SNOW IS COMING

Its a very strange feeling waking up with it now being -3 most mornings and you look around and there is steadily getting more snow on the mountains. 3 days ago there was a little bit just on the highest mountains, and now all the peaks have a deep brilliant covering of snow. It is quite and erie feeling, like you are waiting for something amazing and difficult to come, but this is nature's way of warning you that it is about to come and not go away for 8 months...

Also, the speed of the spring, summer and autumn seasons as what we in England would experience is amazing. When i arrived in August, it was just entering summer, all the grass was brilliant green, the trees full of leaves, flowers blooming and tempuratures as high as 20 degrees C. Within 3 weeks we were in deep autumn with tempertures never above 10 degrees, the deepest orange colours of some of the leaves and the moss and braken on the ground of the mountains had turned a deep purple with the lycen (sorry cant spell that) a bright lime green, almost helping guide the reindeers to it to eat. Now, only 2 weeks since that period all the orange leaves have fallen from the trees leaving a mixture of skeletons and deep green trees that keep their leaves in winter ( i have no idea which is which with the names of different trees) The ground is no longer a thick mud in the forest, but a really hard frost covers every day and the tempurature is now no higher than 3 degrees... and all that change in 5 weeks!!! its quite amazing!

So this weekend we have had a camp of 15 families each with a child with autism plus in the day another 12 families joined us also! So we had 88 for lunch yesterday!!! Madness and we are finding children everywhere, the thing about the Fjellstue is there is so many rooms for them to play hide and seek! They are everywhere!!! Thank god they go tomorrow!

So tomorrow we have to do breakfast and lunch, i am going out with Connie to train the huskies and i think we will stop both teams on the mountain, light a fire and have coffee! A very civilised way to train dogs! Although it is very important for them to learn to stop and lie down as in the Finnmark race that we are training them for, they will stop and sleep in their harnesses on the sled line with around 800 huskies around them... so they really do have to get used to it!!

And finally, my tip of the day, if you ever need to make fire in the woods, find a silver birch tree - the bark stripped off the tree and ripped into little strips if the most amazing firelighter!

Har Det Bra!