we've discovered what's troubling the fantastic toyota. i'm quite proud of our mechanic-skills! i'm afraid 5-56 won't help, though. it's a metal thing that sits around a pipe that's loose. but i'm not flat enough to get under the car to fix it. i managed to push it right, but it fell back again almost at once. it looks really easy though, as long as the screws are not stuck in rust or anything. but if they are i'm sure 5-56 will help :)

a few days ago we met a toad on the way up to our house. there seems to be something very wrong with her, and at first we thought she was dead. a while ago another toad was killed on almost the same spot as this new one was found. so i'm guessing she might be the dead toad's mother, or something. we moved her to the side of the road, so that she wouldn't be run over by a neighbour, and she hasn't moved more than maybe 25 cm from where we put here. i'd really like to help her, but i don't know what toads like.

i'm suspecting that our new neighbours have a brothel at home. most days they come home at about 22.30 or later, and they always leave at 6.10 or earlier. there's one woman with a pale blue car, and several different men in several different cars. very interesting.

i finally went to the big city of sollefteå to get my hair cut today. last time was just before christmas i think. apparently you're supposed to cut your hair every second month! (i asked today)

yesterday we had a really fantastic thunderstorm here. the lightnings were so bright our entire appartment was lit up. the bob was so worried he squeesed down between the tommy and me on the sofa, and we could cuddle him and pretend he was a normal dog. the bob normally doesn't like cuddling very much. i think he thinks it's for babies. under normal circumstances he sits down just out of reach, with his nose high in the air, "allowing" us to rub his back for a while (the just out of reach thing is probably to make us suffer a bit, to appreciate it more). he seems to think people are quite stupid and silly creatures, but he doesn't want to be too rude so he lets us do our silly things now and then. in our familly i think it's the tommy and i who are the pets... but the bob is a nice and caring master, who lets us think we're in charge.  ¶ 6:49 PM