I really can’t complain about anything today to be honest. 23C (73,4F), sunshine, a weak but cool wind blowing and Alma has behaved all day! There was this one deer that refused to move out in a field but Alma didn’t see it and only pulled the leash forward. It’s when she suddenly make quick turns that my shoulder gets worse.
The first horse flies have arrived, still they aren’t too bad, just annoying by circling around showing they are here. Well I think one bit Alma because most of the day she has been chasing everyone of them that has been close to her. These look like wasps so I’m a bit worried she will try and catch one of those, a sting in the mouth isn’t a good thing. I can also tell already now that it’s a wasp year, long time since I saw these many as I do now.
I’ve finally done the potato patch š I haven’t placed the last pieces of lawn over the stinging nettles yet, I was so tired and my body hurt so much when I was done that I decided to do that tomorrow. It was so fun because every time I went away for a short while small birds landed in the patch and took any maggot, larvae and worm they could find. Some were even so brave that they came down while I still was working there. I’ll rake the place tomorrow before I put down the potatoes so they’ll have another chance to find food. There is this larvae (who eventually will become some kind of beetle) that feeds on grass roots, when the grass roots no longer is there they will go for the potatoes so any of these the birds will take is a good thing.
Tomorrow I’ll start with the vegetable patch and do the exact same thing there. I’ll have some very well fed baby birds this summer š š š I think there are lots of birds nests in the garden this summer because I could hear when they fed their younglings. It’s amazing how loud they are, especially since there are so many who would love to have them as a snack. I don’t have any cats now but the neighbors have plenty but they are of course not in my garden if I and my dogs are there.
Tomorrow is our national day and that’s a day very few actually celebrates here. Most of us didn’t want it to become a holiday because we knew they would remove another holiday we had if it did become a holiday. The one they removed was Whit Monday. No one did celebrate that one either since no one actually knew why we had it as a holiday š š The thing was however that it always was on a Monday so we all knew we would get a long weekend.Our national day can come any day since it is a fixed date. So since no one actually wanted it both the employers and the union agreed on us getting eight hours of compensation time every year it happened on a Saturday or Sunday so that we actually could take a long weekend anyway š š š
I can feel I have drunk way too little water after working in the sun all day so now I’ll have something to drink and I will also open a tin of canned peaches because I feel I deserve it š
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer,
We have mostly Monday paid holidays here but a few do have to fall on the actual day like Christmas and New Year’s Day. If they fall on Saturday, the paid holiday is Friday and if they fall on Sunday, the paid holiday is Monday.
We’re having the same weather today.
73ā°F, sunny, light winds.
Have a great evening.
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Hi Caryn!
The holidays we have here are all but two connected to the christian holidays so if they occur on a weekend we won’t get any other day paid as a holiday. Today is the only day that that actually happens. The other non christian holiday we have is May 1st and that’s the international workers day. We do however have two days that aren’t holidays but we get paid as if they are anyway and that’s Christmas eve, which is our big day at christmas and Midsummers eve which is almost as big as christmas eve.
We are supposed to have sunshine from when the sun rise today but so far it has been cloudy and a bit chilly. The clouds are thinning out now though so I think this will be a rather nice day again š
Have a great day!
Christer.
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We get 10 paid federal holidays per year. Doesn’t mean that every worker gets the days off. Service workers and front line workers either get an alternate day or trade shifts with someone if they want the actual holiday off. Hardly anything closes down here for a holiday anymore though many places have gone to half days. People who have the actual holiday off want all the shops open.
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Hi Caryn!
The same here about not all getting to stay at home on holidays, as You say it’s all about what job they have. Office workers and factory workers do get all holidays off though.
Norway has really tough laws about holidays, I read about one today that if it is a holiday they are not allowed to make noise, like mowing the lawn or repairing their houses. If they do the police will come and visit them and they can also get fined. I do like that last one but that would also mean my lawn would look rather sad since I always mow my lawn on holidays now during summer š š š
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The best thing about being retired, Christer, is that every day is like a holiday to us! Some weeks, we are not even sure what day it is, thankfully not often. Hope your potatoes will do well after all your hard work. Horse flies and wasps are both nasty insects.
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Hi Beatrice!
I do long for my retirement but still have too many years left, unless I win big in the lottery š š š
I can take wasps, they are usually ok until autumn when the queen leave the home and the workers gets confused and angry. I never remove a wasp nest until after that has happened. I leave them alone and they leave me alone until that day š Horse flies however are truly nasty!
Have a great day!
Christer.
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