She’s a bit picky now days.

Written by Christer.
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The old wheel barrow is finally starting to look nice again. Still not even close to having a night with frost here so now we’re 23days late of having that, I’m not complaining though 🙂

We’ve had a sort of meh weather today, sometimes rain, sometimes not but always a humidity that ate its way through the walls so I had to turn on the radiators. Warm though so they didn’t have to work for any longer period of time to dry out the cottage. Still we never went out on a walk but I did go to Falköping to get some light bulbs for the car.

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The Common Spindle always has a nice color on its leafs.
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My November cactus or Christmas cactus, back in the days they hadn’t mixed the species that much so one could still call them after the month or date they were flowering. Nowdays they’r so mixed that it can be anything really 🙂
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This one is supposed to be a Selenicereus grandiflorus, we call them The Queen of the Night. It changed how it looked when I planted a cutting from it though so now I doubt that it is the queen. I sowed it myself for at least ten years ago.

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It’s quite complicated to actually get the right light bulb now days, or perhaps not at all 🙂 🙂 I was pretty sure I should buy one called H4 but the computer in the petrolstation said H7. The woman working there said that one can have the same light bulb no matter which of the different lights one wanted to use. Back in the day it was one kind of bulb for low beam and another for high beam. So I bought the H/ but guess if I was surprised when I found a bulb in the car called H1 🙂 🙂 🙂 So to be honest I have no clue what so ever if I actually have the right ones or if it actually is the H4 I should use 🙂 🙂 🙂

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This is the original plant, a nasty one that truly hates me and when ever I get close to it it throws one of those stems out and hits my arm. Last time I sat and tried to get those nasty little thorns out from my skin for oven an hour.
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This is, I think, a Giant Bell Flower. It does however grow in almost darkness now days that it is pretty small instead. I’ll thin out the Laburnum so that the ground can get more light again.
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I still get the occasional rose flower.
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The hips are more common now though and almost like a second bloom.

I’ve had the kitchen door open quite a lot despite the weather so the dogs have been able to go in and out as they’ve pleased but they haven’t pleased at all, so I guess they disliked the weather we’ve had as much as I have 🙂 🙂

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The Jerusalem artichoke with what looks much like a lot of adult aphids on it.
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I bought a small Chrysanthemum a week ago and now I’ve planted it. If winter is mild enough this one will be much higher next year and most likely have slightly smaller flowers as well. I really wanted another flower but this was all that was left.

Nova has become more and more picky with her food and since she is 17 years old she really needs to eat, which she doesn’t if it isn’t perfect according to her taste. So I’ve been mixing in what ever she has preferred at the moment, mostly some rather expensive blue cheese 🙂 🙂 That worked until a few days ago and then she just wouldn’t eat. So now I’ve bought some of those truly expensive tiny packages with luxury wet dog food and now she’s eating again 🙂 🙂 This one is called Ceasar and contains so little food that I doubt that even a Chihuahua would think it was enough. She loves when I mix it in to her regular food though so who am I to complain. I have however told her that this will force me to continue to work long after I really would have been able to retire 🙂 🙂

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My Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) still looks fine and it looks like something has eaten some of the leafs.
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The Black walnut looking fine.
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I won’t bring in this orchid until it is hit with the first frost, after that I hope it’ll flower in late winter again.
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The perennial Sunflower and what looks like a hoverfly resting on it.

So the photos You can see today are all from the garden. They are guessing that tomorrow will be sunny though (and even on Sunday as well) so we’ll see what road the old Lady will chose to walk in the morning 🙂

Have a great day!

4 thoughts on “She’s a bit picky now days.”

  1. Christer,
    Everything is just so lovely still with your flowers. I also have some flowers ready to bloom in my front garden, but I have no idea what they are. I’m just gald to hhave them.

    You are so lucky that Nova has gotten to 17. Gracie was my oldest living dog at 12, but I know boxers only have an 8-12 life span. I wonder if Henry, a mixed breed, will live longer.

    It is supposed to rain today and tomorrow. I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow as we have an outdoor concert at noon. It has been a busy uke week. Tomorrow is my fifth event of the week.

    Enjoy your weekend

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    1. My little dog is getting old too so I top his dry food with a food called Fresh Pet so he likes it. He will be my last dog so I will pamper him while I can. Next week will be warm again…in the 80s til Friday. Maybe I’ll get one more tomato. Have a nice weekend…Joy

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      1. Hi Joy!

        Wet dog food seems to do the trick at the moment but that can change any minute 🙂 🙂 🙂
        Not even close to 80 here 🙂 🙂 🙂 but if it hadn’t been for the wind it had felt rather warm, especially in the sunshine. It’ll be nice again tomorrow but after that it looks like it” go down hill from there 🙂

        Have a great day!

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    2. Hi Kat!

      Normally the first frost would have been here and ended most of the flowers for this year but it is oddly warm here. That will change later next week they’re guessing.

      She is unusually old but the bigger the dog the shorter they live I’m afraid. Still most of my old dogs lived to become 13 years old.

      Mostly sunny today but with a strong wind and it’ll be much the same tomorrow but with a weaker wind. Next week will be rainy and chilly though, at least according to their guessing 🙂

      Have a great day!

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