First week round.

One week gone by and it feels like a month!
We have emptied the container, we have furnished the house with the help of Jasper's parents and got started.
With big orders of cheese waiting to be produced and packed and delivered Jasper moved into the cheesery for three days and made 240 kilo's of goatcheese. Ab, the previous owner of the cheesery is still here to help us with all this. Me and Jasper's mom cut,vacumed and packed about 150 kilo's of cheese to be delivered. Off course the result of all the hard work was the printing out of our first invoice within 7 days of arrival in Norway..
In the meantime  Emma and Sam discovered the farm, the lands, the lake and the mountains. We all walk around in awe of the scenery and the setting we now call home. It looks like a dream or a moviesetting (our own private shire).
The last snow has rained away except for the top of Tysnesåta. The rivers and waterfalls are noisy and overloaded. Weather changes quickly on Tysnes, from calm and sunny to wild and stormy.



The grass, which was yellow, now gets a light shade of green and the trees start changing too.
Unfortunately the watersupply to the house got frozen in the week before our arrival, because Ab was gone to Uganda for ten days and the waterpipes, not being used, froze. They are 1,5 metres deep in the ground so it will take some serious rain and rising temperatures to get them running again. But no worries, we get water through a d-tour from the barn, so we're fine
Emma and Sam started school after the weekend we arrived. We left Emma behind on her own, the first day, knowing she speaks a little english and I went to school with Sam on his first day.
The kids and the teachers were very kind and they had a warm welcome in their new class. Although Sam could not communicate in language he managed to get a friend on his first day in school (through a soccorgame) and he told me i didn't have to come along the next day....brave two kids!
They really enjoyed their schooldays and for the first time EVER they were sorry the weekend showed up so quickly.
In the meantime Jasper and I are getting organized; opening bankaccounts, starting administration, going to the sherrif's to get id registration, getting to know our neighbours and customers and getting to know the farm, its barns, its machines..or should i say our farm, our barns, our machines...it still feels unreal (but good).
On friday Sam celebrated his 9th birthday. He got thrown into the air 9 times in school which he thought was a great norwegian tradition.

Coming up this week? Cleaning and opening the farmstore for the season, a newspaperarticle on our arrival on Tysnes on thursday, starting Norwegian classes togehter with the spanish guy and the thai lady on the island, 100 kilo's of cowmilk cheese to be made and much much more....