Summer
is finally here!
Summer
has been on and off, granting us mostly grey, rainy days and the last day of
June was very stormy, the water was pouring down and the whole sky was blazing
as the flashes of lightning preceded the deafening thunder. But! Then the first
day of July was the most beautiful day and that really kicked off the summer
this year! Better late than never...
Today
was a beautiful and warm, sunny day. We went for a walk around and I took lots
of pictures, because it is so nice to watch them when the summer is over. I try
to immortalize summer through a lens of a camera.
We
had our own kick off to summer when later today we went to the shore and sat on
a wooden patio, drinking chilled sparkling wine and enjoyed the sunny evening
with no hurry and nowhere to go... We were just relaxing and talking and just
listening the waves – the sound of sloshing waves is intoxicating.
We sat there as the sun was slowly setting and we were back home not until half
past nine. It’s truly amazing how time actually flies in good company!
The Finnish summer is very short comparing to the other seasons. So, I have
promised myself to enjoy the summer as much as I can and take everything out of
it!
PS. As you may have noticed, the photos in my most recent blog posts have been
not what they use to be, because my camera broke and I had to use this tiny
digital camera of mine instead. But! Now I've got my camera from the repair
shop where it was for weeks, which means I can start to take actually decent
photos again! I couldn't be happier!
Happy
Midsummer's Day everyone!
Midsummer
Day must be one of my favorite holidays. Not only because it’s the longest and
lightest day of the year, but every holiday gives you a permission to eat and
drink well!
My
mom gathered together the most beautiful bouquet and brought it home. The smell
of the fresh flowers were intoxicating!
The
cats were also interested in about the bouquet... Way too interested! Haha.
Later
we put on the grill and barbecued our own delicacies – only vegan delicacies for me,
of course.
The
dinner was very filling and good. And what can I say? I love food and I love to
barbecue!
The
Midsummer Day’s morning was beautiful and misty! Almost like a painting... On
Midsummer Day I give myself some more leash and let myself to stay up later
than usual. There’s nothing better than a night full of light when sun never
sets and you can get to see the rise of the new day.
We
had made the summer’s first sangria in the fridge to cool down and to absorb
all the flavors from all of the fresh fruits well ahead of time! To me, sangria
is a sign of summer!
Because
it was a holiday and stores were closed and there was nowhere to go, we slept
late – our cats are fascinating creatures for many reasons; one of them is that
they tend to sleep when we do. They don’t fill almost any part of the cats’
manual for they are unique. And besides, tiredness doesn’t look at a place or
time...
The Midsummer’s Eve and Day couldn’t gone any better! Only the weather could
have been sunnier, but to be honest, even the rainy, cloudy days didn’t bother
that much in the end. There’s still time for the sun to come out!
Days have been very hot, even too hot for my
taste because there’s no breeze of wind nowhere... So we have to have to spend
the days on the balcony doing basically nothing and everything (we possibly
could have done in this heat!)
After these cloudy, chilly few days the absolute sun feels burning! I didn’t
feel like turning the oven or even the stove on because of the heat so I
suggested to get something ready, because I didn’t have the energy to bewitch
anything from the fridge – so we got our basic breads from the café downtown...
And what else could be more suitable for a hot
summer day than a glass of cold sparkling wine?
… and an ice cream?
The cats were also melting down due to the heat:
I heard the whole next week will be just like
this; hot and sweaty! I guess I have to dig out my lightest and sheerest skirts
of mine from my closet, just in case...
Soon-to-be vegan (again) note!
About the bread I got today: first I had been told the bread was vegan (when I
was vegan and I asked was the bread vegan) but since then, I have learned that
it is not (because it contains milk protein!) – nowadays it is has not been that
big of a deal since I am a vegetarian and thus eat milk products only (still no
eggs or anything)... I still order my bread without cheese but I since I heard the
bread itself was not vegan I felt bad, to be honest! So I suppose from this day
on I will order it with rye bread to make it vegan, because I’m going towards
being vegan more and more again every day with my eating, for I still don’t use
leather, etc... So my lifestyle has remained vegan even my eating has not, but
only with the milk products part! I have just eaten cheese for less than a year
but every time I do, I feel guilty and feel like turning into being vegan again!
I can’t believe no one told me the white bread was not vegan when I first
ordered it when I was a vegan... But to be honest; the whole white bread thing
doesn’t really suit for my low-carb diet neither but sometimes I just break
down with the low-carb diet, but only sometimes... And eating "regular" ice creams will end too – I have been eating vegan ice creams also but sometimes the "more available" versions have got me. But no more!
