day3 Mon

Here Rotraud & Peg look over a very interesting book we brought with us. We were delivering it to Slogvik for our "Slooper" cousins, Emma & George Roney. They had written a couple of chapters in this book which deals with, among other local topics, the history of seasonal cattle drives from the Sacramento Valley up in to the Sierras.

Out for a walk, Keith gets Einar & Peg to pause for this photo beside Einar's equipment. Due to the cold weather & California visitors, his equipment would get a rest for a few days.

Further up their driveway, where it meets the public road, Einar shows us the stone from the Slogvik farm that he believes would make a good bautastein or Viking stone. This is related to our plan for a monument to go to Napa, California, to mark the most westward settlement of Sloopers Jakob Slogvik & his wife Serena Madland.

We walk just a little further on to another part of the original Slogvik farm were Einar's cousins live. Here we pay a surprise visit with Berit & Sjur Slogvik in their very comfortable home.

Keith gets Einar to pause on the way back to get this photo of him with his car & home in the background.

Here is a photo of an aerial photo of the portion of the Slogvik farm, Bruk 7 (Einar's place), where his newer red house sits just above the older white house and the farm buildings.

Here Keith sits on the deck behind an old butter tub. Butter was a valuable commodity in the old days & values of property in the olden days were often expressed in terms of "tubs of butter."

Then our friend Knut Hildal from Odda to the north comes to visit. Knut is interested in the bautastein project so he, Einar & Keith take Einar's equipment up to lift the stone.

Here Knut poses by the partially lifted stone. He had made contact with his friend from NRK TV who he has gotten interested in our monument project.

We lift the stone for a series of photos to send to the TV station to give them a better idea of the project & the proposed stone.

Here is a side view of the stone which was naturally formed (i.e., not cut).

Our favorite photo with Einar beside the upright bautastein.

One last photo before the stone is lowered back down.

Knut supervises as the strap breaks & the stone settles easily back to its resting place.

For more on this project, check out the original proposal on our "Slooper Monument Project" web page. We will soon be updating this page and adding to it. We will be adding some of these photos and photos taken on "Day 5, Wednesday" when NRK TV's Sigmund Hansen came to film the stone and interview Einar & Keith about the project.

Day 3, Monday - Gift Book; Berit & Sjur Visit; Knut Visit: Viking Stone