What Sits by the Front Door?
Birdseed! On the farm we take good care of the birds, especially throughout Winter. We have a couple of bird houses around the farm that provide shelter and food. By Spring, it is really hard for the birds to find food so sometimes we grab an extra handful of seeds to throw out in the yard before jumping in the car. It sure makes the birds happy and if feels good to give back to them – since we built a house and farm on their land, and all.
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To visit the mountain during the Midnight Sun is a real treat.
Norway enters the Christmas season early.
Even though the males are called bulls and the females cows, the muskoxen are more closely related to sheep than cattle. Make no mistake, though – this is not your average cuddly ba-ba-blacksheep! A grown animal can be 2,5 m long and weigh up to 400 kgs, and their long curved horns mean business.
Today herding reindeer is synonymous with the Sami culture. It is recently thought that the Vikings were the first people to herd reindeer.
Norwegian dogs were born with a purpose. They were bred to be hunting dogs, herding dogs and farm dogs.
The Tyholt Tower is the second biggest tourist attraction in Trondheim.
That’s so good of you, especially in the cold winters. I love to get up early in the morning and sit in the backyard. The birds sing so loudly; I just love it.
Blessings,
Debbie
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from L-Jay:
The birds are actually quite quiet in Norway. I miss all the swarms of parrots flying around at dusk in Oz. And I never thought I’d miss the magpies either.
When I lived in Norway on a small farm near Bergen, some 60 years ago, we would put out a sheaf of grain, usually oats for the birds at Christmas time. It was a common practice for farmers at that time. Is this still being done?
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from L-Jay:
That is still very common to do on farms all over Norway.