We’e had a rather nice day again, mostly sunny till afternoon arrived but now a sheet of grey clouds cover the sky. It’s just above 20C (68F) with a kind lukewarm wind blowing. I’ve had the kitchen door open since early morning so the dogs have been able to go out and in as they’ve pleased.
We had our first walk this week, I finally felt enough well to do that. The sun was shining and the temperature well below 10C (50F), so none of the flies annoyed or bit us. Yes the fly season has started. Still mostly biting flies and they are annoying enough but still not as many as the overly friendly forest flies who seems to have only one wish in life, to take a look inside our ears and nostrils 🙂 🙂 🙂
I bought a garden hose yesterday and today I used it to water my now showing vegetable plants and potato plants. I also now have the cleanest kitchen floors in the world, why You might ask? Well because the hose I bought turned out to be a dripping hose. It has loads of tiny holes in it so that while I water where I want to the hose also water gently where I place it, like in my kitchen 🙂 🙂 🙂
The thought behind it is that if one place it strategically in the vegetable patch (or inside a green house) one just plug the end of it and the water will then gently drip out of the hose, a perfect way to not waste water. So now I really need to buy a new hose long enough so I just put this “leaking” hose in the two patches and let it slowly water the ground. To be honest not what I had planned but kind of right anyway. This time I think I’ll order the hose online. To be honest I also totally miscalculated how long the hose needed to be and it should have been at least twice as long as I thought 🙂 🙂 🙂
I also bought a toy for the dogs, well at least Alma and Albin. Nova doesn’t play that much any longer. It’s a big Cotton? rope. They had fun with it for around five minutes and then they left it 🙂 🙂 🙂 It is still fun if I throw it up in the air and one of them catch it. Then they play with it for five more minutes 🙂 🙂 🙂 Those dogs don’t seem to be the toy kind of dogs, they’re more in to chewing bones and preferable hard ones that will take a year or so to chew through.
Rain is on the way and for once I really hope we’ll get lots of it. The creeks is getting narrower and narrower and the swamp behind my garage is no more. Ok we’ll get fewer mosquitoes if it is dry but we’ve gotten unusually little rain this spring and early summer so the vegetation really needs it. Back in the days June, July and August were the most rainy months we had. Still it’s much better than down south in Europe, It isn’t that nice in big parts of the US either to be honest. It’s time for something to eat and perhaps a cup of tea.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer,
That kind of toy was my old dog Tegan’s favorite. Hers was as big as the one you have. She’d run up to me and bang the giant knot against my shin repeatedly until I threw it. She’d fetch it and run back to bang my shins some more. Ouch, 😄
The weather here is getting murky and muggy. We might have thunderstorms. Or we might not. It’s one of those days.
At the end of the day a squeaky clean kitchen is no bad thing regardless of how it got that way.😉
Have a great day.
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Hi Caryn!
Tegan at least got an idea how to make it fun 🙂 🙂 🙂 My two just look at it and unless I go to fetch it and throw it they just don’t care 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well Albin did actually try to shred it to pieces but he isn’t as stubborn as ha was as young so he gave up after a while 🙂 🙂 🙂
We got rain during the night, I woke up some time and heard a shower passing by but we didn’t get especially much. More will fall the coming week though.
That floor needed to be cleaned so I didn’t complain too much 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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Lol, Tegan’s other favorite activity with that toy was untying the giant knots. She had a great deal of patience for destructive activities.
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Hi Christer, I am late in blog reading and commenting this week, so was reading past blog posts about how you were ill. Glad to read in this post that you are doing much better. Yes, ice cream is always good to have especially with a sore throat as it’s for medicinal purposes (right?) I hope that you enjoyed the banana split flavor. Today we bought peanut butter cup ice cream, but won’t open until the weekend. A neighbor has made peanut butter pie and invited several neighbors over for dessert tonight.
Those first two photos in this post were beautiful. There is always beauty in the early morning right before and after the sun starts its ascent. I have been getting up early to go to the gym here but not early enough to capture an image.
Those hoses with the small hoses were called soaker hoses and we used them in VA in our garden years ago…but never had a clean floor afterwards.
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Hi Beatrice!
The coughing was bad yesterday evening but now it seems to have calmed down again. I don’t have much energy though but it’s still weekend so I don’t need that much of it 🙂 🙂 and yes ice cream is always a good thing to have in the freezer 🙂
I’ve never even heard about peanut pie, sounds a bit too much for me even though I love peanuts 🙂 🙂 Then again with the right ice cream I might like it a lot 🙂 🙂 🙂
The sun rise at 4 am here now and the fog just stays for a few minutes after the sun has risen. Sometimes it’s a good thing to be an extreme morning person 🙂
Soaker hoses! I just couldn’t figure out the english name for them, thanks! The trick to get those clean flors are to connect it directly to the kitchen tap 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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