July - Holidays

Pokemon Titus sleeping at the cottage

Yet too much time has passed with no updates. My apologies, but I feel zen. Let's get down to commerce.

4.7 Saturday

Holidays started on Friday. We went shopping and I tried a pair of sun glasses. I bought all Bioshock computer games.

Lady look

I went jogging in the afternoon.

Dead seagull

5.7 Sunday

On Sunday we went at least for a walk.

Repairing Hämeentie in Helsinki

We had a lot of salmon that was getting old and I made salmon "pirogies". They became not too good but there were many of them.

Some of the ingredients

6.7 Monday

On Monday holiday middle class life started. That entails moving stuff from one place to another. So we picked up the boat from our cottage in Porkala and took the boat to my parents place. We cleaned it there and Titus my brother was scrubbing hard.

Heavy duty action for our new car

Titus scrubbing like there is no tomorrow.

Pekka my father got too hungry and had to eat before we were ready with the boat

7.7 Tuesday

On Tuesday we drove from Helsinki via Kirkkonummi and Pori to Vasa. We had the boat in a trailer and my surf board in the boat. We were driving to summer holidays.

The summer holidays can 

The summer paradise

8.7 Wednesday

From this day until 15.7 we were at the cottage relaxing. This was much needed for me after an intensive spring and Q1 and Q2. Everyday weak up later, long breakfast, no commitments, dinner, sauna evening tea.

In the morning one neighbour threatened to kill us. He has killed people before. Snake in paradise.

9.7 Thursday

Same as above. I did some wind surfing.

10.7 Friday

Maria arrived to Vasa.

Clayhill on holidays, photo by mamma

11.7 Saturday

Fishing, photo by Maria

Mamma working, photo by Maria

Prepping fish, photo by Maria

Smoking fisk

Titus preparing

12.7 Sunday

On Sunday we had guests at the cottage.

The feast.

The thing on my head is put on the kettle to keep it warm

13.7 Monday

Titus visualising his life goals

14.7 Tuesday

We celebrated Maria's birthday on Tuesday. We ate at restaurang Hejm, which is where we also filed one episode of our show Hacka livet. https://arenan.yle.fi/1-50261804

Isak my older brother and his family arrived to the cottage.

15.7 Wednesday

Wednesday afternoon we drove back to Helsinki.

16.7 Thursday

Internet

I tried to fix our new internet. It didn't work out.

17.7 Friday

On Friday we had a tasty lunch.

Lunch with M

Maria bought a bike.

18.7 Saturday

We biked.

19.7 Sunday

We biked. And watched too much TV.

20.7 Monday

We went for a walk and felt better afterwards.

21.7 Tuesday

I played a lot of Fallout 4 and in the evening I was at work fixing on the kids show we have in the pipeline.

22.7 Wednesday

Maria invited me for Lunch at kahvila Siili. The soup was good but a bit small.

It was in a pleasant area the café 

I edited on my vlog, soon to be publicised at the office. Maria and I had lunch and Titus and I drove to the cottage. Canoe on the roof and surf board in the car. Another day in middle class heaven.

23.7 Thursday

Now I am sitting at the dinner table at our cottage in Porkala with Titus. Relaxing. 

1,5 months, sorry guys.

Office lunch 15.5.2020, liver casserole

Before I start running through the days, I have to talk about this long break. I didn't expect the pause to be this long. I have thought of updating a handful of times but other things have got in the way.

As always I decided to forgive myself and try to remember as well as I can what has been going on during the past 1,5 months. I will continue trying to keep updating at a regular pace because I believe that the gems in life are hidden in the everyday. To have a record of my time at earth feels historic.

So to start, I will upload interesting photos from the past 1,5 months. These refresh my memory. I need to add that I have been working like hell, like never before during this time so this means a lot of the stuff that has been going on is work related. But interesting.

I should also add that I have the firm intention to launch my construction blog. It's about the renovation of an apartment that I own.

At the set

At the set, at the cottage

15.5 - 16.5 - 17.5. These three days form a continuum. We participated in a film festival "Uneton 48" and we made a film. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/420739479/8514748bd2

I would rate it as 3/5. It was interesting to make it and a detailed post analysing the process would be good to write, but let me first trudge through time.

We started on Friday and got the theme for our film. Friday evening we brainstormed and wrote the script. The next day we filmed in three different locations. Titus and I slept in the office after making a first edit. On Sunday it was completed. It was an intensive process.

18-19.5 forms the next continuum. My older brothers kids visited us. The highlight of this, according to all of us, was when we played red dead redemption 2 doing only peaceful stuff.

The Consumer

Country kids in city life

20, 21, 22.5 can't possible remember. 

23.5 - We sowed. This year we got beetroot, parsnip, kohlrabi, salad, onion, carrots and radish.

Anti grocery list

Gardenista 

24.5 can't remember either. 

25-26.5 forms the next continuum. The kids came to our place for a couple of nights. I had no children books so I tried to read the Bible to them, starting from page one but that was not liked. So I made up some stories and the fell asleep. We also visited the beach and travelled 3 persons on one scooter. 

Luxurious (unsustainable) breakfast

I, J, T and E came for bbq party on Tuesday 26.5. 

The following these are unknown. We worked at least.

27.5

28.5

29.5

30.5 We met Jan and his family and look at the car he had for sale. 

31.5 We went biking.

1.6. We went to Porkala with Clayhill and Ellen. The intention was to write 10 scripts for the TV show we are working on. We were super busy with a lot of other stuff so we didn't get the scripts done. It was stressful at the cottage because we had so much to do. It would have been better in the office. 

At the "terrace of friction". Photo by Maria

3 hours fishing = no fish. Photo by Titus


Isak, Dennis and the kids visited one day. We bbq:ed among other things.

BBQ

At the cottage

Staying up late.

I am not sure how long we stayed at the cottage. We went shooting one day and we worked some of the week end I recall, but I might be wrong. 

6.6. 

We went out to eat for the first time since Covid. 

Late breakfast

On 7.6 I shaved my beard. 

By the way I ran two half marathons: 7.6 and 14.6. The second try took 2h 3 min. 

8-11.6 we were shooting and travelling. Helsinki-Kirkkonummi-Raasepori-Helsinki-Juva-Jyväskylä-Ähtäri-Helsinki. We were back on a Thursday.

Titus shooting

On the ferry with our Chrysler Epica (not a good car)


We stayed at a hotel and we enjoyed the view greatly.


My brother has a thick neck

The following week we casted an actor for our show for kids to the Finnish broadcaster Yle. We met Jan and his family.


In the park


15062020


Someone found a cozy spot.

We test drove Jan's car on the 18.6.

Titus tried the trunk

Then came midsummer.

Happy midsummer

I look fat

21-25.6 is a bit hazy. We worked hard. On 25.6 we helped Isak to get his hay for the sheep. Winter food.

Bonden behövs

It took the whole day. We swam at 11 p.m in a lake and were home late in the night.

Then it was back to work. On 26.6. we bought Jan's car. I own 25%, Maria 35% and Titus 50 %.

Reading about Verla and getting back scratched.

On 27th we went swimming. Including Pekka, my father, which is very unusual. 

At beach, Jean Monet 1899

28.6 Titus, Ellen, Sebbe and me swam in Meiko. 

New old car

29.6, 30.6, 1.7, 2.7 passed and it was hard work before the summer holidays start. 2.7 was the first holidayish day. 

3.7 today and I sold a summer cottage my brothers and I owned. That's now sold and I am travelling back to Helsinki from Vasa. Over 900 km of train travel in one day.

Now holidays can start. And I will post more often.