Good morning, Svea!

To be honest, I'm not yet totally woken when we're driving little bit before 7 am to work. But one morning I woke up quickly, when we saw a white fellow coming towards us and the town.

We got another exciting experiment when we found a nice spider on a container. Can't believe that big guy is living permanently in Svalbard! He must have got an involuntary lift from the mainland up here with a boat. I can't really say that lucky guy...

Condolences also from Svea

We're sorry for them who got somehow involved with 22/7.

White on the fjord

The fjord got filled with drift ice.

On the other side of the fjord in Hiorthamn had a polar bear good time. It looked like he was eating a bloody dinner.

"Topptrimmen"

There wouldn't needed to be an excuse for to go to a trip, but Topptrimmen is actually giving a nice one. There is placed 12 boxes on mountains around Longyearbyen with a book inside, where you can write your name on. When you have visited ten tops, you can participate a lottery and win a tour to Ny-Ålesund. That is an attractive price, but the tops are nice to visit even without any price. We need to take the dogs out anyhow for a walk, so Topptrimmen is just then giving a goal for us to go.

Hope for Halloween?

As the maximum weight was said to be around 800 grams, I guess it won't be a impressive Halloween decoration.

Production of male-flowers is good, even though I would like to have more females. For addition for small amount of female-flowers I have been unsuccessful with pollination and therefore lost the change. But there is anyhow some gain for growing: Males are tasting specially good fried with cheese and blue cheese filling.

Got to taste first handful of cherry tomatoes!

Utøya

I guess I don't need to explain that... Just can't understand why it needed to happen!

Champagneglass

Do you see on the mountain a snow field which looks like a wine glass? When a stalk for that gets broken, then we have "officially" summer in Longyearbyen.

Svea

It's getting quiet in Svea. Most of the people are on their summer holidays. There isn't that many people left in the mine, but otherwise it's still pretty busy. And we're anyhow busy with our work :)