The sun came over the horizon at about 9 a.m. It just started peeking over the mountain and into this valley where we work. It is a long skinny valley between two very long skinny deep lakes...one called a fjord. One lake is a few hundred meters deep and 60 or so miles long. The valleys twist and wind into wider valleys where there are potato and wheat fields. Yesterday the sun disappeared at 2 p.m. The last direct sunlight in this valley disappeared at almost 2 p.m. exactly. 
I have been buying candles by the hundreds. We bought a new lamp for our kitchen. Our sunlamp in the house goes on from 7-8 a.m. and then it goes on as soon as NK gets home from school until about 6 p.m. Even Forrest lays by the sunlamp. Last night my friend Eva came over and confirmed that cats in Norway go a little batty at this time of year. People do too, thus the reason for the sunlamp and lots of lighting. I have noticed the darker it gets outside the louder the volume on my TV, I wonder if there truly is a correlation.The roads are so slippery - sheets of ice. The metal studded tires are on and still we slide backwards down streets. We have a can a sticky spray to spray on the tires when we can't get up the streets. Sideways slides are scary too...of course NK loves it..."Mom, we are drifting". Sliding backwards down a mountain is not my idea of fun. We have our shoe spikes out - especially for NK on his nearly1/2 - 3/4 mile hike to school.
Sitting in my office looking out right now is it looks like a wonderland...huge pine forests, snow, and a bronze moose statue...little yellow breasted birds hanging out in the tree outside my window...kjøtt maiz...I think that is what they are called...meat corn. It doesn't sound right...maybe I have the name wrong. With my Norwegian anything is possible.
Just an update...
Just an update...
Norway is so beautiful. These photos are all from the car trip back and forth to the island and several photos from the farm at Myklebust.