I had a tough night last night, my dogs tried to take over my bed and push me off it 🙂 🙂 🙂 To be honest I think it mostly was Alma but the two others just spread out more the more space she gained from pushing me away 🙂 🙂
I went to my friend who ownes a garden center today (didn’t take any photos but I can’t say I know why I didn’t 🙂 🙂 ). She now has two eight months old german shepherd/ rottweiler cross dogs and it’s fun to see the difference between them and Alma who is a cross between white swiss shepherd dog (more or less a white german shepherd) and dobermann. While her two dogs looks more like rottweilers Alma looks more like a german shepherd. One of her dogs has begun to behave much like Albin when it comes to other dogs while the other one is more like Alma. Really want too meet but is also really vocal about it 🙂 🙂 Two beauties non the less 🙂
I didn’t stay for long and wasn’t planning to buy any plants this time but I had planned to buy some soil because I’m out of it now. So naturally I didn’t come home with any soil but I do have a walnut tree here now 🙂 🙂 To be honest I didn’t buy it because she didn’t think she would be able to sell it any longer and was going to throw it away. So I could take it if I wanted and of course I wanted that 🙂 🙂 The tree wasn’t standing in a pot with soil but instead the roots were covered with something I can’t guess what it is and it had no problems staying alive as long as it got water.
So the first thing I did was to plant it in a pot with the soil I had left and some peat and then I watered it a lot. I’ll keep it like this until next year, so it’ll spend winter in my cool cellar (if it survives for that long) and then I’ll plant it next spring. I know where because I have some plants I’m pretty sure won’t tolerate the toxins that will leak out from the walnut tree and that would be an easy way to get rid of them 🙂 🙂 🙂 All walnut species are more or less toxic towards their environment, a good way for plants to eradicate anything that would compete about the nutritions in the ground.
Today has been mostly sunny, warm and with a strong wind blowing. Quite nice to be honest. They’re guessing that tomorrow will be rather hot and after that it’ll slowly cool down until Friday when it will be rather chilly, 15C (59F) if we’re unlucky. We’ll also get plenty on rain on Friday so I won’t complain too much, I can always nap all day if the weather will behave like that 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer,
What kind of walnut is it? And I think I would call that thing either a fish net or a butterfly net.
My two dogs went through last week trying to push me off my bed. I slept in some strange contorted positions several nights. Fortunately they’re small enough that they can’t overwhelm me. If I squirm around enough, eventually Piki will move to the floor for awhile. Rocky doesn’t budge when he sleeps. He’s like a stone.
It was very comfortable all day until now. The sun is on the west side and can shine directly into the house and its getting hot. Ther blinds are drawn but the wind keeps blowing them open.
Have a great day.
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Hi Caryn!
I found a lot of english names for it but I think You call it english walnut (Juglans regia).
I’ll say fish net from now on then, thanks!
I had forgotten about how it is to share a bed with a really big dog, she’s strong and refuse to budge just like Your Rocky 🙂 🙂
Quite a chilly morning here and it was really nice to have a walk with the dogs but no flies flying around 🙂 The sun shone towards the thermometer but it still only showed 42,8F 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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I don’t imagine you could get much sleep with the dogs crowding in your bed, Christer, especially Alma! I didn‘t know that walnut trees give out toxins, but do hope that your free tree survives. I would have thought that the net was more of a butterfly net than a fish net as it the netting looks so fine. The poppy that survived is very colorful and i liked seeing the blue (chicory?) flowers and the orange, Ll were so colorful and vibrant looking.
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Hi Beatrice!
I can’t complain most of the times but sometimes they’re just impossible 🙂 🙂 I have to admit that I had forgotten how it was to have a big dog in the bed 🙂 🙂
Some even use that toxin to their advantage. I’ve read that in some places they crush the walnut leafs and put them in to smaller lakes and ponds, when they do the fish will float up to the surface and they just pick them up.
It’s actually for catching fish food, like mosquito larvae but I use it to catch the fish when it is time to bring them indoors for the winter 🙂
It’s actually cornflower and they are a common weed in organic fields and quite often together with poppies 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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