Excursion to Ivö

One more terribly hot week passed by. I spent the mornings at the storage and the afternoons in the basement level. I was asked to help out at another department so I have registered a lot of books in our catalog recently. There is a backlog because they couldn't get the book entry transfers working from the new national catalog to ours until last week.

Our two extra workers have been very efficient. So efficient that we have problems finding tasks for them. They have shelved, retrieved, sorted, moved, boxed and rearranged books. They also vacuumed part of our storage. We were told to take it easy with the vacuuming because the engine was getting overheated. Apparently it draws air from outside (where there is about 35 degrees) so it doesn't get cooled properly.

It was another great weekend at the summerhouse. My sister and her family were there also. Saturday we did an excursion to the island Ivö in the the northeastern part of Skåne. The only way to get there is by car ferry across the lake. We brought lunch which we ate in a natural preserve. Ivö is a place of geological interest, with an old kaolinite quarry and fossils in the sandy soil. We hiked along a trail in the forest, near the beaches. We also looked at the church, a well (without water) and ruins of the castle Ivöhus (where an archbishop had lived in the 13th century).

The ocean water was warm so we jumped in a few times. My niece is like a water animal. She spends more time under the surface than above it. Crazy kid.