These last days have been a bit tough. Sneezing during days and coughing during nights. The throat has sometimes been really nasty but it is amazing how much better it feels after having half a teaspoon with honey slowly melting down the throat. The pain almost goes away totally after just ten minutes. It’s important that it is unpasteurized honey though, so that all good bacteria in it still lives.
We’ve had really nice weather but I’ve mostly been indoors sleeping. It has felt like the fever has come and gone but today it feels like it is at one level all the time, it’s the small things one can enjoy 🙂 🙂 🙂 My voice was so hoarse yesterday when I called my work place that they just laughed when they heard me 🙂 🙂 🙂
I had to go to the store today, I had no food at home. It does feel a bit bad going to a store with a nasty cold, people all around me can get it then but I do need food even if I’m sick and I live a bit far from the rest of the world to get food delivered to my cottage, at least to a reasonable cost. I went there early though so it was almost only me and the people working there and I was never close to any of them.
It was on my way home I realized I had forgotten to buy lots of ice cream, in fact I hadn’t bought any at all but I was too tired to go back and buy some. I did however buy some carnivorous plants. Normally they are hard to get here but today I was lucky. This is a paradise for flies and other insects so they’ll have plenty to eat this summer 🙂 🙂 🙂 I bought three Venus fly traps and four Sarracenias. None tough enough to survive a real winter here but I can have them in my cool cellar during winter. I would have bought a pitcher plant as well if they had had any.
They are all now standing on the north side of my cottage protected from the sun by an old cardboard box. As soon as a plant has been standing indoors for a while they must stand in the shadows for a week or so when they are moved outside. The sun otherwise will burn them to death even though they actually love standing in full sunshine. I’ll later on replant them in peat and in deeper boxes without any drainage holes because they need acidic water and lots of it too.
It is time for some more honey and after that some tea I think.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer,
I’m sorry you are still feeling crappy. I assume you have tested for covid and this is just a plain old summer cold.
Yellow is an odd color for flowers when it’s up against green. Not very visible as flowers unless one is standing right next to it. Some of my favorite flowers are yellow but I don’t plant them around the house because the house is yellow and the flowers will just disappear. There are some yellow daffodils near the back of the house but they are minis and show up really well against the stone foundation. Anything yellow out front would be against the yellow siding. I keep saying I’m going to plant a roadside waste area in the teeny, tiny front lawn. It would have the “weeds” that seed themselves in “roadside waste areas”: Queen Anne’s Lace, chicory, orange dayliles, and mullein. Maybe it would have milkweed, too, and some hollyhocks just because. Maybe next year. Right. 😀
Perhaps one of the neighbors will deliver ice cream to you as a kindly neighbor might do for a sick neighbor who needs it for medicinal purposes. The honey sounds effective, though. I googled honey ice cubes to see if that was a thing. Boy is it. Honey lemon ice cubes, honey ginger ice cubes, milk and honey ice cubes. I might try that last one. I’ve got milk to use up.
Have a good night with minimal coughing.
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Hi Caryn!
No I actually haven’t but I’m pretty sure this is just a summer cold, lots of people have this right now. The one I most likely got it from had tested though and it was negative. Unfortunately people go to work while having colds and I had to work close to this person a few times.
Yes it is and so is red towards red, since most our homes here in the countryside are red almost no one have red flowers close to their houses 🙂
It’s a small movement here now that want us to skip mowing lawns and let both grass and wild flowers grow instead so that bees can come and collect honey amongst other things. Sort of like my garden 🙂 🙂 The only problem with that is that it is also a paradise for ticks. So I do mow the lawn but at the same time I do what I can to reduce the size of the lawn with bushes and trees 🙂
I’ve kept my distance from my neighbors since I got this, no need to spread it to them.
To be honest, I don’t actually like honey that much but I can see why it actually is a big thing, even though I must say I didn’t know that 🙂
The night was a good one, no coughing as I know of 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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