I’m a few days in Håvoll. Working-holiday. It is cold here, with only 3.5°C in the morning. But the mountain tops are covered in white.
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My lunch box
I got this lunch box (black and blum) from my husb. A sandwich with yellow or brown cheese is a very common lunch in Norway and I use the box most days. The lid can also be used as cutting board.
Baking bread
Baking bread today. I love the smell of freshly baked bread!
The tea bag project
Last week I heard a talk from Judith Sarneel, biologist using tea bags for science. Yes, it sounds funny, but it’s for real. The idea is to burry tea bags into the soil to measure how fast the tea decompose („eaten by soil organisms“). The longterm goal is to get as many people involved as possible to participate to measure the decomposition rate all over the world. They use a very simple standardized method that anybody can do: burry some tea bags for 3 month, take them out, dry them and weight them.
So if your interested check out the webpage: TBI
(pic from the TBI homepage)
Autumn
It’s autumn here and after some days of rain, the sun is finally shining again.
How to make a whale stamp
I have one good and one very bad excuse for why I haven’t been writing in a while. And I’ll give you both: First, I have been working a lot on a paper, which is still not finished (that’s the bad excuse). And Mr. K has been visiting this week, which distracted me from doing anything else then spending time with him (that’s the good excuse, in my opinion).
But I have a goody for you! Mr. K was so kind to make this lovely video, how I make a whale stamp (Thank you love). It has much improved from the last one, and it has cool music. So turn on the volume and enjoy!
Viviani Chocolate
This is going to be a sweet post! During my field work this summer a found a little shop on a farm in Aurland, which sold Viviani Chocolate. The chocolate is produced in Germany from biologically produced cacao. By paying more for better quality products, they also support the local farmers.
I have only tried one type: organic dark almonds and I definitely want more!
PhD Comics
Weekly comics about academia!
Making a stamp
I did not want to show you this movie of how I make stamps. It’s my first movie and it’s not perfect! It’s difficult to work below a camera, without your head poping into the picture :-) and at the end you can’t see the whole stamp :-( But besides that the movie is pretty cool and I attached a picture of what you should see in the end. Enjoy!
Getting organized with the Bullet Journal
I am back in the office and have to plan what I am going to do for the next 9 month before I can go out to the field again. I like organizing, but I sometimes get lost in big tasks. I have tried several things to get more organized, like writing lists. But nothing really worked until I came across the Bullet Journal. It looks complicated in the beginning and you have to write with a real pen, but when do you ever write these days? For me it’s an easy way to organize my tasks and it involves checking boxes when a task is done (which I love). In addition, I can continue to use „my bible“ (a simple black Moleskin journal that I have used during my PhD, it’s the second book, so I guess Bible II).
