Confinement "To do List"

AH! Yum.

And don't forget this Norwegian yummy: (lotta good times in Scandinavia and Finland with this...)

 

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I can feel the headache after last years julebord just looking at it!

That drink has an intriguing history too, it’s been on a journey:

https://vinepair.com/articles/aquavit-norway-equator-linie-recipe/

 

Whenever I served as a tour guide in Scandinavia for Americans/Canadians I would buy aquavit for after the farewell dinner (and bring little medicine cups with me from the States to facilitate offering everyone a taste). Only a small percentage of the tourists had ever tasted it. To put it mildly, the general consensus is that aquavit is an acquired taste .

On the other hand, when I guide Scandinavians in the USA/Canada and bring out the aquavit there is usually a loud cheer! And it is not unusual that when I offer seconds (and thirds and fourths) there are a lot of takers .

Steve

 

You need to offer Tennessee Sour Mash or Moonshine in the States, or Canadian Whiskey in Canada. See if they cheer

 

If it’s free alcohol, Norwegians will cheer. Even if it’s defroster for the car. There’s some viking heritage left.

 

Thanks! This was the laugh to get me started in the first day of our 14-day quarantine after making a mad two-day, 1,720 mile dash from AZ to MN.

Steve

 

Sounds like the Irish to me.

 

Vikings did found Dublin, Wexford, Cork and limerick so theres a theory.

 

Those who were too drunk to find their way back to the longboat stayed behind, I guess.

 

The Norwegian friends I had here seemed to like Jagermeister.

 

The car defroster anti-freeze solution must have been all used up.

Steve

 

But they also settled in Normandy, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland(?), Italy.

 

Ah yes and in Russian. The Vikings also explored some of Canada from Greenland but that was more of trip than an attempt at a permanent settlement. It’s crazy to think you could be Irish, English, Scottish, French, Italian, and Russian and have Norse ancestors.

 

Gah! Well, at least you can spend the first week of it sleeping to recover from THAT drive...

 

The viking who started settlements on Greenland was from my area: Eirik Raude, or Erik the Red.
He got into a fight and killed somebody here, and was banished. So he sailed to Iceland, where he proceeded to kill one of his neighbours and was banished again. Somehow he was able to convince some other people to follow him to find new land to settle, and landed on the rich soil of Greenland...
Unsurprisingly, his son grew tired of hanging out at Greenland as he grew up, so he took with him a group of settlers himself. His name was Leiv Eriksson. They say he ended up at Newfoundland.

 

In the age of no anger-management classes, just move to a new area. Rinse, repeat.

Steve

 

Rest definitely needed. This morning I was dialing a phone number, got six digits punched in and then realized I was on the calculator, not the phone pad.

Steve

 

Well, I just cancelled my trip to Italy's Amalfi Coast on May 8. I am deemed essential, so, I will be at work weekdays AND weekends. I know it kind of stinks you folks having to stay home.....the only thing worse is having to work every day and listen to what you all have planned!

 

Boy, and I feel bad about cancelling my trip to the bowling alley tomorrow.

 

I went out of country for the first time last year. Glad I was able to dodge the virus.