Farmor loves growing her black currants.  They have a prime spot in the front yard right next to the potato field.  At the end of Summer you’ll find Farmor in the middle of the thicket picking every last one.  The black currants have a very important job – they provide the family with enough home-made [...]

What do we do when we get snow on our boots? We brush off the snow and get it all over our hands so we wash it off in the snow on the ground. So far, every year has been Lilu’s first snowfall.  It can seem a long time between Winters for a Toddler so [...]

Moose grew up with ducks.  On the farm in Alta, Farfar and Farmor have a duck pond and every year a family of ducks spend the Summer with us.  It’s wonderful to see each new generation return and have their own ducklings.  Quite often there are so many new ducklings swimming in the pond that [...]