Does everyting come from China now days?

August 23, 2022

It is still rather warm here, 25C (77F) and I can’t remember when we had this high temperatures this late in August the last time. It’s actually quite nice since we also have had a nice breeze blowing. It will continue like this until at least the weekend if they’re guessing right.

It is amazing how fast one can forget ones last work when one wants to 🙂 I had to go to my old work place for a while today and I managed to shut down the entire painting program and instead get out on the internet and I just couldn’t get back again 🙂 🙂 🙂 (to be honest, I didn’t even know we could reach the internet from the painting box). We had to shut down the entire box and restart it again 🙂 🙂 🙂 I even offered to do the cleaning program when we were going to use another color but they thought it best to let me do other things instead 🙂 🙂 🙂

I went to the optician yesterday to ask if they could do progressive contact lenses. I had heard that they can do that now days and why not try it if they can. Turns out they can so I now have an appointment in September. I’ve had lenses before but had to stop when I started to work with powder paint. The pain when something as tiny as a dustgrain comes between the eye and the lens is horrible so it wasn’t possible to wear contacts when I worked there. So they’ll do a check on my eyes and after that I hopefully can have contacts again.

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I had ordered a hand chain saw so that I can trim some branches of my apple trees and also lots of branches from my lilacs. I’ve been waiting for it to arrive for over 14 days but today it arrived. Doesn’t any company have anything in stock now days? Several things I’ve ordered lately have taken around 14 days to arrive and I have been able to follow the order all the time. It also seems that anything one buys today comes from Yunnan in China, or Shanghai :-)Well the sofas did come from a place in sweden and the coffee maker from Germany but for some reason I think they most actually were made in Yunnan in China anyway 🙂

DSC_0004 (5) — Still some flowers on my Catalpa.

DSC_0006 (5) — Lots of seed pods too but they are usually too late to give any seeds that will germinate.

Have a great day!

6 responses to “Does everyting come from China now days?”

Caryn

August 23, 2022

Hi Christer,
My friend tells me that stuff shipped from China to certain points in Europe has to ship through one freight yard in Lithuania. Lithuania and China are having a spat about Taiwan. China tried to economically strong arm Lithuania so Lithuania stopped letting China ship anything through Lithuania. I don’t know if that is true. I can’t see China handicapping its European market distribution by bottlenecking it up through one point in Lithuania. But it could be. Stranger things have happened.
You must have a different kind of catalpa from the ones around here. The pods are very different. Yours look kind of like vanilla beans. Ours are giant green beans. Like those Asian super long beans except thicker and heavier. And they are even messier than black walnuts. Huge white flowers that cover the lawn in spring and huge leaves and beans that cover it in fall. It’s one of those trees that you put in the middle of an acre of lawn that nobody uses for anything. 😀
Yeah, you did forget quickly. But they probably won’t ask you again so that’s a plus. I guess. 😀
It rained yesterday. Finally. Not a lot but even little bit counts. It was a very nice rain and it lasted most of the day. The dogs and I went for a little stroll around the yard in the rain. I have MapMyWalk app and discovered a couple of things. My property is 48 feet below sea level which I don’t believe. But walking the dogs around the edge of the yard is 0.06 miles and burns 34 calories. It might burn more if I walked alone as I wouldn’t have to stop and wait so much. 😀
Have a great day. And I want one of those little chain saw things, too.

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1. Christer.
  
  August 24, 2022
  
  Hi Caryn!
  
  I haven’t heard about that one but China truly hates Lithuania. They’ve tried to forbid import of Lithuanian goods to China and forbid any Chinese company to export to Lithuania. I think the EU has sued China for that.
  
  It’s a Chinese Catalpa, none of the American ones are hardy enough to grow in my garden. These look more like Haricot verts to be honest 🙂 🙂 🙂 We love Catalpas here so they can often be the tree we plant so everyone can see them 🙂
  
  I might be safe from being asked to stay there again 🙂 🙂 🙂 I don’t mind that, I hate that work place 🙂
  
  Not bad burning calories while walking the dogs in rain 🙂 It does sound odd that You live that low below the sea level but then again it it’s right You do have more oxygen around You 🙂
  
  I haven’t put it together yet but I’ve started to charge the batteries so I can use it already this weekend, there will be a report of how I think it works 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
  Christer.
  
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katry

August 24, 2022

Hi Christer,
I try to avoid stuff made in China if I can. It isn’t easy. Trump pushed made in America, but his MAGA red hats came from China. I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, and it comes in a couple of days. The dogs’ food comes from Chewy with free shipping, and I aways get it in two days.

We’re still stuck in the 70’s with humidity. I ran my AC three days in a row. The air was filled with water making those days ugly. Today it rained for the first time in weeks. My friends who live two towns over got no rain. It was a weird storm.

The late summer flowers are blooming in my front yard, and there are more buds ready to bloom. My grass isn’t so much grass as moss and bare spots. Most lawns are brown as there was a water ban. We still desperately need rain.

Take care!!

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1. Christer.
  
  August 24, 2022
  
  Hi Kat!
  
  Unfortunately it is impossible to avoid things made in China here. Even the things bought from European countries and marked as such are mostly made in China. It’s enough for the company to just screw in one screw and they’ll legally make it made in and their own country. I’ve never understood how he managed people to not see that he’s a enormous fraud. We do have those people here too which is even stranger since he tended to use us as a warning example 🙂 🙂 🙂
  Albins food comes from the Netherlands though and I think the other twos food comes from Germany.
  
  Really nice weather here now, not even close to how hot they guessed it would be, still a couple degrees above 68F. We’ll get more rain during the weekend they’re guessing now.
  
  Our lawns grow fast now, we’ve had quite a lot of rain lately. Not many days with it but it fell an awful lot those days it did rain 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
  Christer.
  
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Beatrice

August 25, 2022

Hi Christer, I have fallen behind in blog reading as we were away for a few days last week to celebrate our wedding anniversary (#23) and stayed in NH. You had some wonderful scenics in this post. The fog creates such soft color schemes.

Hope the contacts will work out well for you. I wear a single one in my left eye. Cataract surgery a couple of years ago corrected my distance vision, but left me unable to read close-up without reading glasses, which are now everywhere in our home! The solution was to wear a reading contact in one eye and now when I am out & about, I no longer need to use reading glasses. Usually at home I leave the contact out unless following a cookbook as putting reading glasses on and off is just annoying.

Yes, most things are made in China, and there is little avoiding that fact. However, I do try to look for anything made in my country or anyplace OTHER than China. Sometimes, I succeed as with a recent purchase of a non-stick frying pan which was made in Brazil.

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1. Christer.
  
  August 26, 2022
  
  Hi Beatrice!
  
  Happy belated anniversary 🙂
  
  We had a couple of wonderful foggy mornings this week 🙂
  
  I do hope so too. It’s been several years since I had contacts but I’ve missed them a lot. They now can make progressive ones so that I won’t need to have glasses to be able to read and I do hope it’ll work 🙂
  
  It seems that even shoes are made in China now days. I couldn’t find any info about where things are made unfortunately, I only found out since I could track my order.
  
  Have a great day!
  
  Christer.
  
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