...and it went as suddenly as it arrived!

The temperature at the Vaasa Airport at 12:15 today: 7 C! =:0

Well... I've seen worse, we had sleet and snow in the beginning of June in 1974 and the rest of that summer was cold and rainy here. I hope it won't follow that progress this summer because May 1974 was mostly very warm.

Anyway, yesterday I nailed the last piece of moulding in place in our renovated kitchen and moved out all tools and hardware back into the garage again. You who haven't been following the resurrection of our kitchen at Ingelas' blog may take a look below.

The summer arrived suddenly

Above is a screenshot from the Finnish weather service today at 12:40 showing the temperature curve for the last 24 hours at the airport nearby.
+25.1 C or 77.2 F !
We even had a thunderstorm this morning which is very unusual in May.
The bad news is that this pre-summer will last only for a week. Then we are back to the normal crappy 12 - 15 C again.

Winter update

Hello everybody from this frozen over hell called Finland. Blogger Val asked me regarding my last put if it has got any better now, the answer is no.

Its is worse...

Since Sunday we have got som 10 inches of snow combined with a hard northern wind yesterday and today that made the snow pile up, up to my eyebrows in places as you can see from the picture of our backyard this evening:

My car trailer parked alongside our woodshed is somewere inside the pile of snow below:

The temperature today is only a moderate -6 C but tomorrow it will drop down to -15 C again.
Aaargghhh!