2020

 

 

In January we spent our anniversary in Laulasmaa and in February made a roadtrip to Riga. In March I managed to squeeze in a quick sunbathing trip to Sharm-El-Sheik and after that our trips to Georgia, Poland and Switzerland were cancelled. Instead we had long walks in old town and watched, how the nature is blooming again. We followed the cherry and all other blossoms. In May we had the first post-corona trip and mid of May went to Tartu and Pühajärve. We spent my birthday in Pärnu and midsummer in Haapsalu. We ate a lot of local strawberries. And picked some too.

In July we flew to US and said farewell to our beautiful home in Ann Arbor. And to all squirrels. In August we had a road trip to Latvia and Lithuania and bought us a new home in Kassisaba. We spent September on our new huge terrace and in October went to Laulasmaa for Scott's birthday. In November I changed jobs and for Christmas we brought a Canadian spruce on our terrace.

Book Year 2020

2020 I read and listened to 60 books in total: the least in August (only one) and the most in November and December (each 10). Altogether I read 44 and listened to 16 books.

Winter and Christmas on the terrace

 

 

About flights and no-flights

2018 I had 35 flights, 2019 I flew 43 times and 2020 ... drumroll ... six times! Booked trips to Kutaisi, Krakow and Zurich were all cancelled.

Outside of Estonia our travels took us to Latvia, Egypt, United States, Latvia again and Lithuania.

Christmas Cookies

 

 

And here is the final choice:

• Peppermint Bark - 450gr
• Peanut butter truffles - 40 pc
  
• Michigan cherry and oat cookies - 48 pc
  
• Peppernuts - 174 pc
  
• Cookies with jam filling - 22 pc
  
• Russian Tea Cakes - 45 pc
  
• Granny Boyd's cocoa cookies - 48 pc
  
• Chocoholic's Dream - 19 pc
  

The Bog Cookie Test

 

 

In November we started the big cookie test to find the best ones that we can hand out as Christmas presents.

Terrace News

 

 

Scott's birthday, Laulasmaa and Keila-Joa

 

 

For Scott's Birthday we went to Laulasmaa. On the way there we hiked some in Keila-Joa and enjoyed the waterfall, in Laulasmaa spent the time in saunas and pools, walked to the beach and ate way too much. On the way back I introduced Scott the Gardentown of Klooga and showed best pieces of Paldiski.

The drive home was conveniently around lunch time and since neither of us had ever dined in the restaurant of Keila-Joa mansion, we stopped there. The food was good, but the service was one of the lousiest in recent times, especially considering the "exclusivity" of the place and that only one other table was occupied.

We moved out: the terrace

 

 

We decided to make a good use of the warm autumn and as the first thing make our terrace livable. Scott demolished the huge furniture storage box left by the previous owners, we cleaned the floor, Scott built and I painted a few planters and we bought and brought from the container some furniture. We also got a load of plants and hang up some lights. And spent every free minute on the terrace.