Relax

As i told you earlier, we are carrying out a total makeover at our summerhouse out in the archipelago.
This is how our bedroom wall immediately above the bed turned out to be, repainted and redecorated:

Bruce Springsteen

Rocked Helsinki last Friday and we were there in the very front row... Errr... second or third row to be more exact. Ingela managed to shoot some nice pictures with the small camera we purchased for the Who show one year ago.





The setlist was a massive 31 pieces including lots of wishes from the audience including "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" (in the middle of July ??) and the show lasted for over three hours! The Boss was in good form and he really is the Real Duracell-Rabbit of Rock and Roll, windmilling even more than Good Old Pete !
He keeps going and going and going where I (exactly one month younger) would have fainted hours ago.

I just wanna hear some rhythm
I want a thousand guitars
I want pounding drums
I want a million different voices

And that is exactly what we got. Not a thousand guitars but brilliant guitar duels between Nils Lofgren, The Boss and Little Steven and maybe not a million voices but at least some 42000 + the E-Street Band

Update

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Hi bloggers, its' been a while and that is because my days have been filled with all kind of work and stuff. Our old terrace had to go. The reason was that the foundation wasn't frost proof and we wanted to add a sun-roof and glazed walls later on. The old one was torn down and i started to lay a new foundation and make it frost-proof by installing insulating foam-plastic around the foundation pillars.

After some few weeks of hard work one can get a picture of what its' going to look like. Still a lot of tweaking, tuning and painting to do.

In the meantime we are doing a total interior makeover at our summerhouse. The summerhouse is built of finnish pine timber 24 years ago and was treated with clear lacquer in the beginning but the timber has turned very dark so we decided to paint it white on the inside. This is how it was before:








and after:








In between I also installed the gas-cooker my wife has longed for for years:



Seems like a lot of work doesn't it? You bet!
But we also have time for fun and relaxation. The summer solstice is usually a great event to be celebrated here in Finland. We invited our friends for a nice dinner with wine and music and my friend Keijo who is a great guitar player wanted to test my homebuilt speaker cabinet described earlier on this blog:


He was playing and playing, trying different settings, riffs, licks and chords and told me that it was the best 4x12 he had played in his whole life. I don't know what to believe but he ordered one copy there on the spot. I had good luck, the eBay shop in Germany from where I bought the speaker elements still had some few left so I can make another cabinet with the same elements and get that sound he liked so much.

Then some more work. Yesterday I took to the woods with my boys and my uncle Nils who is a now retired farmer but still driving his tractor like a 20 years old youngster. The first load of wood went ok but then shit happened:
I think the picture is very descriptive but ve had to unload what was left on the trailer, tilt the trailer back on it's wheels and reload.... phew...!
But it made a nice pile when unloading it at my mothers backyard. And half of the lot is still there in the woods and have to be picked up later whenever Nils has time to help us.

My summer holidays began last weekend and we will be leaving for Helsinki tomorrow. Bruce Springsteen will play there on Friday evening and we will be there.
Now for some more relaxed pictures of me and my wife Ingela:




Have a nice summer! I maybe won't show up here until the end of August :)
Hans