Power napping

... or cat napping or nana napping or whatever you call it, is wonderful. Especially now that I am retired. It used to be that we made fun of hubby and his power napping. We could be driving back to the house from somewhere and suddenly, only ten minutes from the house, he just had to stop and sleep for five minutes while me and the kids had to sit quietly and just contemplate the landscape. Then he would wake up and we would be home five minutes later.

Now than I am retired I realize how nice it is to have a quick nap whenever you feel a bit sleepy and when you wake up you feel so much better.  I know I am going to have to have a lot of them soon on my drive down to Grenoble from Sweden. I usually need one even when driving into Gothenburg from the cottage and that is only an hour's drive.

So today is the day before leaving the cottage and I am trying to get things done, laundry, defrosting of fridge, last-minute gardening etc but I am very good at procrastenating so here I am, dear friends, writing to you instead and Skyping with hubby.

I am planning to go a different way down to Grenoble this time so I am taking the ferry to Rostock and spending a day there looking around and then on to who knows where? It will be another blog entry later on.

One thing I have noticed driving around in Gothenburg is that they have quite a few of these nice plantations that the tenants take care of together. You can grow flowers and veggies etc and I guess they must have some sort of system of taking care of it. Yesterday they were making apple juice for example, all together. It looked like fun.

So my mother has turned ninety and apart from bad hearing and bad vision and lack of memory, she is in pretty good shape. I hope I will  be as healthy as that  if I reach that age.

Here is my mother with one of her
uncles

And here she is  with her brother at
the age of sixteen I think

So leaving Sweden and the rapidly approaching fall to return to Australia and spring. It is very weird and confusing! So long!