We’ve had quite a lovely day here today. It started a bit cloudy but was warm enough for me to only have a sweater when walking with the dogs. That would have been enough even when it was as coldest here as well since it at least was impossible not to boil while walking with Alma 🙂 🙂 She has however calmed down considerable even though she still pulls the leash quite a lot.
I haven’t been lazy today though. I’ve done the laundry, like I do every Sunday. I’m baking a bread right now actually and I’ve started to clean my cottage. Well I have at least started to carry out all cardboard boxes out to my car, I’ve also tossed away loads of things that I for a reason I don’t remember had saved. I did also start to saw down a corner of my garden mostly containing old thorny wild roses, thorny blackthorn bushes and false spiraea (Sorbaria sorbifolia). The last one is fairly easy to remove because the roots lay just beneath the surface but it spreads like crazy. I do like it though because pollinating insects love it.
I can’t say that I overdid anything but I did work with a bent back, so now I have huge problems unbending it. It’s the rheumatism that argues with me but I’ll have my sack of rice in the micro later on and put it between my back and the recliner. I would have loved to be able to do the entire place but the batteries needed to be charged and I could for my life not find the charger. Not especially strange to be honest because there’s no charger, just an electric cord put straight in to the battery 🙂 🙂 🙂
When I’m done cutting down it all I’ll push the the lawnmower over it so that no shoots will get a chance of growing up there again. I would have loved to be able to plant there immediately but most of what I cut down now (except for a birch that unfortunately grew up where it shouldn’t) spread via roots and I’m really tired of not being able to walk barefoot in my garden during summers. Well to be honest I’m hesitant to do that anyway because of the dogs using it as a toilet 🙂 🙂 🙂
It is time to go downstairs and check the bread. I still haven’t come up with anything that even remotely could work as french rolls and the scones I make tend to be very brittle. They usually falls to pieces as soon as I come close with a knife to cut them in half 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I like the tone the Silette got on those photos. Very antique and lovely.
I intended to reply a couple of hours ago but got side tracked looking at gluten free scone recipes. They all seemed to say shatteringly crispy light was a feature. Then I went grocery shopping because I needed ice cream as one does sometimes.
Brush clearing day was yesterday for me. All my parts ache more than they usually do. There is more to clear. Viscious Japanese roses. Ailanthus. Those horrid bittersweet vines with roots that go everywhere. 😫
Cloudy damp, and cool here today. Sweaters are back.
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Hi Caryn!
Some photos I’ve taken with it looks like they were taken in the fifties 🙂 everything looks like the photos has been laying in sunshine so the colors slowly has faded away 🙂
Ice cream always comes before anything else 🙂 🙂 I can’t say that shatteringly crispt light is something I’ve found in our recipes 🙂 🙂
It was exciting to work today 🙂 🙂 Only heavy things to paint but as long as I kept on moving everything was at least possible but as soon as I had sit down at breaks or driving around my big fork lift all hell broke lose as soon as I started to move again 🙂 🙂 🙂
Another wonderful day here but it was pretty cold in the morning, only 21,2F.
Have a great day!
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Christer,
I so love those pictures with the Agfa Ambi Silette. The atmosphere is amazing and lovely.
My back is still an issue. I cannot walk far without stopping, and if I carry anything even remotely heavy, I have to stop and rest before I move again.
My backyard is roughage, filled with leaves and trees, a few oak and many pine. It is also where the dogs do their business. I was out there last week retrieving items stolen by Nala when I noticed tree or four holly bushes. One is around 3 feet while the others are smaller. I have a huge holly tree in the front yard so I’m guessing the birds are dropping berries. It is kind of neat to have them growing.
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Hi Kat!
I do like that old camera and the photos it gives me 🙂
I’m sorry to read that Your back still is bad! The only way my back can get better is actually to walk no matter how bad it hurts in the beginning. Good thing I have the dogs otherwise I would never move those bad days 🙂 🙂
It’s nice when the birds help in the garden 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
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