Something Rotte in Denmark

Our building's maintenance man told us today that the community government sent a worker this morning to set rat traps....otherwise known as rotte faelder.  I asked SK how they work.  SK was happy to explain that they have holes that only a rat would go through (so the birds are safe) to get to the poisoned food on the inside.  I asked if they stay inside and die.  He didn't know.

It seems to me that if a rat eats the poison and goes home, i.e. the space underneath our neighbor's wooden-planked raised patio, he might die in there and begin to smell.....rotten....if you know what I mean.  And I imagine that there are few smells as bad as a rotten rotte.  But I will keep you posted.

The spaghetti sauce turned out great.  It is a recipe I found on Allrecipes.com for good pasta sauce, and cooks up in an hour or so, is inexpensive and tastes good.  The biggest time-consumer in making it is peeling and dicing onions and garlic.....not only that but it makes my hands smell bad!....for several days.  I have tried the old stainless steel trick, and peeling an orange and a lemon, but it seems to have to wear off.  And let's face it, 2-day old garlic/onion smell wafting from your hands smells almost as bad as a rotten rotte.

Because of a stake meeting held tonight, our numbers were few....I think we ended with 29, but it worked out just fine.  I made "High Tea Lemon Cookies" to serve after class and they were not a hit.  They weren't bad, but just not everyone's favorite.  They are light weight cookies frosted with lemon frosting.  I liked them, but I don't think I'll make them again....I think they were just too humble a cookie here in this land of decadently delicious pastry.

I prepared my lesson, and as always loved the preparation.  It feeds my soul.  We didn't have any people tonight who needed the English class!  So I sat in on the Danish one and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is interesting to me that Brother Andersen gave an hour and fifteen minute lesson covering 4 sections of the D&C, and covered only a couple of things that I planned to cover.  Had I taught, we would have covered the same material, but we would have given two entirely different lessons!

The summer of 2013, we stayed with Lia and Peter in North Salt Lake until our visas came.  While there, we visited Temple Square and searched for and found the sister missionary who spoke Danish.  She was a delightful young woman who is Danish but had spent most of her growing up years in Greenland.  She was going to return home there the summer of 2014.

In the meantime, her family moved to Denmark and she came home and enrolled in law school.  Then she moved to Copenhagen!....specifically to the island of Amager....our branch.  We have so much enjoyed our association with her.  But she is leaving early in the morning for an internship in Belgium, so we will not be seeing her until August....just weeks before we return home to Arizona.  We are hoping to renew that friendship again then...

Isn't she beautiful?