Herring Boy Statue,Sildegutten

 

And here is our herring boy statue.

Og her er vår sild gutt statuen.

 

All illustrations are the property of Terri Tynes Armstrong and are not to be used without permission.

 

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Waiting On Weather

The good citizens of beautiful Kristiansund do not wait for "good" weather. The weather just is. They have a saying "there is no bad weather,just bad preparation". My iPad camera however feels differently and only wants to function on blue sky sunny days. So I apologize in advance for all the grainy pics I will be posting over the next ten days of forecasted rain. But hey, I'm not complaining. I have a raincoat.

So here are some before and after haircut pics of Lilly. Notice how she is bigger than my kitchen. And why is she wearing a t-shirt?

"Tell me the truth,does this shirt make my head look huge?"

 

Here she is with her Audrey Hepburn "ROMAN HOLIDAY" haircut.

 

And here she is in a preliminary sketch for her coloring book about Kristiansund. That's Sildegutten (Herring Boy Statue) she's admiring.

 

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Sightseeing in Kristiansund

Friday in Kristiansund was another blue sky windless day. Rare,incredible and not to be wasted. So I went down to the harbor. We are very proud of our harbor ferry, the Sundbåten, or the sound boat in English. Here she is just coming in.

Sundbåten carries passengers to the four islands of Kirklandet,Innlandet,Nordlandet, and Gomalandet. Nowadays there are bridges and you can drive to the different islands or "lands" as the locals call them, but many still prefer to use the Sundbåten. The ferry was begun in 1876 and is listed as the world's oldest continuously operating ferry system. Today was an extra special day as the first woman is working on the Sundbåten. And here she is....

The only downside to all that sunshine was I couldn't get a better photo of the Klippfiskkjerringa's(Klipfish wife's) companion, Sildegutten (herring boy). Both statues were created by the very talented Tore Bjørn Skjølsvik.

Behind him you can see the Sunbåten they have built for children to play on. There are several around town.

 

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