I’ve finally found out what she’s good at!

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Not much walking in this heat but I did go up the the mail box yesterday morning.

I’m writing this early today because yesterday was so hot here that my computer had a slight heatstroke πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Suddenly the fan inside it worked insanely hard, have never heard it working that hard before and then the computer froze and the fan stopped working at all. I quickly went down to the freezer and brought two cooling pads, placed one beneath the computer and one on top of it. I checked if it would start after a while and have had no problems at all after that.

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Lots of chicory growing in the field outside my cottage. I think we all know that it can be used as lettuce but back in the days it’s root was roasted and used as a coffee surrogate. One can still buy that but I haven’t tried it.
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Today will be even hotter than yesterday and we might break our heat record if we’re unlucky. I think we had one of those rather rare tropical nights here, it was 20C (68F) outside when I went up at 4:25 this morning. Inside the cottage however it’s still 28C (82,4F).Β  The fan worked all night and I like it but the dogs don’t seem to see the good with it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ They actually avoid the bed when the fan works, can’t remember when I had that much space for myself πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The piglets aren’t morning piglets at all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚
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The last flower on the Dog rose.
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Still plenty on the big rose beside it.

I actually mowed the lawn yesterday morning when it still wasn’t that hot. Why You might ask? Well the grass on the north side has been growing fast so it was quite high and needed to be mowed before any rain will fall. Well we might not get that rain they had promised was on its way, still changes in their guessing about that but we do need it now. I also wanted to use that cut down grass to cover the ground in the potato and vegetable patches. The grass will keep the moisture in the ground for much longer at the same time grass is full of what plants need to grow so while it decomposes it’ll give that to the ground and plants growing there.

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My now three? year old date palm seedling. It takes quite some time until it finally starts growing those leafs we all know.
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My Chinese Catalpa is in bloom again πŸ™‚

So the first thing I did after feeding the dogs was to water the vegetable and potato patches. Albin and Nova stayed indoors to sleep some more but Alma followed me outside. I’ve finally found out what she’s really good at (as long as Albin isn’t close though), she’s really good at fetch! She comes back with what ever it was I threw away and does so every time I throw it away!! If Albin’s close it’s just grab it and run away so that he will follow and chase her πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Nova has never been good at it and now days she really doesn’t care at all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She prefers to mostly sleepΒ  on the sofa πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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I still need more grass klippings to fill up the vegetable patch though.

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Can’t remember the name of this flower but it should be growing in sunshine and fairly wet to like life, so I’m wondering why it thrives here when it grows really dry and mostly in the shadows πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

It is time to go downstairs and make another cup of tea and perhaps something to eat.

Have a great day!

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