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We have lived another year in Preston,
Connecticut. Our yellow house with vinyl
siding has become more lived in and we continue to adjust to the
American society. Ulf works on with his challenging work with
the business travels being significantly reduced after the
spring. He did however get to go to for instance to
Tokyo, which included the mandatory visit
to Hard Rock Café. Ulf was also away for a week of fishing with
former work mates up to northern Canada - proudly
catching in
the
biggest Northern pike…
It has been plenty of walks for Ann-Kristin in
the neighborhood together with our neighbor Chantal, with many
nice discussions. Otherwise the Feldenkrais classes in New York continue with a trip almost every
month. There I stay at hotels of varying quality, generally at a
catholic hotel, The Leo House. It is close to the Feldenkrais
Institute and they charge only $90/night. It is far from
luxurious but meets the basic needs and is quiet.
The garden may soon deserve to be called
garden with two flower beds in the front and two in the back
yard. You may not just poke down with the shovel and plant here,
first you must dig up a lot of rocks and then replace that with
soil, before you can plant anything. All the rocks that were dug
up from a bed measuring about 5x20 feet, 2 feet deep, needed to
be replaced with 6 cubic yards of soil. The rocks were however
useful, Ulf built a nice stone wall of them. We will see if the
plants we planted still will be there in the spring since we
have frequent visits of deer in the yard and they are very
curious about all new things coming up. Currently two more
houses are inhabited; the last neighbors had a nice move-in
party for us neighbors so we got to get together.
Linn had a lot happening this year: she finished the Trainee program
at the bank, took the Open Water Diver certificate on
Sardinia together with
Erik and did a very appreciated visit to the former host family
in Venezuela. Everything has changed a lot in
10+ years, or is it the memory?
On February 29th
EMIL was born, our first grand child! He was born
at the Uppsala University Hospital,
as was his mother Tove. The father Mattias attended the delivery
and everything went fine.
We were over to Sweden visiting
in April-May and Ulf took
plenty of photos
of the family Hermansson in their house in Östhammar. It is
fascinating with a new little family member that gently smiles,
screams and sleeps. Wonder if you ever would be tired of
watching him.
Next visit was in July. It was time for
baptize and the whole family had a chance to meet and eat Tove’s
delicious pies and lovely cookies. It was a true family
gathering with Linn, Mattias’ parents and all grand parents as well as
many from Falun present. Tomas Holdar performed the baptize
ceremony in the church of Östhammar and it was really great with
Emil’s paternal grandparents Irene and Jan as Guardians.
Now we are looking forward to celebrating the Christmas in
Östhammar! |
