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In case anyone have missed me, I'm back in DA town again, checking it out and seeing if you all are well, my friends.
So what happened to me the last two months? Well, it's a long and tedious story. To cut it short, me and my family went to my husbands relatives (cousin and children) in Croacia and stayed there for holiday for 3 wonderful weeks. Great people, good food, baths, wildlife and a chanse for the kids to catch up with that part of their heritage as well as the Swedish one. All in all we had a great time.
But the very day we were going home I recieved a phone call from my brother in Västmanland (Central Sweden), telling me news I didn't want to hear, but was more or less expecting to hear one day or another. My father had passed away. He has been ailing now for more than two years, still it was chocking and sad and the only consolidation that it had gone fast (cardiac arrest in the bad tub) and that we didn't have to short cut our holiday, which would've been devastating for the kids.
So when the rest of the family went back to Solna, I took another flight up to Västmanland and to help my brothers and sisters to take care of what needed to be taken care of. That was a bit less than a month ago, and since then the six of us have been over the top busy. Luckily I got a few more days off from work for family reasons, so I could travel up and help out. And has it been a hard job? My dad was quite the squirrel, accumulating stuff, hardly ever throwing things away, and since his divorce from his last wife back in the 90ies, he hasn't been living the tidiest life.
Thus there was so much to take care of. He had 4 cars, only one of them running, a tractor (not running) and his house was filled with all kinds of junk, like radios, TV-sets, clocks, computers and computer gadgets going back to the 90ies, (10% running), broken lamps and chandelliers, electric guitars, his weapons, chainsaws and similar tools, garden tools, spare parts for cars and motorbikes (however he has not owned a bike since the turn of the millennia), books, records, movies, old magazines, mostly related to cars, bikes, computers and hunting. Then the usual paraphernia, like clothes, cutlery, toiletries, furnitures et cetera. Only problem with dad - he had so much of everything and very little of actual value. Save for the booze, which we finished the first weeks just to be able to cope.
And while we're still not there with everything, the house is more or less emptied now, after so many trips to the junk yard, some things kept and other sold. Now what's left is hiring people to clean out the house for real and then put up the estate for sale.
And somewhere along the line I realize I miss the old man. We had a hard time getting along, especially after his and mother's divorce (more than 30 years back in time) and he never really took an interest in my family, having a problem with me marrying 'a foreigner' and so on. But I had wanted to tell him that I cared and these things you want to tell them, and just as the cliche goes, I missed out because I was so busy with mine.
But now I have to look forward. The children have their last week of summer holidays and we're going to do something special over the next few days, like going to the Kolmården Zoo or to Finland or something before they start school for real and I'm going to catch up at work and get on with my life. Unfortunately there'll be very little time spent here, but what can I do? I'll post something I did back before I went on holiday back in June and then I'll see when I get on the next time.
Till then, have a great life all of you, and thanks for reading this far! 
Thanks, Hera for the subscription!
My good friend Hera *Hera-of-Stockholm (https://www.deviantart.com/hera-of-stockholm) gave me a subscription!
Thought I'd give her a li'l feature in return!
New bug in DA - and they won't fix it!
So there's a new bug in DA.
I discovered it when I was working with my group #Stockholm-People (https://www.deviantart.com/stockholm-people) It's a group based for people living in or visiting Stockholm, capital of Sweden, and it mostly consists of pictures from the city, but also some other art including poetry and 3D works. Although the group has many members, sometimes it tends to get a bit slow with the activity, not much happening. So then I look around DA for fresh pictures of the city and invite them to be a part of the group. It doesn't happen often, perhaps twice a month. But then there's usually a large bunch going in. Appreciated both by the artists and the onlookers, wh
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Ja, vännen, det kan inte vara lätt. Själv har jag båda föräldrarna med mej fortfarande, men man känner hur tiden rinner iväg när dom börjar bli gamla, och man är rädd att man ska göra samma misstag, inte hinna säga allt det där man vill. Tyvärr är det ju så att vi sällan märker att livet är alla dessa dagar som går. Men ta hand om dej, Lin, ta vara på de dina som är kvar och du vet var jag finns om du behöver prata.