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Sometimes I feel lucky just being.

Et glimt av sommeren på Vaag 23/1 – 2024

Sommer og travle, men gode tider på gården!

Velkommen til verden, lille venn!
Kviger på sommerferie.
Enda flere kviger på sommerferie.
Mor og sønn i kveldssola
Kul, kulere, kulest!
Vakker dame i kveldssol.
Iris – 13 år.
Bonden med gutta krutt: Tix og Tobias.
En melkeskvett i fjøsdøra må til.
En del av melkekyra på gården, en rimelig tidlig morgen, og de  har absolutt ikke tid til å besøke melkeroboten riktig enda…
Hestene har også sommerferie, men har tid til å hilse på såvidt.

 

 

Spring is FINALLY here!

The birds are singing, the plants are waking up and starting to grow, and the sweeet smells of Spring is comin’ around the corner!

Vaag back in the day – about 1965ish

This picture is from back in the 1960’s (probably), and the image shows Vaag, farm no. 23/1. The red buildings down left is Vågheim and above you it, the white house to the left is Nytun (still standing, just different color). Vågheim is where my riding track is located today. The buildings of Vågheim was torn down in the early 1990’s.

The area around was called Vågsgrenda, and consisted of around 10 little farms and severeal smaller houses. Today there are only two farms left. Some of the older farmbuildings are still standing, but most of them are gone. Modern times led to different patterns of locating houses, and now Vågsgrenda has sort of transformed into “Fikkan”. Fikkan is really on the other side of the bay Vågsvågen, but the name is now used for Vågsgrenda due to the school that used to be close by and now the houses built more centered in “municipal building areas” around the school-building.

First month of Spring….

The weather is warmer, still cold and an abundance of snow, but luckily the days are longer and brighter.

.Morgenrød

Morning view beginning of March

At the same time, the Moon has not gone quite away.

Snow February vs snow March:

But pretty as pretty can be:

While waiting for spring…

A glimpse of my grandfather and his cows headed back to the barn, some time in the 1960’s probably. In the background you can see the one building still intact on the farm – “Kalvhuset”.

We still do dairy on the farm, and the cows are mostly kind of cute. Today all the heifers are GS-tested, which means they have their DNA screened, and it is a little easier to foretel the future if it is going to be an awesome milk producer or not, or if it is at greater risk for illnesses for example. The farmer finds it rather interesting and fun to dig into such things.

 

 

Rocks…

In our nearby surroundings, there are a few special places with what seems like just ordinary piles of rocks… These piles of rock actually do have a history and an explanation behind them. They are not just piles of rocks.

The first pile of rocks worth mentioning, is located close to the top of Stonghaugen, the highest hill, next to the farm buildings. The view is spectacular from this point, and one might think these rocks might show a property marking of some sort. This is not the case. These rocks were placed at its current location a few decades ago by some young boys waiting for their father and older brother upon their return from the fisheries in Lofoten. The shape of the tallest rock, being flat on top, is perfect for sitting looking for action down on the fjord.

From this point, you see Vågsvågen and Arnøyfjorden quite well, and with a different direction, you see the great Folla.

Not far from Stonghaugen, there are some other piles of rock that are quite a bit larger of size, and quite older than the first, little pile of rocks.

In the area we call Klungvika, there are no less than two hills serving as someones resting place.  This is marked by two, quite large rock-piles.

The smallest of the graves, viewed towards the bigger one in the background, on the other hilltop, closer to Nyheim.
The bigger grave in the distance, as seen from the smallest one.
The larger of the gravesites, view from below.
View from the West-side.
View from the north side.
View from the south side bottom.
Viewed from the top, with the obvious signs of this grave being dug out by someone decades ago. Uncertain if this was a man back in 1698 looking for rocks to build with or more modern day archeologists…

The view towards Folla from the largest of the graves is quite nice. And, the dark clouds are the bad weather coming in from the ocean in the west. Fascinating to observe the weather changes. Dramatic, spectacular and sometimes beautiful.

A rainstorm coming in from the Atlantic, november 2020.

These graves are substantial monuments of old time history.