We haven’t had much rain this week, a shower now and again. The weather has been very much the same each day though, lots of clouds, sunshine in between. Rather chilly when cloudy but really nice when the sun shone. One day it did reach above 20C (68F) but mostly it has been lower than that. Sunshine in the early and cool morning so not many flies or mosquitoes annoying us while having our morning walk.
The Norwegian site says it will be warmer than the Swedish one but then again they say we’ll get more rain. I looked at the weather sites early this morning and none of the sites said rain tomorrow, they do now. So I sort of regrets that I didn’t mow the lawn today while it was quite windy and the grass was dry. Well we know how great they are in predicting the weather over here so it might be sunny and warm all day 🙂 🙂 🙂
I have gotten the carpet/ furniture cleaner but I haven’t tried it yet. So I guess I’ll try it tomorrow if the rain actually arrives. I think I’ll start with something not as thick as the big cushions I have on my sofas, they will after all have to dry up before I can put them back on the sofas. I have a couple of those thin mattresses on my bed, I can easily sleep one night without one of them.
It was quite nice when we were out walking early this morning. No wind but cool enough so that most flies stayed calm, at least until we came closer to home and the sun had warmed up the air. Nova decided that we should walk along the creek again. We have lots of morning dew here right now and there’s a lot of relatively high grass along that way so we were soaked by the time we came home. What surprises me each time we’ve walked there is how few ticks I need to remove from the dogs. It should be tick paradise there and lots of animals full of ticks walks there as well but each time I go through the dogs there are just a few. Well I can’t say I feel sorry about that 🙂
Nothing much is happening in the garden right now. My Persimmon seems to do very well, my Pawpaws grow and look healthy and so so my Ginkgos. The English walnut still grows but it is hard to see it since the plant in front of it is so big that I barely can see it 🙂 🙂 🙂 The last two Nectarine kernels that I’ve had in and out of the fridge finally started to germinate this week. Mostly it’s enough with one round to the fridge to make them start but these two needed several times in and out. I think that means that they come from a tougher area (climatewise) and that their spring can be as treacherous as ours, like really warm and sunny in early March but then full blown winter in April 🙂 🙂 🙂 The Apricots are growing fine and the biggest ones are now over 30cm (one foot) high.
I think I’ll make myself a cup of tea even if it is well after 4pm. I have vacation, it doesn’t matter if I can fall asleep normal time or not 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I do like that Teodor rose.
The ticks have quieted down here, too. Don’t know why. The mosquitoes have taken their place.
The weather has been warm this week. Last weekend we had a deluge of rain. There were floods all over New England. It just poured rain all day and night here. I think my grass absorbed so much water it is too juicy inside to mow. I waited until the lawn was dry but it just turned to green mush and clogged the mower. It’s like I was mowing with a blender.
The avocado plant is now 20 inches tall and has 6 leaves right at the top. It appears to have decided to rest for awhile.
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Hi Caryn!
I normally don’t like these filled flowers but for some reason I like them when it comes to roses 🙂 🙂 and perhaps even more when the flowers change their colors like this one does.
It’s much the same here, the mosquitoes were almost gone before the rain started, now we have loads again. I don’t think ticks really has a season like insects do but if I remember right ticks calmes down towards late summer and early autumn. Still they will continue until it’s colder and even during winters they can be found. They’ve just discovered that deer can have ticks even during icy winters because when they lay down during nights, the ground thaw and the ticks becomes active again. I had no idea that happened!
Now they’re guessing that the rain won’t start falling until after noon, they’re guessing it will start around 1pm or 3pm. So I guess I’ll have time to mow anyway :-9
Yes the avocado trees tends to behave like that. Now it can either rest for the rest of the year or try one more burst of growing before the days becomes too short.
Have a great day!
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