It has been so hot this week that we haven’t been on walks at all. Nova is old and Albins fur isn’t good at regulating his temperature. Even Alma has been a bit off because of it. I’ve been working in my old department at work and it’s even hotter in there than standing in the sunshine outside 🙂 🙂 🙂
So mostly I’ve been watering my potato and vegetable patches after work. It might have been too hot because lots of seeds haven’t germinated and the ones that did have been struggling. The only things that seems to like it are the beans, peas and iceberg lettuce. It does however look like I’ve managed to save the almost dead Pawpaw tree, no Kat not the tropical one You’re thinking of but the north American one 🙂 🙂 I dug it up and noticed that when they once potted it they put a huge chunk of the fertilizer pellets that looks like slug eggs just beneath its roots.
So the tree has never felt the need to spread its roots and by not doing that it sort of doomed itself. I dug it up and put it in a bucket with soil and lots of peat since it likes lower pH. After that I put a see through plastic bag over it to help it with sucking up water. Yesterday I took a look at if and I can see the beginnings of three new stems (well perhaps it’s branches?) 🙂 I’ll let it stay in the cool cellar during winter so it can get a better start next year.
It will be another hot day today but the morning was quite cool and nice. We went down to the creek and even though the mosquitoes were just as annoying as always there were very few annoying forest flies and not a single horse fly. Also I could only find one tick when I went through the fur of the dogs. They really don’t like dry weather. We still have morning dew though so that shows the ground and vegetation isn’t totally dry yet. A cold front will pass here tomorrow so temperatures will drop a lot and they are guessing that we also will get rain. Sometimes they guess we’ll get lots and sometimes they guess we’ll barely get anything 🙂 🙂 🙂 They also guess we’ll get more rain during the week but temperatures will stray high. We all do know however how good they are at guessing the wetaher over here 🙂 🙂 🙂
So far I haven’t heard a single person complain about the eventual coming rain 🙂 :-)The risk of forest fires are high all over the country and, there are a few going on, it is an especially high risk around here. So panic bag packed just in case we need to leave quickly. I’m not especially worried but it’s always best to be prepared just in case. It is time for a cup of tea and perhaps a little nap, we’ve been up since 4am and it is now 8:30. Better take a nap when it still is fairly cool, later on it’ll be too hot.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Christer,
I didn’t know there were a couple of varieties of pawpaw tree. I hope you are successful keeping this one alive.
It rained last night and most of today. It will also rain tomorrow. I’m glad for all the rain as it has been dry; however, it has not been hot. We had a few days in the high 70’s, the warmest so far, but most days are in the 60’s an even cooler at night.
Nala is more herself today than since it happened. She even jumped on my bed. I have had to lift her back end up, and she isn’t light. I wish she didn’t have that cone.
Take care,
Kat
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Hi Kat!
Not even two different varieties but two very different species 🙂 The one I always write about is the Asimina triloba, grows in north America and the one You talk about is the one half the world calls pawpaw and the other half calls Papaya, Carica papaya, a tropical fruit that actually is quite easy to grow just as long as one can place it warm and light all winter long but wouldn’t survive a second when the temperatures dropped.
Pawpaw fruits, the american one, is unfortunately very difficult to transport so even if it grows in Your country there’s a big possibility that You’ve never seen it or ever will. It is said to have the same texture as the one You call pawpaw but taste something like mango, banana and passion fruit. I have two more trees but I too hope I can make this one survive 🙂
It has been raining since early morning, a nice and gentle rain, not even close to what we needed but any rain is good right now. It’s so nice and cool today and it’ll last for a day or so and then we’re back to higher temperatures again. Not as high as it was but hot enough 🙂 🙂 🙂
Those cones are just annoying. Sounds as if she soon will be back to normal again though and hopefully both she and Henry has learned something from this but to be honest they usually never do 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
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