Kasblah

We cut this one ourselves at Sædalen christmastree farm. It’s almost 3 meters high!

Despite a meager summer it seems we still have things to eat from the garden. The squash made a serious comeback and may yet produce more if the weather stays fair. Tonight we kicked our pasta up a few notches with a decent tomato sauce from specimens ripening on windowsill, and topped it with a stir-fry of homegrown squash and peas. Yum.

It’s been a lousy summer in our outdoor growing spaces. Cold and wet most of June & July makes for poor crops. This squash plant remarkably survived the weather and neglect from us and produced this fine specimen ( enjoyed tonight on the grill ).

Otherwise we had a few cucumbers and tiny, hard-skinned, but flavorful tomatoes in the green house. A small crop of sugar peas (should do more of these next year), berries and some apples on our new tree. Gardening is not for the faint-hearted in Norway

As described in an earlier post the old Marklin trains found their way out of the boxes and into the spare room in the basement. Not surprisingly the layout quickly grew in complexity, new items were purchased/gifted and the train table is now crammed with tracks, levels, a town, etc etc

Early stage scenery in the “rural” section of the layout. I am trying a new technique involving extruded styrofoam pieces. These are easy to cut and mold, and do not “shed” like regular styrofoam.

Dilemma: initially I planned an analog layout with a few separate parking/passing blocks. All the new locos i got however are dual mode and when a digital controller showed up cheap on a local auction site I had to get it. But going digital means abandoning the older locos ( conversion is possible but ridiculously expensive and complex) What to do…