Floods And Dinner

I am back on my Mac...was on my way to take it in to the shop yesterday when I thought, I´ll just try this cord one more time to make sure it really isn´t charging, I mean the day I found out it wasn´t charging I tried several different electricity outlets, I tried taking it out and in and wiggling it, but no lights, no charge. However, yesterday, upon plugging in the charger the light came on to indicate it was charging!!! Isn´t that just typical? I was so angry and relieved at the same time! So here we are..Mac and Me...

We have been having loads of rain lately and the snow in the mountains are melting so our rivers and creeks and the beautiful Mjøsa lake are filling up fast! About an hour north of us (and beyond) they have had massive flooding and homes, crops, and roads are ruined. The Captain who is sitting on a boat down in Brazil wanted to see what it looked like around here, so last night Julia and I went down and took some photos of the marina and the park where they just recently had the caravan get together I showed you pictures of...the water is extremely high but it didn´t stop a ninth grade class from having their end of year camping trip in the park as planned...they just didn´t have to go very far from their tents to the water to fish!!

People were wading out to their boats as the docks were under water at the marina..

And the recently remodeled Marina cafe can´t be used right now as you would have to swim to get in there and it´s highly recommended you don´t swim after a good meal, which would mean we´d all be forced to stay there a long while after our baked potatoes, drinking beer or something like that and well.....drinking and swimming probably don´t mix either...so no cafe right now..

Here are some more views of the flooding, this time from the Tingnes side of the bridge..

I love how green everything is around here...it just makes the other colors surrounding the green just pop! Really nice! While we stood down by the water we also experienced a lovely sunset..Mother Nature really can really shine when she wants too..

On our way back up to the house we passed this guy...

I have passed this guy several times while walking the leos and thankfully they haven´t seen him when we have walked. The grass is so tall so he hides and all you can see is his head generally...he watches us pass him and then prances off into the woods..they are pretty aren´t they? This little guy does drive me mad though when he begins his "barking" out in the woods early in the morning or in the middle of the night. Not sure if it is a mating call or what it is, but when you live as isolated as we do and everything is generally very quiet here, any noise will wake you up..and his barking- which is what it sounds like- is very annoying at times!!

Dinner tonight was this:

Which you can find the recipe for HERE. This is fettuccine with scallops and a buttery pea sauce. Say it with me people- YUM! Of course my sauce looks runnier then the one in the recipe because I was so hungry I couldn´t wait for the 1 cup of white wine to cook down to 2 tablespoons, so there was probably 3 or 4 tablespoons by the time I said enough was enough and went on to the next step in the recipe! But never the less the taste was sooo good! Next time though I think I will buy better quality scallops, I got these at Kiwi which is a decent priced grocery store here but these came out of a freezer section instead of a fresh fish counter and they were small....

Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Until next time my friends...