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This is the creek that was behind our house in the US. |
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A friendly neighbour, Sam, outside the "Girl's House". The (single) mother was a State Department official who had adopted four girls from overseas. |
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Taltarni in her early walking days. Picture was taken in Birgitta and Uffe's house. |
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Same house, a little further along the hallway. |
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Note sure what happened here. |
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Agnes and the television. |
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Kalle being Sankta Lucia. Not something he would do today. |
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A full length shot, note that Kalle is probably a little over four at this stage. |
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Felicia (pronounced Fel-easier) |
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Birgitta, and Agnes and Kalle standing in front of Kajsa in Birgitta and Uffe's kitchen. |
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Another view of the kitchen, filled with people. |
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Couldn't get Kalle out of that costume, could we? |
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Son of one of Kajsa's old friends from Orebro, Martina. |
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Martina and Staffan's daughter. |
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It had snowed the day that we visited, so the boys went outside to play in it. |
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This is a photo of the sun at midday on the shortest day of the year. That's as high as it gets. |
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Vevelsund's own island, well part of an island - and it is called Farneby Island, Farneby being another farm. There's ice on the lake already. |
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Kajsa's aunt Svea lives here in Rosendahl. |
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The fields are all brown, having been ploughed ready for winter's freeze. |
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Svea in the kitchen of Rosendahl. |
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Time to fika. In Sweden it is against the law to drink coffee without having cake or biscuits at the same time. |
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Birgitta and Uffe's dog, Ben. He passed away after we left the US. |
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Kalle in winter clothes. This photo was taken in the "dairy" or, more accurately, the milking shed. |
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The younger Wevel's sitting on the big red couch, ready for the professional photographer. |
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Tim, on the other hand, got less than professional results. |
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Taltarni playing with a toy car. |
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Jenny's big role at the end of year school concert. Looked like she was a doctor who had Tomten as a client. |
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Kajsa and Taltarni in Vrena School's gymnasium. |
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Birgitta lets her hair down for a Christmas dance. |
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Erika in Ingela and Hasse's kitchen. |
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Ingela's cats playing. One of these cats passed away not long before the update to this gallery. |
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Rikard on the nice red couch. |
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Fika time again at Svea's. |
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Rare photo of Kajsa with glasses, enjoying fika with Taltarni. |
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Christmas meal at Birgitta and Uffe's. Her Kajsa is talking with her mother, Inga. |
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Astrid, Kajsa's oldest aunt, and Taltarni. The photo was taken in Astrid's flat which is now Rikard's part of Ingela and Hasse's house. |
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Kalle and Emily. Emily is Julia's sister. |
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The whole bally lot of them. |
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Tiger, Kalle, Taltarni and some random toy. |
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Kalle on a sled on the ice which covers the lake. |
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Taltarni and Agnes on a snow cart thingy. |
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Just a picture taken from on the ice, looking across the surface of the lake, which has a layer of snow as well as ice. |
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Kalle enjoying the heck out of winter. |
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This looks much worse than it is, they are just rolling around in the snow on the ice, not falling through. |
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Taltarni at Ingela and Hasse's. Behind Taltarni you can just see a tail. It belongs to Rim, who died in 2000. |
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Back to the US. Here is our house covered in snow after a light sprinkle. You can tell that because there are tyre tracks with tarmac visible. |
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Our letter box with its own covering of snow. |
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Kalle got out the sled and used it in the backyard. |
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Kalle again, with a different view of our house. The upper window is the main bedroom's. |
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Tasha also making the most of the snow. |
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Sometimes, she got in the way when Kalle wanted to use his sled. |
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Taken from our balcony, you can see Sam's house. |
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Eventually, Kalle got tired and wanted to call it quits. |
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Tasha's other dog-house, also covered in snow. |
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The night before we had hung out Tasha's rug to dry. Little hope of that really. |
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Since then, Tasha has had much better snow to run about in, but at this time, it was more than she could ever have expected in Australia! |
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