Cold but sunny morning here at Märket. North-West wind was rising before noon and settled down in the evening. It wasn't very warm in shadows but in sunshine it was quite warm. There were couple of seals passing the reef at noon, but they didn't want to come and say hi to us.


Jarmo (upper photo) and Pasi chopping out old wood from the wall to be repaired.

After breakfast we started to do same real work here. We started with cutting some old pipes from the wall in the first floor and ripped of some wood from the wall aswell. Then we started to scratch old paint from the roofs in first floor. We used a hot air blower so that the paint would come of easily. And so it did! But it was quite hard and you can't work a long period at the time, because your hands get very tired of reaching out so high.


About 2pm there was a beautiful halo-effect around the sun. It was like a full circle rainbow around the sun. It was amazing!

In evening we grilled some some chicken and the gas grill worked very well. Sun was still shining, so we ate outside. It was nice. After diner we put fire in kitchen's fireplace, but the smoke came out from other rooms. Maybe the reason was the wind from North, because yesterday there wasn't any smoke inside.

Now the weather is cloudy and it looks like that we might get some rain during the night. So, no beautiful sunset today either. Let's hope that tomorrow sun will go down with clear sky.

Just when we were sending out this message, a seal came to our reef just to hang out with us. Our first visitor today! So greetings from all three of us.


Jarmo & Pasi