Koščki konca meseca Pieces of the end of the month

Na en mrzel januarski dan ... On a cold January day ...

… ob Savi, tokrat ne na mojem koncu Ljubljane.

… by Sava, this time not in my part of Ljubljana.

Dača

Evo, ste vedeli, da imamo tudi pri nas eno zaresno rusko dačo? Ja, zgrajeno leta 1886 v Zgornjih Gameljnah, pod Šmarno goro.

A ni krasna! Vedno sem jih občudovala v ruskih in drugih filmih, ki govorijo o tej zanimivi in oddaljeni deželi.
 
Z Mirom sva že pred časom rekla, da če se bo le kdaj pokazala kakšna ugodna priložnost, se greva družno učit ruščino. Meni je tako všeč njen zven!

Only recently I found out that here in Slovenia we also have one real Russian dacha. It was built in 1886 in Zgornje Gameljne village at the foothills of Šmarna gora.

Isn't it gorgeous! I have always admired them in Russian and in those other films that talk about that interesting and faraway land.
 
For some time already Miro’s and my wish is to learn Russian, together, so we are waiting for the right moment to come up. I like the sound of it so much!

Pod Sekirico Sekirica foothills

Oh, kako nama je bilo žal ta konec tedna, da nisva s seboj v Logatec vzela tekaških smučk!
 
Bilo bi mnogo bolje, da bi izkoristila te idealne razmere, ker – nisva bila preveč uspešna pri najini gradnji. Vse, kar sva naredila, je bilo to, da sva zgrožena spoznala, kako sva se pri enem projektu uštela, in potem tuhtala in premlevala, kako stvar rešiti s čimmanj škode in da bi šlo čmmmanj dela, ki sva ga že opravila, v nič.
 
Zato je bil po tem nujen en (ZELO!) osvežilen sprehod po živahni okolici Sekirice. :)

Oh, how sorry we were for not taking our cross country skies with us to Logatec this past weekend!
 
It would have been much better to use these perfect weather conditions, because - we weren’t very efficient at our home-making. All we did was the discovery of how we have miscalculated at one project and then brainstorming how to repair the shitty situation with as little damage as possible and trying to avoid doing the same thing anew.
 
That is why we needed a (VERY!) refreshing walk around Sekirica hill so much afterwards. :)

Januarske tri Three from January

Navijanje za Tino med delom v najinem bodočem domu, opremljenem v … hmja … kemp-slogu. :)
Cheering up for Tina Maze skiing at Zlata lisica world cup
while working in our still very camp-style future home. :)

Dedek pravi, da so tu, na obronku gozda, pri studencu in kamnitem koritu z nadstreškom,
njegova mama in ostale ženske nekoč prale perilo. Si kar ne upam predstavljati!
Grandpa has told me once that this concrete place with a spring water and a trough was the place
where his mother and other women in that time used to wash laundry. Can’t imagine, really!

Jajce, ocvrto v obliki srca in potreseno s sesekljanimi orehi po Mirovo.
Nikoli mi noče izdati, kako mu uspe narediti obliko, pravi le, da ni ponesreči. :)
Heart shaped fried egg with chopped walnuts, tomato and tartar sauce that Miro has made me a few times. He doesn’t want to tell me how he makes the shape, he just says it is not an accident. :)

Barva snega The colour of snow

Bi raje barve? Kaj pravite na tole!

Want some colours? What about that!

Kot sol in poper Like salt and pepper

Kaj je še lepše od divjanja po hosti v mehkobeli zimi?
Po naključju ujeti ravno tisti kratek košček dneva, prekritega z 48 cm debelo odejo,
ko hkrati sneži in sije sonce.
Ma, ne da je ravno lepše, to ne - tega se ne da tehtati - je pa prav gotovo zelo čaroben trenutek!
Kombinacija svežega snega in zvoženega umazanega izgleda kot sol in poper.

What is even more beautiful than running like crazy in the softest white winter woods?
To accidentally catch just that short piece of a day covered with a 48 cm blanket,
when it snows and the sun shines at the same time.
Well, not exactly more beautiful – this is not to weigh – but it is certainly one of those magic moments.
The combination of fresh snow and the black, run-over one, is like salt and pepper.

Nora na sneg Mad about snow

Ko sva poklicala Zojo, da se vrne z nasproti ležečega pobočja, ni pritekla naravnost k nama,
ampak je prej naredila še ovinek navzgor okoli drevesca in se nato podala v dir,
da je, tako sva sklepala, pridobila nekaj dodatnega zaleta za vzpon na najino stran! :)
[zadnja dva posnetka]

When we called Zoja to come back from a slope opposite to ours
she didn’t just return to us directly, but went up around that little tree
and then run like hell, obviously to get a bit more speed to climb to our side again! :)
[the last two pictures]