Sorry... I figured a boardwalk wasn't exactly the most exciting thing in the world 🙂

It’s for things other people find dull. We are here because we don’t.

We only have one house 🙂 The second building is a summer cottage - with a sauna but no running water and no toilets, and it's not really livable in the winter. This is quite typical here in the north.

What's more unusual is that it is rather large: that's because the family who owned this place before us first built the cottage to spend the summer holidays when they lived far away (so it has bedrooms and a living room to stay in it for a week or two), then they moved here and built the main house on the same plot of land.

We got lucky, we got this place for very cheap.

Now I'm kind of jealous that you have a jar of pickled eggs! I only have some sauerkraut...

Turtle power!

Not rain, no. The wood is new, it's treated and it's slightly corrugated. The old boardwalk's wood was smooth as a baby's bottom after 40 years outside, and slightly covered in moss that would turn slimy in the rain - which is half the reason I replaced it: it tried to kill me once too often 🙂

As for snow, it's not slippery as long as it's dry. Once it's wet and melty, everything is slippery 🙂