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.”

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!

Today my homan did something strange, picked me up but didn’t let me down on floor to run or in tube to eat but put me in a tight travel-thingie with emergency water! First I was a bit scared but then i remembered, she’d promised me to go out in the world! First we must have flown since it was noice and moving down and then i got a bumpy ride, guess on a camel or an elephant judging from movement.

Finally part of “thingie-travel” was over and i could start my walk/run around the earth! Started on a plain of deep rolling fresh grass, could have been France from pics I’ve seen. Why I was unsure and didn’t ask my homan? Ehm, Let’s just say I love her (shrimpgiving & spoiling ability) but she totally lacks what so ever idea of where she is most of the time… I did raise my head and looked everywhere but couldn’t find Amle anywhere (guess she was busy dancing in kitchen) so with no one to direct me to where the cute french guys where I continiued…

I walked and walked and came to an sandy cancrete, asphalt and high building surrounded area where the sun shone merciless and since I after a while ended up in the Sahara desert I guess it was some big city in southeast europe. Well, anyhow did I spend yoite some time trying to get out of Sahara desert, climded sand-dunes and so on, until my homan found me and flew me away!

Landed on a better place, a huge flat area of green and brownburned grass, must have been Texas since it looked just as in westernmovies I’ve seen! Walked around there for a while, searching for SteveBob but when i couldn’t find him I climbed some mountain (found the whisky with sign of where to go but no Pam) to get to a pass north in hope of seeing some of my other USA-living friends but none was In! What’s up with people! Do they still keep up with working after all lessons I’ve given them about how to enjoy life!?

Flew and then took the highway to a place with softly rolling hills filled with flowes and orderly bushes around, must have been the UK. walked around there for a bit in hope of finding sweet Bev, gina or Solman but no… Ok… Noone is out, even though sun is shining really summerwarm and gentle breezes wispers. I know! I’m In the UK so let’s try find Cowboy Simon and this time, let’s try his work! ran along the big road like crazy so it wouldn’t be to late in the day. Got there in time and entered the stone/rock place with its barn-like building, seached everywhere but no Simon! Well that can only mean 2 things… either he’s taken a welldeserved “slacker (well, he wasn’t in feeding me was he..? *lol) out in the country ride” or the more belivable, was out wipping in new workers that actually would work!

After that i roamed around all over Europe, only stopping here and there to get admired, tech and thereby train “turtle-slaves to be”. One does have some obligations against the future generation after all! So.. after doing my duty, seached the whole world after my & Linda’s driend in vain i finally gave up and flow home to lay floating in water and nap!

Where Linda’s been, hiding from you all all day? Well, her i started off by sending her out on all chores (doing dishes, getting food to house, fixing paper so she can get money to buy me stuff and getting divebottles to keep her less cranky) needed doing before she serviced me in my travels. I mean, stuff have to be done and…I’m waaaay to smart to work so… *lol’

And and as you’ll notice I’ve put quite some number of questions together since they in my answers is tagged together.

Oh, and Plurkers kd9, Balp and writergirlk, you are hereby tagged to write your book memo!

1 – The book you are reading at the moment.

Jennifer Scales and the messanger of light by MaryJanice Davidson & Anthony Alongi.
It’s the second book in the jennifer Scales-fantasy bookserie. It’s a serie about a 14 year old girl that learns that she’s both were-dragon and light-knight, not an easy combination when those 2 species are mortal enemys and you have to hide stuff from both sides and the unknowing normal mortals and being an ordinary hot-tempred teen doesn’t exactly help either.. Laughting-fun easy reading!

2 – Next book you will read or want to read &  12 – A book you have been recommended by a friend or acquaintance & 10 – A book by your favourite writer.

Next book in every fantast book-serie I’m following, Like:
- Laurell K. Hamiltons vampire & werewolf serie and her farie-prinsess serie
- Patricia Briggs two werewolfe series, Mercy Thomson and Alpha & Omega.
- David Webers serie of Bahzell, that keeps the wargod that’s nagged him to be his knight huble, hillarious!
- Dark jewels serie of Anne Bishop

and the serie about a diving detective i’ve been recomended, the serie of “An Underwater Investigation”

3 – Your favourite book.

Favorite!? You gotta be kidding, I love most of my books, how could i choose!?
(se above)
- The mercy Thomson serie since she’s strong but not perfect and hillarious when she realise “This will be trouble..” and does it anyhow!
- The dark jewels serie with it’s sharper and darker humour and strong passionated leading persons with their darker sides.
- By David Eddings The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, The Tamuli

4 – Your most hated book &  28 – Thank God they made a film from this book!

Fellowship of the ring. Everyone keep talking about it, telling it took a while to get into and i realised from what they’ve said I would love it but it just kept dragging on, drowning in details and being soooo slooooow! Have I mention that I start judging a book after 10 pagest and put it aside if I’m not caught up in it after 50 pages? Anyone read those books then realise what it meant for me when determend to read it.. Only book I’ve ever though worked way better as a movie!

5 – A book you could read again and again.

Anyone of my favorite series named in question 2. I did say I was a bit singleminded, didn’t I.. *lol*

6 – A book you have been able to read only once (whether you liked it or not)  &   11 – A book you loved the first time you read it but you can’t stand now.

Never happend. Either I like a book enough to re-read it or it’s gone forever before i’ve finished it. Yepp, black or white, that’s me as a reader! On the other hand does it make me a person to garantied to be honest if someone ask me about writing, i just can’t lie politely and belivable about such!

7 – A book that reminds you of someone  &   8 – A book that reminds you of somewhere.

Has passed it on to others so I don’t remember title or author but it was a criminal novel about a couple of cops solving old murder up north, a bit from my hometown and close to where a now lost friend came from and all in it reminded me of Johnny somehow. and, of cause, gave me a bit of homesickness to go back north

9 – First book you ever read.

Ehm.. I was 7..I’m 38 now and I’ve never had any memory to speak of so i really have no idea, especially since I had read about 2000 book by the time was 10 I think.. But I do know that the first books i really wanted and collected was the kind Bill & Ben westerns, even if I doubth those where my first books.

13 – A book that makes you laugh.

Well, most series already named have lots of houmor in them but one standing out was one off Eddings books in Belgariad or malloreon where here ask mischivious thif-hero what happend to bad guy and thief answers (not perfect citated) “Last I saw him he tried to learn how to fly..”
Hero “Did he manage?”
Thief, looking of castlewall “Does bouncing count?…”

Oh, and also “paint your dragon” by Tom Holt gets me howling in laughter!

14 – A book from your childhood  &   26 – A book you’d read to your kids.

As always when i don’t have the book in front of me to help i don’t remember title or authour but it was a book about a indonesian boy getting lost on a lonely island. Se! I have read other than fantasy or criminal novels once upon a time! Got this book from an book-reviewing journalist relative and it’s forever in my heart.

15 – The fourth book counting from the left in your shelf   &    16 – The ninth book counting from the right in your shelf.

Ehm, I got 7 book-cabinets overpacket with books, 2 with only 2 shelfs and 5 with 5-7 shelfs (hubby now and then complains of living in a libary by some funny reason..?) so wich cabinet & shelf to choose.. Oh, and place of where books end up is forever changing since I sure ain’t got the soul of a liberian, I just love books!
*rolls a dice to choose what cabinet and what shelf*

The fourth book : Treason Keep in the Hythrun chroncles by Jennifer Fallon

The ninth book nr 12 in Ljusets rike (The Legend of the Realm of Light) by Margit Sandemo

17 – Close your eyes and pick up a random book from your shelf.

Coosed another cabinet for change and..Oh, a book from my Harlequin Historic period!
Riddare i nöden (sweet song of love) by Merline Lovelance

Who the heck does translate titles into swedish! I mean, if I did a (bad i guess) translation sweet song of love became knight in the distress in swedish title! Almost the same..or..? :-/

18 – The book with the prettiest cover you own.

Don’t take it as I’m angry over the question but… Eh.. I’m suppost to throw more than a seconds look at cover..? I never for a second though if any of my covers where pretty and i have no intention of looking throw my 100:ds books to decide. Oh and by the way, I tend to like violent books so..pretty probably isn’t what my covers are anyhow

19 – A book you have always wanted to read.

Let’s say that books are my drugs and.. If i want it i get it sooner or later so no book have time to get in that category.

20 – The best book of all the compulsory readings you had to do at school & 21 – The worst book of all the compulsory readings you had to do at school.

Can’t answer due to opressed that horrible period of going throw 140 authors so heavy and depresseve boring reading in 2 weeks time.

22 – The book in your shelf with the higher number of pages.

Täcknamn Rainbow (Rainbow Six) by Tom Clancy with it’s 788 pages. A book with under 200 pages is hardly worth reading in my opinion.

23 – The book in your shelf with the smaller number of pages.

And here comes the only thin book I’ve ever found worthy, even with only 94 pages (wish they where more..way to little)!

“Blackford’s diving life and times” by Andy Blackford.

He writes in a hillarious funny and often parodysing (can’t spell that word, ok) way and pictures are so funny and right on spot!
Don’t remember if I got it from him when I met him (a really nice bloke) on a dive-weekend in UK (got something at least) or if it was found in one of many bookrazzias by me and hubby.

24 – A book no one would think you’ve read.

En hacker i systemet (The Cuckoo’s Egg) by Clifford Stoll.

A true story of what happend when a computorgeeky astronome starts fanatic trying to find out who’s the hacker stealing from the system is.
Yes, this is geek-book and as a “I wanna play, fix it for me” person this techie stuff ought have gotten me running but somehow he manage to write so I understood the most (asked hubby a bit also) and get caught up, unable to let go of it, sometimes giggling, sometimes holding my breath.

25 – A book which main character defines you.

Can’t think of one really fitting.

27 – A book which main character fits your “ideal”.

Perhaps Briggs Mercy Thomson? Strong, independent,humourus, mischievious and still human enough to not be perfect..

29 – Why on Earth did they have to make a film from this book?

Queen of the damned (from Ann Rice vampyre-serie) The first film based on the serie was wonderful but this..was beond bad!

When i was really young, I guess around 3 years old, my grans got a cat, an adopted old fat farm cat that I got name. And, what creteria does a 3 year old have for naming a cat she loves since the is smart (and lazy) enough to allow endless patting in exchange for shamless feeding under table and a willing slave? Well, off cause the name will have to be something I loved and..considering my age, what i loved was 2 serie-figures from that time in the only childshow tv had on it’s 2 channels, “Drutten och Krokodilen” so Drutten och Krokodilen It was named! Ok, some headshakes was done over the name but promised was promised and that it was, well, at least while i listened.. I’m pretty sure I had a proper name also but hey! I was 3 and it came to me every time I called that name! Well, as I said I was a clever cat and what cat wouldn’t come to be feed all that yummy stuff it wasn’t allowed in exchange for some soft patting from a “well-train human”? *lol*

That cat had the habit to follow me around (knew from whom goodies came) everywhere, including down the stairs. But, by some funny reason the cat never was capable to go up the stairs but ended standing at bottom, mewoing heartbreaking? And yes, I fell for it every time, no matter how the heartless adult told me it would get up on it’s own, and huffing and puffing carried the cat up, every single time… Now as adult I off cause understand that the cat was fully capable of going upstairs also and was just plain lazy, using me as elevator but whenever I think of cats I got a seconds flash of that adorable old fat cat, carried by me upstairs..

But..as it was as kind to stupidity as it was lazy also since my second memory is from me just had a talk from dentist in childcare about importance of brushing teeth and decided to help the poor cat doing that when i found out it didn’t get teeth brushed.. Poor thing just screamed and wiggled but didn’t even then scratch me. I did though run fast after adults saved it..

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

Photos taken by Anders and edited a bit by me.

Dive No: 52, Picnic Site 1, Loch Ness, Dores, Scotland

Had decided to do a cult-dive on Anders 100:th dive, and try to play with photo shop to make a fejk-pic of Nessie to have fun with family and friends with. Ok maybe not with tiny-cousin since it might be “liittle” bit inappropriate to make him afraid of monsters in the water So, now started the hunt for a suitably cheap plastNessie. *Wroom* oups, there we passed the first society of at least 3 houses, next perhaps?

After a lot of ifs and buts we began to wonder if it even was possible to find a land-dive site easily anywhere on the “tourist side” (30 m high edges sloping down with 60? Degrees?) And secondly, if we were able to get hold of our toy, ie if there were more communities: -) Well, we managed to find a Nessie in the “big” the village of Drumnadrochit, where the temple of the pier was closed to the public, would have been extraordinary cult/fun otherwise . The village actually seemd to exist of some few houses and the rest was extreme tourist traps. Now remained only to manage to come down to the water and as it turned out we had to drive to the other side of the lake to find that…

Traffic-danger! After a lot of stopping to check out potential places we finally found a picnic site / large car park at the tourist path by the lake with reasonable sloping (reasonable as in “we miiiight just survive going up and down if we take our small bottles and..have some luck!) path with a fence to hold on to for at least a bit. Of course it started to rain, just as we started to make us ready, but as the purified Scottland-travelers we were by then we knew that it was only to wait about a 1 / 2 hours and we would get different weather and we could always fix the camera inside the car while waiting.

Then went out and began to kit up and by that obviously put other drivers in shock (no, no bare skin). Saw all the cars åtminståne slow down considerably, mostly with very large eyes and surprised eyes and some people in great need of an exorcism like the woman who turned her head 180 degrees, I promise and a driver that had to slowly drive into the parking lot rubbing his eyes to really look if he saw what he thought he saw. Do not think they were accustomed to people who spontaneously stopping to do a land-dive there, especially not if not in a dive-club .. *lol*

Mission!
Went into the water and realized that this was rapid deepening and just a short distance from the beach Anders signaled he’d found a suitable place to go down. I went down some meters outside of him. This because I still shamefully have a tendency to turn around a lot and did not want to accidentaly kicking or end up sitting in Anders lap once down. What met me under the surface was therefore a what i felt like a pitch-black darkness… Boy! Did that make me wish i’d gone down with lamp lightned!

Guess that made me swallow more than a few bars within seconds and I had one hand on each inflator (west and drysuit) in order not to go down too quickly. Almost immediately it became much darker and as I went down, very gently and slowly, I could not first believe in depth-gauge which told me I was only 75 cm below the surface but where Anders, smartly enough not gone down over the edge but at about 1.8 m , it was much brighter (se first pic above. second pic from 2.5-3 m deph at limit of darkness told about further down). So, Get used to darknes and so fast to a place there at rockslope where we tested a variety of ways to shoot our Nessie on, some pics that we tried to be serious with and some we just joked around with before we realized that we needed some of the darker, darker waters and my weaker light placed right for photo, not for me to see…

“HEELP! I’m…”

“…drowning!!!”

“But..In the deep dark no-one can hear you scream…Muahaaa!!”

“Where are the HID boys?”
Slid down over the steep edge and around 3 m deph the visibilitty got better but there we almost got a knife-edge of where water turned dark fast (se first pics). Followed a log down to have something to squeeze because here it quickly became even darker and already at 3-4 m light was needed as soon as we’d photographed! At stoneslopes end at 6 meters, I began to wonder if it had not been a good idea to have a couple of “close-knit, extremely competent whatever happened, and especially good at boyancy” HID-guys to hide behind and get a free ride behind by holding on to their bottles (I weighs nothing in water, I prooomise!) to look up a bit so just enough from behind

“This is dark..VERY dark!”

“But..kind of cozy now when i’ve gotten used to it!”

“Stupid camera”
Once again, having drawn a few extra bars of air, I calmed myself down and discovered that it was really quite cozy actually! Then Anders looks at me with a questioning face and signals “up” and “something is wrong” and seems to point to me so when he repeats it I thought it was due to my recently stressed look and my fear of the dark so I signal that I’m ok but he insists and since it’s not a sign to ignore and it’s after all easy to go down again so..

Goes up, a bit over irritated, and learns that his arm for the camera-flashes broken by so just to trudge up with the camera in his arms like a baby. Anders offers to go down again after since we both lounged for this dive but I declined because I feel well a bit hungry and tired and we both agree that it probably was an idea to get some food before it was too late. So, quickly scrable up the slope or, as it feels like mountainclimbing.. (o please don’t let anyone see us, this looks patetic, like babies learning how to walk!)  and pack gear to go for a hunt for food. And yes, if you guessed that also took awhile to find you’re correct, had to go all the way back to village we started from! And after all that climbing and wobbly rocks, guess what we found on backside on the inn, 100 m from our B&B? Yepp! A nice beach with fast slooping bottom, a dream to dived from! *doh* Oh well, it still felt amazing to actually have DIVED LOCH NESS!, JIPPIE!!! and even if short so did we had lots of fun!

What it also contained was some filming device looking stuff, weired.. But who cares, i want food! Once fed the most wonderful meal, wine and whisky our super-nice waitress, that got to know what we’ve done when asking how come we where wet and so cold, ask embarrased if we would mind some company? Was a bunch of Nessie-monster hunters that she told and they would love to ask us about what we’ve seen down under. Off cause we accepted and got to know they’ve sat up a device to film automatic if anything moved over surface and had a good time. Afterward though we regretted even more not checking the Inn out first, just think how fun it would have been if us visable under surface, with bubbles would have caused a new Nessie-roumor! Yes, we miscievous! *lol*

Oh, and the food and choices and place was something i’d expected in a smaller town at least and absolutly not in this tiny place with just, as we where told, 100 persons living, kids included! Photo from window of our B&B at one end of village and there you almost can see the end of it!

(Backgroundstory)

Some years ago father in law was supposted to go on a longed for years international car-meeting to meet owners of legendary car but got sick so he couldn’t join the rest of us. On trip back we all got silly and joked endless of what he would comfort himself with and voted for a classic car renovation object he didn’t have room for. So, when he met us arriving we directly asked “What have you comforted yourself with, a new car? (lol) ” and he looked at wife embassad and said a low “yes..” That of cause became a fun family aknedokte.

So.. Going to boat show me and hubby joked about what if we would get inspired from that and by a boat, even if had no intention to do so since we doubted we would find a boat fitting all our dreams in one, well unless we robbed some banks to afford a special building ;-/ I mean, we dreamed of a boat 1/ small enough to fit our boatplace and winterstorage. 2/ Capable of going as well as both fast and “crawling” 3/ Cabin with place for sleeping, a table with sit-place, weel, small stove, cooler and toilet. 4/ One we actually could afford without selling home. 5/ One we BOTH loved 6/ One good for BOTH diving and vacating! I did mention all this was supposted to be in SMALL boat did I not..? Absolutely no big wishes..o no.. *lol*

But, walking around aimless a boat caught my eye and I went inside for peaking on fun and fell absolutely in love with it! In love as a girl in earliest teen for “That cuuuuute guy i would DIIIEE if he said hi” way, with pink boatshaped hearts in eyes. Don’t know if it was my telling or hubby also liked what he saw but we ended up both checking it out and getting showed it by guy from yeard that built it? and that sure didn’t dampened our love.

We where veeery close to buying it on spot but managed to decide to check economic and send out boat knowledgeble father in law to check it out tomorrow but..no promises i won’t yell.. “We bought it!” in some days *lol*

P.s… First walking 8 h on congrete floor on work and then hours an boat show/boat fair…my feets bleeds! But, it was fun!