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I like how when you travel, which day of the week it is ceases to matter much..at least,I never really know if it’s Tuesday or Saturday;-) Though in some countries (like Germany where I just came from) it’s important to remember when Sunday is….. there’s still so much closed on a Sunday there, compared to Italy which in theory is a ‘religious country ‘.
Do you like having specific days of the week for specific things? Or would you prefer every day to offer the same opportunities/benefits/drawbacks?
I’m reading this morning about rosorange wine… have you ever tried it?
It’s a mixture of rosé ( made with red grapes) and orange wine (made with white grapes).
Apparently it’s quite trendy at the moment, though personally I haven’t seen it anywhere…
Do you guys ever eat frozen grapes? Apparently it’s a thing. We eat tons of grapes every fall, but I never thought about freezing them, and the thought of eating hard frozen fruit makes my teeth ache.
The heatwave is effecting reindeer in the northern parts of Finland. Some reindeer deaths have been suspected to be linked to the heat already, and the heat exhausts them to a degree where they’re much more vulnerable to attacks by bears and wolverine. [Link to article in Finnish](https://yle.fi/a/74-20175126). A super hot summer in the 70´s caused big losses as so many reindeer died.
A hotel owner mentions, in what sounds like an annoyed tone of voice, that he has had to put up a sign urging people to make sure to close the hotel’s front door – for him, it’s 100% self-evident reindeer will come in for shelter if the door is left open. He even refers to having to put the sign up as being “American style”, in that you can’t trust people to have common sense. Well, most Finns live outside of the reindeer herding area and have near zero experience with them.
The reindeer seek shelter anywhere they can find it. and are expected to go back to forested areas when temperatures go down again.
Last night I was watching this [thunderstorm slowly roll over us](https://i.imgur.com/5HjJ8qV.mp4), and some of the lightning was really high up in the atmosphere, I couldn’t even hear it. Just saw the flashes. There probably was sound, but I was at a relatively busy supermarket carpark around midnight next to the ring road, so quite a bit of other noise to drown out whatever faint rumbles the thundering was letting off.
I love that weather, before the rain hits when thunder is rolling in at night. You get the flashes in the horizon, the warm wind shaking the trees. The perpetual twilight of Nordic summer nights gets overtaken by dark ominous clouds. It’s so restless and there is this mystical sense of inevitability.
For the last couple of years we’ve had a multi-sport event called “Die Finals” (The Finals), where various sport associations organise their national championships at the same time, in the same city (this year it’s Dresden). So basically like a mini Olympics over one weekend.
I think it’s a neat concept and a great chance especially for smaller more unknown sports to reach a wider audience. E.g. yesterday I watched my first full game of [Fistball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fistball), and it was surprisingly engaging as well.
Do you have something similar in your country?
It’s Rally Finland weekend, and I’m watching the morning stages right now. It’s always so funny to look at helicopter images of countryside from Central-Finland, because that region really gets no international attention any other time. So to see footage with such high production value from there is weird.
Later today I’ll head up to Jyväskylä myself to check out the evening service, and then tomorrow I’ll head to some stage myself. This year unfortunately I’ll go alone as my friend I usually go with is unable to go, but it’ll still be fun and you always find people to hang out with among rally fans.
By the way, [look at the crumb on my sourdough potato bread](https://i.imgur.com/gLaImfd.jpg). I nailed it, if I may say so myself.
I am still trying to use up the potato flakes I bought in Kiel. It’s the gift that keeps giving.