The Grand Opening!

Today arrived the ice-cream! And the same friendly old driver with Valio lorry, had begun his route at mid-night and before 9 a.m. he was at Rumar Mountain by the small summer-café that we have rented again for next summer.

Our Grand Opening of the ice-cream season will be on next Saturday, on 26th April, when we shall - as the only village from our whole municipality of Parainen - take part in Village Happening "Open Villages" - Avoimet kylät! Hopefully next year more village will join!

From 10 am to 6 pm you can climb to the Rumar Tower, have a cup of coffee by the cliff and perhaps see a sea-eagle. And we'll be there to tell you how it is to live in the most beautiful archipelago of the world.

Tomorrow I'll fetch some sweets to sell from Kaarina, where is one of the newest and smallest sweet factories in Finland, Karkkimaailma, The Candy World... http://www.karkkimaailma.fi/ - it has sympathetic products and I like the idea of local and small against the big brands. All the lemonades we sell will come from Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas, http://laitilan.com/, another local and interesting firm producing with wind power!

 We are so new at the business that choosing products - ice-cream catalogue... - is fun, trying to make the place look like a one we would ourselves love on a summer-trip - local, personal, organic... I hope this thrilling feeling will stay and it will be a good season for us - I'm sure, another exciting summer anyway!

http://www.onnikutsuukylaan.fi/uutiset/varsinais-suomi - ps. Honour and Glory in a competition: http://www.onnikutsuukylaan.fi/uutiset/satakunta/avoimet-kylat-paivalle-kunniaa-kuntamarkkinoinnin-sm-kisassa

Lämmittää Sydäntä!

Kiitos. Se tuli monen mutkan kautta, mutta löysi perille jouluksi ja pääsee joulun jälkeen joulukoristelaatikkoon. Se on siis ylennetty perinnekoristeiden kastiin, sen verran kaunis ja käsin tehty, taidokas se on.

Thank you. It found us finally, and it is so lovely that after X-mas it is honoured to be packed with other important Christmas decorations of our family  and to be found again next year.

Viime kesän kioskikesä Rumarin vuorella oli täynnä työntäyteisiä, leppoisia, aurinkoisia ja sateisia päiviä, kahvinkeittimen pörinää, lämmitettyjä teekannuja ja kotonaleivotun tuoksua. Ja ihmisiä. Joka puolelta ja kaikenlaisia, mutta hyvällä mielellä, kiinnostuneita, rentoutuneita. Oli meidän ilo saada heidät nauttimaan saariston kiireettömyydestä ja hiljaisuudesta ja yhdessä tähystellä merikotkia ja muistella historian kiemuroita.

Days at our small café last summer were full of quick steps, fresh coffee, tea-pots warming, sun and rain, and people from all over. It was our joy to make our guests feel relaxed and enjoy their stay in the silence and nature of our archipelago, to watch the eagles together and tell ancient stories. 

Minäkin yritän muistaa kiittää, ja taidanpa laatia nyt oman listani. Joulukin saa vielä jatkua. Vasta Nuuttina pakataan joulu laatikkoon ja syödään kovia kokenut piparkakkutalo, josta Laara-koira hotkaisi jo alkumetreillä enkelit ja puolet perheestä sekä nuoli pölysokerit - ei hätää, tupsutin uutta!

I try to remember to send, too, afterwards, because it feels so nice to know you had succeeded and I have a couple of candidates, that I want to thank. But X-mas, it is still at our home, I don't want to pack it away yet.

We'll wait until the 13th January, the day of Nuutti, Knut, that ends our X-mas season.

Then the decorations are packed and the poor ginger-bread house eaten, that was already during the first days attacked by Laara the Dog. She ate all the angels and half of the family and licked away the powder sugar - but no worries, I re-powdered it!