There’s a heat wave on the continent, some places here had 8C (46,4F) as warmest today :-) :-)

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So I wrote a post here early this morning when suddenly the web site froze and refused to save any drafts. The odd thing was that I could continue to write without any problems. I also couldn’t post what I had written but clicked to save it so I just could update the site and then just paste it here again. For a reason I can’t understand I then couldn’t find the saved post again even though I did look at the right place. So I gave up and now I’m writing it all down again 🙂 🙂 🙂

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Sort of annoying but at the same time perhaps a good thing nothing worked as it should. Nova has been under the weather all day with a slight fever and an infection in her ear, again. SI’m pretty sure the infection make it hurt when she eats because she refused to eat in the morning. Still she would take some blue cheese, no need to chew a well ripe mold cheese 🙂 🙂 🙂 She also followed us on our morning walk so I wasn’t too worried. I started with her ear drops and already in the afternoon she ate a pancake 🙂 Ok she tried to lick it up while lying down 🙂 🙂 🙂 which really didn’t work but if I picked the pancake pieces up and gave them to her she happily gulped them down 🙂

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When she got her afternoon food she still was pretty picky and still tried to lick up the pieces, it sort of worked but I decided that I would pick the pieces up and give them to her. Turns out that she only wanted the orange colored pieces 🙂 🙂 🙂 She just looked at me with disgust when I tried to give her any other color pieces 🙂 🙂 🙂 I do hope she will be much better by tomorrow morning because she is a bit of a drama queen to be honest. Then again at the age of sixteen she’s allowed to be 🙂

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Besides that nothing much has happened today. I bought several different houseleeks this week because I have a rather big pot, low and wide, that needed something in it. Houseleeks are succulents so they don’t need much soil, to be honest wet soil during winter can make them rot, so I used the sand I have beneath the grass in my garden (I still have a lot around after digging my grey water root zone). I had bought eight and they just barely fit in the pot. I’ve watered a lot just so that all the sand will fill up the empty spaces between them because it’s almost impossible to do that while planting and having very dry sand 🙂

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The pot will stay outdoors all winter but I’ll make sure to place it so that no rain or snow will make it too wet for them. I used to have hardy cacti in my garden years ago but too many problems with thorns and dogs to make it worth while 🙂 🙂 🙂 Houseleeks also get pretty flowers but I doubt that I’ll see any this year. It is time for another cup of tea, some bon bons and to watch the athletic world championships. We’ve had a rather chilly day here today, it didn’t even reach 20C (68F). There’s a horrible heat wave down in Europe (even Britain is hit by it) but it doesn’t reach us, at least not yet. Some placed here in the middle of Sweden didn’t even get more than 8C (46,4F) and that is really unusual even up here in the north.

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Some sprouts fell off when I was putting down the potatoes in the ground so I planted them in two buckets. I wonder how many potatoes I’ll get from them 🙂
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I planted several different Houseleeks in a big clay pot this morning. Only sand and stone in the pot and I do hope they’ll thrive 🙂

Have a great day!

2 thoughts on “There’s a heat wave on the continent, some places here had 8C (46,4F) as warmest today :-) :-)

  1. Hi Christer,
    The term house leeks is one I’d never heard before and I couldn’t see what they were on the teeny phone screen. But I’m on my laptop and now I can see. Sempervivum! AKA hens and chickens. I kill those, too. 😦 You’ve made a lovely arrangement of them. May they live long and prosper. 🙂
    Even if the potatoes don’t give you potatoes, they have nice enough flowers.
    Yes, Nova is allowed to be a drama queen. I can’t believe that she’s 16. That time went fast. I wonder what it is about the orange pieces that is tastier than the other colors. Must be the dye.
    It was hot and humid Saturday but the cloud cover made it tolerable. Sunday will be hotter and stickier. They say.
    Have a great day.

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    1. Hi Caryn!

      I guess it’s a British english word then. I got it from Wikipedia so who knows if that’s a right name for it 🙂 🙂 No mentioning of hen and chickens though 🙂 🙂 🙂
      They easily rot during wet autumns and winters, especially if they grow in soil so that’s why I used sand and stones. I think this is the first sort of arranged pot I’ve ever done except for when I had a garden center. The customers there were not happy if I didn’t have readymade pots for them to buy 🙂 🙂

      They should give at least a few potatoes but I used good soil so it might be that they just grow the green parts and yes You’re right, they do give beautiful flowers 🙂 It took some time for potatoes to get popular to grow here in Sweden back in the days so the few that had them just had them as in flowerbeds. It wasn’t until a woman found out how to make alcohol from them that potatoes were popular amongst everyone here 🙂 🙂 🙂 Because of that she was the first woman in Sweden to become a member of the Academy of Sciences 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Yes she’s allowed to be 🙂 I have no idea if those pieces actually taste different to what color they have 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Still around 68F here (almost 100% humidity though), the heat wave will reach us later next week but thankfully they’re guessing that it’ll only stay for a couple of days.

      Have a great day!

      Christer.

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