About renting or selling an apartment

 The town I live in, Savonlinna in eastern Finland in North-East Europe, is a tourist town with summer time important in that, and the area has lots of summer cottages too. So the area is somewhat specialiced to renting and selling apartment successfully, to satisfied buyers. One key to that success is that the area has well liked major attractions and major professions, and so the fascination of the place comes largely from them, and so from their point of view there are some clear human types that like to come, and some others who do not like would maybe like to travel to some other famous district and the available travel etc advertisements offer those to them (but those are not found here or in connection with this district but instead on for example in connection with the internet sites of similar interests as those places' highlights and attractions). But so of each person seeking for an apartment the olderpeople in the district know which type of person it is and so what kinds of apartment and living environment he/she would like. And so they also have skilled professionals specialiced to those highlights of the district. And so they have apartments availableat least something for each group, or the idea seems to be so, and by asking one maybe finds fmore such. The place is quite small, so the price level is lower than in bigger places, and since the locel workerts like the same highlights, they wish for quality in them and so such is available. But this is just my impression, not knowledge.

About moving to an apartment

 For the elderly moving to a new apartment can be difficult, and as young one maybe does not find so good way to live in a new apartment, since one does not have experience in suych. I guess that an apartment ought to be chosen according to one's dream of a way of life that could be possible in such an apartment in such a place, but often it is not enough that it might be possible because of facts,but instead one ought to estimate it like a product in a shop: what does it's style say, what does it's style say it offers and which way of life is it then, can you live approximately so and be happy, without being very far from such ways? Like if some place is quiet life, maybe they do not like sporty life there even if it looks possible in questions of distances to places etc. On the other hand, if there are good sides in the apartment that you choose, they do not need to determine the whole picture of how you live there, but instead you can have all your life and just in addition some of those good sides too, via which you maybe find a common tune with some neighbours. If you like the apartment's way of life and it's good sides somewhat like a product you would want to buiy in a shop, like the life they offer, in the form that they offer but with some individual freedom too, then living such a life, in ways natural to you,  especially in what affects others, especially as is seen or noticed by all,creates a place to live there, even if you are used to some other kinds of life with some other common tunes,common values. Then just taking care that you have enough freedom and possibilities of choices in your daily life, without needing to give up major safety & place to live in, gives you a new home for long term too there, as far as I know.

18.1.2021   Originally, when a house was build, it was often planned so that there was some theme or a bunch of themes according to the street name and what it brings to mind, and according to the number of the apartment, so that the inhabitant would have some good version of such things if she/he was a model of such to others because of the name & number. So it is also possible to choose what type of apartmet one lives in so that the number symbolics and what the street name brings to mind are along the same lines, something that one could have come to choose by oneself. But often when there have been repairwork or apartmets united or new formed, the numbers have changed and sometimes rarely the street name too. Likewise there may come changis in things like whether there is a retaurant or a shop near by, what activities there are possible etc, so that these do not always go right, but I guess that there is somne more ca´harm in a place where they go right. If one wants to know what the numbers of the apartments originally were, one could ask from a shop that sells with good quality things whose style tells about their possible uses, like for example a good quality big supermarket.

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10th of February 2025   in Espoo, where I have now lived a little bit over four years

In the internet news there was about short term renting of apartments which seems to cause lots of problems. When I was a child, we once or maybe a few times on a schools' skiing holiday spend a few days or the whole week in a couse center which had in one part of the building complex apartments for familues with kids to rent in short term. So there were the same kibds of people renting them simikarly and there was the reception to ask from plus some maintenancy personnel and course partisipant like like-minded people. There was also a dining hall with some meals at cheduled times. So it seemed to work out well because those renting the apartments were the same kinds of people, and if some needed some other type of accomodatiln, that was in other locations, depending on who fit well together, what they want abd beed and which kibds of security needs there were. 

I wonder why I feel like asked to write about disturbancies from short term rental, when I myself have lived quite long term in my apartments. I used to have two dogs. Is that somehow mixed with this subject? A dog owner living somewhere typically goes for a walk, so one walks once out of the house etc and some time later once in. In addition one can go to work, studies and other places. That typically does not cause any disturbancies if there isn't any problems. But in Savonlinna an old man had asked my poodle who had some healing ability and was mourning the liss of it's miracle healing companion Japanese spitz, to inform when going out and by barking or some sound try to heal elderly people with sight problems who had come there because of that, and as tens of years younger I coukd not find a way to keep the dog silent when going for a walk. Anyway, people living normal life in long term aoartments seldom causes dangers and is much easier to recognize who does what. But if there are people wantibg to visit tge aoartments when the inhabutant is away, there may be something unusual happening in the corridor or aoartments, something to keep an eye on, and I guess muxing dog owner's styles with short term rental's disturbancies in irdibary secyrity arrangements, indicates that it is lijely that there is something criminal goibg on, some extra people or extra traffic in the corridors, maybe in some apartments, etc. If one has an ok normal social eye and us along how people live in that environment, one often gets used to the personal styles of other inhabitants, and so even if they tend to keep some fuss sometimes or even always, it seems quite ordibary life. But if there is some other person of maybe similar style for example once taking the dogs out, that is either like meeting a stranger in the corridor or if one mistakes it for the same normal type of activity it may be as if dangerously out of control, unpredictably behaving like the reputation of dopermans at least used to be. So in that case there are more types of people and more types of activities there and not just normal maybe somehow bored life. Simikarly if some person gets replaced by another young person, maybe of a more lying kind, it often leaves a disturbing feeling of something wrong, as if the persons did not stay on the tracks they claim to use. 

Typical to persons who unexplainably hang around, ruin living conditions and are difficult to get rid of on ordinary grounds, is that they are classified very differently by different persons, so for someone they are the favoyrite, for some too aggressive and milutarily a problem, for some the wise or quite wise older person and for some tge idiot who ruins everythibg via liw quality and criminal mistakes, for some the professional takibg care of somethibg, for some the passer-by, for some tge obe eagerly interested in such thing and for sone the bored one whom they managed to get along still this time. 

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Even if some home like space is nice, a home cannot be used to short-term rental, since the artifacts and materials at home do not bear so many changes in ways of usage without losing the air of being for personal free time. Likewise the environment typically bears very differently many new visitors of different kinds or persons liking just such a way of living and living there long term. As I have not been good at keeping socially my sides, I have tried to have my things good for their right purposes, and colour symbolics in ways ok for me, but I do not always succeed even in that. Anyway, there are people with different values, skills, likings, social ways, etc, and so even these things vary from person to person. And so a hostel for example coukd have things nicely for certain types of people of certain skill levels and likings, but not quite for all aquiantages from some former years. So if I liked living in Savonlinna, my childhood relatives and old aquiantages anyway ought to read my book "Magnifient Views : and nice to live in" instead of somehow supposing my choices suiting them. 

In questions of safety, having short-time rental in some apartment of an area otherwise of homes, seems to only give room for cunning plans and attacks agaibst the ordibary life there. So such is different from someone occasionally accomodating friends and like-minded pals like tge person oneself and like the area lived in. If in some tourist place there sre many who would like to accomidate tourists or visitors, those ought to be in some area separate from ordinary homes, maybe with a common receptiln etc, and safety measures and the ability of the environment to bear the burden also tajen care of, prooably as a part of the job. 

I do not think it an ok idea for some pair to fuck to get a child in somebody ekse's home, since either one values such things as the homeowner takes xare of, and so is propably simikar if one has simikar general level of wisdom and xapacity - or one jyst bypasses such minor factors as if having caught a cold, not able to observe such well right then, or byoasses because it is somebody else's charachteristics, so the home of another does not seem to teach other than bypassing such things as tge home has sought to cultivate. So one ought not go so to the homes of people who have some wisdom. Better to go to some nice, allowed place that is ok to be in, maybe buy some nice artifacts neant to be good for many, since so the direction is toward those positive things, instead of too near somebody's personal life. 

If the question is why someone always wants to go to a certain kind of home, does one want to fuck there? No, fucking is like bypassing living there. One just enjoys a certain kind of place, like I enjoy sitting comfortably watching sheltering tree branches near by, or like people like certain areas of life taken care of well compared with their life elsewhere. Very different people maybe want to be seen in the window of some person's home as if they could so be thought of as having similar strenghts. But like people associating from thinking oriented perspective, say the other one to be stupid when the other one does something of or leading to a much liwer level of skill than otherwise seems to use, likewise they often comment on fine skill levels in something, and so if one for example goes to a book shop, the recommended books coukd ve suited to jyst oneself or about the social styles etc obe thought of in that context, so as to compare what one would cobsider good quality for obeself right then. 

Blog writing tips

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Writing a good blog

My poodle Banjo said that he would like to start an English blog, and star with a Christmas greeting and as a present the blog. The greeting would say something like: "Banjo the Poodle wishes a Good Christmas and a Happy new Year 2021!" and have a picture of Banjo with a Christmas flower. 

I said that the blog ought to have just best pieces of how Banjo has been on an adventure in my other blogs, and not just try to write a blog and write a blog, etc, since such is work like and does not give the writer any hint of how to write. Instead I ought to need highlights, atmospheres, sources of joy, insights, wisdom of life, smnall tales, and good pictures of nature, pets, home life or the like. 

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https://ohjeitabloggaamiseen.blogspot.com/

About apartments

I copy from the first text of this blog:

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Tämä on Savonlinnan Nätkin kaupunginosassa Kaartilantie 15 B 24 (5th of August 2020, Could it be the number of the apartment, 24like Christmas Eve, why I have written at lenght about learning the skills and talents of Christmas gnomes http://learntalents.blogspot.com ) ja kolmen aika samanlaisen kerrostalon (tämä on kolmesta U:n muodossa olevasta kerrostalosta keskimmäinen) (This house and the neighbouring house Telakkatie 2 usually have some apartments available for rent, since there are quite many nice rental apartments in these houses. In Finland suburbs typically have forerst patches but their atmosphere depends on teh district, and town centers typically have trees and parks.) välinen pihametsikkö http://savolaisuudesta.blogspot.fi/2016/06/onnistunut-pihametsikko-malliksi.html , but this is dangerous district to live and to walk in: if you are interested in the area, please read about the danger of murders here, asuntoja välittää www.vuokraovi.com -> Savonlinna  (remember to build a good barricade to the door for evening and night, guard your foods and not to walk the dog late in the evening at all, live in harmony with the neighbourhood and Finnish culture, leave others too space to live in; nearest food shop seemed to have ´been selling spoiled food so I haven't used it, and when I lived next to it I sometimes heard gunfire from the shop in the evening, so it is also otherwise dangerous to visit, which is a problem in part of the food shops in Savonlinna). Savonlinnassa ovat kaupunginosat kukin omantyylisensä, vähän kuin ihan erityyliset paikkakunnat. In these houses the neighbours seem to behave like people with large capacity like honoured people and there are very few kids and almost not at all young adults.

5.2.2018   Nätki suburb is largely like grandparents' home. The people here are, like elderly and people with large capacity, considerate and good willing on the surface but have their tough side when needed. They are all the time skilled in the amount arts are but mostly just live in their homes here."

 

I have liked to live here, but I am of this caliber and some what the same kind of person as many of the elderly here and like nature and these are maybe the major reasons for me liking the district.Of my caliber: I made in Espoo the thinking course http://quickerlearning.blogspot.com and in another suburb in Savonlinna a philosophical text about the future of computers, see the first text at http://feelingcomputers.blogspot.com . In Nätki suburb I have written at lenght about living wisely the four seasons http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html and last year I also composed short melodies to it. Composing was a new skill for me but I learned singing experience of life in my twenties in helsinki, when I had sports hobbies and loved the nature and was interested in saving the world, I also listened to rock music in the radio. I have also wirtten lots of other blogs here in Savonlinna. In Helsinki and Espoo I wrote my books though, so that was the start for my writing career. The books are just print-on-demand books for sale in www.amazon.com .

Meditation advice

 

 F15.   10th of December 2020   I made a meditation advice to my Finnish blog about curing http://parantamisesta.blogspot.com . It is for beginners but made thinking of cancer patients, just in case they might need it.
"To such would help MEDITATION, not any bady observation "meditation", but instead ordinary meditation of observing breathing and living in connection with the mandscape around and life around like meditation in motion and of the body observe more mostly just how is good to move. 

In breathing meditation just follow your breathing, observe it and it's effects (healthy sides of them, in a healthy way, with wisdom of life, etc) on the body and mind and to oneäs contact with the environment etc, in fact just ordinarily breathe and feel the air moving in your nostrils etc, and aim to be naturally, without forcing, sit in a good posture,  still but not stiff, but instead like is sporty and a naturally straight back like sports hobbies bring, and aim also at living according to feelings, and thoughts come and go but don't ponder on them but isntead concentrate on feeling sensations and be in balance and enjoy the present moment and the sensation s of beauty brought by nonforcing attention and a somehow wiser way to associate with things, 

not so squarely thinking, not so clumsyly pushy nor artificial but instead according to motivation and valuing the everyday life's basic things done, their ages old basic form, basic current, and find from it a nonforcing way to be fully awake, which is natural the same way as breathing is or some other nonforcing basic life, when one likes it or needs a rest pause from the noise of everyday life, and one ought to aim at compassion too, such is good for attention, when one goes along how people and animals do things and not artificially forcing things to some form, but the idea is to just sit relaxedly with back straight and follow one's breathing and as a side effect learn a good nonforcing way to use attention, in other words meditation."

Dry room air is soon warm

 An easy quick and no cost way to make an apartment warm when it is cool or cold outdoors, especially when it is under zero outdoors, is to ventilate quickly a lot so that maybe near the center of the room the air starts to feel very dry, and then immediately shut the windows & doors, and in a short while the warm air upmost in the room warms the room air to very warm as if one had had a hot heating battery in the room. 

(But this demands thatthe room is lived in and that people eat and drink hot and use warm clothes and blankets if there is a need to raise the temoerature of a thoroughly cool room without a warm heater.)

In the winter time one needs to avoid spending time near an open window, and anyway keep woolen socks on feet, a woolen shirt on and a blanket around one's feet, until the room air is warm, and then put away the baönket but keep the clothes.

Skills of Christmas gnomes

I read a book about gnomes and wrote a comment to it, thinking that the subject tends to break because foreigners are too interested inti. So I translated my text to English and got stuck writing a long text, with lots of links to my other texts, about the possibilities of gnome like life in the modern world. Now the text is already very long, and I feel that there isn't much that I could anymore say about the subject.

Skills of Christmas gnomes 1. Gnome like life in the modern world (Finland) http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 2. Hero like skills   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/01/some-observations-about-gnomes-and-like.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 3. Tale like fascination in everyday real life    https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-additional-remarks-about-gnome.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 4. Oath like love   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/07/tale-like-things-in-everyday-life.html

The whole blog   http://learntalents.blogspot.com

19th of August 2022   Now the text Skills of Christmas gnomes is already a little bit over 14 parts long with almost 1100 entries and in addition many texts on links. I have made two books of it. It seems worth a glance, maybe even concentrated reading through. 

6th of April 2024    You might be interested in reading the back cover texts of my books of the Christmas gnome/elf skills series, by clicking the headers at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLLS8BWC?binding=kindle_edition&ref_=ast_author_bsi

Police

Living in Savonlinna in eastern Finland, in North-East Europe, makes me surprisingly often think of if I should complain about something to the police or inform police about some danger, quite often even daily. I wonder could it be because I have written about many subjects that are problematic, long texts, almost endless lists of advices of how to handle them, and so the police is one such difficult area of life, maybe someone wants me to try to write about it too. I have written about healthy ways of living finnishskills.blogspot.com/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html and continued at http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2018/01/healthy-ways-of-living-and-doing.html , and about the four seasons https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html . I have also written guesses about curing illnesses by comparing with full health https://curingguesses.blogspot.com/2018/12/index-with-cure-suggestions-after-word.html .
Of things connected with polices' work, there is my blog http://healthilymoral.blogspot.com and maybe the gnome skills text http://learntalents.blogspot.com .
These are all long texts.
I have also written about many other subjects, for example about the virtualworld https://virtualpicturesoftheworld.blogspot.com/ . Please see my blog list by clicking my name.

I think that often when one caomes to think of the police, the criminal is someone who has not followed his/her own likings, for example one's dream job http://todreamjob.blogspot.com or a spouce of the kind they like and value https://advicesforthelonely.blogspot.com/ . And so they choose somebody else's choices and either steal or sabotage and want to replace them with their own. Much more comfortabel life would be by making choices by one's own likings and needs and not by some tactical estimates, since such estimates just don'tgive good life, while following one's own likings and civiliced wisdom gives good life easily.

In Finnish I have written at leght also about solving environmental questions http://kokonaiskuvat.blogspot.com . Many of my blogs are long, some two hundred posts long.

Pets are magnifient

I have always liked animals, because I value healthy natural life, nature, weathers, sports and gesture language. I also think that animals are wise and I like the way they express emotions. I also think that many animals are beautiful in a kind of atmospheric way. When there is an ordinary day of work or studies, a pet can bring to it a taste of another kind of world, another kind of way of living the daily life, and can be more magnifient looking than one tired from work or studies. But pets demand lots of attention and lots of daily care for all the years one has them. The easiest are maybe aquarium fishes, then mice or the like. Dogs and cats demand lots of attention, a way of life suited to them. There are many breeds if dogs. The best choice is a breed you love and admire, like for example a sporty arctic dog for some, or a conversating wise dwarf dog for many of the elderly.

My poodle Banjo some years ago. The poodle's coat demands much care. Poodle is a typical dog breed for those who would like to be hair dressers by their profession.

Melodies about harmony

This is a harmony of a choir singing some familiar song, it's harmony from which one canlearn to live in harmony. It's for many people from many continents in Europe or in connection with Europen culture.
(I came to think of it in connection with the Eurovision song contest. The four parts of equal lenght are: 1.  theory, 2. practice, 3. ideals and 4. collecting them all together to living teh daily life.)

This second one is the same for birds in the trees:

This is an old melody of mine about finding how people support from their heart a good future for the world, for the present and future generations:

This is a some kind of attempt at harmony like in this summer time opera festivalt own Savonlinna that I live in:

My melodies https://composingmelodies.blogspot.com
About moral http://healthilymoral.blogspot.com

Luxory feeling at home

The following can give a luxory feeling to a home:
1) The skills of succeeding in shopping: buy only one thing at a time and pay attention to the styles of the packeges and choose by them according to what is your dream about way of life.
2) One room per adult inhabitant brings a luxory feeling to a home
3/ Money tree plant
4) The cooking tips of this blog
5) Music, I guess that especially the radio
6) Warm enough: blankets and woolen socks
7) The colour of your computer, symbolic colours of other things too
8) My blog To a dream job
9) The town you live in chosen by being by it's happenings, main professions and culture one that you like a lot
10) Spend with each thing just the time it fascinates you.

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Just an attempt, a not so good day for me. Last part watching nature outdoors. In parenthesis the keyboard.

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Seeks to be something like having bought something but the fascination staying for a long time. Picking nice things to be centers of attention and content to life, like listening to music. Here in a picture from a year ago my favourite poems borrowed from library.

And I meant finding peace for one'sliving even if there are factors disturbing the atmosphere, like today is 75 years from the end of World War II.
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From the third part of my gnome skills text Tale like fascination in everyday life, Skills of Gnomes 3., Gnome like life in the modern world    https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-additional-remarks-about-gnome.html
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Room for free time and Arts

"The Nätki suburb I live in the countryside town Savonlinna in eastern Finland has a fascination of it's own. It is much like a "Huaah!" like feeling instead of work as a burden, like is fit for a holiday travel destination and free time.  I guess that mnay would like to learn these good sides and adopt them where they live, but not all.

* local newspaper that tells about the local highlights and no work magazines etc

* food shop that values comfortable ways and good quality fit for arts

* food helps to put work aside and brings room for free time

* religion 

* music but choose instrument or CD player with a quiet sound so that you do nto disturb neighbours

* my blog http://todreamjob.blogspot.com could bring more skills

* the weather too http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html is a "Huaah!" like experience

* the advice "Live and let other live!" https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2012/10/live-and-let-others-live.html would help the harmony of the neighbourhood 

* Lots of time at home can bring an individual way of doing suited at home, listeing the one's own insights

* To follow the night time quietness of an apartmenthouse roguhly but allowing sounds of living

(And maybe my blog http://picturesfrommyhome.blogspot.com )"

From http://savolaisuudesta.blogspot.com

Blog description

"I live in a countryside town in eastern Finland, in north-eastern Europe where the four seasons determine a lot of how life has to be lived. I am a writer. The large Saimaa lake district is famous for it's nature and summer cottages, and the town Savonlinna in it for it's medieval castle and the summer time opera festival in it, and the Savo people for doing things wisely in their own personal ways.. I live in an apartment house with a forest patch outside the window."

I feel that the state of mind of many who visit the place shows that they would not like to live here but that they could learn something from the advices in this blog. They kind of long for something fuller or more according to feelings, but not so much of it and not of just this kind.

Christmas year around

A few years ago around Christmas I heard from somewhere - or misunderstood? - someone saying that she had chosen to have Christmas year around, that one can well choose so. My Christmasses haven't been so very good but I like Christmas preparations and the idea of arranging things good for life. So I kind of took it as one thing to figure out part time how one could have somewhat Christamas like good sides in life in different times of the year. Christmas itself is for winter and for surviving the darkest time of the year, and for learning winter skills. But on other times of the year one can similarly find good ways to live those seasons and weathers, those views to life and the world. And one can in the middle of work like things to do find also something that is some mixture of comfortable and active, good for feelings. And a kind of freedom to be an individual, have hobbies, favourite professions, interests in the wolrd. And a mixture of making home good for living, enjoyable and going out to the world, having healthy spirit and healthy kind of versions of things, joy oflife, even though I think that joy is a characteristics of the more sporty life, which I long for.

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26th of July 2020   A very long text teaching skills of Christmas gnome like life in the modern world, over 250 advices and lots of links: http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html or just the blog address: https://learntalents.blogspot.com/ . 

31th of August 2020   Skills of Christmas gnomes 1. Gnome like life in the modern world (Finland) http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 2. Hero like skills   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/01/some-observations-about-gnomes-and-like.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 3. Tale like fascination in everyday real life    https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-additional-remarks-about-gnome.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 4. Oath like love   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/07/tale-like-things-in-everyday-life.html
The whole blog   http://learntalents.blogspot.com

About learning arts

I have liked arts all my life and that is typical in Finland, at least in the capital district where I grew up. In school and in hobbies I learmed basics of them but did not learnm to do them on my own. The last ten years here in Savonlinna, in my 40's, where there is a big summer time arts happenening: Savonlinna Opera Festival in every July, I have learned something of the professional side of arts. In the capital districts I learned of insight and quality of life, kind of wisdom which longed for to be communicated via arts. So the ground eixsted beforehand and here in Savonlinna I have learned ofexpression and of the work like side of arts.
Free time at home, own peace, interest in arts, own insight, good generalskill level, interest in painting and music too, searching for good siúbjects, the ages old language of animals and plants, wish to communicate things of value in life to the younger generations, a good understanding of how work rythms affects the quality of one's work and cultivating just quality, sincere liking of arts and of the subjects and wisdom of life that suits the audience, doing also work like parts that demand time like reserving time for certain moment that one wants to derscribe or to discerning how some part of melody goes, maybe certain note, and later one can often do such quicker, an interest in skills and wisdom of life.

About shelter

Shelter like here in my home in Savonlinna, Finland, is a question of choosing the biggest factors of one's life so that they kind of shelter the kind of life I want to live, like for example what kind of job and choosing things benefical for it, and choosing other major activities in one's life so that they fit one's character, and choosing where one lives and what one buys and what one associates with so that they shelter these: are planned to give these good possibilities, like good quality equipment chosen with time and used with dedication. And then trying to find in one's life wise solutions, and living in peace with the rest of the world, even if not always with all the people one associates with. Food, religion, culture's ways and values, music, work, supported habits (hobbies) give shelter too.

3.3.2020   I somehow got stuck writing a long text about the possibilities of Christmas gnome like life in the modern world. It became largely a list of links to my other texts which are better.
"Gnome like life in the modern world http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html
part 2. https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/01/some-observations-about-gnomes-and-like.html
(some additional remarks https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-additional-remarks-about-gnome.html )"

About succeeding in shopping

 About shopping, from my text Gnome like life in the modern world   http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html

"Making home nice according to one's likings and comfortable,maybe clothes too such is an important part of finding a pleasant way to live for just oneself. In such green plants on the window and things that one loves are important. Often a different chain of shops offers different kinds of good sides in things and has a different variety as the cheapest things to buy, so it is worth checking, for example for some single cheap thing to buy but well chosen and with regard to what kind of ways of living and skill levels & tyoes the shop aims the sold things to especially support. Some things are sold just for certain age class in the area the shop is in, and that depends on the decade: what the kids of adults interested in the local main professional interests need if there are many types of people in the kids, and so they are not necessarily for sale later when the child has grown up, so there is the time for them while they are for sale and things sold in a shop change from season to season and from year to year."

"How one buys food and artifacts from a shop matters a lot to how content one is with them. If there are for example several types of yoghurt with roughly the same price, it is good to choose for each family member the one according to her/his ideal of a way of living she/he wants to associate with so much, like berries or a lot or sugary, grandparents like or like celebration, etc so that one is more satisfied and so one feels as if with a fuller stomach and so it is possible to get back the extra cost by not needing to buy something else. Likewise when buying something else. For example computers have colour coded user friendliness features, at least this HP of mine."

"Of how wellequipment and other things bought fit into their purpose, matters a lot how much time and interest you invest on them. You should visit more than one shop to see what the shops are like and what kinds of things they offer. If you support the ways and values and skill level of the town you live in, then there ought to be some shop that sells things targeted to people like you, but it also means that you ought to buy from your own price level and according to your interests and likings while taking into account what the town's culture is like. If you buy just something, it is quite likely to go ashtray. But if you take a closer look at the material, tool or whatever it is and at the different sides and possibilities of usage of it, "oh it looks like as if it were..., coukld it be that it could be used to...", and use it according to it's spirit, while maybe ready to go to the shop again and buy something extra which needs time to catch the new ideas and adapt to the changes inplans according to what the more skilled whomanufacture the things know of good ways of doing and of using them. I guess that it could be likewise when choosing an apartment or the like."


In Finnish about succeeding in shopping, at http://asiakkaanavain.blogspot.com

About cleaning and tidying

"55. If at home it is just cleaned but not things nicely or just messy, it aren't as nice and bringing energy as arranging things nicely and sometimes when one has something nice to do which has a nice atmosphere then leave something of that in sight to bring nice looking, well working pleasant environment and life."
 https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html

"Nice result of tidying & Greeb plants nicely

"In the neighbouring apartment someone moved furniture and washed the floor etc. When he left, I noticed that it had been a man. I guess a man tuidying moves furniture and vacuum cleans. That would leave a rough result without like women making things nice: for example a woolen blanket or a chair cushion and nice artifacts to make things nicer. Without moving the furniture the tidying would lack a taste of life and energy. I guess that the best result and nicest is when the same person does both.

About making things nice: do in a good mood and do not correct details so as to not to bring work like atmosphere there and spoil the atmosphere of the whole. For example spreading a blanket or a carpet."


Green plants nicely
" plants are better looking because the place and position of each flowerhas been chosen on a good day's good moment, like on a sunny free time moment, naturally momentarily like feels good then, and then left the flower and the flower pot there without touching anything in it, without twisting a leaf, also when watering, for weeks or months, so that the flower adjusts it's position according to the light and the space it has like is good for it to grow and like looks beautiful.""
From https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html

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5.3.2019  If some time at home there is some place that is more difficult to clean, then the end result may depend on when you try to clean it, for example what is in your mind of social thing or things done, and so the next time the end result can be better, for example better thought of and more light, more strenght.

14. maaliskuuta 2019    My mom taught me to clean like a machine: to one place starightforwardly some kind of result while on the edged like after an explosion. I think that it is better to clean and tidy in some other way: thinking what kind of whole is this, how and why would it be good this way, why is this a good way tyo clean, and so feel better afterwards and also when tidying and cleaning.

I think that cleaning ought to be common sense like way to make places good for living and doing, somewhat like a healthy animal cares for it's feathers or fur, and so it is good for it, even magnifient to live. But then instead of a forced way ofg doing one ought to follow one's own motivation, use good ways of doing, learn for life about good ways of doing, rythm, about good practical possibilities, about differencies of ways of doing, etc.  Tidying and lceaning ought not be like a square: here begins cumbersomely and one just has to do, then one h´just has to do labour, and then just ends here was it. One ought to have motivation, practical deed along it, good enough physical fitness so as to not to get squeezed because of the task, lots of common sense and enough social distance for one to do right choices, that have learned about the rest of one'slife and not stuck collapsing ones, way of doing energetic and not forcing oneself, farsighted with healthy spirit and not square like.
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15th January 2020
In cleaning one's home or other ordinary environment, I think it is important to not to just remove some things and leave the place unkept and nasty feeling, but instead tidy at the same time, like cleaning the floor from scrap, dust and dirt and then placing the carpet like is nice for living. And for work habits it is important to have a good mood and energy, enjoyable motion, so tat for cleaning the floor for some it is nice to be agile and clean on one's knees, changing agilely place, while for others it is nice to fing a well working equipment with with you can clean the floor standing and walking around, with calm quite pleasant motions and a good mood.

31th of January 2020
I do not know for sure, but my impression is that methods of cleaning ought to depend on the person, since a different character does the cleaning job in different ways and so needs different equipment, soaps etc. Only if you are a good team, can you copy some of the other person's ways and succeed, even though it may be that some equipment is good for the task while some other equipment is not. But for example which other professions you like and admire, use their ways of thinking and doing, tehir values, may affect a lot what is a good way of doing. Also, if you for example wet the floor, you as a person typically wet it another amount than some other person, and so if you want to remove the dirt, you have to wait a different time and repeat different number of tyimes with a different tecxhnique too. A good guide for good ways is your idea of what you like: you maybe like it because it works for you and your favoyurite ways of working, while some other could for example be too dangerous for your eys and skin. And so it also varies from person to person, in how big bunches and how often doing you achieve the best result: do you find giood enjoyable ways of working immediuately but tire and start crying or do your start clumsily but then find an enjoyment of doing but overdo it compared to your forces?

24th of February 2020
"Spring cleaning
When you get a spark of enthusiasm of spring, you can among other things tidy and make things nice at hiome so that you are along with the season with a happy mood. But in April one is usually forceless, so one has energy and good mood with which to leave things joyful mostly in March and May. It is customary to wash windows in the spring when sunshine shows the dirt in them.
In February at the spring side of winter it is good time to go through places that one hasn't had the energy to tidy for months. In March sunny days it is nice to clean in ordinary ways and to make places nice for spring. In April one does not tidy so much but one ought to live quite speedily and soften home in some ways by making places nice if the landscape behind the window is strenously grey. In May one already makes home nice for summer."
http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
Please observe! This means enthisiasm about the spring, not about the tidying itself. Like: "It was so nice outdoors. The spring is already here! How can it be like this indoors? Wait a moment, I will tosss these aside and wash this table with a few round strokes,so that it is more like spring here in too. Now, look how much better! What if we should do this to a few other places too? If we just have the energy to it."  

26th of December 2020   How one feels about cleaning and tidying, and what one's mood is, depends on what is one's approach and which moment one starts the task. If one does not care when, but just forces oneself to the task, that feels like against one's own will and so leaves a nasty feeling and a not so well working way of doing the work, which then somewhat is seen in the result too. But if one thinls that one would like to clean today,to get things nice and clean, a comfortable enviornment that is good to live in, and that one would like some practicvaö to do, like washing for example, clean water, and some motion which one would like to do in a good way, and that one would like to be active and energetic the amount that suits one's character, and so spend tome time in cleaning too. If then on soem such moment one starts the task and has enough peace for it to work out well, it leaves a nice feeling and that is somewhat seen also in the results. So one can also learn better ways of doing.

8th of January 2021   How one cleans depends on the person and on the occasion, what is cleaned and how and how long did it take and did one get how tired etc. For one to feel well abotu it, I guess that one ought not compare it much with the feelings of others, since they did in a different way, so maybe it is informative about different ways of doing but for one to feel well, one ought to know that one's sensations and feelings connect to what kind of dirt there was and how much and was there bacteria and what kind (food or what) and how one cleaned it: what came after it, washed feeling or what, and how one got tired, partly from physical labour which often makes one stronger in the long run, or from bad work habits which ought to be avoided, or from dirt or from bacteria, or from too much detergent, pr from failures, or from emotional strain. When one's feelings correspond to what one has just done and one recignizes right what sensation was caused by which factor, one feels like having done something, like getting stronger so, and maybe learning skills, and kind of more feels like with soem achievement also on the physical level. 

There are small animals, insects or bacteria where one cleans or at least the atmoshpere afterwards if it isn't so good and happy, means that their living environment got disturbed, and as such is maybe that if one cleans with straight square edges, the animals etc worry and are unhappy, while if one leaves in sight at the edges the way one worked like "squaash" like this I clean, then the animals understand much better and feel better and humans too. 

For cleaning to be nice the equipment ofúght to be clean, and that measn that one ought to choose such fabrics that are easy and comfortable to clean many times in a row while one cleans home. 

Moving to live in another town

If one isn't satisfied with one's life where one lives and where one maybe grew up, then one usually cannot change the area's culture and ways since they depend on the location and on which good sides it offers to those who move to live there. So what is lacking, is that one should have chosen oneself where one wants to live in, and that one ought to move to live there, in a place whose culture, ways and main professions etc one likes, is soulmates with. Then one ought not take along so much things from the old place but instead buy new ones from the place that one moves to. And so the cost of moving aren't so high, if it is just a one-way bus ticket or a couple of car journeys with someone to help to carry the things. But in the new place there are new things to take into account, also crime. And if one loves the new culture, one isn't so much satisfied with any need of journeys back to the old place. But if one needs to buy all things new then that of course costs a lot, even though it can help to adapt to the new culture, but to begin with one propably does not recognize the local options, groups of people to belong to and what obe oneslef would be like living there.

My texts aim for giving more room for happy life

I list here some links to my English texts. The aim of just about all my texts is to give more room for happy life and freedom in moral ways via good quality objective thinking.

Crime is economically disadvantageous   http://2013paradise.blogspot.com/2017/08/basics-of-my-paradise-theory.html

More room for free time according to feelings along healthy ages old ways of living in working life and studies http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi

Useful skills of Finns http://Finnishskills.blogspot.fi

Learn good quality objective thinking http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi

To a dream job http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi

Rationality of feelings (videos) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5413BA37709C0F53

Future of computers objectively (philosophy: feelings, rationality and moral for computers)   http://feelingcomputers.blogspot.com/2011/08/far-future-with-computers-what-will.html


Attempts at curing illnesses etc http://curingguesses.blogspot.com/2018/12/index-with-cure-suggestions-after-word.html (an index of 500 headers with cure suggestions in them translated plus 50 of the texts)    
(Finnish language original http://parantamisesta.blogspot.fi or .com is somewhat longer.)


Gnome like life: doing things with a good spirit, tale like fascination in modern towns' everyday life   http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html

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27. October 2018   Many of my texts teach quite big pieces of skill, even talents. So if you read them and learn and start something new at least partly based on it and it goes quite well or at least much better than earlier, then many others too would maybe like to hear about such texts of mine, please recommend them or at least mention, so that the option is open to many others too.

Contact with the nature

This where I live is of course only a town environment with some trees, but a contact with the nature can teach especially skills of living with the seasons, see my long text http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html , and somewhat also other skills, see this quotation of mine:

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Nature protection abroad: build a better contact with the nature

http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2015/02/visiting-finnish-nature.html

" Visiting the Finnish nature
The Finnish nature is famous for it's unique fragile beauty. Also
Finland as a nation without much written history has it's roots in the
old forest dwellers who were mainly farmers and at earlier times
hunters. Most modern Finns spend a week or so of their summer holiday
on a summer cottage by a lake shore.
Finns have a different attitude toward nature than most foreigners,
because the nature here is very different from the nature say in
Central Europe, where the nature is mostly farms and gardens and parks
too. The Finnish nature is wild, not gardened, and it is praised for
it's beauty and peace, and it is scarce: there are not somany trees
and not so many dangerous animals. The maybe best way to learn to walk
in the forest is to visit a small forest patch in town or some well
kept recreation area, and pick some ordinary not-at-all-rare stone,
flowers, fallen branch, fallen autumn leaves or the like for home
decoration. If you mainly admire the nature for it's beauty, you will
walk in the forest much like the Finns do. Then you also notice where
you are going, which route you came and the like, so that you do not
get lost as easily. Finns value forests for their recreational value
and for their connection with the original ages old ways of living of
all humans close to the nature. Remember to wear warm clothes, not to
let them get wet and have extra clothes in case it gets cold. Take
always care that you know how to get away from the forest!

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A quotation from my blog http://einoleinopoems.blogspot.fi . Eino
Leino is a very famous old Finnish poet, writing about the beauty of
nature and the laws governing life, and about love etc

"About the possibilities of going to the nature in other countries
Finland is sparcely populated and there are lots of forests which one
can visit. And since we live in the north and the cool and cold
weathers prevent dangerous animals from living here, and since the
wolves and bears have been hunted to a small population, visiting
forests is safe. In other countires it is not the same in most, since
there is more population, less nature, more dangerous animals and no
custom of everybody visiting a forest. But if you are intriguided by
the idea of the beauty and peace of nature, it would be good to find a
way to enjoy them at least somewhat. Gardens, trees, parks, meadows,
sea and shores, even flowers on the window offer a touch with the
nature. So do scenic spots, views out of a bus window where there is
green, farming and nature reserves. In a way it does not matter how
big spot of nature you have, you could even enjoy trying an insect's
or bird's view of the near environment which is often beautiful and
magnifient. On the other hand, the more the environment allows you to
drown into enjoying the nature, without sight of build things or human
foot-print spoiled things, the more profound your experience of peace,
harmony, health and fracturelessness is, the more profound your touch
with the ages old healthy natural ways of living on all areas of life,
the more refreshing your experience is, the more it gives energy and
serves as a holiday.
Another question is safety. Generally there are three types of safe
places: ones with so many people that it has been taken care that
there is safe, ones with nobody and no dangerous animals either and
thirdly places which do not tend to have any danger. Parks have lotrs
of people, but odd times may be dangerous Places where people live but
where there are trees, for example on the sides of the roads and
yards, may have atranquil atmosphere, one of nature's peace and
harmony some time (in the summer time?) when it is daytime but a quiet
moment or a few quiet moments. Some scenic routes offer harmony and
beauty even if there go cars by quite often, if just the views are
with a fascination: there a tiny flower by the roadside, there the
shelter of trees, there a view over the shore to a lake, there a bench
with a view, shelter and a comfortable atrmosphere. One can also visit
forest patches that are not so much wandered on, if one goes to
different places, in different times, often with company and a car of
one's own. By the sides of garden area's roads there is often tall
grass with flowers, butterflies etc, a world of it's own, very summer
like, kind of an ideal of love. And even in the winter time there is
the weather, the feeling of the elements with trees living their ages
old way of life.

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5. of July 2016
From th text about the seasons
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
"The beauty of nature is partly a question of a way of looking. One
should be interested in the multitude and richness of forms and
colours, of the atmosphere of plants' growth whne looked among other
things along the way they have grown, the magnifient moments of bird's
flight, treen looked from near, the nature from the point of view of
an insect or bird where even a small branch or grass can be biggest
factors of the living environment, the atmosphere of the time of tha
day with it's birdsong, light coming through the leaves to a mist, how
one always finds new variations slightly different details full of
feeling and atmospheric for example in pine's surface and it's thick
branches, in the beauty of a forest lanscape viá trees, the different
atmosphere of each type of lants etc."

Also safety when one happens to meet people in lonely places is
important. One question in it is paying attention to other people's
sense of space: what is their home, what near environment, which are
the common roads for all to travel, do they enjoy solitude or want to
exchange a couple of words about the beauty of nature, etc. Another
point in that is allowing people socially room to live in:
http://healthilymoral.blogspot.fi/2016/06/finding-safety.html plus
links from there."

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Relationship to the nature is not just watching the nature. It has to
do with the sense of atmospheres: recognizing the time of the day from
how high the sun shines, recognizing the basic features of the nature
environment like "This is typical pine forest." or lake shore with
splashing waves, stony shore, tree branches by the shore. It also has
to do with understanding the basic actions of how animals live and
what is the style of the plant life, like an ant running, carrying,
meeting other ants, watching, etc. In this sense in these basic things
in life the nature offers fine forefigures in such basic skills, but
it has to be the nature of your own climate and culture and not some
too faraway place, even though one can learn something of such too,
like of arctic nature about staying warm. But relationship to the
nature also has to do with understanding nature's language: admiring
the magnifient beauty of the nature landscapes and other impressive
nature views, kind of absorbing what the nature is like, how high it's
skill in those basic things in life, what style it lives and how it
communicates to humans.

Birds are social and eager to take part in the life in the landscape
around them. They may nag or tsirp and their songs are said to be akin
to music, kind of original form of music and some birds sing with high
skill. But like wild animals at öarge, birds live their separate life
from humans, may build a nest, have offspring, live their lives in the
affairs of birds, kind of symphatic, kind of beautiful and fierce, a
refreshing element also in the town environment. A bird's flight is
often magnifient to look at. "



https://kalevalainenglish.blogspot.com/2018/02/kalevala-and-skills-aim-of-this.html

" Kalevala and skills, the aim of this translation
- February 28, 2018
Finns have wisdom that most other nationalities lack. Part of that
wisdom comes from reading Kalevala, but Kalevala is a difficult book
to translate. This wisdom comes from learning via close relationship
with the nature and living with the four seasons, in ever varying
weathers. There is wisdom that one can learn from the challenges of
one's life, wisdom about doing one's very best and learning new
skills, and getting strenght to other things done from what one has so
learned, so that it was not just one experience but way to learn for
all of one's life.Also when one encounters something concretical and
ages old, one can learn about the basic nature of humans, about the
wisdom encoded in our nature, about wise ways of living, about
profound ages old way to live and be social, kind of basic form of
life, something which is at the core of every human deed adn fate,
even in these modern times. So my intentipn has not been to translate
Kalevala as poems or fine words but only to translate some things of
what it teaches skills for life, wisdom about the human nature and
about ways to learn about life, about what is profound in the world.
But Kalevala is a long book and this is just a beginning of the ephos.

The Finnish relationship to the Finnish nature is essential in
understanding Kalevala. But of course foreigners seldom know the
Finnish nature. So I have tried to translate the nature contact in a
general level that would apply in other climates too, even if there
are less possibilites of wandering in the nature. It is a big problem
in Finland for foreigners that they tend to get a flu and it just
lasts and lasts and so they are just ill and dizzy and don't learn
anything much while in thius climate. So what they need to learn, they
ought to learn in their original climate, even if things there are
very different from Finland. The nature is of course different too,
but in this way of learning the point isn't mostly in what the animal
or plant does, except that it is ages old, but instead on it having a
varying rythm (courses twinding in a structured way), on it having
wisdom in it's ways of doing, in encoded in it's atmosphere, in it
touching our ages old nature. And on the other hand it learning,
especially at quite young age, about what it does also other skills
needed for life, like from watching beauty of nature one learns to
look at landscapes and observe a lot, understand life in the living
and gain wisdom of life.

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My other texts offer suport for this endeavour: I have written about:
* living wisely the seasons
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
* healthy ways of living and doing
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html
* learning thinking skills http://pikakoulu.blogspot.fi ,
http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi
* learning other skills http://learntalents.blogspot.fi
* working life and feelings http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi
I have also translated some famous Finnish poems:
http://EinoLeinopoems.blogspot.fi


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February 28th is the time of the year when winter skills are at their
highest, and so it is also Kalevala's day in Finland, day of the
Finnish culture.

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http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2018/06/weathers-charm.html

"Thursday, June 7, 2018
Weathers' charm
I do not know for sure how being with the weathers, their fascination
and the reaching for the skills they need, is taught. But maybe if one
as young or beginner would go out to look at some fascinating weather,
like storm coming or storm having just passed, and just look at the
magnifient clouds, sun shining somewhere through, feel the atmosphere
of the moment with someone who understand the charm of such and has
the skills of living such weathers, for example one's papa, and at the
same time another separate thing is to be prepared for the adjustemnts
between cold and hot, moisture level changing, rain coming, sun
passing through etc, which one can learn from wild birds which do well
and from the tree species orginally from the climate one is in. So
having trees and other nature at the spot is a good side.
Similarly one can later learn about the charm of milder weathers from
those who like them, enjoy them. This is one reason why it is good to
talk of the weather: to learn skills in living, to get advices from
those who like them, them telling what is it that charms then in mild
rain sun passing through etc.
But I think it is very climate dependent what weather one should start
from and which to emphasize to find a pleasant and healthy way of
living all the weathers and moments of the day. Often more sporty
moving is good for the cooler weathers and for varying weATHERS.

By the words of a traditional Russian song (In the forest not a leaf
moves) "Even if I would forget everything else, this charming moment I
would never forget."

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6. September 2018   I am not sure of this, but my impression is that each weather, also in widely different climates, is best lived in a way which you find when you pay central attention to some fine whole of the nature, like an atmospheric branch in nature, that is especially spirited in it's view of how to live such wetaher and to which heights one's wisdom of life, skill, virtues of character and enjoyment of life could so rise,for example on some animal of the wilderness, and from siuch viewpoint pay attention to it's view on the ways of living: that is what is the way of living such wetahers and such temperatures, maybe such days, evenings, nights & mornings. Follow that advice and search for a new advice when the weather is clearly different.""