Took a walk during lunch with Cinder up to the store, returned home and tried to resume work, but then Albreda sent a note saying which bus she’d taken, and it was pretty much time to walk up to the bus stop, so I shut down the computer, put on coat, hood, and boots, and went out the door. A couple of blocks later my arms explained that I would have been smart to have put on the same wool sweater under my coat that I had worn the first time, as it is, in fact, cold out.
But -23 ⁰ C isn’t too cold for a wool coat over a cotton flanell shirt for only the 15 minutes walk to the bus stop, so I continued on, but I waited for the bus inside the house. Neither did we walk home, as Keldor was only a couple of minutes after the bus.
We then spent some time hanging out with Albreda and Cinder. A bit later my friend from work, with partner, dropped by briefly to drop off a synthesizer he his hoping to trade to Keldor for a woodworking axe. As luck would have it, the style of blade he is looking for is the same as the copy of an adze from the Mästermyr chest Keldor has lying in the desk drawer full of blades awaiting handels, so if he decides to accept the trade it won’t take much additional time.
Alas, they couldn’t stay as they were on their way to a family gathering in Skellefteå, but hopefully they will come again another time.
As they were leaving Daniel arrived. He had planned to take the train down from Kiruna, but it was -43⁰ C there, and that is so cold the train was cancelled, so he drove down instead.
So the evening was spent in good company, everyone doing crafts.
Albreda was the first to go to sleep, fairly early, due to an early start to the day, and but set an alarm for midnight, to see if the predictions for decent Northern Lights viewing between then and 04:00 were accurate.
An hour or three later Cinder said goodnight, and as midnight approached the rest of us were getting ready for bed, and I decided to go do a scouting mission, and bundled up for the walk down to the nature reserve to see if they were out. They weren’t but it was a really beautiful with a largish moon shining so brightly that the trees cast sharp shadows onto the snow. I went straight back in and around then Mary was just waking up from her nap as her alarm reminded her to check for Northern Lights.
So we went out for a lovely moonlight stroll in the -23 weather. It was so bright out, we could even take a selfie!
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