Archive for October, 2005

The calendar says it is fall, but I think it is now officially winter. The mountains have had snow on the peaks for the past four days, and whatever melts in the day time seems to be replenished at night. Wool sweaters and long underwear are a very important part of my wardrobe […]

We have had nice weather for the past couple of weeks, which is probably why I haven’t updated my website. “Nice weather” means not much rain, temperature in the 50’s (Fahrenheit), and even some sun, on the rare occasion. Today, it has been raining again, but with hardly any wind.
I have been rehearsing […]

This has been a very rainy fall for the Faroes. Even complete strangers have stopped me on the street to say that this has been an unusually rainy month. My car is still not fixed, so when it is pouring rain, I stay home. I need to buy some good rain gear, […]

Many of the people in Fuglafjørður own sheep that they raise for meat for their own families. During the summer the sheep graze in fields up in the hills and mountains. Every October the schools close for one week to bring the sheep down. All of the families who have sheep grazing […]

I have a fence around my back yard, and right in the middle of the yard is the boat house, with a boat stored in the lower level. The boat is still sea-worthy, though it hasn’t been used for quite a few years. It used to belong to my cousin Jacob, who died […]

Buying groceries is one of the challenges of living in a country where I don’t speak the language. Not only that, but many items are not labeled in Faroese, but in Danish.
I like packages that you can see through - it was easy to buy rice (ris) and pasta (pasta). However […]