Good bye forest flies, welcome Moose flies.

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Yesterday evening they moved the cattle from the pasture beside my cottage to the one on the other side, beside my garage. Normally I really wouldn’t notice it but suddenly I heard the farmer calmly say no, no, no.

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I figured it was one of the cows that wanted to follow the road instead of crossing it so didn’t think much about it. Then I heard the same thing again and did think he sounded a bit to calm if it was a cow. So I just said Alma come back, and not especially loud and after that I didn’t hear any more no, no, no 🙂 🙂 🙂

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Nothing much has happened here besides that. We walked in to the forest as soon as I had come back home after work. We hadn’t walked far when we must have disturbed some wild hogs. Not that I could hear them run away but they do smell quite a lot and not especially nice either 🙂 🙂 so they must have left just seconds before we arrived. Sometimes it’s possible that it i a good thing I almost always have to scold Alma for pulling the leash, it would not have been fun to walk straight in to them, especially since the piglets still are quite small. There are almost no annoying forest flies left, instead we now have the horrible moose flies. I managed to kill the first one today, hurray.

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I’m boiling rice porridge in my slow cooker right now, I want some for breakfast tomorrow but it just takes too long to make it for me to do it first thing in the morning. This recipe has butter in it and I’ve never had that in my porridge before, I do hope it tastes nice anyway. I also found a recipe for rice pudding, I might try that next time.

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I won’t plant any high annuals in the old wheel barrow next year. The Cornflowers suffocated almost all other flowers when they grew tall and fell over the rest when the wind and rain hit them 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Have a great day!

2 responses to “Good bye forest flies, welcome Moose flies.”

  1. Caryn Avatar
    Caryn

    Hi Christer,
    Alma didn’t make any noises while she was trying to do whatever she was trying to do with the farmer and the cows?
    I guess it’s good that you had to speak sharply to her about pulling. Running into a passel of hogs with babies would not be a fun thing. I recall how hairy it was sitting on my horse in the middle of a country road and being stared down by Mama Pig because one of her very many piglets had run to the opposite side of the road instead of going with the rest. She didn’t move until the little one ran back out and over to the farm. She looked really mean. I was surprised that Orion didn’t spin around and gallop off in the opposite direction. 🙂
    Looking at the wheelbarrow photo, I was thinking that next year the tall flowers mixed in would look pretty if you stuck some kind of trellis in there. Preferably a wood trellis painted white which is kind of a pain to maintain but pretty. 😀
    It did not rain today but might tomorrow. There’s a front moving in and the sky is getting more cloudy by the minute. Could be some useful precipitation out of this one.
    Have a great day.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi Caryn!

      No she didn’t and I think that’s because they’ve been so close for so long now that she sort of see them as something that belongs here plus that there were other humans around and she doesn’t like to come to close to them. She’s like that to everyone but my closest neighbors, she see them as part of the family instead 🙂 🙂 🙂

      I really don’t want to be on the wrong side of the sow and her piglets 🙂 🙂 🙂 Yes they are really hairy 🙂 🙂

      I never thought of how high the cornflowers would become. To be honest poppies are almost as high but the stalks weigh almost nothing. I’ll have poppies next year and californian poppies and some climbers too I think. I do however hope that the cornflowers have spread seeds all around the wheel barrow so they’ll grow from the ground all around it.

      The swedish weather site says around an inch of rain during the weekend and the norwegian says we’ll get around 4 inches. I do hope that the swedish one for once is right 🙂 🙂 🙂 We’ll get lots of thunder too if the norwegian is right.

      Have a great day!

      Christer.

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