New reality day 28

This is 500 meters from our house. The nearest free gym if you look closely.

We took the dogs for a longer walk this afternoon and it started to rain a bit while we were walking.

We live at Salpausselkä I.

"Salpausselkä (Finnish: [ˈsɑlpɑu̯sˌselkæ], Bar Ridge) is an extensive ridge system left by the ice age in Southern Finland. It is a large terminal moraine formation that formed in front of the Baltic ice lake during the Younger Dryas period about 12,250–10,400 years ago. All together the formation is close to 500 km (310 mi) from end to end, and the ridges can be as tall as 80 m (260 ft) in some places.

It runs from Hanko hundreds of kilometers to the east. It traps the extensive river and lake systems of Central Finland known as Finnish Lakeland (Finnish: Järvi-Suomi, "Lake Finland") and forces the water to flow through few breaches in the ridge. The Vuoksi River flows from lake Saimaa into Lake Ladoga (Finnish: Laatokka) in Russia. From there the water subsequently flows through river Neva into the Gulf of Finland, bypassing the Salpausselkä. The Kymi River flows from Päijänne into the Gulf of Finland. An artificial breach from the Lakeland is the Saimaa Canal, from Saimaa at Lappeenranta into the Gulf of Finland at Vyborg.

Salpausselkä has been used for transportation because of the easy terrain for centuries; later on both railways and highways have been built to follow it. It is also an important source of clean groundwater filtering from the lakes on the upper side (north) of the ridge, for the communities built alongside the ridge. The south side of the Salpausselkä has been inhabited for more than 10,000 years.

There are also formations called Second and Third Salpausselkä, which are similar in form but smaller. They are situated north of the main Salpausselkä, and were formed later respectively. " (from Wikipedia)

So you can understand that the nature here is quite special. Drinking and domestic water flows in our network from Salpausselkä's groundwater reserves. In Helsinki we drunk water that comes from Päijänne, which is not so far from us (north west from us). I though that we'd get the same water here too, but am very pleased to have even better water from Salpausselkä. (Groundwater is always the best choice.)

Today we drove to Lahti and bought some furniture. The sofa set should arrive in two weeks and the special stool (not feces) should arrive in 8 weeks. It's being custom made at the factory. The dogs got huge bones each and we also bought some kitchen thingies that we needed. I didn't find soup plates. Well, found some, but didn't like them. I want something simple and deep enough so one can have more than two spoonfuls of soup. I'll find them at some point. We only have 4 and my husband uses them for basically everything so he doesn't make a mess... Imagine that! (And it actually doesn't prevent him making a mess...)

I run out of paint once again and I still need to paint the long and tall wall one more time. So tomorrow we need to hit the stores again. Luckily they sell paints here locally, so we don't have to leave Nastola to get what we need.

I also shortened 4 curtains this morning and hung them to the living room area. There's still 2 pairs of curtains I need to shorten. One pair I need to wash first. All these little things and then painting all the doors! And then the special thing that will knock off visitors socks off. And we actually visited that store today and we were supposed to look at the thingies, but we got so distracted by the fact that they had huge selection of pet foods and stuff, that we forgot all the rest. That store is only in the countryside. So we had never visited it and didn't know what to expect. The store is called "wood of joy" or "tree of joy". Wood and tree can be the same word in Finnish. I think it's more wood as they sell renovation materials. But anyway, I love that name!