Yesterday was horrible. We didn’t set a new heat record but it was still the hottest day in 73 years. Here in the village it reached 36C (96,8F) before it slowly, slowly started to get less hot. I really don’t want to go through that kind of heat again but most likely I will because of the climate change.
One hot summer isn’t any proof of the climate change but when this happens frequently year after year, when it perhaps happened once every tenth year before it is one of the evidence of that the climate is changing. There were areas of rain and thunder all around this area but none reached us, the same today and I really wish it would come to us as well because the flies are soo annoying as they always are when thunder is about to arrive (well or at least it’s nearby). It is much cooler today though, 18C (64,4F) and hopefully dropping. This village is more or less in the eye of a low pressure so the rain just keep circling around us but it does at least cool us down.
Nova was the one taking the heat best of us all. She didn’t seem to care especially much and even slept in the sunshine on the kitchen stairs 🙂 🙂 Albin can’t take any heat at all, then again he can’t take any cold weather at all either, he truly is a lukewarm weather guy 🙂 🙂 🙂 Alma and I took it in much the same way, not as well as Nova but lots better than Albin. The night was horrible, the fan worked at maximum speed but I can’t say it felt much better. Also a fly had found my bedroom and did its best to annoy the heck out of us. The sticky fly paper has been full of flies so that was another thing I really needed to buy today. They didn’t have it in the big store I went to and the one I asked said Do You have flies? We all working here were just discussing about the lack of them! I said they all could come home to me but none seemed too interested to be honest 🙂 🙂 🙂
I was out watering the vegetables and a few other plants and small trees already at 5 am 🙂 I went to the store quite early too since I wasn’t sure if it actually would calm down or not, one never knows with our weather services 🙂 🙂 🙂 I had almost nothing left to eat for breakfast and I also needed to renew my lottery tickets. I know the chances of winning the big lottery winning (today around 1,265 billion swedish kronor (around 126,5 million US dollars) is slim to none but it is a bigger chance to have a couple of tickets than to have none at all 🙂 🙂 🙂 I wonder if I would go insane if I won that much money, it’s so much that I really can’t understand how much it really is 🙂 🙂 🙂 I would never tell You if I did win but then again You would most likely notice that I had taken an early retirement 🙂 🙂 🙂
The coming ten days they’re guessing that it’ll stay around 20C (68F), give or take a degree up or down and also some rain. I will not believe it until it happens but I do sure hope it’s right and that we’ll get even more rain than they are guessing 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer
92⁰F for you? Wow! That’s hellish. 92 is hot here but not unexpected. What’s abnormal is multiple days in a row above 90⁰F. Right now I’d be happy if it cooled down to 88⁰F with low humidity and a nice sea breeze.
There are scattered patches of bellflower around here and I even have a couple of volunteers in my yard. They don’t seem to be taking over anything but it’s good to know they can be put to good use. 🙂
Potato flowers look just like Nightshade flowers which is entirely appropriate, I suppose.
I have had errands every day this week. They could probably all have been done in one day but it was just too hot to be out and about for too long. Today was dog food day and town hall to drop off something. Every place has AC but even a few minutes outside in the heat is draining. When I got home the dogs wanted out so I put the hose on mist and stood under it while they did their thing.
Have a great cool down.🙂
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Hi Caryn!
I really don’t understand how people can live in temperatures like that 🙂 🙂 🙂 I guess when one grow up in it one really isn’t that bothered by it but still!!
Today is cool and nice and we even did get some rain during the night 🙂 The cottage is still devilishly warm even though windows have been open all nigh so the cool air can come in. It fell down to 48F during the night but it didn’t manage to come inside.
Yes it is appropriate to be honest 🙂 🙂
I prefer to wait so I can do them all at the same time, especially when it is either hot as h..l or cold as it 🙂 🙂 🙂 My dogs vanish when they see the hose being used 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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You are sure having hot weather, just like everywhere else, Christer. We have been in the upper 90s (F) all week and more continues for the weekend. All of our outside chores are being done early in the mornings now. Despite the heat, the flowers looked really nice. The purple potato bloom reminded me of purple horse nettle which was an annoying weed we had in VA and it had nasty thorns on the stems as well so difficult to pull out without wearing garden gloves.
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Hi Beatrice!
I’m so happy because today is cool and cloudy 🙂 It is so nice and I feel I can actually do things again 🙂
I’ve actually tried to grow Horse nettle but wasn’t successful. So far our summers have been too short and too cool for them to be able to give any seeds, now I might think otherwise about growing it 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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