[AT] Mattias where are you?

[charliehill]

It's good to hear from you Mattias and even better that it is all good news. 
Hey it's only about a 6 hour drive by car between Portland and Dollywood. 
grins.

I'm glad to hear your economy is still strong.  Do you need a dump truck 
driver or something?  LOL.  Things are not so good here.

Take care Mattias,

Charlie Hill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Mattias where are you?


> Here, of course.
> I have been real busy lately with the new house and work. The financial
> crisis haven't reached our part of Sweden, we have more work than ever. 
> The
> last years we had an incredible boom but this year we thought should 
> become
> a little harder so we didn't try to replace one guy that retired this 
> winter
> but now we've done that several times.
>
> At home everything is well. The kids grow and are well. Me and my father
> tried for crayfish in our creek last Saturday and after a lot of shimstock
> and a few drams we ended up with almost 20 pounds, minus the ones we 
> cooked
> and ate that evening:-) Magdalena and the kids  have spent the last week 
> in
> Dalarna but will come home on friday.
>
> There have obviously been a lot of work at home with unpacking fixing what
> needs to be fixed and fencing etc.
>
> I have also been haying and that was a bit more exciting than I wished 
> for.
> I believe I broke all equipment I have, so I know what to do this winter. 
> I
> even have some internal engine problems with my David Brown 950 so I'm
> likely to get back with some questions when I find the time and get the 
> shop
> in order. At last I finally got the hay in the barn with my neighbours DB
> 990, wow, power steering the arms never became tired though I had to load
> and unload all the bales by hand.
>
> The rental cabins were full all of july and some of june and one is 
> occupied
> by the germans right now;-) There have been a mix of swedes, danes,
> norwegians, finns and germans. Due to the low rate of the swedish krona 
> I've
> never seen so many danes in sweden. I went grocery shopping yesterday and 
> if
> exclude the staff there was twice as many danes as swedes and germans.
>
> We got a lot more many than expected for our old house,  almost twice as
> much. So we're planning to fly across the pond sometime next year. I 
> believe
> you can imagine the discussions, "-Portland, -Dollywood, -Portland,
> Dollywood springopening, Portland, Dollywood fall whatever....." It will 
> be
> a seven or ten days trip or so since we don't want to make it in the 
> winter.
> There are so much we would like to do and people we would like to meet, 
> but
> we won't be able to make more than a tiny bit of it.
>
> That's the short story why there haven't been much 'puter time lately, 
> back
> to work.
>
> Glad that you're thinking of me
>
> Mattias
>
>
> 2009/8/6 charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>
>> Haven't heard much from you lately.  How are things with you and your
>> family?  What's the latest on the new house?
>>
>>
>> Charlie
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