No April Showers Here…
Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! Happy Spring greetings to you! No showers lately, and we’re under a grass-fire warning. There …
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New and Improved!
Hello and welcome to another tale of harrowing home improvement! A lot of things have changed at Vanha Talo Suomi …
Leafing September Soon
Fall, leaves, fall By Emily Brontë Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks …
Juhannus Countdown
Greetings to All! We are now into the second week of June and Finns everywhere are counting down to Juhannus …
…And we’re back…
Three months since the last post… which, up until today I thought would be my final post. I’m not sure …
Keeping Ourselves Spirited
The flush of Christmas and the New Year are still only a few weeks past, yet the ‘air’ feels a …
Embracing the Autumn Chill
Happens every year, to every gardener – well nearly everyone outside the tropics – the dreaded visit by Jack Frost. …
Marching Right Along
Welcome to Vanha Talo Suomi! Glad you are checking in, it means you made it through the winter! Congratulations to …
Hello February!!
Welcome friends and well-wishers! Yes, it’s only the 3rd of February, but it’s doing what it does best here in …
Special Christmas Edition – Vanha Talo Suomi
Greetings and Glad Tidings from Vanha Talo Suomi! ❤ December settled down and renovations have stopped for now, so we …
December drawing to a close
Hello friends! We are one week back from a fabulous trip to the United States. It was a much needed …
Little Shop of Horrors
Hello and Welcome friends and visitors. This post is dedicated to all the Do-It-Yourself-ers and weekend warriors out there, brave …
Summer Rains
Finland experienced an extended period of unusually hot weather in July (Hellepäivä), it approached previous weather records from the 1970s …
A few words about the weather
I would like to start out by saying that so far today, it has rained and hailed while in other …
Drywall is up
Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! It’s been an interesting week weather-wise…actually for longer than a week the weather turned quite …
Latest Happenings
Hello from Vanha Talo Suomi! Since I last posted, summer arrived! Yeah 🙂 …then it got cold. Beating 40 year …
