5K Norway

Laken on her bike about to ride to the house she is living in.

This morning I am invited to sit in a staff meeting involving about 30 people who work here as missionaries and work together as well as tend their own mission and host all kinds of visitors. They took care of business, then worshipped and prayed over some who were leaving to work with other mission groups. It is common for someone to be here for 2 years or so and then leave because of a project, much like early Christian preachers and missionaries. I wouldn’t enjoy getting so close to people and then saying goodbye, but Laken takes it in stride and still feels close to her many friends in Germany after working there for two years. There are people from South Korea here for a special study and there is about to be a family camp. Also a group of Mission Builders from the US are here working on a building. I met one from Montana carrying a chainsaw as I was wheeling my project, Laken’s bike, into the mechanical barn where tractors and cars are repaired. Her bike was given to her in Germany and it is in need of help, so we are getting new tires and I will fix the shifter and repaint the frame. Late in the day I will run one of the 5k routes they have shown me and I can run it at 9 or 10 pm and it seems early still—crazy.  I got to bed about 12am (still light out, but less), the air is crisp, and I curl up under the 4" duvet (sp?) to be cozy, but this down comforter (Europeans sleep under just that) is so hot I can't handle it. Since it is all there is I try a multitude of positions of sorta under and sorta out, but I am either cold or hot. Somehow I sleep until 4am when I awaken to blinding sunshine burning a hole in my retina through the curtains. It is like waking up in a tanning bed without the goggles. Desperate now, I put the "toaster" comforter over the window and grab a towel for a cover. Better, but I give up sleeping. Something has got to change--I am not adapting well to the land of the midnight sun!

Running was fun except I stopped every 100 yards or so to take a picture.
With dark rich soil, lots of rain, and 20 hours of sun the crops here are on steroids.

I think you can only run this route until your are 60.

And who can have barns like this?!

Ha

I have run by mny farm houses like this ...

And like this....

The fields of flowers are only surpassed by fields of wheat.



 

Pretty happy to finish running before 11pm.