First week soon to be over.

July 14, 2023

Magpies, funny birds but also bl…y annoying 🙂 🙂 🙂 They can terrorize an entire neighborhood and attack cats and dogs and are really intelligent.

The weather has been rather mixed this first week of my vacation. Everything from sunny and hot to a bit chilly and heavy raining. Today is really nice though, mostly sunshine, a nice breeze and around 20C (68F). It was supposed to be like this yesterday but like always our weather service managed to miss that we would have rain almost half the day 🙂 🙂 🙂

The rain started quite nice on Wednesday

Another one on the back by my kitchen door. It needs to be a lot of rain to create a lake there because it’s only sand and runs down through the sand as soon as it hits, normally that it 🙂 🙂

We’ve gotten well over two inches of rain this week and nature loves it. Well I don’t complain about it either to be honest 🙂 Unfortunately the ticks loves it most of all. After every walk I’ve picked over twenty ticks from Alma while the two others have had perhaps five together. I have no idea why Alma is such a tick magnet but they do seem to love her. Nova decided that we should walk along the creek this morning so I was a bit worried that they all would have lots more walking around on them but to my surprise they had just a few, not even Alma had more than six walking around on her.

Yesterday morning felt quite chilly so not a fly was flying around annoying us.

The weather has made it more or less impossible to do anything outside and it has been perfect 🙂 🙂 🙂 I can’t remember when I slept this much before. The heavy rain day I must have slept well over six hours during the day (mostly with the window open so I could hear the rain hit the ground and cottage, until it changed direction and it started to rain in through the window 🙂 🙂 🙂 ) and I still fell asleep at my usual hour and sleeping all night without any problems. I guess I needed it but have no idea why 🙂 🙂

We could pass this doe without Alma screaming like insane 🙂 🙂

The flies have calmed down because they’ve now cut down all the grass and made silage balls of it. That always happens when they do that so I guess that flies prefer to stay in high grass instead of trees during nights and perhaps even during days and when it’s gone the flies go to? Well there’s plenty still but not near enough to what we had before. I don’t even bring my mosquito hat on our walks, it’s enough with a hoodie. Alma has calmed down even more now, she still pulls the leash but the screaming when seeing anything move is almost gone! So now days we even see the odd deer again, still hares do make her a bit too excited but we’re working on that. The sitting down until she’s calmed down seems to work pretty well 🙂

I’m waiting for the package delivery car to come. I’ve ordered dog food and I have almost no dog food left so these packages will arrive just in time 🙂 🙂 I’ve just recieved a text message that they are on the way. So anytime from now until 5pm I’ll need to stay at home. Just a few weeks back they changed it to that packages below 20Kg ( 44,1 pound) can be delivered without me being at home but above that I need to be at home to recieve it. I’ve just bought a new kind of food for Alma and Nova because they didn’t really like the one I had and they have been a bit wobbly in their stomachs since we started with it. So today I’ll get one package that weighs well over20Kg and one well below. Does that mean they then would deliver the lighter package while bringing back the heavier if I weren’t at home? 🙂 🙂 🙂

Nova can be the most stubborn dog in the world 🙂 🙂 I called for her because she went away on her own and to a road we weren’t going to take. She could hear me very weel and she knows the sign for coming back and she just didn’t give a crap 🙂 🙂 🙂

After around five minutes she slowly came towards us.

Then she stopped again and just stood there for another five minutes 🙂 🙂 🙂 She finally started to walk towards us again but refused to go all the way and instead went to where we were going to walk but through bushes and high grass instead 🙂 🙂 🙂

Have a great day!

Not much in bloom in my garden at the moment but the Creeping Bellflower has opened up. It’s voted to be the worst weed one can get in a garden 🙂 🙂 Here it has to fight with other plants almost as bad as itself so it’s no problem here.

A Perennial Sunflower is almost as bad as the bellflower.

The Nepeta sibirica or as its Swedish name is Great Dragon flower can also compete with it.

the Large yellow loosestrife isn’t much weaker.

Hotas are however not a match and would lose the battle fairly quick 🙂

3 responses to “First week soon to be over.”

Caryn

July 14, 2023

That bell flower is growing in one little stretch of the gravel road across from my house. It’s been there for at least 20 years and hasn’t spread. It’s supposed to be invasive here too.
There must have been something up that road that Nova really wanted to see. But you outstared her. I think I have never outstared Rocky. He’s like a cat. He can stare until his eyeballs dry out.😄
The avocado plant is out of the sugar bowl and into an actual pot. It was almost 2 feet tall and it’s continuing upwards. This could be a problem.
One week is gone but most of your vacation remains ahead. Carry on.

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1. Christer.
  
  July 15, 2023
  
  Hi Caryn!
  
  I guess it has realized that it can’t get it any better than where it is so it has given up the idea of spreading 🙂 🙂 🙂 To be honest, almost all bell flowers spread pretty good if they get the chance.
  
  Or she’s soon 17 years old and has a dead strong will of her own 🙂 🙂 🙂 Alma did try to outstare me this morning when I told her that it wasn’t nice of her to hit Albin in the head and continuing to do so for several minutes 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  The avocado usually calms down after reaching that height. I think that if You have a smaller pot it will decide how big the plant will be in in the end. It works that way with Fig trees for instance. I was a bit stupid to give my fig tree a really big pot this summer and it has started to grow pretty fast now 🙂 🙂 🙂 I really don’t know why I have a fig tree because I’m not that fond of figs to be honest but it is a beautiful tree.
  This first week has been really good, lots of sleeping like I had planned 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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  1. Caryn
    
    July 15, 2023
    
    I spoke too soon about the bellflower. Walking about the yard yesterday I found a few growing out from under the vicious roses on the north side of the house. I also found two elm trees. Well I knew they were there but I thought they were hickorys.
    
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