Nice and gentle rain but we need more.

June 18, 2023

a (1) — It’s almost impossible to see that it had been raining for a couple of hours when I took this photo 🙂 🙂 🙂

It has been raining since early morning, a nice gentle rain far from what we actually needed, heavy showers would have been much better but I’m happy for what I got. They say we’ll get more rain in the coming week, not enough once again, and it’ll stay cool for a day or so before we go back to warmer again. The temperature dropped from 28C (82,4F) yesterday to 15C (59F) today. It has taken all morning to get the heat out of the cottage, it even became chilly for a while but I closed the doors and windows when I had baked my breads and let the oven stay open after I had shut it off. It was just enough with heat to make it feel rather nice indoors again 🙂

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I’ve done my chores for the day except for dinner at work next week. It’ll be a short work week since we celebrate Midsummer next Friday. I’ll make it easy for myself this week. I’ll fry some meatballs, some wiener sausages, two eggs and then pour half a tin of either baked white beans or baked brown beans over it 🙂 🙂 Perhaps not healthy but very yummy 🙂 🙂 I’ll go to the vegetable patch and pick some of the Goosefoot (Chenopodium album) that grows there, works very well as a spinach substitute.

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I didn’t win the lottery this week either, must say I thought it was my turn this time 🙂 🙂 🙂 So back to work tomorrow. Ok short week but I would rather have won the lottery 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ve noticed that I spend much less time in front of the tv now days, instead I surf more on the net. I guess it sort of equals each other out. I mostly blame the hot weather, it has been so hot that it really has been impossible to do anything outside without jeopardizing our health. Still I wish I could have done something else really but I’ve been too lazy to come up with anything else to do 🙂 🙂 🙂

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It is time for the dogs dinners and perhaps I should make myself a cup of tea. I’m pretty sure I’ll sleep very well tonight now when it is cool and nice both outside and inside the cottage 🙂

Have a great day!

6 responses to “Nice and gentle rain but we need more.”

Librall

June 18, 2023

Sounds like you’re going to have nice weather for awhile. We haven’t had much heat so far but it’s hot out west so we’ll get it soon. Wish we celebrated midsummer here. Too pagan for the fundamentalists tho. Hope you have a good short week!

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1. Christer.
  
  June 18, 2023
  
  Hi librall!
  
  Yes finally 🙂 I would never have believed, when I was younger, that I one day would say I don’t like hot summers 🙂 🙂 🙂 We’ll get a couple of hot days but after that it looks like we’ll get more normal temperatures again and I do hope it stays that way!
  
  Yes I can imagine what those maga people would think about our midsummers 🙂 🙂 🙂 They would most likely try to tie us up towards the midsummers pole and burn us alive 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  A short week is always a good week 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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Caryn

June 18, 2023

It feels like it’s rained a bit or a lot every day for weeks. It’s been cool, too. I’m not complaining because I like this weather. The only drawback is that the lawn loooves it.🙄 It feels like I have to mow some part or the other every few days. Not that I do, of course, but just that I should.
The avocado pit I stuck in water some weeks ago finally decided to do something. It popped a tap root which quickly grew into the spikes on the flower frog that was supprting the pit. It had to be moved so I stuck it in very soupy seed starter soil and left half the pit exposed. Now it has a rapidly growing sprout. It’s kind of scary how fast it’s growing.

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1. Christer.
  
  June 18, 2023
  
  Hi Caryn!
  
  Yes the lawn loves rain 🙂 🙂 I know I’ll have to mow as soon as possible because also the shoots from the thorny roses and sloe bushes loves a bit of rain and I can never give them the upper hand 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well after the rain this week I’ll finally have something to cover the ground in the vegetable patch and potato patch so I don’t have to water as much even if the sun shines 🙂
  
  Yes I do know that feeling 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Yes it’s amazing how fast avocados can grow and almost always only one sprout. Doesn’t matter if one cut of the top, it will continue with only one 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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Kathleen Ryan

June 18, 2023

Christer,
We didn’t have rain today, just the last two days. The sun has been in and out all day. It got to 66° for the high. I decided a sweatshirt was good to ward off the chill.

Everything is nice and green. My front bushes are huge now, and I have to duck to get into the house. I see new flowers every day in the front garden.

The back yard is overgrown so it needs a weed whacker. Nala gets lost in the greenery. Usually I can hear her tag but lately I hear her cone hitting stuff in the yard.

Sorry about work!

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1. Christer.
  
  June 20, 2023
  
  Hi Kat!
  We never got the cooler temperatures so we’re up to nasty hot again. Not even tomorrow will be cooler despite they’re guessing we’ll get lots of rain and most likely thunder as well. I do look forward to the rain but not the high temperatures, it’ll be like living in a green house 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Yes those cones really tells us where our dogs are 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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