Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): October 2018

Saturday 13 October 2018

Have you ever heard of Brittsommar?

Last week I read about Brittsommar in Sweden. I really didn't know what they are talking about. I thought it was a sort of celebration day for something of some one. They also have Kanelsbullens Dag on the 4th of October. So why not another special day?

I was really close. The Swedish Weather Forecast says there is Holy Birgitta who thought the climate in the North was so cold and hard that she prayed for the people living there. God answered he will give some extra summer days around Birgittas day on 7 October.

This name is only known in Sweden. There's not an exact definition but for the Swedish Weather Forecast it is necessary the warm and sunny period (over 20 degrees) follows a period of autumn like weather and lower temperatures around the 7th of October. Only this periode can you call Brittsommar. Like Indian Summer in the USA and Canada.

Well I can tell you, we had a real Brittsommar in South Sweden this year, it was very sunny with 20 degrees. What a wonderful week in Autumn. I like it!

Lake Flyxen on the 13th of October

Really warm 20 degrees, a real Brittsommar

Thursday 4 October 2018

Can you eat this chantarelle? Toptips!

Chantarelle? Wright or wrong?

One of the most asked questions when people start picking swamps. Is this one eatable? Or is it toxic? It's fun to go into the woods in Sweden, a lot of people do. Chantarelles are my favourites, they are really delicious to eat. Only bake it with some butter, peppar and salt.

Tips to recognize a chantarelle:
1. the colour is light yellow (not orange)
2. your can smell aprikos
3. the lamels don't stop on the stalk
4. it is not round like a pancake

So the left one is the wrong one (but it is not toxic), at the right the one you can eat!

About me

Hello, so nice you are visiting my blog. I'm Brun Arntz. Since 2016 I'm living on the countryside in Småland Sweden. I'm working on a lot of creative projects. My biggest project is my dream was to create a big garden, with a nice natural design filled with self grown flowers with my green fingers. As you can reed in my blog, I'm still working on this project now. It makes my happy to live so close to nature, to go with the flow. It brings me a lot of balance in my life. Another project is to be creative with natural materials to make home and garden decorations. For Christmas, Wintertime, Eastern, Spring or just a normal day. That gives me a lot of spirit! Or in wintertime I try to renew old stuff. It is easy to scoren some old furniture in a famous Swedish loppis (Secondhand). Of course with nice colors in the Scandinavian style, light, simply and natural. Specially green, of course... Now I'm dreaming to have a typical Swedish Trädgårdscafe where people can have Swedish Fikatime (time for having coffee and cakes) with a lot of places to sit somewhere in a very nice garden. But the Coronavirus disturbed my planning....but maybe next spring? Great that you want to follow some my projects. I hope it will give you good spirit and inspiration too. Greetings from Brün

My garden

Once upon a time there was a very nice garden around Stegaryd Sjöbygget Gamla Skola. After the school was closed in the 50's the new owner started creating a garden around the place. The place was well known in the surroundings to be full of flowers and the lady was always working in the garden (a little bit like me now, just because I like it so much). When she got too old the house was sold as a summerhouse, the garden was not longer taken care of. When we came, in 2016, we started to clean up and recover what once was there. Because gardening, designing, creating and growing plants is my passion and love. The goal is to create a natural garden with grandma's plants and some prairiegarden influences. After 5 years, we are not ready yet but a lot of heavy work is done now. It's starting to be a nice garden again. Judge it yourself on my weblog.