.
It is the Munkkiniemen kartano manorhouse behind my back.
It is also nice to see how creative people can be when making the caches!
This one was camouflaged like a log!
Running after the caches we often see very beautiful or interesting places. Here we are in a park called Härkähaka, which means "bull pasture". It has been a grazing area for the bulls of the Munkkiniemen kartano manor house some hundred years ago.
We found there a cache and a geobug, a little budgie!
Geobugs are a bit similar than us toyvoyagers - they travel from cache to cache round the world while we travel from host to host!
We passed a glorious field with glowing dandelions!
Ooh, such little suns on a field! We just had to pet them!
Here we are searching for a cache in the forest, in trenches which are part of an old defense system.
This is a bunker in the defence constructions, quite a creepy place - dark and humid and full of mosquitoes!
It is quite horrible to think anyone staying here, specially during the winter, brrrrr!
But we found the cache! We are much better in finding caches than our host Henna is! She is such a sissy she doesn´t want to put her hands into dark holes in case there are hairy spiders or centipedes, hah! Me and Zoe wellcome such things as part of our culinary enjoyments.. So we´re more than ready to go into dark holes!
These are marsh marigolds (rentukka in Finnish) and every ditch and brook and pond is full of them at the moment! Aren´t they wonderful!?
I finish this first update now, but I promise I´ll soon be here again!
Many kisses and hugs to you all! And hairy spiders if you like them!
Your Crawfish!