Linda's rambling

A day up north..

Linda wanna build

Started by for once waking up pretty early. Well, that is if a dishwasher-stiff, halfopened eyes and zoombie-awarense can be called awake :-/ But, that me in mornings and after surviving climbing down from bunkbed at roof without breaking any legs or ripping off any female attributes I wobbled down to the big cabin for coffee, enjoying foot bridge and not getting wet feets, niiiice!

Well, enjoying until the halfzombie, wholestiff being went down the step.. *crunch!* Think i just stepped over a cliffsend and made powder of legs..We must have been reaaallly sick of building for me to accept such high steps! *doh*

Grumled over it, drunk some coffe while considering how to change that and got my eyes on wood left and decided that i was a big girl now, know how it could be made and saved by metod, ugly but fast! Started drawing, building with pieces of wood etch to see how i wanted it etch and had a generally blast doing it! Perhaps this could be made before lunch and then picking up relatives for goecashing? Yepp, I AM optimistic/unrealistic *lol*

So, plan was made and tested without any broken legs so it must be alright, didn’t it? All I needed now now was for Anders to wake up so i could start without waking him up. Isn’t he up yet? Drunk some coffee and considered letting him waking up with one cup without building-noice. Isn’t he up yet?  changed and retried plan, isn’t he up yet? He got up 2 minuts after i started considering at leas sawing so forget a calm cup of coffee!

well, at least I didn’t demand him to work. Started building and after some coffee Anders realised it wasn’t pretty (hey! 2 weeks ago i got a confused look if holding a hammer, what do you expect! *lol*) and had me rebuild. Oki..much better looking and so on but also muuuuch longer time doing.. Of cause we where not finished in time for lunch and picking up relatives!

“Treasure hunting” and finding such a sweet heart-warming gift!

Managed to get to relatives, my oncle with his wife and their 12 year old son, in time and off we went! First cash was on an old skimpy grovel road that made me worried it would work with our car. Turned out to be a totally unknowed without sighn from road historical landmark from invasion by the russians in 1809! Cool! A bit odd cash also, was in a fake birdhouse!

Off again and driving round until we got a a tiiiny grovel road from which we had a steep long hike over boulders until we got to it. Was a bit hard to find since koordinated where wrong but found it and it sure was worth it since the view from up there was amazing! And OMG!! The treasure was the sweetest, most heatwarming one could find! Maker of it had made some gifts for the first ones finding it with the cutest note! (se at end) Sure was a bit envious over coisine that got it but was his first so i was happy to let him.

Cooffee and cake and off to next another walk from there. This time Anders went ahead with coisine since the boy had started to grumle of him not finding any and now would get a headstart. Not that it was hard to get ahead since the rest of us truly took chance of putting blueberrys in mouth and just had to stop for awhile when finding some wild rasberrybushes, yummy! And yes, Kid was helped to “find it on his own..” And guess what that one also containded!? Yepp! Another gift with same note! Oki, now i really wanted it so i convinced (read begged) coisine to sacrifice (off cause he will get something in returnlater) a thing to exchange so i also got one.

The note on gift said :

“This is a very special gift, that you can never see.

The reason it’s so special, is it’s just for you from me.

Whenever you are lonely, or even feeling blue.

You only have to hold this gift and know i think of you.

You never can unwrap it, please leave the ribbon tied.

Just hold the box close to your heart,

it’s filled with with love inside.”

Purpose: Refresh-dive, time since last dive was for me since last year and two years ago since for Anders
Package & Weight: 10 L 232 and 10 kg, which went to 8 kg at 110 bar
Weather & Viz: Mostly sunny, 5m / s-sw & s 3-6 m viz
Pers.Form: 70-fat & untrained * lol *
Cal: Summerundersuit, drygloves with nothing under, thin + trekking socks, t-shirt, bicycle shorts, no cap, drysuit
Time: 18:26 to 19:04 = 38 min
Bar: 195-110 = 86 bar slurped
Deep / average deph : 7.6 m / 6.1 m
SAC: 13:89, not bad for me!

It felt really ok, ok surprised at considering how little I’ve dived these last few years! Trim was nice but I fussed a bit with boyancy due to to much weight on belt and..part to little dived also ;-/. How darn hard it was to guess the weight I would have when it seems that if I change my weight to the bottle every time according to logbook! Hmm, typing form & weight and more precisely what I have on me would maybe be an idea to make regular assessments easier …

I saw some small blue starfish, a submerged stone to fasten boats in on sand out & a bit to the righ right from the bridge, many fine shells, stickleback, pipefish, goldsinnys, possibly a medium sized Ballan wrasse, goby, a mask that was a bit shaggy & red in the middle and bald and golden on the sides? ? Green crab and a crab sittin in/on a jellyfish that it ate, looked pretty fun out when the crab was far smaller than jellyfish! * Lol *

Thermocline layer today was pretty cool disorienting, as liquid cooking oil in the water, also gave an odd illusion  how the stone-pier looked like. Pretty cool, especially when a giant schools of sticklebacks swam in it!

What was good was that the left side of floating bridge now was as made for me to go in and out and take on the fins for short me, nice! Yes, and that for once to silt sliiiightly less than Anders was not bad for sense of confidence either, especially since it’s almost always the other way around * lol *
Less pleasant was that there now drove jet-ski’s in the bay which definitely makes a diveflag and bag/marker?? up for the next dive for safety. That is, unless jetskiers will find such fun to round, heared they use those for such in other places :-/

A really nice dive and dear lord so nice it was be able to afford to pressure test tubes and to be able to get into the water again!

Text (hopefully) to come. as usual, need photo

(text to come, needed webadress for pic)

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Originally uploaded by LindaNormark

This is a set with photos of of our old boat that’s för sale.
Här finns en länk till setet med foton på vår gamla rib som är till salu.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindanormark/sets/72157623801975149/

Länk till annonsen på blocket
Link to ad (swedish) on blocket

http://www.blocket.se/goteborg/Zodiac_550_Pro_Open__00_27068863.htm

Ingredients for 2 portions :

* Yellow onion, 1 small or half a large

* 1-2 clefts of garlic

* 1/2 a pepper

* Oil for frying

* 1-2 tsk chili powder

* 1 tablespoon tomato puree

* A hint of meatbroth (can be skipped for true vegetarian)

* Vegetable stock

* 150 gram (1/2-1/3 can) crushed tomatos

* 2 teaspoons (10 millilitre) of brown sugar/Farin sugar

* 2 millilitre/ 2 kryddmått salt

* A tablespoon of beans dressing

* Half a can (ca 130 gram) of kidneybeans in chili dressing, I used mark Go Green’s.

How to :

1/ Chop onion, garlic and pepper and fry in oil in a pan.

2/ Add all EXCEPT beans themself and let simmer for 5-10 minutes, depending on sizes of chopped vegetables.

3/ Add the beans and simmer another minute.

Serve with sour cream mixed with a little guacemoule to rice or couscous or in tortilla bread. breads can also be made to crisps by roasting in owen in 200 degrees celsius for 5 minutes.

Enjoy!

Link to original recipe in swedish

… you do not have wet dreams about the cute guy in the dry suit, but the nice dry suit on the guy

… to win a two-week luxury trip to Paris, all inclusive, and asking “can you dive there?”

… You complain over that a beautiful dress costs 495: – but without blinking pays 2500: – for an undersuit that makes you look like a michiline-man.

… we believe that every conversation about bottles is about bottles is about dive-bottles.

… assuming that all non-diver to understand what you’re talking about when talking about bottles

… the most expensive garment you own is dry suit

… the second-most expensive garment you own is a undersuit.

… you go on boat show in the spring and fantasize about which of the boats that are suitable to re-build to a dive boat / sink as to to get a new exciting wreck.

… you walk like a damned spirit in the auto parts store / Clas Ohlson to find the ultimate solution to attach the battery pack on the plate.

… VISA card is permanently in diving shops.

… someone talking about latex and you don’t associate it to the latest erotic fair.

… You sits in the closet and sniff at your jetfins when not dived in a while.

… You clear out and throw away fully usable clothing from closets to make room for all divestuff.

… You says no to best non-diving friend’s wedding because you’ve booked a diving expeditions on that day.

… discussing the quality of rubber gloves, but to work as a dishwasher.

… You know you’ve dived to deep when airbubbles from breathing sinks..

… You need your 100 % oxygene-tank even on land.

From old forum-thread (with some of my own words mixed in) from 2002 about that divers might get less blood in brain and therefore risks getting minimal brain damage.

Theory one: Gender balance

Fact 1: There are more male divers than female divers.

Fact 2: Divers like and strives for big apparatus/things.

Fact 3: Divers have as much blood as the next man.

Fact 4: A male diver can get a hard on just by seeing a calm ocean on a sunny day.

Conclusion: Big things/apparatus + not much blood + often hard on => brain damage, so easy to understand, completely natural!

Another theory followed that one:

Slow thinking due to brain damage causes panic to come slower. That’s why experienced divers handle panic situations better, they’ve dived so much they’ve gotten so brain damaged that they are to slow in thought to panic!

Protest against theory about diving causing minimal brain damage:

You’re probably already brain damaged if you start diving. I mean, considering what stuff weights, how many hours used to take care of it and transport to and from for just short time diving and what it costs you gotta be mad even to consider the thought. Like, what normal person would thousands for a flash-light for example!

Saturday 25/7 -09

The sun was shining and i started to feel restless after a period of sickness so i suggested to Anders that we would go and check Anno (our rib-boat) after extreme raining. Little did i believe he would feel well enough to wanna take a trip out but to my surprise he suggested that instead of just checking boat, jippie!

Since he just wanted to make sure new streaming computor work first I started to run around packing, making sure that it wouldn’t be to late for us to go out. So, soon enough i’d packed all stuff we needed and some more. Before i packed food and sleep-stuff we called PIL to know if they was gonna be out so we could sleep in their boat and not the attic. thought it could be a good idea not to bring unnecessary food and bed-dressing on a small boat But no, they where just gonna be out some hours more. so all it was and food for grill needing to get bought. Hmmm.. Some mussels and white wine sounded good.. Do i need to say that this thought led to a 2 hour long marathon beetween fish-stores, just to find to little to share with PIL and for dinner for us..? Subborn? Who? Me!?

Approximately 15.30 Anno is packed and we, Linda and Anders, leave Tångudden to go to Brustholmarna.

Sunny, slightly windy and some waves but not to bad on ocean. I get to steer out of the harbour. When giving some gas the boat feels very heavy, strange.. we do after all have a automatic waterpump.. When waves start to feel a bit bumpy i leave over for Anders to steer. Halfway there engine suddenly dies! And yes, typical enough just before surge hits us, perfect timing.. A fast dash to get anchor out (ouch, we’ve packed stupid, my leg..) but before its ready engine starts again, good! That was a bit to exciting.. A calm trip after that and greetings when we, at around

16:00 arrives to Brustholmarna, Hambolts bridge,

where i get food in order in cooler and Anders and FIL pump out water by hand and find the problem. Sooner or later bacon-burgers are on grill and we sits on Troll-bridge, watching sun glitter on water, with beer and rose’-wine in hand. Well, that’s all but FIL who’s driving and suddenly tries to convince MIL to leave, with longing eyes on wine.. It was his idea after all, not hers, to not sleep over Burger tasted wonderful! To bad they where a bit to filling..where’s the begging dogs when you need them!? Now we managed to eat to much instead. I was the missing dogs fault! Promise!

Took us a while to manage to move after that but after a while luggage was sorted and we had claimed our space and beds in attic and lucky that since it later came a couple that also had planned to sleep there, but we where first! Of cause we offered to share space with them and the use of the less nice beds, we’re neither heartless or greedy and they where also members, but they choose the sofa downstairs. When we got to know them they proved to wonderful persons, nice with nice one’s closer to our age in the club!

Ok, we where on an island with 5 places to swim so natrually the bikini went on and the hunt for a break from burning jellyfish so we could get into water started and to our pride we managed not to get burned! I had brought fins, mask and snorkel to snorkel in vain since the rain not only had ruined vizibility but also made water temperature drop…at lot.. Brrrrr! What to do when freezing? Drinking wine and chatt with people of cause! Only wine for getting warm, i prooooomise! Had a great time sitting on Troll-bridge, chatting, eating mussels we cooked and drinking wine, and then some more wine, while nature painted sky with an amazing sun-set, wish i could have captured that one!

Sunday 26/7 -09

Woke up, a bit hung over by some funny reason, after a misersable night with loads of waking ups due to freezing and feeling like in a wind-tunnel. Oh, yes, now i saw that it was a hole at both sides of the bed and with that wind-direction it had blowed through! But, dressed and got out in sun where it was warm and nice and got a lovely surprice in form of a cup coffee from our friends, what a good way to start the day! Sooner or later we sat on islands hill, eating a late breakfast while enjoying a idyllic postcard over archipelago view, lovely! Almost as nice as when i earlier was trying to wake to life while sitting in outhouse that almost hangs over cliff and has a window in the door straight out to archipelago, that’s what i call a nice view! Oh, and yes, i do kind of invites to sitting long..not always that good

So, some chatting with the rest of the members, a walk over rocks and by the lovely flowering meadow ad then playing tug-of-war with the cute tiny dog Zäta that came bounching a’ la’  “Playmates! I found playmates! Jippi! The must wanna play with me!” Who can resist such happy eyes? Not us so playing with her and her knot-ball we did! When it was time to leave she happerly followed us while trying to convinc us to play some more “Look, here’s the ball,  I dingle string so you can get it easy! Oh, perhaps you can’t see it? No problem! I run and stop before you!” She didn’t jump into boat with us but she did dropp the ball on the side of bridge for us to take..with big begging eyes.. When that didn’t work she laid on higher part of the bridge with sad eyes, making a last try to convince us to play by dropping knot ball that..fell in the water! Oh did she whimper and beg “P..Ple…Pleeeeaaase save my ball!” so save it we did.

13:20 Linda and Anders left Brustholmarna to go back to Tångudden.

No incidents this time and Anno sure felt lighter! Only excitement was the HUGE swells from “The aweful ferry” that leaves swells even after it’s out of sight, the joy of no warning, you gotta love it..Not that we didn’t see swells in time butthat doesn’t make them any more fun. But, what was fun was the wave-bumpig on the smaller ones!

13:43 arrives at Tångudden.

This trip-time was more normal and what a great weekend-trip we’ve had!

Oh, forgot, photos taken by Bo Arnholm and they might have been better if my fixing hadn’t failed..

oh nr 2, if you bring mousepointer over photos it should /hopefully) give more explaining text..Please do, that tells a lot extra!

Anyhow, some more photos:

Breakwater with bath-ladder

Archipelago