We haven’t had as much sunshine today as they guessed yesterday but instead it started to rain much earlier 🙂 To be honest it was mostly drizzle but the grass went wet so I decided that I wouldn’t detsroy my day with mowing the lawn 🙂 Also the few flies that still flies around are nasty now and I don’t know what kind is biting but it sure itch a lot afterwards.
We went out to the bog on our morning walk. Nova wanted to walk there yesterday but I managed to make her walk to the part I wanted to walk in 🙂 🙂 Today we went out to where she wanted. Lots of mushrooms everywhere now but I still haven’t picked a single one. I guess I still have plenty of time because the rainy weather will continue for quite a while they’re guessing now. The trees in the bog have started to change colors and it feels like it is a bit too early even for here but it has been quite cold and rainy for quite some time so I guess the trees just thought it was time to give up for the year 🙂
I also found several flower buds on my rhododendron today, I guess for the same reason but it believing we’ve had an unusually mild winter 🙂 🙂 🙂 I guess that it’ll flower in early September, especially if we would get some more warm weather again. It will from now on reach 20C (68F) if they’re guessing right but they seldom do that 🙂 🙂 🙂
I took a look at my cacti that I placed in my apple trees this summer. They all look pretty fine and the Christmas cactus now have small buds 🙂 I also have an orchid hanging out there but that one only flower once every year and just before spring arrives so I won’t know if it liked this or not until then. I did forget to check the ones that grows in my old woodland but I’m pretty sure they like it too. The only problem with hanging all these potted plants in my trees is to remember to bring them indoors again before the frost arrives 🙂 🙂
I have a second harvest of potatoes as well 🙂 I poured out the soil from the second bucket where I planted only the broken off potato sprouts. More in this bucket than in the previous one but not as many as I had last summer. Still I’m quite content as it is because I didn’t have to sacrifice any potatoes to get these, just the broken off sprouts 🙂
It is time to have a last cup of tea before dozing off in front of the tv. I will not miss anything on tv if I would sleep alla night, I think the quality of the programs they show now days are crap to be honest.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I have been catching up with your week. It’s great that your first week back from vacation was easy.
The black walnut tree has gotten very big. You might even get a walnut ot two soon. My smallest one is not quite as tall as my two story house and it has been producing a lot of nuts for the last two years. There were only a few nuts in the first couple of seasons. There were only 5 nuts the year that there was a late cold snap right when the flowers were blooming and most of them froze.
That was the year of no walnuts and no acorns. Tough winter for the critters that eat them.
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Hi Caryn!
It’s always nice to start a bit slow but that’ll change this coming week I’m afraid 🙂 🙂
Yes it grows really well and every year I hope that I at least will get one nut 🙂 🙂 It grows way too close to the cottage but I didn’t believe it even would survive its first winter 🙂 The English one will struggle unless its roots have spread wide and far already. A more normal winter and it will give up but if we’ll get one like we had this time I think it actually might survive 🙂
I do wonder how long it will take before animals here find out that walnuts are edible? I think the Jays might be the firet ones to try them anyway.
Have a great day!
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