Silvermuseet etc
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kareinaWe did manage to get on the road early enough on Friday morning to swing by Storforsen on our way to Arjeplog, where Josie took a photo to prove we were there. It was a beautiful sunny day, and it would have been nice to have more time there, but since we had a meeting to get to we continued along the way. We arrived at the Silvermuseet about fifteen minutes before 14:00, but the museum is closed for lunch between 13:00 and 14:00, so we went across the street to a cafe and had a bite to eat first. Then I went to my meeting and Josie drove over the hotel and checked in.
I didn't really know what to expect from my visit, so was delighted when Ingela took me in to a back room where she had set out all of their soapstone objects for me to look at, photograph, and measure as I will. That was so cool! I just love the cute little bowl (# 477 in the photo). It is only about 3 cm in diameter. (Yes, I do also have photos with a scale bar, I just opted not to include those on the scrivener cards I have made for each object.)
While I wasplaying with the toys working, Josie toured the museum and spent time in the giftshop listing to Sami music with the clerk there trying to decide which CDs to buy (she would up getting three of them, I think). I took a quick run through the museum when I was done with the artefacts, but really should go back another time to take a better look. Need more friends to come visit for long enough that we do some sightseeing, too.
We stayed that night in a hotel in Arjeplog, where I copied the notes from my phone into scrivener, and started cleaning them up and adding photos, etc. Then the next day we continued on to Jokkmokk, pausing at the Arctic Circle for a photo. We arrived in Jokkmokk just before noon, which is when the Ájtte museum opens, so we had only about a two minute wait till they opened the doors.
After we left the museum we went looking for lunch. We went into the first resturant we came to, a pizza and pasta kinda place, and I didn't see anything on the menu that I would eat, so we turned around and left. We got a few steps away from the door when an older gentleman stepped out and called us back. He'd heard us discussing the fact that I am too fussy of a vegetarian to be able to find food on a pizza menu, and he asked if I eat pasta. I admitted that I did, and he whipped out a little note pad and started quizzing me on other ingrediants I will and won't eat, and eventually wound up with an acceptable list of things they had in house that I would eat, and he insisted we come in and eat. Josie got the day's special pasta (involving ox tail and a cream sauce), while I got mine with a variety of fresh and canned veg and kidney beans. Much to my delight, the meal was tasty. I ate half of it at once, and took the rest with me, and ate the rest later during the drive.
Saturday evening my friend Julia visited, and David was over, so we just lounged around and talked for much of the evening.
Sunday I worked on getting the rest of the samples into scrivener and their locations plotted on a map (she had given me printouts of maps with the locations marked with dots, so I then had to find those locations on the wonderful on-line Swedish map page and determine their lat/long.
Sunday evening was a special Folk Dance session in Gammelstad. We had about 30 people show up, most of us dancers, but enough musicians to give a good rich sound. This was my first real exercise since surgery (I don't count my daily yoga, which has been kind of modified), and it felt so good to move. I was careful not to raise my arms too high, even when spinning under my partner's arms, and the muscles in my chest/shoulders only complained a few times, and not loudly.
However, I think that pushing myself that much was good for me, since today during yoga I was able to do a handstand for the first time since surgery (11 days ago), and I can now lift my arms nearly fully overhead, so long as they are a little forward. If I try to pull the arms back into the plane of my body when they are up then they lower themselves as I do. But it is noticeably better. Josie says she is enjoying watching how I am a little better each day.
Today I worked from home, and then we went to Nyckelharpa night. Josie loves listening to the music and working on a project as much as I do. Tomorrow I need to actually go into the office, so I had better post this. Luckily, yoga is already done, so there is only a nice hot shower between me and my bed.
I didn't really know what to expect from my visit, so was delighted when Ingela took me in to a back room where she had set out all of their soapstone objects for me to look at, photograph, and measure as I will. That was so cool! I just love the cute little bowl (# 477 in the photo). It is only about 3 cm in diameter. (Yes, I do also have photos with a scale bar, I just opted not to include those on the scrivener cards I have made for each object.)
While I was
We stayed that night in a hotel in Arjeplog, where I copied the notes from my phone into scrivener, and started cleaning them up and adding photos, etc. Then the next day we continued on to Jokkmokk, pausing at the Arctic Circle for a photo. We arrived in Jokkmokk just before noon, which is when the Ájtte museum opens, so we had only about a two minute wait till they opened the doors.
After we left the museum we went looking for lunch. We went into the first resturant we came to, a pizza and pasta kinda place, and I didn't see anything on the menu that I would eat, so we turned around and left. We got a few steps away from the door when an older gentleman stepped out and called us back. He'd heard us discussing the fact that I am too fussy of a vegetarian to be able to find food on a pizza menu, and he asked if I eat pasta. I admitted that I did, and he whipped out a little note pad and started quizzing me on other ingrediants I will and won't eat, and eventually wound up with an acceptable list of things they had in house that I would eat, and he insisted we come in and eat. Josie got the day's special pasta (involving ox tail and a cream sauce), while I got mine with a variety of fresh and canned veg and kidney beans. Much to my delight, the meal was tasty. I ate half of it at once, and took the rest with me, and ate the rest later during the drive.
Saturday evening my friend Julia visited, and David was over, so we just lounged around and talked for much of the evening.
Sunday I worked on getting the rest of the samples into scrivener and their locations plotted on a map (she had given me printouts of maps with the locations marked with dots, so I then had to find those locations on the wonderful on-line Swedish map page and determine their lat/long.
Sunday evening was a special Folk Dance session in Gammelstad. We had about 30 people show up, most of us dancers, but enough musicians to give a good rich sound. This was my first real exercise since surgery (I don't count my daily yoga, which has been kind of modified), and it felt so good to move. I was careful not to raise my arms too high, even when spinning under my partner's arms, and the muscles in my chest/shoulders only complained a few times, and not loudly.
However, I think that pushing myself that much was good for me, since today during yoga I was able to do a handstand for the first time since surgery (11 days ago), and I can now lift my arms nearly fully overhead, so long as they are a little forward. If I try to pull the arms back into the plane of my body when they are up then they lower themselves as I do. But it is noticeably better. Josie says she is enjoying watching how I am a little better each day.
Today I worked from home, and then we went to Nyckelharpa night. Josie loves listening to the music and working on a project as much as I do. Tomorrow I need to actually go into the office, so I had better post this. Luckily, yoga is already done, so there is only a nice hot shower between me and my bed.