Dugnad

A good sign spring has sprung in Norway is the neighborhood volunteering effort of spring cleaning called, "Dugnad." We had dugnad in our neighborhood on Tuesday where everyone took part in cleaning up something. I swept the carport and picked up trash while Arild hosed the carport and part of the driveway. Sometimes people paint, get rid of dead leaves or chip wood.



The idea of it is to have a community effort in doing something and also because wages are so high in Norway, it would be quite expensive to hire someone to do the work.

Afterwards we were treated to a cookout and we checked out a small playground in our neighborhood that neither of us had noticed too much before and talked about taking our little one there next summer.

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